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This paper examines how Shakespeare's depiction of women in Hamlet was a reflection of their Elizabethan social roles in eight pag...

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

In eleven pages Queen Margaret in William Shakespeare's Richard the Third and Lady Percy in Shakespeare's historical play Henry IV...

even death. Rather than comply, Hermia elopes with Lysander, fleeing into the woods. Shakespeare emphasizes the enormous consequen...

In eight pages the deaths of these female characters are contrasted and compared. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

In eight pages this paper discusses the images of love and death that reinforce the tragic inevitability of Romeo and Juliet. Six...

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

to be with his father in the last months of his life, as he would have wished. This would make him think deeply about his own life...

she retreated into security of the family homestead, which like the lady of the house, was also dying a slow death. Before the Ci...

The ways in which authority has been justified in literature is examined in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' William ...

to manifest in either life. They take issue with something that has gone on before their death, and in fact, the ghost in Hamlet, ...

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

He does not say, and this is another of the hundreds of loose ends in Hamlet that Shakespeare does not explain. At any rate, Ophe...

audience is presented with circumstances and relationships where there is never a truly positive outcome for any of those involved...

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the topic of the purpose of Hamlet's Ghost. Citing textual evidence, the writer sho...

is symbolic of life. Man hopefully lives a long, full life full of many experiences that culminate to form the "autumn" of the in...

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...

is generally understood that when a child dies a strain sets in upon marriages, often leading to divorce. In essence, men and wome...

poems "by several well-known theatrical poets. One of these poems (untitled in the volume, but now known as "The Phoenix and the T...

and Shakespeares use of metaphor achieves his purpose very well, particularly in the lines that refer to comparing a ladys breath ...

to ask whether Miranda is listening to him when it seems obvious that she is. This seems like a control mechanism rather than a ge...

In six pages this paper considers King Lear's relationship with his two older daughters Goneril and Regan and his favorite, younge...

This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's tragic protagonist in terms of the resentment he felt towards his father and how t...

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the presentation of madness in Shakespeare's tragedy as genuine in the character of Ophelia a...

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...