Melanie's Miscellany

Here is a link to one of the short stories I wrote earlier this year: http://teenink.com/fiction/sci_fi_fantasy/article/377000/Consequence/

I finished Beowulf early this past week, and enjoyed it overall. Though the plot was a bit melodramatic, the book was easier to read than Sh...

This week I have been reading Beowulf, an epic poem written over a thousand years ago. I chose this book first of all, because it is in my s...

The character relationships in both Macbeth and TEOGROMITMM were very interesting, as well as often unhealthy.       First of all, the conf...

I find this play is very well written! There is a lot of depth to the characters' personalities, and they have multiple facets. I can ...

Macbeth's personality undergoes a great deal of evolution during the play. In the beginning, his companions view him as a noble and brav...

I enjoy Shakespeare's writing style, though his tragedies can be very depressing (obviously). The speech in the plays is very elegant, a...