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In five pages the 1969 film Easy Rider is analyzed in terms of the opening and commune scenes and what they reveal about the chara...

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

While she has gone to do this, Macbeth, again imagines that he hears knocking and sees an image of a hand plucking out his eyes. ...

travelling with Banquo, a general in the army, meets three witches. MACBETH Speak, if you can: what are you? First Witch All...

and situations in black and white terms. Therefore, he is less tolerant of sin and more judgmental then his Danish counterpart. Wh...

The play is divided into two acts, containing three scenes in the first and two scenes in the second. It centers...

whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...

love for her. It 8s also worth noting, that despite the clear and eloquent words, t no point in the pay do we see Hero and Claudio...

and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...

we see Roderigo and Iago discussing the fact that this Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters ...

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

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

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...

rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...

to be entertained as well. They began putting out what were known as mystery plays, passion plays, morality plays and miracle play...

both politically as well as personally. For Brutus, virtue was a trait that could never be compromised for it was synonymous with...

/ Is an unlessond girl, unschoold, unpractisd; / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn; happier than this, / Sh...

he would have no one to do this task for him. And, Iago could not have well done all the spying himself for that would have looked...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...

add the final brushstrokes to Hamlets character (or lack thereof). It is shown that Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, is a man of deci...

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

sent from God, and in return, the monarch was expected to keep their best interests at heart and to protect them. Not only h...

the person seeking power truly does see how things can be improved if people listen to them. For example, in the simple of situati...

Western literature, but of the world (Brustein 27). According to Bloom, Shakespeare valued personality above all other elements in...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...