The Use of Fate In Macbeth
I focused on Shakespeare's use of fate as a concept in his plays for my final assignment, so I couldn't help but notice the role that fate plays in Macbeth, particularly in the last scenes. Generally...
View ArticleLady Macbeth
This is the first time I am reading Macbeth and I had no idea how much I would enjoy reading it. The play is very similar to Richard III but I think that Lady Macbeth adds a little twist to the plot. I...
View ArticleTwo Trusts
MacBeths lines spoken to himself when he is considering killing Duncan struck me as particularly odd. This whole idea of double trust seemed an odd expression, so much so that it distracted my reading....
View ArticleMacbeth New Paltz Production
Prior to seeing the play, I had set my expectations fairly high. After having class in the Mckenna Theater, I was intrigued by the Professor and was interested in seeing how his vision of the play...
View ArticleA Game of Chess
Of the plays we have read, I would probably consider The Tempest to be my least favorite. As I finished the reading, though, I did pick up on one interesting thing that I thought would be good to bring...
View ArticleA Play Within a Play
In Act 4 we find a play within the main play of The Tempest. This tactic is used in several other works of Shakespeare and in every instance there is some significance in what occurs in this mini play...
View ArticleThe Tempest : Tragedy, Comedey, Definitely Both.
Act four has started to really show me why the play is falling under the category of a tragi-comedy especially after we discussed this in class on Friday. I can see the marriage between Miranda and...
View ArticleThe Tempest
After reading through Acts III and IV, nothing really caught my attention to blog about, but I have a few comments. While witnessing Ferdinand's love for Miranda, it is almost forbidden by Prospero,...
View ArticleMacbeth: directed by Paul Kassel
Going to see Macbeth performed here in New Paltz was a very cool experience. In his Director’s Note, Paul Kassel says that “the production will bring you into a violent, intense, supernatural world,...
View ArticleMacbeth Play
I went to see the Macbeth play on Thursday night, and I was actually surprised by how it was performed based on seeing the set that day in class. I thought that what they decided to do with the three...
View ArticleThe Human Desire to Obtain Power: A Look into The Tempest
Throughout dramatic writing, the character’s internal desire for power often creates a large amount of the drama involved within the work. Shakespeare’s dramatic works are no exception to this rule....
View ArticleResolving the Social Order in The Tempest
Because most of Shakespeare’s comedies use marriage as a symbol of a harmonious and healthy social order and The Tempest does not, I was intrigued by the ways in which he uses conflict to reach, one...
View Articlesuch stuff as dreams are made on
In looking at the Tempest, I want to focus on one passage that I found particularly striking. Prospero says to Ferdinand in 4.1: You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismayed. Be...
View ArticleWater everywhere
Water is no doubt a central image in Shakespeare’s, The Tempest. In fact the play begins with a shipwreck at sea. But, aside from the cliché representation of water as a cleanser or baptismal,...
View ArticleProspero's Control
The love between Ferdinand and Miranda is rather suspicious, in my opinion. For one, they have only seen each other once, before falling madly in love. Of course, love at first sight comes to mind, but...
View ArticlePotter on a Deserted Island
It is surprising that I found The Tempest so disturbing considering the saturated vampire werewolf and zombie world that we live in. The supernatural doesn’t bother me. I loved...
View ArticleComic relief
So here we are with our final play for the semester, and this is my final blog post. A bitter-sweet end that I know many of my peers can agree with. The tempest, oh what to say about The Tempest? I...
View ArticleAn Unusual Setting
While reading the first four acts of The Tempest, I couldn’t help but notice the peculiarity of the setting. To my knowledge (from the plays I have read), this is Shakespeare’s only play that takes...
View ArticleMacbeth Play / My last blog
The Macbeth performance was amazing! This production is directed by Paul Kassel. Before the show started I was thinking of the Macbeth play that I have seen my old High School preform...
View ArticleMacbeth Production
I went to see Macbeth last night in McKenna Theater, and overall I think it was a great show. The set was amazing, especially the stairs. It might be my fear of heights talking, but I must say when...
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