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Comparative Analysis of Ralph in Lord of the Flies by William Golding and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...

Shakespeare in Love Film and the Ideals of Courtly Love

harmed, though he will herald her with poetry if he is an artistic sort. These are fairly simple definitions, but they help to set...

A Look at Chaereas and Callirhoe

he had come down with a deadly disease. The author states that "Habrocomes pulled his hair and tore his clothes; he lamented over ...

An Examination of Four Love Poems

so strong, that Browning anticipates that it will follow her after death (line 14). Scottish poet Robert Burns also relied...

Candide by Voltaire and Romanticism

In seven pages this paper discusses the Romantic aspects of Candide by Voltaire in a consideration of the elements of the love 'qu...

Notions of Romantic Love

In five pages this paper discusses how people view romantic love as described in the John Schilb edited text Making Literature Mat...

Poetry and Different Romantic Modes of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, and Lord Byron

In eight pages this research paper discusses the romantic modes featured by Shelley's 'Platonic love,' Keats' 'doctrine of art,' a...

Cinema and Romantic Love

is very orderly and rigid and Harry is quite the opposite. In fact, many other films demonstrate that even people who do not get a...

Hollywood Then and Now and Love's Changing Styles

or Adams Rib, or the many films in the screwball genre. Such movies were invariably satirical, using the manners and foibles of me...

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

In a paper consisting of five pages the love between Darcy and Elizabeth is examined within the context of Austen's romantic comed...

Mary Robinson, Charlotte Smith, and Jane Austen on Romantic Love

In twenty pages this paper examines how female authors portrayed romantic love in the late 18th century in a consideration of Robi...

Possibilities of Love and Change in "Wide Sargasso Sea"

aspects of life. The opening pages of the novel take us to Jamaica, and they are very evocative. They tell us of the beautiful, l...

Romantic, Platonic and Family Relationships

this type of relationship is allowed, since its not likely that every time a person is attracted sexually to a partner, that perso...

'Against Love' by Katherine Philips, 'The Sick Rose' by William Blake and the Theme of Love

William Blake writes somberly: O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has foun...

Women of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

Exercise in Dante's 'Inferno'

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

The Tempest and William Shakespeare's Uses of Imagery

- a group ironically consisting of the very men who had conspired against Prospero - Antonio, the King, the Kings brother Sebastia...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Claudius's Character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Desdemona's Role

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

Luke's Gospel and Shylock's Experiences in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

Characters of Macbeth and Othello

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

Director Michael Almereyda's Version of Hamlet

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

Comparing Stage and Film Versions of Othello

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

Significance of the ‘Play Within a Play’ (Act III, Scene II) of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Prince. Despite his antic disposition or pretending to be mad as another ploy to ensnare Claudius in his revenge trap, maybe Haml...

Comparative Analysis of Characters Mark Antony and Caius Cassius in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

Shakespeare’s “Merry War”: Gender Roles in “Twelfth Night” and “Much Ado about Nothing”

most famous lovers. The "merry war" referred to in the title is that which is waged by this pair; as Leonato says, "There is a kin...

Lessons Learned Along King Lear’s Journey

blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...

Psychological and Sociological Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Othello

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...