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is in seeing pompous buffoons made fools of, and lovers brought together. However, Aphra Behns play, though a comedy, also deals...

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

really betrayed Othello. Iago is determined to manipulate Othello to his own desires, which are many. Throughout the play the re...

claiming that not only is Othello an outsider but akin to the devil, or an animal. It is not that he is just from a different coun...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

This 9 page paper examines the way in which three different directors approach Shakespeare. It looks at Kenneth Branagh's producti...

in joining such a group. By discussing books and plays with peers, an individual can hear other opinions on subject matter that h...

In six pages this paper examines irony as it shapes character development and relationships. Five sources are cited in the biblio...

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...

black man in a white world. Not only that, but hes married a white woman, and although she loves him very much, he is easily drive...

soldiers, and Iago responds that he too is upset with Othello for promoting another soldier, Cassio, over Iago, despite Iagos havi...

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

from the beginning of the play, leaving no doubt that Iago is a conniving and deceitful individual (Anonymous Iago the Liar Othell...

at odds with the reality that one human being can never know for certain the inner most thoughts and desires of another (Vanita, 1...

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decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

little less than a monster, sentences her to death; specifically, she is to be buried alive. Antigone and Haemon, who is Creons ...

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...

not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...

which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...

logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...

He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...

how his takeover of the island oppressed the liberties of the natives. Prosperos character (whose name is Italian for "to prosper...