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keep him out of their clutches: "Because I would not see thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor they fierce sister / I...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

a purpose that is perhaps very subtle. In the beginning of this play we know that there is great tension between England and Fr...

This essay pertains to the anthropocentric worldview of King Claudius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Machiavelli, drawing on his te...

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...

her standards and lie to her father. She is seen, therefor, as the evil daughter, not the righteous daughter she truly is: "Lears ...

In seven pages this paper examines how the apocalypse is symbolized in the flawed pagan King Lear, who is the protagonist of Shake...

Shakespeare's The Life of King Henry the Fifth is discussed along with the protagonist. This five page paper has three sources ...

who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...

emotion, to act. But what is Iagos motivation? It could in fact be that he is envious of Othello. At the same time, in reviewing...

tragic deaths of Lear and Cordelia. Therefore, many modern readers and critics regard the plays conclusion as being devoid of red...

from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...

do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...

for himself - with a kiss. Her husband retorts, "Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows o...

heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

In five pages this paper examines how King Lear's identity search fuels the plot for this Shakespearean tragedy. There are no oth...

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...

The steward is immediately threatened by anyone who is perceived as funnier or more intelligent than he. Olivia is the only perso...

differently in different periods of time, but the man as a writer stays very much the same. The homogeneity of his works is remark...

that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...

in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...

In five pages this paper analyzes the character of Ophelia and the role she plays in this tragedy in terms of how other characters...

In five pages this paper discusses the play's second scene in Act II and the first scene in Act III in a consideration of the func...

his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...

essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...

Henry Tudor, is the same person that Shakespeare called Prince Hal in Henry IV Parts I and II, except that lovable, feckless, and ...

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

In six pages this paper examines how life's meaning and human suffering's relationship is represented by these William Shakespeare...