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sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained ...

it clear that his need for his retinue does not stem from physical need, but rather is a symbolic of his status in life, his autho...

authority in all human action and interaction. But it is important to understand that regardless of the passage of time and the a...

the Irish countryside. Thoor Ballylee was Yeats famous summer home, and Coole Park refers to the nearby estate of Yeats life-long ...

first section, he describes the efforts of various enterprises to reach the top of their markets in regards to profits, while offe...

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

the mustard was naught: now Ill stand to it, the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight forswor...

of Venice is highly revealing of his character. This characterization is vital to the internal logic of the play because the trag...

should take precedence over civic and social responsibilities (Goodlad). Most of the plays conflict and considerable violence is ...

then of trust when most intense, hence, amid ills that vex and wrongs that crush our hearts -- if here the words of Holy Writ may ...

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

"A Midsummer Nights Dream" are both plays which rely heavily on this sort of humor, though they may be more refined in a sophistic...

with the help of Worcester, Northumberland and Hotspur, (the Percy family) deposed and murdered King Richard. Bolingbroke is now K...

enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

to speak a plainer and more emphatic language. This, then, is at the heart of the divide between humanists, such as Wordsworth, a...

Clearly, this excerpt from The Prelude, reveals Wordworths quest for self-exploration. This is the story of a journey - not just ...

the aftermath of the actual attacks. The men, women, and children on the planes who had to die with such knowing horror of their ...

the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

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...

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

will be. And, as a ruler he has obligations. Ophelia is likely not ignorant of such conditions considering she has grown up in a h...

forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writi...

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

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...