Hamlet Summary LONG HAMLET SUMMARY ACT I Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark comes to Denmark from the University at Wittenberg on account of his father’s death. On his arrival he finds his mother has married his uncle Claudius, the present King whom he hates. Hamlet agrees to stay in Elsinore. Laertes, who has come …
DISCUSS THE CHARACTER OF OEDIPUS AS A TRAGIC HERO. OR, DOES OEDIPUS HAVE ANY HAMARTIA OR TRAGIC FLAW? CONSIDER OEDIPUS AS A TRAGIC HERO IN THE LIGHT OF THAT QUESTION. Ans In order to.judge whether Oedipus, as has been depicted in the tragedy King Oedipus, has hamartia or tragic flaw for which he suffers a tragic end, …
The life of Shelley lies world’s apart from that of Byron. His treatment of Harriet apart, his private life was not vicious, but on the contrary in many respects exemplary. As far as the ideas, which he sang, were capable of application to life, he applied them in his own conduct. “He preached the equality …
Shelley’s Love for Liberty: Like Byron, Shelley had a passionate love for freedom. He was profoundly influenced by the French Revolution. He was a sworn foe of tyrants and tyranny. Freedom for all mankind is one of the important features of the Golden Age which he anticipates. When Greece made a declaration of independence from the Turkish Yoke …
Shelley as a Prophet: Shelley is not only an artist but also a prophet. He is a prophet in the sense that he diagnoses the evils of mankind as well as makes bold, daring prophecies regarding the ultimate triumph of good over evil and the advent of the Golden Age of man. The awareness of the …
Shelley’s Lyricism: Shelley is one of the greatest lyric poets in English Literature. “His lyrics are the crown of his work. By his lyrics, above all, will he live. “They represent the highest achievement of the Romantic Movement. The Ode to The West Wind and The Hymn to the Spirit of Nature are examples of his incomparable lyricism. His …
Shelley’s melancholy: It is this unsatisfied desire, this almost painful yearning with its recurring disappointment and disillusionment, that is at the root of Shelley’s melancholy. His poetry is the poetry of desire. He is always yearning, never pouring forth the strains of a thankful satisfaction; but it is either the craving of an expectant rapture or …
Mysticism of Shelley: Shelley (like Browning) is a love- and-beauty mystic. He looks upon love as the solution of the mystery of life, as the link between God and man. To Shelley this was a glorious intuition, which reached him through his imagination, whereas the life of man, as he saw it, roused in him little but mad …
Shelley and Byron: Shelley stands with Byron as a poet of revolt, but his devotion to liberty is purer, his love for man is readier to declare in deeds of hope and sympathy; his philosophy of life is ennobled by loftier and more selfless aims. Byron’s cry is, “I am unhappy”. Shelley’s “The world is unhappy …
Shelley and Wordsworth as poets of nature: In his interpretation of Nature, Shelley suggests Wordsworth both by resemblance and by contrast. To both poets all natural objects are symbols of truth; both regard nature as permeated by the higher spiritual life, which animates all things; but while Wordsworth finds a spirit of thought and so of communion between nature and …