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efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

have been called to his ship. Happily reunited with his daughter, Pericles is exhausted and sleeps. In his sleep Diana instructs ...

fears he shall be poor" (Shakespeare III iii). In this we can see that "The word content is used to represent Othello s current si...

soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

must reach unto" (Shakespeare I, i). When the two meet in the next scene we note that Lady Anne has absolutely no feelings for ...

secondary characters and subthemes actually deliver Shakespeares real message. The fairies in the play are of particular interest...

observer, the forest is depicted as a pastoral or golden world not unlike the biblical garden of Eden in two particular scenes, in...

/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...

to a degree, is honorable and chivalrous in his understanding of the couples love. All the while that the two are falling in lov...

the scenes involving the witches are accompanied by loud claps of thunder. Staging Macbeth outdoors gave Shakespeare natural soun...

daughter, Miranda; his faithful fairy, Ariel; and his loyal Councilor (advisor), Gonzalo. But also living there is a lifelong nat...

inasmuch as social interaction implies interacting with other persons; thus, the meaning of that interaction is always to be a joi...

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...

in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...

that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...

speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

again. This time, however, Bassanio urges Antonio to loan it one more time while Bassanio will bring the latter hazard back again...

of Lady Macbeth. Some have termed her cold and calculating, others have said that she was mad, and terribly ambitious. It would ap...

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...

they marry or not, for there have been no grandiose expectations placed upon them to act a certain way. Benedick remarks, "That a...

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

plot progresses, Richard allows things to develop till there is virtual defiance of his royal will. This intolerable situation o...

the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white s...

no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...

In five pages this paper discusses the way in which each generation's audiences has responded to King Lear, relating it to their o...