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Unburdend crawl toward death", states King Lear in the opening act. Having decided to step down from the throne, King Lear has pos...

deal of support for the fact that Machiavelli always had the interests of the people at heart. Much of The Prince revolves around ...

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

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...

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...

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

old black ram is tupping your white ewe"(Shakespeare, Act I, sc I, li 88-89). Brabantio is Desdemonas father and as such would hav...

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...

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

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...

like a tragedy at this point, but we are provided with simple comedic elements throughout. For example, there is the character of ...

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...

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...

indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...

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

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...