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man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...
his darkest. It is concerned with power, ambition, and the exercise of pure evil. This paper examines the characters, setting, plo...
that ambition as somehow more significant than the ambitions of others; the pursuit of his ambition crosses over the lines of othe...
of love that can so easily change course; it seems frivolous and rather shabby, after all Orsinos protestations of love to Olivia,...
This essay discusses the characterization of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," identifying ...
Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...
air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...
were clearly outlined as the primary focus in the introduction above. And, these are issues that are very big in Antony and Cleopa...
and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...
a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...
This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...
grows older, his hatred will also continue to grow until he hates all mankind, not just the Athenians. The fact that Timon seems...
one of his most vexing. This paper discusses him in detail. Discussion Iago is a fascinating study in evil; he sets out to destro...
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...
of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...
well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...
decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...
his mother Queen Gertrude announces she eloped with Claudius, her brother-in-law who will now succeed Hamlet Sr. as King. The Pri...
In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the cost of power in Shakespeare's tragedies. Richard III, As You Like It, and the ...
The depiction of jealousy in William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is the focus of this thematic analysis consisting of 5 pages. ...
Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...
wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...
tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...
and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...
the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...
is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...
ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...
Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...
often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...