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remark that Laertes and Ophelia had been discussing Hamlet, Polonius starts into a long dissertation on Ophelias lack of experienc...

five-act pattern. The setup creates the plays "world", introduces us to the characters, and lays the groundwork for some of the c...

In nine pages this paper discusses how Shakespeare emphasized 'hearing' throughout the course of this tragedy and how it affects t...

Their words were powerful weapons that turned into action that threw the entire city into war. Because of the feuding families of...

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

In five pages the quatrains and couplets that were so popular during the Elizabethan period are considered as Shakespeare masterfu...

powers of destiny, great ministers of fate. They had determined the past; they not only foresaw the future, but decreed it" (Cours...

really betrayed Othello. Iago is determined to manipulate Othello to his own desires, which are many. Throughout the play the re...

idea creates a "binary logic," in which evil is conceptualized as an "entity, a quality that is inherent in some people and not in...

logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...

not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...

homoerotic desire" (114). Olivia and Maria embody this type of alliance. Maria is serving Olivia, literally and figuratively spe...

sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

thunders crack or lightning flash; Advanced above pale envys threatening reach...Then, Aaron, arm thy heart, and fit thy thoughts....

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...

regarded as the "polite" or "formal" form of the second person (Garvey 12). The familiar use of "thou" is best illustrated throu...

thinks she is ignorant because she is unsure and innocent. He feels that she is an idiot to even begin to believe the words or aff...

as he did during the fateful dinner when the guest at the Brabantio table was the victorious General Othello, his treasure could n...

pining away because of his unrequited love for Olivia, who also has a potential suitor in Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Olivia wants no m...

indicates, Lady Macbeth provides the necessary motivation for the initial murder. She tells Macbeth that if she had sworn an oath ...

true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...

In Sonnet 72, it becomes evident that the initial sexual flush is still very much in evidence, but the references to the distant h...

the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...

humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pa...

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...