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in front of her. In these two lines she faces defeat as she envisions her power in the image of less than a simple milk maid, a se...

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...

is served by an earthy, half-demon by the name of Caliban and a sprite named Ariel. In the course of the play, we learn that Prosp...

visit is an old school friend of the son and daughter. In the play there is a similar sense of expectation involving this man as T...

historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

In this introduction to the character of Titus it is obvious that he is well regarded and that he has a reputation of being a nobl...

In the beginning of the play one sees how Willy has no respect for his son Biff. He argues with his wife saying "Biff is a lazy bu...

This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....

example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...

home and sees his wife. He tells her of the prophesy and she immediately sees that the way for him to get the crown is to kill the...

and is killed. Henry then becomes King Henry VII. Richard is "not a good man who, when tempted falls, and who, when fallen, hopes...

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

is "at once his greatest strength and his destructive weakness" (Bloom). Despite this, readers and playgoers dont respond with amb...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

father in the dust" (Shakespeare I i). She also tells him that he should not make his mother worry so. In short, her role is to be...

spirited figure of St George in armour, expressing in the head of this saint the beauty of youth, courage and valour in arms, and ...

of love" (Shakespeare I i). He sets the premise for keeping secrets when he informs the audience or reader that he hates Othello b...

to be successful. Iago does seem to make an impact on Roderigo at one point, however, when Roderigo claims imagines Desdemona and ...

without power, who plays the role of the colonizer. He is a teacher and a controller of the story itself, thus he serves as a symb...

toying with his free will it seems. But, for the most part Theseus, is a noble and heroic duke who loves Hippolyta in the real sen...

then Ill tell her plain She sings as sweetly as the nightingale: Say that she frown: Ill say she looks as clear As morning roses ...

the past and what the traditions were at the time, which is not part of this paper because the only source being used is Shakespea...

say "I know thee not, old man," (V.v.47) dashing any hopes Falstaff had of becoming his confidante and the power behind the throne...

explores the seamy side of city life. In fact, the novels central theme is the horrible treatment endured by the poor and those wh...

This paper examines Shakespeare's play, King Lear, as well as Ibsen's work, Ghosts to discuss madness and delusion as common theme...

the borders on the grotesque, emphasizing the ugliness of oppression and graphically depicts the "natural" struggle between predat...

her. She vows, "The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a / time-pleaser; an affectiond ass that cons state wi...

This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...