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Essays 1651 - 1680

The Theme of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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 ...

Paterson by William Carolos Williams

and it is something that may be thought peculiar to his Paterson experience, but it is something that many people around the world...

The Merchant of Venice, Henry V and the Quality of Mercy

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...

Putting Sir Toby on Trial

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

The Art of Indirection

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

Macbeth: Villain or Not?

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

Shakespeare’s Major Themes

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

Do Not Speak the Speech, I Pray You

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

Doomed Love: Cleopatra and her Man of Men, Antony

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

Romeo and Juliet: The Film

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

Arguing that Shakespeare’s Reputation is Undeserved

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

The Glass Menagerie and Tom’s Many Roles in the Play

be an enduringly popular play. Not as sensational as A Streetcar Named Desire, it offers just as bleak a portrait of a family stru...

Denmark and Scotland, a Comparison of Hamlet and Macbeth

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

The Man with No Motive

one of his most vexing. This paper discusses him in detail. Discussion Iago is a fascinating study in evil; he sets out to destro...

“Timon of Athens” - A Man of Extremes

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

Shakespeare’s “True Union”

(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...

Was Hamlet Sympathetic or Unsympathetic?

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

A Hypothetical Letter Writen to Othello

an unexpected remark, as if to himself and not meant to be overheard, leaving you, Othello, intrigued and mentally disorganized (O...

Dead Poets Society Film

was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...

Comparing Romeo and Juliet with West Side Story

ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...

Time Perceptions in Poetry

in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...

A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

Opening scenes in Romeo and Juliet

slightly surreal way, youthful innocence. Juliets bedroom, for instance, is full of images of the Virgin Mary: an interesting vari...

Lyrical Significance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Richard II

mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...

Thematic Elements of Tragedy in Shakespeare's Macbeth

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

Shakespeare and Film Related to Henry V

with Henry V losing only a small amount of men while the French lost many. Finally Henry V and King Charles meet and discuss the l...

Maturity in the Relatoinship of Romeo and Juliet

is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...

Desdemona and Antigone

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

Analyzing Hamlet's Act II, Scene ii

his fathers murder was Claudius elaborate conspiracy to become King, but he lacked sufficient proof to support his theory. When t...