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a man who is perhaps willing to sit back and let prophecy go its own course, without intervention from him. This is evidenced when...

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...

the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...

a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...

equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...

Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...

"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...

brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...

to share Iagos disgust and refers to Desdemonas acceptance of Othello as her "gross revolt" (I.i.134) and Roderigo shows his dista...

also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...

city, broadening his knowledge, which, in turn, improves his skill as a ruler. While there is a logical explanation for his knowle...

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

interacting systems, the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is, according to Freud, the original system of the personality up...

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...

In Sonnet 72, it becomes evident that the initial sexual flush is still very much in evidence, but the references to the distant h...

connection between Iagos perception of race and the cultural perception that "black" equates with "evil." This perception of race ...

speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...

husbands duty to lead his wife toward proper behavior. Inherent in the relationship between God and humanity, which the marriage ...

persecuted and killed for their faith. We also note that throughout the play Lear slowly develops into a man who understands hi...

a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...

power was not necessarily through the might of his military, but from the popularity of a kings subjects. In Henry V, ther...

appears to be Lucentio, but should he be unable to produce his father (which would verify his lineage and financial status), then ...