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Character of Laura in The Glass Menagerie

This essay deal specifically with the character of Laura from The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. The writer discusses her ...

Ibsen and Shakespeare/Doll's House and Much Ado About Nothing

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

The Man with No Motive

one of his most vexing. This paper discusses him in detail. Discussion Iago is a fascinating study in evil; he sets out to destro...

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...

Power in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

In five pages this paper analyzes how power determines character in this overview of Lord of the Rings by William Golding that com...

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...

Love is Hate: Much Ado About Nothing

whole man governed with one: so that if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself ...

Conflict in Hamlet

she wants to be as close to the seat of power as possible and will do anything to keep her power as queen" and this sets him on a ...

Putting Sir Toby on Trial

an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...

Do Not Speak the Speech, I Pray You

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

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...

The Poet’s Use of Shakespeare’s Themes in the Sonnets

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

The Merchant of Venice, Henry V and the Quality of Mercy

him, he will show "great mercy" (II.ii.50). Henry then turns the discussion around to the real point of the scene. He asks the me...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

for fear Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there" (Shakespeare II i). This is a very magical surreal image, but also a very fun ...

Queen Gertrude in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

In Defense of Brutus

Cassius proposed that they assassinate Antony also, Brutus opposed it. He argued that the assassination of another man would make ...

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...

Romeo and Juliet

that fate is not different for either of them. While they may arrive at this fate they are not different for they are both followi...

Twelve Lines from Othello by William Shakespeare

line indicates how Iago begins to chip away Othellos confidence in his lieutenant and his wife, as Iago insinuates there is someth...

Glass Fragility in Tennessee Williams' Play The Glass Menagerie

"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

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...

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 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...

The Position of Women in "Hamlet" and "To the Lighthouse"

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

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...

Antony and Cleopatra

in front of her. In these two lines she faces defeat as she envisions her power in the image of less than a simple milk maid, a se...

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....

Prince Hal and King Henry

say "I know thee not, old man," (V.v.47) dashing any hopes Falstaff had of becoming his confidante and the power behind the throne...