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not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

emphasis on "mind-forged" shows that these are mental attitudes rather than physical chains, but their effect on human freedom is ...

confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

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

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...

in psalms (Liu 26). The repetition of the first line, which is subtly varied in the second stanza, is also psalm-like in that Hebr...

tale that he is a eunuch, otherwise impotent. With the aid of his friend, Doctor Quack, he manages to land himself in the lap and ...

- with particular emphasis placed upon people of the dominant white race. Slavery has constructed the interior life of African-Am...

intracellular structures such as chloroplasts and mitochondria. It was not until the second half of the 19th century that "a nucl...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

behaviours: one of the reasons for the study was to assess whether there were elements of the playschool environment which were tr...

are expressive, specifically facial changes that occur in response to particular situations are essentially the activation of emot...

staged "fights" in movies and plays, these actions are real and therefore telegraph real emotion to the audience. When Katherina s...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

race "at the mercy of machines" (Joy, 2000). The kind of panicky point of view maintained by Joy as a result of the constantly im...

coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

As Tom was a sleeping he had such a sight!/ That thousands of sweepers Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack,/ Were all of them lockd up in coffi...

of the bible belt that anyone who is connected to the clergy are inherently good people when in fact clergy are human beings, subj...

his prowess as a warrior that has drawn Desdemona to him. When his loss of battles to fight on the actual battlefield come to an e...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...

discussing Othello, Roderigo blatantly refers to Othello in derogatory terms by calling him "the thick lips" which directly single...

is symbolic of life. Man hopefully lives a long, full life full of many experiences that culminate to form the "autumn" of the in...

the adult world of constraints into an exciting world of fun in the sun, the children come up against the usual banes of social ex...

living with Emily, which is certainly not proper but the town accepts this because there is sympathy for Emily who is a sad and lo...