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In Hamlet, ideas about justice and retribution are often articulated through the language of honour and masculinity. Many of the characters are clearly seeking retribution as well as justice. Laertes and For...

Hamlet's reluctance towards revenge and his need for it's confirmation is in contrast to the irrationality which comes with revenge, 'for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so - to me ...

Tennyson’s poem ‘Ulysses’ tells a compelling story. An old hero, stuck in a mundane existence, reflects on his past, ultimately deciding to strive on and make the most of life until the end. The key to this ...

Maggie is the female protagonist of Tennessee Williams' southern Gothic play, 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', and can be seen to both embrace and reject the traditional notions of femininity during the 1950s in the...

In ‘The Long Queen’, Duffy establishes the suffering caused by patriarchal oppression, but suggests that the resulting subversive nature of women is one of beauty and power. Duffy opens the poem (and the col...