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the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...
daughter, Miranda; his faithful fairy, Ariel; and his loyal Councilor (advisor), Gonzalo. But also living there is a lifelong nat...
inasmuch as social interaction implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joi...
or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...
speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...
observer, the forest is depicted as a pastoral or golden world not unlike the biblical garden of Eden in two particular scenes, in...
must reach unto" (Shakespeare I, i). When the two meet in the next scene we note that Lady Anne has absolutely no feelings for ...
to a degree, is honorable and chivalrous in his understanding of the couples love. All the while that the two are falling in lov...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
who informs him that he was murdered, that we note a change in Hamlet that begins to involve serious acting. In this simple exa...
secondary characters and subthemes actually deliver Shakespeares real message. The fairies in the play are of particular interest...
soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...
tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...
fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- / No more; and by a sleep to...
he received from those closest to him, emphasizing his own over-inflated sense of importance and intellect. His overbearing natur...
line indicates how Iago begins to chip away Othellos confidence in his lieutenant and his wife, as Iago insinuates there is someth...
"Id plan and work revenge with her" (line 102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murde...
between Richard and the audience so as to establish an immediate intimacy. He "remains in direct contact with the spectators thro...
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...
he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...
demesne" (Keats PG). It is here that religion first crops up in Keats explanation. Further, the entire work is about discovery, op...
famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, followed by a talk with Ophelia. In the same act Ophelia says "My lord, I have remembrances...
took the time to teach him a "proper" language, and not the "gabble" that he spoke when she and her father first arrived. Caliba...
romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...
worst" (Shakespeare II ii). As such she is highly berated by all that know her, save her sister perhaps. She is ridiculed and seen...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...
the play, and enable him to comment on the actions and feelings of his fellow characters with some distance. He is not fully inte...
he is out of the country when Bolingbroke returns with an invading army. In Act II, scene 3, Bolingbroke and York, his uncle, di...
Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...