Because Hamlet failed to act in the times when he had ample opportunity, his indecisive flaw eventually destroyed him. And this makes his indecisiveness to be a tragic flaw (Halliday 74)
Hamlet refers to himself as a "rogue and a peasant slave" and a muddy-mettled and dull rascal who cannot take action just like a John-a-dreams. He continues degrading himself in his fiery speech and decides to do something to revenge the death of his father (Phillip 281)
The overcoming of the flaw by Hamlet is seen here when he resigns to the fact that what is to happen will happen. The death of his mother causes him much rage that he kills Claudius and Laertes (Thomas 49)
When his mother is killed, then the reason for not killing Claudius disappears and he makes the decision to kill his him and avenge his father. His indecisiveness does cost him his life and that of his mother who was the one reason for his living (Utter 137)
At first a loyal general, Macbeth sees power as something that is in his grasp, and with the right amount of pressure, he seizes this power by killing King Duncan. (Shakespeare, 1611) In the end, Macbeth was punished for the evil that he committed, and did not remain King for long
"Sonnet 73" realizes it is complicated and "Sonnet 116" declares it is beautiful. Dennis Kay maintains that Shakespeare develops a "novel way of representing human consciousness, of an inner life" and his sonnets are "at once the speaker's dramatic self-revelation and self-examination" (Kay 356)
Through his experiences, we are able to learn that we are not alone. Thomas Parrott writes that when writing his sonnets, Shakespeare "followed the fashion, but as usual, he followed it in his own way" (Parrott 192)
The structure of the sonnet is important also. Jay Rogoff maintains that line "disorder surely enacts the speaker's resistance to aging" (Rogoff), which certainly goes in line with the direction of the poem
By and by the gloom will deepen into pessimistic darkness" (Tyler) and the poet will cry out for "restful death" (Tyler). The poet is also acutely aware that his lover realizes the age difference every time he looks at him when he says, "In me thou seest the twilight of such day" (Shakespeare Sonnet 73-5)
. By and by the gloom will deepen into pessimistic darkness" (Tyler
The Tragedy of Macbethis no exception to it. King James, after the death of Queen Elizabeth, patronized Shakespeare's company under his name; Shakespeare then transformed Holinshed's Scottish, English and Irish chronicles (Bradley
The essence of Shakespearean tragedy lies in the sense of tragedy that is aroused in the reader by his interaction with the vividly human characters that Shakespeare sketches.The expression of tragedy through soliloquyincludes the reader in the plot itself (Chandler, n
He is valiant, principled and faithful to the ruler. It is obvious that through life his ambitions brought him to great levels of respect and lordship but when he hears the prophecy of his being the King of Scotland one day, his extreme desire to live this prophecy transforms his once commendable ambition to repugnant lust for power (Elliott, 1960)
However, every word that Shakespeare writes has its own dramatic essence hidden in it.The three important aspects of Shakespeare's writing in general and Macbeth in particular are his unique sentences, manipulation of words and poetical verse attributed to his tragic characters (Goddard and Howard, 1951)
e., Macbeth himself and his wife, Lady Macbeth, are undeniably blinded by ambition to achieve what they have been made to fantasize about after the prophecy of the three witches (Stallybrass, 1982)
Shakespeare considered tragedy as one of the greatest paradoxes of life that encumbered disappointment, lost hopes and most importantly unexpected turns of fate. Shakespearean Tragedy revolves around aprotagonist (Wilson and Harold, 1957)
True, Katherine offers to put her hand beneath her master's foot, but as one critic observed, it is difficult to avoid an ironic reading of this moment, and perhaps shows even more shrewd husband management than Bianca. (Heaney, 1998) This is how the relations between the sexes should be governed, suggests Shakespeare, how the 'real' showmanship should take place, unlike "Ten Things I Hate about You," which attempts to say more through its greater use of realism, but ultimately says less, with is more sparse use of irony, more static minor characters, wiser adults, and the work's lesser comprehension of how the genders perform and manipulate their roles on stage and in life
1-2). The subtleties, later visible in Hamlet or Lear, where rhythmic variety, hesitation, and creation of momentum or shifts in tempo characterization (Dowden, 1967) are non-existent here
Unremitting in its pageant of rivalry and pillage, Shakespeare's tone is unremittingly grim to the end. As McDonald opines, he is "straightforward, blunt, and forceful" (McDonald, xli)
Elliot opined it as being "one of the stupidest and most uninspired plays ever written (ibid, xxx). To many contemporary readers, Titus is still hopelessly crude and vulgar in its sensationalism and horrific violence (Reese, 77), whilst Ovid's mater-narrative never ceases to move