YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Guilt in Macbeth by William Shakespeare
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good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...
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...
"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...
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...
homoerotic desire" (114). Olivia and Maria embody this type of alliance. Maria is serving Olivia, literally and figuratively spe...
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...
not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...
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...
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...
forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...
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...
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...
Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...
appears to be Lucentio, but should he be unable to produce his father (which would verify his lineage and financial status), then ...
power was not necessarily through the might of his military, but from the popularity of a kings subjects. In Henry V, ther...
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...
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...
especially apparent when critically examining Shakespeares historical play, Richard III and his final work, the dark comedy, The T...
life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...
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...
shall my purpose work on him" (Shakespeare I iii). From there on out we begin to realize that we, as the audience, are the only on...
subject which had been taboo in Shakespeares time - with Ophelia), betrayal (Queen Gertrudes incestuous marriage to her brother-in...
who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...
in bed" (III.ii.206-209), then following-up with the equally matter of fact declaration, "If, once a widow, ever I be wife!" (III....
verbal appearance and actual reality that Othello addresses throughout the play, wavering back and forth as a means by which to es...
Romeo simply stopped at this infatuation then the tale would not have been so tragic. Romeo gets to know Juliet, and the friar aid...
love for her. It 8s also worth noting, that despite the clear and eloquent words, t no point in the pay do we see Hero and Claudio...