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Hamlet and Historic Literary Figures in Film

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

Virtue in Henry V and Brave New World

are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Kingship

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

Pandosto by Robert Greene and The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

Attachment Among Shakespeare's Female Characters

of the common viewpoints regarding interpersonal interactions inherent in Elizabethan literature. The relationship between Hermia...

Flaws in Characters Vivian Bearing, King Oedipus, Willy Loman, and Othello

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

Congreve and Pope: Resistance to Marriage

draws a moments air independent on the bounty of his mistress. There is not so impudent a thing in nature as the saucy look of an...

Women in Much Ado About Nothing

preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...

Characters in Shakespeare’s Work

of Cassio. Cassio was given the position, by Othello, that Iago wanted and so Iago employs the usefulness of Cassio, pretending to...

Macbeth and Macduff

heath. There is something essentially uncivilized about Macbeth, which may be why he is such an outstanding soldier. Macduff does...

Lord of the Flies: Jack & Hitler

but he was placed in charge of hunting. Jack then pushes this role to the limit, getting more and more boys to join him in an incr...

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...

Brutus and Elisha

who engages in the plan to kill through jealousy and hatred. Brutus replies: "I would not, Cassius; yet I love him well. But where...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

Gertrude and Ophelia

father in the dust" (Shakespeare I i). She also tells him that he should not make his mother worry so. In short, her role is to be...

Hamlet & Oedipus

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

Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....

Romeo and Juliet

it prest With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised wi...

Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest

relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...

Macbeth: Villain or Not?

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun

these women are not too controlling in relationship to every move their children make. This does not mean that one or the other wi...

Character Analysis of Esteban Trueba in Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits

Author Karen Castellucci Cox notes in her literary analysis of The House of the Spirits, "Esteban speaks for an entire class and g...

Jealousy in Othello

tells Desdemonas father that he must act quickly else "youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (I.1.112-113). As p...

Character Analysis of Emily Grierson in "A Rose for Emily"

that a womans association with a man is what defined women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet, Emily was le...

Was Hamlet Sympathetic or Unsympathetic?

lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

Questioning the Sanity of Blanche Du Bois

is a true lady. She is coming to the city to stay with her sister, and her sisters husband. When she meets her sister, in a bowlin...

Character Analysis of Mabel in D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter'

feels about herself. Mable, left to pretty much fend for herself after her fathers death, must struggle to maintain the household...

Willy Loman and Blanche Du Bois

bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: ""Oh no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (...

Character Study of Hamlet

This essay presents a discussion of Hamlet's character. The writer argues that Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet focuses on...