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This essay pertain to the theme of mercy and justice as exemplified in the trial scene of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." ...

This essay discusses several articles that deal with freedoms. Topics include: the responsibilities of parents, music censorship, ...

This essay presents a discussion of Hamlet's character. The writer argues that Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet focuses on...

opens by referred to her distant husband not by his titular name, but by his holdings and titles of lordship: "Glamis thou art", s...

his darkest. It is concerned with power, ambition, and the exercise of pure evil. This paper examines the characters, setting, plo...

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

a moderate tempo, the strings playing a staccato bass line, with a lilting melody above. The bass line suggests dancers, whose ste...

decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...

by King Claudius reveal him to be conniving, shrewd and lustful. Unlike Hamlet, who is preoccupied with questions concerning ethic...

Contrasting the images of fire and ice are repeated to emphasize the duality of human nature. They also reveal how love and hate ...

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the cost of power in Shakespeare's tragedies. Richard III, As You Like It, and the ...

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Puritan Revolution and its impact on literature. Shakespeare's Prospero and Milt...

of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...

without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...

him, he will show "great mercy" (II.ii.50). Henry then turns the discussion around to the real point of the scene. He asks the me...

for fear Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there" (Shakespeare II i). This is a very magical surreal image, but also a very fun ...

power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue...

way to Las Vegas to find the American Dream" (Thompson 6). In Part I of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Duke is motivated by his ...

an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...

to an era gone by as well as to the present time. The poem begins "Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Are sharpening...

Robert Frost is highly regarded as a master poet. His ability to explore complex social and cultural issues by using rural everyda...

and suggests that he does not deserve his place in English letters. He quotes a number of other critics to support his view. This ...

One example is Polks executive involvement with Fremont, Gillespie and Larkin in California just prior to the war. The story is bl...

grows older, his hatred will also continue to grow until he hates all mankind, not just the Athenians. The fact that Timon seems...

(Foakes 23). Until this time, many directors seem to see the play as a literal fairy tale for children and staged it as such; Broo...

Shakespeares "Big Four" tragedies (King Lear and Othello are the others, since you ask) and they both involve the most horrific of...

lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...

who are unfamiliar with it; then if the instructor has any sense he or she will run the Kenneth Branagh uncut version the followin...

of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...