Riya Bhatt

Macbeth by William Shakespeare  In this blog I'm going to discuss the most famous play by William Shakespeare and that is Macbeth. This blog is based on a thinking activity assigned by Dilip sir barad. Macbeth is the tragedy of William Shakespeare. This tragedy is also considered a renaissance text because in this tragedy we can easily find the main themes like ambition, power and corruption and so on. The supernatural elements like witches, prophecies and hallucinations. Tragic flaws like ambition and moral deterioration. The main theme of Macbeth —the destruction wrought when ambition goes unchecked by moral constraints—finds its most powerful expression in the play's two main characters. Macbeth is a courageous Scottish general who is not naturally inclined to commit evil deeds, yet he deeply desires power and advancement. He kills Duncan against his better judgment and afterward stews in guilt and paranoia. Toward the end of the play, he descends into a kind of frantic, boa

This blog based on the Neoclassical age:thinking activity of assigned by Vaidehi ma'am. In this blog one can find the definitions of Neoclassicism and the Romanticism, the difference between that two age as well as the most prominent writer during that time Alexander pope and his work Rape of the Lock in PPT and the main themes of Neoclassical age. 1.Comparison of the general characteristics of the Elizabethan age and Neoclassical age:  • Introduction: Neoclassicism and romanticism are often considered to be opposing movements. The main difference between neoclassicism and romanticism is that neoclassicism emphasized on objectivity, order, and restraint whereas romanticism emphasized on imagination and emotion.  • What is neoclassicism ? Neoclassicism is a movement in literature that drew inspiration from the classical age. The writers of this period tried to imitate the style of Greeks and Romans. This movement, which was a reaction against the renaissance, lasted from about 1660

  A ristotle and plato As we already know, Aristotle and Plato give a definition of tragedy and its features like plot, Hamartia and Catharsis, characters and so on . So let us get information about Hamartia and Catharsis in the most famous Shakespeare's tragedy that I have studied in my B.A and that is " King Lear ". This blog all deals with Hamartia and Catharsis in King Lear, how Lear's fall and so on. Shakespeare is the most famous writer during the Elizabethan age . Let discuss King Lear in detail about King Lear. William Shakespeare • Abstract:  King Lear (1606) is one of the political tragedies of Shakespeare in which the playwright censures Lear's hamartia wreaking havoc not only upon people's lives but bringing devastation on his own kindred. Shakespeare castigates Lear's wrath, sense of superiority, and misjudgments which lead to catastrophic consequences. This blog initially aims to discuss the concept of hamartia within the  tragedies based on