Essays 61 - 90
This essay discusses Shirlene Holmes' play, "A Lady and A Woman," which features a lesbian relationship set in the 1890s. Five pag...
it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...
This essay is on "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare and "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe. The writer asserts that the centra...
This essay discusses the characterization of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," identifying ...
In four pages this research essay discusses Lady Montagu's 18th century travel observations as revealed in her letters from Turkey...
the Duchess to show pleasure. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt, Wheneer I passed her, but who passed without Much the same smile? Th...
say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...
shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...
term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...
acts cowardly. Much of this comes from predictions of three witches, and after the deaths begin, the witches make further predicti...
battle, but this passive character allows others to control his fate. One cannot deny that Macbeth expresses a unique fascinatio...
prophetic apparitions make appearances(Shakespeare & Supernatural). One of the most climactic scenes in the play is the banquet ...
must reach unto" (Shakespeare I, i). When the two meet in the next scene we note that Lady Anne has absolutely no feelings for ...
one day become king of Scotland is music to the warriors ears. He is a respected figure in his homeland, but he (and his ever-per...
opined that, in this work, the tragic and the supernatural are synonymous: "The tragedy of Macbeth thus lies in the attempt of a m...
we see the same, though we know differently. Lady Macbeth, Lennox, Ross, the ladies and lords, and the attendants are not really i...
this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...
the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...
At the conclusion of the poem, the Green Knight informs Gawain that his actions were the direct result of the commands of the conn...
emotion, to act. But what is Iagos motivation? It could in fact be that he is envious of Othello. At the same time, in reviewing...
women throughout history. In these respects we see how Genji is attractive. Genji seems to know what women feel, how they think,...
so heavily reliant on the patriarchal system. She is passive and obedient, indicating that she easily goes along with the society,...
- is what was considered quite unique for the figuratively dark production. Adding literal darkness to MacBeth was the directors ...
travelling with Banquo, a general in the army, meets three witches. MACBETH Speak, if you can: what are you? First Witch All...
conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...
goading and nagging, contributed to Macbeths downfall; however, when one examines the play that the main impetus to Macbeths actio...
Carstone, to attempt to solve the generations-long Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce (Dickens). There is little that is myste...
almost always determined to meddle in the business of the divine or the immortal. As a result, there is never a truly positive out...
In five pages this paper examines the mysterious and paradoxical twists that appear in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White and Mary...