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Jul 24, 1998 · Baz Luhrmann, by contrast, flung the gauntlet in the critics’ faces with his film’s official title: William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet. That tactic was both ironic and straight-up: While...
What are the main themes in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens? What motivated Charles Dickens to write Great Expectations?
Dickens and Shakespeare. The works and flamboyant character of Charles Dickens were widely celebrated in 2012, his bicentenary year. But one aspect of Dickens's life not especially touched on was his effort to preserve Shakespeare's memory in the playwright's home county of Warwickshire.
- Connecting with The Past and Present
- Building Brain and Empathy
- Reading Can Be Fun
In Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” for example, teenagers speak a language that’s almost completely unfamiliar to modern readers. They fight duels. They get married. So that might seem to be really different from today. And yet, Romeo and Juliet fall in love and make their parents mad, very much like many teens today. Ultimately, they commit suic...
Reading specialist Maryanne Wolf writes about the “special vocabulary in books that doesn’t appear in spoken language” in “Proust and the Squid.” This vocabulary – often more complex in older books – is a big part of what helps build brains. The sentence structure of older books can also make them difficult. Consider the opening of almost any fairy...
Old stories are sometimes just so weird that you can’t help but enjoy them. Or I can’t, anyway. In Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” there’s a character whose last name is “Pumblechook.” Can you say it without smiling? In Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” a cat disappears bit by bit, eventually leaving only its smile hanging ...
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Juliet makes a series of decisions in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet that ultimately change her life permanently: they lead to her death. When Juliet's mother asks her to have a look...
A summary of Chapters 14–16 in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Great Expectations and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
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How does Shakespeare use light and darkness in Romeo and Juliet? One of the most often repeated image patterns in Romeo and Juliet involves the interplay of light and darkness. For example, Romeo compares Juliet to light throughout the play.
