Shakespeare's Work -(The Enchanted Island)

Themes

Deception
Deception was shown many time in “The Enchanted Island”. From Women dressing up as men to gruesome murder plots, the betrayal never ends.

The first display of deception was in The Taming of the Shrew. Petruchio, an easy-going man comes into town looking for Katharine, the rich merchant Baptista’s daughter. He knows about Katharine’s wild behaviour and does not marry her because he loves he, but because he wants her money. Over the period of time Kate spend at Petruchio’s country home, he used reverse psychology to get her to change her ways. He orders expensive clothes, only to rip them up, starves her and deprives her of sleep all to make her change her tyrannic ways. In the end of the story, Katharine changes for the better.

The third display of deception in the book was in the story The Merchant of Venice. IN this story, a rich money-lender named Shylock cons Antony, a man who he dispises into agreeing to et Shylock basically kill him if he doesn’t pay the money back by a specific date. Suprizingly, the plot works out in Shylocks favour and Anotny is facing death when the next point of decepiton comes in. Antonio’s friend Bassanio’s wife Portia dresses up like a male lawyer and defends Antonio, giving a touching mercy speech and then using her brains to save him, pointing out that a pound of flesh does not give him one drop of blood.

In the story of The Love Letter deception is also shown. Maria, Sir Toby and Feste devise a plan to “put Malvolio in his place”. They planted a fake love letter “from Countes Olivia” in his view that declared “her” love for him and gave him obsurd instructions such as wearing bright yellow cross garters

Julius Caesar
- Brutus and conspirators with the whole murder plot
- Decius lied to him