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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...

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

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

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...

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...

banished to the forests outside of Mantua. In the meantime, Julia decides she cannot be apart from Proteus and disguises herself a...

who informs him that he was murdered, that we note a change in Hamlet that begins to involve serious acting. In this simple exa...

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...

to those who have never read the play or viewed a theatrical production. It is the story of a young Danish prince, a Wittenberg U...

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...

Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. / But this eternal blazon must not be / To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! ...

cistern of my lust, and my desire / all continent impediments would oerbear...better Macbeth/ Than such an one to reign" (lines 62...

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

truly untested man. He has recently been incredibly successful in a battle and is, to some degree, full of himself. We can envisio...

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

express themselves in ways that the majority could not. The poets role in part appears to be to get one to think outside of the bo...

the tale of Icarus. We do know that Auden visited the sixteenth century painting by Peter Breughel when it was displayed in the M...

titled William Shakespeares Romeo + Juliet (as if there were another author?) that starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Clair Daines in t...

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

he means a state of equality, in which no one person possesses authority over another, and all people are free to live as they ple...

of perspective came about. Though various ploys were attempted to regain old sorts of power, in the end, there was a rise in the m...

whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...

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

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

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