by Alexis Jennings | Jan 19, 2024 | Literature
“Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” (Hamilton). You and I, we both cry, we both bleed, and we will both die. One critical lens that sparked my interest the most while reading William Shakespeare’s Hamlet was the postcolonial lens, especially because of the...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 19, 2024 | Literature
The film Othello, directed by Oliver Parker and made in 1995 is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play that was written in the early 1600s. The film takes on several of Shakespeare’s strong recurring themes of love and tragedy. Othello also touches on other...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 19, 2024 | Literature
Just after the Civil War, a mother grapples with her tortured slave past and the emotional effects of her behavior stemming from it. That is just about all that will be revealed here about the plot of Beloved. The reason is that the story of Beloved, as directed by...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 19, 2024 | Literature
Ophelia and Gertrude are the only two female characters in the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. In the play, Gertrude is the mother of protagonist Hamlet, and Ophelia is the love interest of Hamlet. In many ways, Ophelia is similar to Gertrude. They seem to be the...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 19, 2024 | Literature
The central themes that are discussed throughout the tragedy are gender and race, to which Othello exposes limitations and changes of perception during the play. Othello and Desdemona also anticipate utopian values that lead to issues in character relationships that...
