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

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

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...

we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...

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

legitimately enslaved. Roxy gives birth to an infant son on the same day that a son is born to her white master. Twain emphasizes ...

marriage, and to decline / Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine! / But virtue, as it never will be movd,...

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...

extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

Marshal of Spain. Lorenzo and Horatio captured Balthazar, the son of the Viceroy of Portugal, during battle. The King of Spain has...

whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...

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

In a more recent translation we note a great deal of anger and a powerful sense of revenge, as we see in the following excerpt fro...

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...

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

are sending her and because she has led a sequestered life, Ophelia lacks sophistication when it comes to dealing with matters of ...

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

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

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

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

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

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...

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

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

endeavor and not one that was expected to take very long. However, this routine project turned into a disaster primarily becaus...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

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

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...