A problem play is concerned with a moral or social problem that is central to it and presented so that we become unsure of our moral bearings. Besides, uncertain and divided responses to it in our...
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Discuss The Theme of Justice And Mercy in Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure has been considered a problem play since it raises problematic issues that are left unresolved. The play mainly centres around the problem of justice and mercy. In the play, we...
Isabella, who appears in Measure for Measure, is one of Shakespeare's most famous and loveable characters. She has been idealized and denigrated by others. Some of them praised her nobility on...
Shakespeare never allows the supernatural to take the upper hand in the dramatic action of his tragedies. Shakespeare's tragic world is essentially the human world in which man initiates actions...
What Use of Machinery Does Pope Make in “The Rape of the Lock?”
In a poem, critics invented the term 'machinery' to signify the unique role of deities, angels, demons, and even gods. In the ancient epics like the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" and down to Milton's...
Pope’s Attitude toward Women & Men As Fashionable in “The Rape of the Lock”
The epigram of Martial prefixed to the poem implies that Pope wrote: "The Rape of the Lock" to heal the rancor of a lady named Mrs. Arabella Fermor. Yet to praise a lady for her charms or console...