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Miller, Williams, Fantasy and Wishful Thinking

This essay pertains to Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and how each play hand...

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...

Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie and Portrait of a Girl in Glass

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...

Symbolism and Imagery in The Glass Menagerie

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

About "Macbeth"

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

Love is Hate: Much Ado About Nothing

whole man governed with one: so that if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself ...

Hamlet & Oedipus

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

Critiques of "Richard III"

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

Romeo and Juliet

it prest With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised wi...

Romeo and Juliet

that fate is not different for either of them. While they may arrive at this fate they are not different for they are both followi...

In Defense of Brutus

Cassius proposed that they assassinate Antony also, Brutus opposed it. He argued that the assassination of another man would make ...

Conflict in Hamlet

she wants to be as close to the seat of power as possible and will do anything to keep her power as queen" and this sets him on a ...

Ibsen and Shakespeare/Doll's House and Much Ado About Nothing

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

Downfall of Othello

well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...

Government by Homicide

at the beginning of the play that bears his name, grows increasingly evil throughout the drama. This paper argues that his crime i...

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...

Character Analysis/Lady Macbeth

Western society, which envisions women as nurturing mothers and helpmates. Rather than being solely concerned with the domestic sp...

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...

Modern Women and Lessons Learned from Lady Macbeth

under his own roof. One of the oldest of all human social laws is that a person cannot harm his guest. Its never been written down...

The Poet’s Use of Shakespeare’s Themes in the Sonnets

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

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, ...

Social Interactions in Hamlet

This essay pertains to the thematic content of Shakespeare's play and provides insight into the relationships that Hamlet has with...

Literary Conflicts in Plays

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of literary devices and conflicts within the plays Macbeth and Mistaken Identity. This pape...

Antony and Cleopatra

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...

Caliban, Political Powers, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

Playing in Hamlet: Ophelia

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...

Pygmalion-Romance or Not?

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...

Prince Hal and King Henry

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...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet Compared

has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...

Twelve Lines from Othello by William Shakespeare

line indicates how Iago begins to chip away Othellos confidence in his lieutenant and his wife, as Iago insinuates there is someth...