![]() Hamlet, now free to act, mistakenly kills Polonius, thinking he is Claudius. When the councilor Polonius learns from his daughter, Ophelia, that Hamlet has visited her in an apparently distracted state, Polonius attributes the prince’s condition to lovesickness, and he sets a trap for Hamlet using Ophelia as bait.To confirm Claudius’s guilt, Hamlet arranges for a play that mimics the murder Claudius’s reaction is that of a guilty man. When the king of Denmark, Prince Hamlet’s father, suddenly dies, Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, marries his uncle Claudius, who becomes the new king.A spirit who claims to be the ghost of Hamlet’s father describes his murder at the hands of Claudius and demands that Hamlet avenge the killing. Entire Play Events before the start of Hamlet set the stage for tragedy. ![]()
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![]() However, while Shakespeare seems to use Prospero to meditate uneasily on his own long career as a playwright, Atwood ultimately uses this contradiction to argue for the moral utility of theater and the importance of prioritizing it within a society. ![]() ![]() Both works use their powerful protagonists to contrast the inherently contrived nature of theater with its ability to reflect and influence real life. In this sense, Shakespeare’s Prospero-who uses his magic powers to exact revenge on his enemies-and Atwood’s Felix-whose craftiness as a thespian allows him to achieve his own vengeance-represent the playwright or author who inevitably controls his or her creative work. Both novel and play center around a protagonist who does his best to control the direction of the plot and the actions of those around him. ![]() ![]() A retelling of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed tells the story of a director named Felix who, after being ousted from his job at a prominent theater festival, begins teaching Shakespeare in a prison, eventually using his new position to get back at his old enemies. ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading a lot of bad books lately, maybe it’s because my expectations weren’t met by this novel. It usually takes a lot to make me frustrated with a story. But how do you choose who to kill? And then how do you live with yourself? ![]() With each replay, events twist and fears come alive in horrifying ways. Beatrice and her friends are forced to repeat that dreadful day so many times they lose count. ![]() He tells them that they must make a choice: one of them will live, and the rest will die. Or so they believe.īack at the mansion where they are staying, a mysterious man knocks on the door during a raging storm. After a night out, they narrowly avoid a collision with a car on a deserted road. It’s been one year since graduation, and Beatrice Hartley has mixed feelings about joining her friends a weekend reunion. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was adopted in 1789 by the National Constituent Assembly (Assemblée nationale constituante), during the French revolution. ![]() She was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror (1793–1794) for attacking the regime of the Revolutionary government and for her association with the Girondists. In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality. ![]() At the same time, she began writing political pamphlet. She became an outspoken advocate against the slave trade in the French colonies in 1788. As political tension rose in France, Olympe de Gouges became increasingly politically engaged. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s. Olympe de Gouges (born Marie Gouze, – 3 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() The way this book starts, it grips you instantly, a sense of foreboding intensifying as you try to figure out what’s happening. ![]() But I have to say this was the first book where there were so many times that I was almost yelling at the characters, “No! Don’t fall in love! Don’t do it!” I’m talking big-time forbidden romance… the kind that will get you tortured and killed… but the type that is real and true and cannot be ignored. Dark and riveting, powerful and emotional, suspenseful and exciting… it made my heart race with panic and warm with some really heartfelt, romantic moments. Never did I imagine all those nights I heard them dragging someone else away that I’d join them.” My Review “Never did I imagine they’d come for me. ![]() My name is Lexi Hamilton, and this is my story. I’ve been accused of a crime I didn’t commit and now the Hole is my new home. Now LUST wraps around my neck like blue fingers strangling me. ![]() He created the Hole where sinners are branded according to their sins and might survive a few years. In his warped mind, the seven deadly sins were the downfall of society. Your heart will be racing the entire time!įifty years ago the Commander came into power and murdered all who opposed him. This unique and enthralling dystopian story had me hooked from the first paragraph to the very last page. Dark, intense and suspenseful with a love so forbidden that it will likely get you killed. ![]() ![]() ![]() She meets Steve, who says, “I found love on acid. ![]() “We’re just gonna let it all happen,” Jeff says. She meets Jeff and his fifteen-year-old girlfriend, Debbie, who has run away from home. She shows him a sign offering a ride to Chicago. Deadeye tells Didion he is looking for a ride to New York City. She met people like Deadeye, a dealer, and his old lady, Gerry, who wrote poetry but gave it up after her guitar was stolen. Didion hung out mainly with runaways and acidheads. In the summer of 1967, the Haight was a magnet for people looking for a place to do drugs. She and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, had moved from New York City to Southern California three years earlier, and, in March, 1966, they had adopted a daughter and named her Quintana Roo, after an area on the Yucatán Peninsula. ![]() Didion was thirty-two, and she had been a magazine writer for eleven years. In the late spring of 1967, Joan Didion, accompanied by a photojournalist named Ted Streshinsky, began making trips from Berkeley, where she was staying, to Haight-Ashbury, to do research for a piece on the hippies for The Saturday Evening Post. ![]() ![]() ![]() “In the sense that people are afraid of the psychopathic side of humans, I feel that this tendency is stronger than it used to be. “Unlike the old days, there is a word ‘hitokowa’ ,” he remarked. He also thinks people would prefer art from humans as opposed to art from AI. In this way, I would like to create a story in which the unexpected becomes frightening before AI.” The swirl pattern that exists naturally and fear are connected, and the swirl pattern that was casually seen until then becomes scary. It’s like something that you didn’t think you were afraid of before suddenly becomes scary. “On the other hand, I always have the desire to create something new and scary. “Fundamentally, I don’t think people’s fears have changed that much over time,” he said, according to a translation provided by Kotaku. ![]() And he’s concerned that even though AI can’t think of anything with originality, it could make artwork better than his.ĭuring the interview, he talked about putting fears into his work. He shuddered at the thought of future manga being made by AI instead of people. And in an interview with the Japanese site 4Gamer, he revealed one of his fears: that AI will replace artists. Horror mangaka Junji Ito is known for writing manga involving people’s fears. ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() His family freaks out: Yes, their son is OMG so cute, but what good is cute when there are bills to pay? And how can Gregor be so selfish as to devote all his attention to a scrap of ribbon? As his new feline identity threatens to eat away at his personality, Gregor desperately tries to survive this bizarre, bewhiskered ordeal by accomplishing the one thing he never could as a man: He must flee his parents' house. ![]() His life goes strangely awry when he wakes up late for work and discovers that, inexplicably, he is now a man-sized baby kitten. 'One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that he had been changed into an adorable kitten.' Thus begins The Meowmorphosis-a bold, startling, and fuzzy-wuzzy new edition of Kafka's classic nightmare tale, from the publishers of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies! Meet Gregor Samsa, a humble young man who works as a fabric salesman to support his parents and sister. ![]() ![]() ![]() June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic - and each other - and now their country is on the brink of a new peaceful existence. ![]() ![]() But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games? June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor.ĭesperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Irresistably drawn together, neither knows the other's past. On the run and undercover, they meet by chance. ![]() |