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powers of destiny, great ministers of fate. They had determined the past; they not only foresaw the future, but decreed it" (Cours...

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

was California Congresswoman, Barbara Lee who received death threats after she had the unmitigated courage to cast the only vote a...

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...

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...

were clearly outlined as the primary focus in the introduction above. And, these are issues that are very big in Antony and Cleopa...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

point in the piece, the problem with the O-Rings are duly noted and this suggests that perhaps the scientists should have realized...

whole, and viewed the family structure as a divisive and prevalent force in the problem of social inequities and negative Black so...

a larger than life figure. He is perfect. He is a leader as well as a handsome and delightful mate for Desdemona. Because Othello ...

is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...

they may have (Grossman, 2002). Experts believe that workplace violence can be prevented if certain types of training programs ar...

old black ram is tupping your white ewe"(Shakespeare, Act I, sc I, li 88-89). Brabantio is Desdemonas father and as such would hav...

end. The tragic nature of the story does rely on the supposition that Othello is indeed propelled to do something because he is ...

a man of great power and a man who apparently worked within all sorts of cultures, working with China and then with Vietnam, earni...

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...

that the whole land is "diseased" and "poisoned." Later in that same scene. Antonio predicts that Bosolas "foul melancholy" will "...

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

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...