Plays essays

Shakespeare employs language to explore characters in Hamlet. Hamlet himself uses language as a means of defence, taking refuge within words, delaying action, manipulating his opinion of others and ultimately concealing his own identity. Perhaps more so than any other character in the play, Hamlet is aware of his skill with words and uses rhetorical devices to make sense of...

Hamlet is a play exploring the life of a prince after the murder of his father and his quest for revenge. Yet through this, we see the main character Hamlet struggles emotionally with melancholy and what many people assume to be his descent into ‘madness.’ Robert Burton argues that there are two types of melancholiac’s those who are sad, as...

An attitude can be defined as a feeling or opinion about something or someone. In Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, there are several attitudes to the past revealed in the texts. These include escapism, regret, comfort, the view that the past is difficult to leave behind and comes round full circle. The past is something...