‘A View from the Bridge’, by Arthur Miller, is a play which explores the theme of obsession. Set in 1940s Brooklyn, the play is based upon the lives of the Carbone family and, in particular, focuses upon longshoreman Eddie Carbone’s unhealthy obsession with his seventeen year old niece Catherine. A modern version of a Greek … Read more
Smiles that Faded Deception that Killed William Shakespeare utilized acts of unforetold love, treachery, revenge, and deception that helped to develop works that have been highly praised for centuries. In Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet, he continues to use these tools to unfold a story that reveals the questionable sanity of the main character, Hamlet. While Hamlet … Read more
The root of the madness of Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been debated by literary scholars for centuries. There have been scholars who believe Hamlet is an ignorant child who acts based on his emotions. Others say Hamlet was actually cunning by using his madness as a cover for his revenge, or Hamlet might not have been … Read more
The world is constantly destroyed externally by environmental factors, yet it is also destroyed internally by acts of evil. While there are only so many ways humans can mend what those external factors inflict on the world, there are concrete measures humans can take to restore what evil does to this world. One of those … Read more
