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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...

Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca

her innocence and lack of understanding in her words as she dies, words that do not even point to Othellos guilt as Emilia asks he...

Character Studies: Dr. Faustus, Macbeth

This essay discusses the characterization of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," identifying ...

Shakespeare and Jonson and Elizabethan Clowns

This essay pertains to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humor," and how each p...

The Theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...

Miller, Williams, Fantasy and Wishful Thinking

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

The Merchant of Venice: Mercy and Justice

This essay pertain to the theme of mercy and justice as exemplified in the trial scene of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." ...

Macbeth and the Corruption of Power

his darkest. It is concerned with power, ambition, and the exercise of pure evil. This paper examines the characters, setting, plo...

Shakespeare’s Major Themes

of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...

Playing in Hamlet: Ophelia

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

Sonnet CXVI: “Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds”

the accent will change the meaning of the poem. Instead of stressing the syllables like this: Let me NOT to the MAR-riage of TRUE ...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

William Wordsworth and William Blake's Childhood Themes

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

Racism in William Shakespeare's Othello

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

Modernist Theme in 'The Waste Land' by 'T.S. Eliot

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Enduring Love

the only thing they share: "Othello reveals a more detailed acknowledgment of Desdemonas sexual appeal. As he discusses her death ...

Thematic Elements of Tragedy in Shakespeare's Macbeth

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

Comparing Three Works Thematically

This research paper/essay discusses parallel themes in three works: Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet' and his poem "The ...

Shakespeare's Hamlet and Iago As Icons of Madness

that evil, corruption, guilt, lust, and avarice can all cloud the mind of a good man. Consider another of Shakespeares characters...

Tragic Heroism of Prince Hamlet

theater itself, and his own background upon the stage. Hamlet plays the clown with the other actors who arrive to perform ...

Act I, Scene iii Analysis The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Lines 183-228

In five pages these lines are analyzed in terms of assessing Shakespeare's choices, his use of such literary techniques such as rh...

King Lear, Disguise and Deception

In a paper consisting of 6 pages the themes of deception and disguise as they manifest themselves in Shakespeare's play are consid...

Hypocrisy in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

In eight pages this paper discusses the theme of hypocrisy as it is portrayed in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire part...

Analysis of Lord of the Flies by William Golding

In ten pages this paper presents an analysis of Lord of the Flies by William Golding in a consideration of humankind's evil as a p...

A Film Adaptation of Romeo and Juliet

This research paper/essay offers a critique of Baz Luhmann's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The writer discusses ho...

Madness as a Common Literary Theme

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

Lost Children As a Literary Theme

This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...

Tennessee Williams' Cat On a Hot Tin Roof Play and Film Versions

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

Othello Questions and Answers

In a paper consisting of twelve pages study questions pertaining to Shakespeare's tragedy are answered in break downs according to...

Lingering Power of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

dysfunction goes far beyond the limits of the household, hinting at a world that is itself out of sync and in a state of disarray....