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Female Characters in Coriolanus and Macbeth by William Shakespeare

They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...

Characters of Simon Legree, St. Clare, and Shelby in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

that matter. At one point a little boy, named Jim Crow, comes in and he tosses raisins at him and tells him to pick them up. The b...

William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Character of Puck as Protagonist

Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...

Vietnam War in Literature and the Powerlessness of Characters

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

Comparative Analysis of Ur's Ziggurat of Sumaria and King Djoser's Stepped Pyramids

was constructed of many different compounds. For example, there is limestone and also granite, a piece of which served as the entr...

William Shakespeare's The Tempest and King Lear and Sibling Rivalry

"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...

Dante's Hell and Characters

to house arrogant souls who are guilt of other things as well. While Aeneas may not be guilty of betrayal or other crimes, he may ...

Ramayana and King Arthur Myths

the Protector, one of the three great gods of the Indian pantheon, and Sita is the avatar of Lakshmi, goddess of wealth and prosp...

Character Development in Marlinski's Ammalat Bek

described as handsome with eyes that "glittered with a proud courtesy" (Marlinski Chapter I). Everything about him was quite ornat...

'Ammalat Bek' Character Development

alter his lifes course. Defining this particular concept calls for ones close interpretation of what the protagonists role truly ...

Puritan Character Usage by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as a "sweet moral blossom" for the reader (James). Hawthorne thus identifies the story at the outset as a parable that is designed...

Prince Hamlet's Character Study

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

Characters of Pozzo, Estragon, and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Godot. He shows a certain sense of determination and in this one finds a sense of hope in Vladimir. At the same time there is a se...

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the Character Algernon

dandy was a man who may well have lived off of others, being a freeloader, an individual intrigued by the arts and by living out f...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

"Character"/A Dictionary Perspective

are quite inept at conveying our personal perception to others. A young guy, for example, may imagine himself to be the most soph...

The Fall of King Arthur and His Kingdom

mean and tear down a kingdom. At least, it goes along with the logic of story-telling where there are ironic twists, villains and...

Realization of Two Women Characters in Mrs. Dalloway

this errand for herself rather than having someone do it for her. A few lines later we read "What a lark! What a plunge!" (Woolf 3...

A Glance at Lesbian Characters in American Cinema in the 60s, 70s, and 80s

high over the legendary kiss between two women portrayed in Morocco. Society was simply not ready for an open acknowledgement of ...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Queen Gertrude's Character

and quite unthinkingly into a marriage to his murderer, and was able to ignore the facts and clues that encircled her, pointing to...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Function of Ophelia's Character

In five pages this paper discusses the play's second scene in Act II and the first scene in Act III in a consideration of the func...

A Comparison of Two Characters in Shakespearean Literature

This paper compares and contrasts the character Miranda, from The Tempest, with Ophelia of The Tragedy of Hamlet. This five page...

Significance of King Claudius in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper analyzes the importance of Claudius to this William Shakespeare tragedy and also considers how his charact...

Positive Outcomes and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In five pages this paper examines how positive ends are always somehow achieved despite the adversity Lear meets throughout the co...

Was King Lear Mad or Suffering from Senility?

In seven pages this paper evaluates whether or not this tragic protagonist created by William Shakespeare was senile, mad, or a bi...

Falstaff's Character

In four pages this paper discusses Henry V by William Shakespeare in a consideration of the Falstaff character. There is no bibli...

William Shakespeare's Failed Experiment, King John

In six pages this paper discusses the theatrical failure of this historical play by William Shakespeare. There are 3 sources list...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and the Disguise Motif

In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's use of the disguise motif and how deception and disguises manifest themselves in b...

Soliloquy of Goneril in William Shakespeare's King Lear

In four pages this paper discusses Goneril's justification for the hardships she inflicted upon her father, sisters, and husband i...

Iago's Character in William Shakespeare's Othello II

In three pages this paper analyzes the complexities of the Iago character in Othello by William Shakespeare. There is no bibliogr...