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This denial of friendship prompts the poet to allude to the language of the Gospels and the denial of Peter towards Christ (Comm...

will never get a husband if she behaves in such a way. This offers us a very powerful image of how the patriarchal system of Sh...

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

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

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...

his prowess as a warrior that has drawn Desdemona to him. When his loss of battles to fight on the actual battlefield come to an e...

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...

discussing Othello, Roderigo blatantly refers to Othello in derogatory terms by calling him "the thick lips" which directly single...

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

is symbolic of life. Man hopefully lives a long, full life full of many experiences that culminate to form the "autumn" of the in...

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

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

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

this theme together" (Universe). In combination with this theme, the theme of foolishness, is the theme of disguise. In summari...

and one in blood establishd; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughterd those that were the means to help him; Ab...

5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes...

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

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...

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...

a rare and precious gem. Ferdinand does fall in love with Miranda, as was Prosperos plan all along, and is willing to stay with th...

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

wronged, as Philomela was . . . (IV. I. 52). The book is also mentioned in Act V, scene three, when Titus asks Saturninus" the...

in enforcement of these laws. The laws in question are those which relate to a man being punished to death if he should lay with a...

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

possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...

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...

out with flowers and shod with dainty little slippers? (Aristophanes). As this indicates, women, at least the upper class women,...

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

particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...