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Comedy, Appearances, and Reality in Othello by William Shakespeare

only as a representation of misconstrued appearance. As time progresses, Othello - quite arguably the only character with a stell...

Iago's Character in William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages this paper examines how Iago is able to psychologically manipulate others in this character analysis of the antagoni...

Disguise in Three Comedies by William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines how disguise is used in a comparative analysis of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, M...

Queen Elizabeth and Richard the Third

"Come, Come, we know your meaning, brother Gloster; You envy my advancement, and my friends; God grant we never may have need of y...

Comparing Macbeth and A Doll’s House and the Appearance of Reality

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

Othello and Emilia's Statement 'Thou hast not half the power to do me harm/As I have to be hurt'

skitters to the old event with a new trigger. It does not matter that it is a new person, a new time, or a new love. The memory...

Literary Depiction of Human Nature

In six pages this paper examines how literature depicts human nature in a comparative consideration of Hamlet by William Shakespea...

Comparing the Cinematic Versions of Hamlet by Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

Gender, Women, and 2 Plays by William Shakespeare

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

Cinematic Interpretations of Hamlet

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

Caliban's Treatment by Prospero in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

the most inept such plots in theater-but we can see it as his attempt to revenge himself upon the man who stole his island from hi...

Shakespeare and Vandross: Love

his lovers eyes he is saying, "When I look in your eyes/ There I see/ What all that a love should really be" (Vandross 24-26). He ...

Prince Hamlet's Character Study

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

Feminist View of William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...

William Congreve's Contributions

works called The Mourning Bride which was created in 1697 contains the following well known line: "Heavn has no Rage, like Love to...

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

The Problem of Free Will and How It is Treated in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

Recurring Imagery: Hamlet

a character claiming he is "sick at heart," sets the stage for all the struggles that will take place (Shakespeare I i). It is the...

Analysis of Hamlet

move from one emotion to another. There is depression, sorrow, despair, anger, frustration, and perhaps a bit of madness mixed in ...

Battle of the Sexes in “Midsummer Night’s Dream”

that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...

Research on Shakespeare’s Othello

myth. It is a play that demonstrates a profound intelligence on the part of the author, and a play that illustrates how the autho...

Lessons Learned Along King Lear’s Journey

blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...

Psychological and Sociological Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Othello

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

Shakespeare: Sonnet 73

is so black that it seems like death itself. The inference we have to make here is that he is dying, or at least is old enough to ...

Fate and Foreboding in Romeo and Juliet

It also sets the stage for the viewer/reader to know the foundations of history concerning the families when Romeo and Juliet firs...

Evaluating Hamlet

Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...

Morbidity of Death in Shakespeare

have no real concept of death, it becomes hugely romantic, and greatly desired. Most people assume that "Romeos suicide is motiv...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and the Royal Court

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

'Time is Out of Joint' in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...

Prince Hamlet and Willy Loman in a Consideration of What Makes a Tragic Hero

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...