Author: AKRAM HUSSAIN

Montaigne does a brilliant job explaining how a persons imagination can shape so much of how their life is viewed. Similar to the psychology of our brains and bodies, Montaigne shows that when someone thinks of themselves in a certain manner, they are doing a certain thing to themselves without even physically attempting to do it.

Unfortunately, in Hamlet, women are depicted as people who are much lower than men and are merely objectified and looked down upon as frail beings. They were often times found answering to the men and not really having important roles in the play. The way that the men are seen as superior, in my opinion, led to the manipulation of the women in the play and led to the many tragedies and issues. Shakespeare simply left them as secondary characters instead of primary ones like most of the men.

Aeschylus’ use of imagery is essential in understanding and visualizing the impact of the different scenes that occur during the play. The best example of this was definitely in the scene where Clytaemestra was speaking about killing Agamemnon and stated “he spattered me with the dark red and violent driven rain of bitter savored blood to make me glad, as gardens stand among the showers of God in glory, at the birthtime of buds.” This quote helped us imagine the blood and gore from the killing and also helped us understand and connect with how Clytaemestra was feeling after the killing. Reading literature is not the easiest task to do as often times I find myself having to read the same line twice and really break it down to understand it, Aeschylus did a great job of using imagery to help the reader better understand the scenes.