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Literature Sampler

about people we could never meet, or simply enjoy a fantasy world thats been constructed for us to play in. This paper discusses f...

Jealousy, the 'Green-Eyed Monster' and William Shakespeare's Othello

The depiction of jealousy in William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is the focus of this thematic analysis consisting of 5 pages. ...

'The Play's the Thing': Analyzing Six Passages from William Shakespeare's Plays

Analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act V, Scene ii), As You Like It (Act II, Scene vii), Richard III (Act I, Scene ii), The...

"Hamlet" and Suicide as an Important Theme

not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...

Hamlet and the Attractive Prospect of Suicide

his mother Queen Gertrude announces she eloped with Claudius, her brother-in-law who will now succeed Hamlet Sr. as King. The Pri...

Twelfth Night and Themes of Romantic Love and Friendship

William Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed in terms of how the relationships of Olivia and Orsino, Cesario/Viola and Orsino, and Ces...

Much Ado About Nothing: The 'Comedy' of Scapegoats

This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...

Shakespeare and Jonson and Elizabethan Clowns

This essay pertains to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humor," and how each p...

Duncan and the Macbeths

are two of Shakespeares most memorable characters, but they change over the course of the play. This paper considers their charact...

Act 5 Soliloquy/Macbeth

famous soliloquy, in Act 5, scene 5, which begins "To-morrow, and to-morrow and to-morrow,/ Creeps in this petty pace from day to ...

Why Was Macbeth a Murderer?

In six pages this paper examines Macbeth's character and conscience in order to determine what propelled him to kill. There is no...

Jealousy in Othello

tells Desdemonas father that he must act quickly else "youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (I.1.112-113). As p...

The Poet’s Use of Shakespeare’s Themes in the Sonnets

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

Romeo's Character Development in William Shakespeare's Scene Changes in Romeo and Juliet

He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...

A Midsummer Night's Dream and William Shakespeare's Humorous Approach to Love

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

Deceit and Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

In short, then, Othello has it all, and in Iagos eyes, he has nothing. It is apparent that Iago has worked for many years in the s...

Family Conflicts in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, Sophocles' Oedipus the King, and William Shakespeare's Othello

position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...

Thematic Analysis of Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificant and William Shakespeare's The Tempest

how his takeover of the island oppressed the liberties of the natives. Prosperos character (whose name is Italian for "to prosper...

Accountability of Claudius in Causing Sorrow in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...

William Shakespeare's Othello and Its Pleasurable Aspects

actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...

Critically Exploring William Shakespeare's 'Othello' from a Marxist Perspective

a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, and Fathers

appears to be Lucentio, but should he be unable to produce his father (which would verify his lineage and financial status), then ...

Comparing William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Richard III and Themes of Justice and Destiny

especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...

Four Questions on William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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...

William Shakespeare's King Henry V and Hamlet Directed by Sir Laurence Olivier

for the rest of the world, There will never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "s...

Katherine and Henry in William Shakespeare's Henry V

power was not necessarily through the might of his military, but from the popularity of a kings subjects. In Henry V, ther...

Character Noting in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

William Shakespeare's Othello and the 'Jewel' Desdemona

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

Comparison of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

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

Suicide or Murder of Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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...