Donesha Murphy English II Rachel Lawton 11 December 2015 While reading novels Shakespeare always looked for historical character in a story, a character he could imagine eventually bringing to life in the theater. It wasn’t until after Shakespeare’s death that critics divided his plays into categories; Histories, Comedies, Tragedies, and Romances. The playwright’s composition for tragedy mainly focused on rich royalty actors like Julies Caesar, and Henry V, and vaguely categorized them in a play because they were dead and long gone. These gentlemen were very clever and ingenious men during this era. The way that Shakespeare categorized or singled out the characters hundreds of years ago still have the same idea to the audience many years …show more content…
Shakespeare went against the norm sometimes and the plays didn’t always end happily. In Othello, he kills his wife in a jealous rage, and we all can relate to jealousy on a certain level, and that’s what he does he writes so that his content in his plays are universally understood. You can see this through the characters and messages in plays, whether it’s for revenge of a lover, the greed of another, or whether you’re searching for love. His deep perception of people is just as real today, as it was 400 centuries …show more content…
The very name of this book is named from a title from “The Tempest”. Author Huxley was aiming for the same idea as Shakespeare in this book, by exploring a certain theme which was art, and the nature of humanity, ambition, desire, fate and free will, power, and time all these elements play a factor in this book and movie. The outcast is John, he being hated for his appearance, like Caliban was looked at as sub-human because of his actions. Another updated novel based on a Shakespearean play is “The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith. This novel is about a man lusting for another man’s woman, wanting something he can’t have, just like in Macbeth. He murders and kills him to take on his identity without having any continence about it, just as Macbeth murders Duncan. Macbeth may have become king but his free will to kill Duncan assures it to him. He is definitely displaying egoism here. This tragedy by Shakespeare also has the many theme elements that he uses in all his plays it has violence, time, power, fate and free will, ambition and the desire to go too far. “Moby Dick” by Herman Melville is another good imitation of one of Shakespeare’s plays. This novel captures your heart about faith, the bible, Ahab the captain of the ship does not conform to religious tenets, and he has a preposterous idea about teaching an animal a