GENDER RELATIONSHIPS
Women as forces of evil: Lady Macbeth and the three witches
- In the play, the three witches are called: instruments of evil, weird
sisters, devil, darkness.(1) to make the
audience feel pity for the tragic hero also fear him but not hatred
(2) to make him a human (3) to show the inner conflict of the
character
- Prose: is for commoners, low class, unimportant characters
- Blank Verse: is for upper class, important characters
- Shakespeare made the language expressive of his weakness, he
also used imagery
- EVERY passage can be treated as a poem, all the rules of poetry
can be applied in Shakespeare's passages especially, the soliloquy.- It's One of the important techniques Shakespeare used to reveal the
inner conflict inside the character is soliloquy
- In Macbeth, we have 7 soliloquy
- The most important soliloquy is literature is ''to be or not to be that
is the question'' said by Hamlet
- In Macbeth, after the suicide of his wife, ''to-morrow, and to-
morrow, and to-morrow''
, to mourn her by a word
- There Is a quotation that is important, said by Macbeth
- Macbeth is so much different than the beginning of the play, the
pain and the torture played a huge part in changing his character
- Why did Shakespeare used this technique?THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
The type of the play: comedy
The plot written in two mix dramatic storylines
The sitting: two settings
1- Venice's scenes: the court, Shylock and his daughter, Antonio and
Bassanio
2- Belmont's scenes: Portia and her father, the marriage between
Portia and Bassanio.Disguise technique in ''The Merchant of Venice'':
1- Portia dressed as a man in order to gain the power of speech
2- Shylock's daughter used disguise to escape from her father to
gain the power of freedom
Shakespeare used this technique to:
1- Solve the problem
2- Advance the plot
3- Comic effect (women dressed as man make the audience laugh)
4- Expresses the theme of ''the idea of reality versus the appearance'',
it appears that men are more intelligent, strong than women, but in
reality Portia was strong and intelligent, smart enough to save
Antonio and save the conflict.Symbolism:
1- One pound of flesh: Shylock asked for one pound of flesh and this
symbolize:
- The religious conflict: between the Jews and Christians
- His own flesh, his daughter
- Revenge
Shakespeare humanized the Jews in this play, which is Shylock by
giving him reasons to be a villain:
- Christians started the hate.The technique of disguise: in Shakespeare's comedy, the disguise
technique appears in mistaken identity.