Monday, October 15, 2007

Othello

Characters:

· Othello- noble moor in the service of venice

· Iago- antagonist of the play

o Desdemona- wife of Othello

o Cassio- Florentine Lieutenan

o Emilia - wife of Iago

o Bianca- a courtesan

Settings:

Venice and Cyprus

IMPORTANT EVENTS

- Othello stolen Desdemona and Mary her

- Brabantio accuses Othello of stealing his daughter by witchcraft

- Iago seen Desdemona and Cassio clasping the hand of Desdemona and he will use “as little a web as this”

- Othello arrives that there will be a celebration

- Iago counsels Roderigo that he should cast Cassio into disgrace by starting a fight, Cassio and the first crucial step to ruin Othello

- Cassio get drunk and Iago sends Roderigo to fight with him

Midsummer Night’s Dream

Characters

Puck- Oberon’s jester

- mischievous fairy who delights in playing prank on mortals

Oberon- the king of the fairies

Titania- the queen of fairies

Lysander- in love with Hermia

- in love with Hermia and sooner in love with

Helena

Hermia - in love with Lysander

- childhood friend of Helena

- Egeus daughter

Helena- in love with Demetrius

Egeus- Hermia’s father

Theseus- duke and engaged to Hyppolyta

Hyppolyta- legendary queen of amason

- engaged to Theseus

Bottom- his head transformed into an ass

Settings:

Ø Athens and Fairyland

Important events

- Hermia refuses to complay with her fathers wish for her to marry Demetrius

- Hermia and Lysander decided to elopely escaping the forest

- Demetrius found out the plan of Lysander and Hermia, because it was told by Helena

- Oberon and Titania quarrel because refuses to give her Indian page-to Oberon for use as his knigh

- Oberon seek to punish Titania obedience and asked puck to help him apply the love potion “love in idleness” which makes thevictim fall in love with the first living thing he sea. When he awaken

- Oberons seen Demetrius act cruelly toward Helena, and he asked puck drop a love potion on the eyelids of the Demetrius and he also drop potion to Lysander. Both of them. Falls in love with Helena

- Helena thought that the two men was mocking her, and the four people

hamlet

Me and my group reported this play, we worked, searched, and we analyzed the story. my group mates and i joined together to come up with better analysis from classic to contemporary age. we have used three sources. we read the classic (book), we watched the movie and we search on the internet. luckily we come up with one idea.

Characters

hamlet- the protagonist of the play, the prince of Denmark
king claudius- a brother to late king hamlet and wife of queen gertrude
Queen gertrude- mother of hamlet
horatio- a university student of denmark best friend of hamlet
polonius- the right hand of king claudius the father of ofelia and horatio
ofelia- love interst of hamlet

Settings
castle of denmark

Important events

when king hamlet died

when hamlet and his colleagues promised not to tell anybody what they saw

king claudius marry queen gertrude

hamlet hired the players to portray what had happened to his father and see if the king is affected or guilty

this provoke king claudius plan to kill hamlet

hamlet accidentally killed polonius

king claudius asked rosencrants and guilderntern to kill hamlet

when polonius died and ofelia was exhausted

her brother got angry

ofelia's brother and hamlet deals to fight

hamlet was hit by a sword with venom

gertrude drank the wine with poison and died

king claudius accidentally drank the wine with poison

hamlet died

fortinbras ruled the kingdom

theme:
revenge and tragedy

implications
socity- taking revenge is common in the society

government- the power of being a leader to the country
-he/ she do bad things just to get the power and wealth

family- incestuous
marrying a relative with the same blood