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Race Aspects in William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages the blackness of Othello the Moor is considered on various levels. Five sources are listed in the bibliography....

'Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair' in William Shakespeare's Characterizations of Lord and Lady Macbeth

will make our lives complete, and for a while they thought too their lives were complete. They were "fair" indeed. Then as we sta...

William Shakespeare's Part I, Henry IV, Fathers and Sons

In five pages father and sons are examined in terms of emotions, expectations, and relationship between them within the context of...

Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

In five pages this paper offers a character analysis of Ophelia in terms of the identity crisis she suffered due to the various me...

Love in Toni Morrison's Sula, Charles Dickens' Hard Times, and William Shakespeare's Othello

In six pages this essay considers how heroines love in each of these works which also discusses the social reflections of their ap...

King Lear and Twelfth Night--A Comparison of the Two Plays

go to her, but only if she will profess love for her father to eclipse the love of any other man. Only if she promises not to mar...

Villains in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Richard III

sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...

Metamorphosis of Change in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth

me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...

Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Sonnets 18, 73, and 130

While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...

Burroughs and Robinson and Communication Theory

structure of the novel. In Cities of the Red Night, Burroughs does something analogous, though not identical: he interweaves thre...

Delayed Revenge in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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...

William Shakespeare's Richard the Third and Its Cinematic Interpretations

brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...

William Shakespeare's Characters Macduff and Macbeth

Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...

Persuasiveness of Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello

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...

Closely Reading Ophelia's 'Mad' Songs in William Shakespeare's Hamlet Act IV, Scene V

where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...

Themes in William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles' Oedipus

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...

Othello and Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello

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...

Justice, Murderers, Susan Glaspell's Trifles and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

Handkerchief Significance in William Shakespeare's Othello

good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Theme of Conflict

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

What a Director Should Know about a Production of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

the best Shakespeare company in the world so perhaps the director might want to consider a minimalist production. The focus of th...

Suffering in William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Book of Job

finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Use of Blood Imagery

soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest and King Lear and Sibling Rivalry

"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...

Injustice and Vengeance in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Euripides' Electra

story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...

Elizabethan Society, Women's Role and Portia in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

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...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Human Capacity for Evil

surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Its Subplot

a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...

Contemporary Culture and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

Revenge Theme in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...