Essays 271 - 300
can produce, she would begin her correspondence to her husband, "Dearest Friend," and sign them "Portia" (http://www.masshist.org/...
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...
distance, an unclear picture is present. It is this vision of the mistress that the narrator begins to imagine must be of some fan...
of homosexual behaviour in male prisons is not something which necessarily reflects the sexual orientation of the participants in ...
The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...
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...
be able to control the otherwise innocent Macbeths actions, or if he is entirely responsible for his own demise" (Riedel Witches.h...
cistern of my lust, and my desire / all continent impediments would oerbear...better Macbeth/ Than such an one to reign" (lines 62...
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. ...
This ten page paper addresses eight specific quesitons on Shakespeare's play. Two sources....
In five pages this essay presents William Shakespeare's protagonist as a defendant in a contemporary inquest trial in which prosec...
In six pages this paper examines the plot function served by the witches in this analysis of William Shakespeare's dark play. Thr...
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...
In five pages the tragic characteristics these plays' feature in terms of such conflicts as male and female, good person or monarc...
of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...
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...
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 ...
the King. Macbeth, while in a different conflict, is a man who, for the simple sake of his ambition, is willing to murder his k...
This paper examines the treatment of gender disruption in these plays by William Shakespeare in 8 pages. Nine sources are cited i...
In five pages the shared themes and death emphasis of these two notorious literary classics are contrasted and compared. Three so...
In ten pages this paper discusses Shakespeare's efforts at religious, political, and social appeasement in this trio of plays. El...