Essays 271 - 300
In five pages this research paper discusses the 1858 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell in an analysis of the title protagonist....
himself." Images The title that Chekov has chosen for this story is particularly poignant. He did not choose the Lady with the W...
In five pages these characters and their complex love affair are analyzed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....
Armande and Henriette, sisters and daughters to Chrysale and his wife Philaminte. In this scene, Moliere presents both sides of th...
In six pages this landmark fifteenth century feminist text is analyzed in terms of how the author portrayed the connection between...
can produce, she would begin her correspondence to her husband, "Dearest Friend," and sign them "Portia" (http://www.masshist.org/...
together and makes possible the fraternal and hierarchic bonds of chivalric solidarity" (Hahn). This contrasts sharply with the fo...
(Chaucer). Nevertheless, he soon speaks to her of love and pledges his faithfulness. In the privacy of his own thoughts, Chaucer r...
sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...
me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...
the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...
say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...
We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...
soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...
cistern of my lust, and my desire / all continent impediments would oerbear...better Macbeth/ Than such an one to reign" (lines 62...
Two beings created for each other feel mutual love at the first glance; every consideration disappears before the irresistible imp...
a man who is perhaps willing to sit back and let prophecy go its own course, without intervention from him. This is evidenced when...
receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...
price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...
matters into his own hands, a reality perhaps perceived by the oracle. He believes the predictions of the witches, and thinks that...
audience would see this dark scene as entrancing and somewhat frightening. We can envision this when we hear the first witch ask, ...
While she has gone to do this, Macbeth, again imagines that he hears knocking and sees an image of a hand plucking out his eyes. ...
perplexed, sudden and desperate in act, from a distrust of his own resolution. His energy springs from the anxiety and agitation o...
be able to control the otherwise innocent Macbeths actions, or if he is entirely responsible for his own demise" (Riedel Witches.h...
thoughts terrify him. The fact that Macbeth is thought of as a loyal and noble person at the beginning of the play is made eviden...
of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...
with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...
the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...
harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...