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marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

being owned by "Her Jim" (Porter). As Della contemplates her options, she considers her reflection and O. Henry introduces the f...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

the narrator another instance where the town was concerned about Miss Emily and her home, which was over a smell, an awful smell o...

The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...

word "turned" is extremely significant because this "suggests that the story will also be about a turning," an ongoing process of ...

Prince. Despite his antic disposition or pretending to be mad as another ploy to ensnare Claudius in his revenge trap, maybe Haml...

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 the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than ...

Wittenberg in order to attend his fathers funeral, and although he is melancholy, he is not yet acting openly against the king. In...

things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two...

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

even if there were a few sinful missteps along the way. However, if they put themselves and their own needs ahead of what God exp...

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

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

poor state of the realm, it is suggested that some deep essential cause rather than mere circumstance is to blame for the decay of...

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

Hamlet is fascinating because he is so psychologically rich and complex; hes a real person, and no one has quite managed to figure...

the man is very chaotic, regardless of mental illness. With this simple illustration in mind the first thing that one can argue is...

affection for his father is very close to hero-worship; he loves the man with the same degree of loathing that he feels for his fa...

by the church, works for them. She relents and tells him to remain just as he is, but that he still cannot join her church. The st...

of Fortinbras, a military man and the individual who will now assume the kingship: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot" (V.ii.403). Cannon...

films of the play and specifically, the "To be or not to be," "Get thee to a nunnery" and "Now might I do it pat" speeches from th...

ever written, and it continues to excite audiences because of Shakespeares masterful examination of the psychological aspects of i...

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

reader wonder why hes reacting so strongly. Hamlet is a college student, and although no child wants to believe that their parents...

my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...

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