The stream winds its way down the gentle hill and through the dense forest, carrying a single golden leaf downstream like a tiny boat. The glistening water flows over round rocks and under mossy rotting logs, reflecting beams of light that every now and then break through the green canopy roof formed by the trees. […]

The Dark Knight A repetitive theme in the movie The Dark Knight is opposites. An example of this are the characters of Batman and the Joker. At it’s most basic level, Batman is a hero and the Joker is a villain. Batman wants to kill or capture the Joker, and the Joker wants to be […]

The play Macbeth (or the Scottish play as actors and theatre makers call it) is filled with “direst cruelty” – and moreover, Shakespeare has made the play this way by exploiting the conventions of language and theatre. One of the ways he does this is by making Macbeth seem helpless in which it seems like […]

In the play Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare the entire plot was based around fate. (Fate is defined in the Oxford dictionary as “The development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power.”) Shakespeare wrote it this way because he strongly believed in fate. He used metaphors, coincidences, dialogue as tools […]