YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Guilt in Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Essays 391 - 420
how his takeover of the island oppressed the liberties of the natives. Prosperos character (whose name is Italian for "to prosper...
(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...
have a woman who does not necessarily understand what is going on with Hamlet. Both of them are deeply concerned with Hamlets ment...
involve whether or not his new step father was responsible for killing his father, but doubts about how vengeance was best played ...
Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...
the best Shakespeare company in the world so perhaps the director might want to consider a minimalist production. The focus of th...
fall upon my life" (Shakespeare I iii). In this he is leaving it all up to his wife and her father, nobly demonstrating that he do...
When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...
good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...
story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...
"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...
lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...
where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...
supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...
finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...
that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...
good enough for her. Another issue that Bianicas situation brings up is the sign of the times. These days, wed scratch our...
sent from God, and in return, the monarch was expected to keep their best interests at heart and to protect them. Not only h...
maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...
there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...
not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...
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...
wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...
homoerotic desire" (114). Olivia and Maria embody this type of alliance. Maria is serving Olivia, literally and figuratively spe...
be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...
While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...
a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...
equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...
Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...