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reigns supreme, The Tempest is more contemplative and probes the more sinister side of humankind. The mood, setting, and themes a...

and nothing to do with the prank that Oberon is playing through Puck. They happen to enter into the midst of the chaos however, an...

and "too full of... kindness" (I.ii.77, I.v.18). Once Macbeth steps outside the bonds of the social order by killing Duncan, howev...

Brian Williams, NBC news anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News, was one of the most trusted journalists in mass media. Ev...

central conflict involves Claudio, who had been living out of wedlock with his lover, Juliet, prior to her marriage and she subseq...

first case, the uniform will become old and tattered; if its the second meaning, then Shakespeare is commenting on the fact that a...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

to by Jim in very earthy, concrete terms that nonetheless indicate that she is pretty. When she says that blue "is wrong for-roses...

soliloquies: "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I," (II.ii.550) in which Hamlet discourses on the art of the theater, and compar...

an illusion. Playing it that way would needlessly complicate things and make Hamlet truly mad, so its probably best to assume that...

In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...

the best relationship to use in the poem. Hamlets relationship with Gertrude, his mother, is even more problematic, because he tu...

his father had died that day. Depression and melancholy are hallmarks of his character, in other words, and may not derive entirel...

directly to the psychiatrist-patient encounter" than the real thing, because the fiction is after all written by real people (Podr...

around the characters. Through the decaying setting, and also a setting that is quite dreamlike, the story begins on a very allusi...

in thought - that is, the faculty of saying what is possible and pertinent in given circumstances" (Aristotle). The fourth element...

both royalty, they have both been told by an outside agency to look for a murderer in their midst, and in both cases, the agency t...

Mackenzie is also correct in attributing his hesitation to an overly sensitive nature; Claudius remarks on this when he says that ...

easy" (III.iv.159,165-166). And its as he tries to persuade her to rethink her marriage that Polonius, who is eavesdropping behind...

not of noble blood and its no good for her to dream about marrying a prince "out of thy star; / This must not be" (II.ii.141-142)....

lovd me for the dangers I had passd / And I lovd her that she did pity them" (I.iii.167-168). Pity here doesnt mean that she was s...

is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...

Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all dead. This is a bleak, tragic world, which is why...

remarried-his fathers brother, no less. Then, to his horror, he finds out that his fathers death was no accident, but fratricide: ...

be a relative of Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem features as its protagonist Sir Gawain, a nephew of King Arthur, who is revered by hi...

described as an "identity crisis" (Mulrooney 227). They are both seeking solitary solace in nature as they grapple with professio...

place and who that person is. Throughout the play Hamlet is seemingly confused in many instances, which again embodies the theme...

who had nothing to do with the death of his father. When Hamlet does figure out what is right for him, in terms of addressing the ...

the additional mouth to feed will put the family into jeopardy. The audience knows that she is considering abortion. To end all of...

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...