Question

Drag each label to the correct location. Each label can be used more than once.

Answer 1

A. Comedy: Explores themes of love and includes happy endings.

Many of Shakespearean comedy stories often explore themes of love, drama, conflicts between the main couple and family tensions that are solved at the end of the play, usually with a happy ending that involves marriage or a proposal. One example of this category is Measure for Measure, in which the Duke proposes marriage to Isabella (some of the main characters) at the end.

B. Tragedy: Explores themes of personal flaws and downfall and evokes fear and pity from the audience,

Shakespearean Tragedy often includes dramatic and serious scenes in which the characters show major personal flaws that eventually lead them to a downfall, like death. Through the story, the reader can also infer that the character is inevitably cursed by fate, in here the endings are not happy and all these elements evoke fear and pity from the audience. One famous classic example of this category is Romeo and Juliet.

C. History: Aims to instill national price and dramatized the lives of monarchs.

Shakespeare's Histories focus on English Monarchs like King John, Richard II, and Henry IV and on showing particular traits of them according to Shakespeare judgment, meaning that these plays were no historically accurate, instead, they were made to entertain. Through these plays, Shakespeare dramatizes civil wars and often aims to instill national pride.

Answer 2

Answer:

Comedy:

Included happy ending.

Explores themes of love.

Tragedy:

Evoked fear and pity from the audience.

Explores themes of personal flaws and downfalls.

History:

Aims to instill national pride.

Dramatizes the lives of monarchs.

Explanation:

William Shakespeare was the author of many plays, becoming most probably the one of the most famous writers of his time. His works had also been studied and all still being studied even during this time.

His dramas and plays mostly revolves around the themes of love, tragedy and comedy. But notwithstanding is his historical dramas that also provide so many details about the historical facts of the dramas that were written about. His dramas may be characterized as follows-

1. Comedies mainly works on the themes of love, exploring it and also involves a happy ending for the main characters especially.

2. Tragedies are more concerned with the feelings of fear and terror evokes the audiences to feel, or pity them. But it also shows the personal flaws and eventual downfall of that character.

3. Historical dramas deal with the true events stories, based on the historical details of the character or period that was described. But aside from the historical significance of the time, it also is meant to instill national pride in the readers and it also provide a dramatic presentation of the monarchs that are being characterized.