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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...

to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...

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

denying that this characterizes his lexicon and poetic style ("William" 9). Considering this, the first question that the reader...

say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

slips/ Among velleities and carefully caught regrets/ Through attenuated tones of violins/ Mingled with remote cornets/ And begins...

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

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

and was often able to reach accident and crime scenes before the police themselves. By doing so he had managed to capture many of...

and blew pink rubber at me" (Williams, 1991; 45). She found herself incredibly outraged and wishing she could make him see...

the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

consents not to give sovereignty (Shakespeare, Act 1, Sc. 1). However,...

and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...

the intricacies of the situation to take a higher-level view and make higher-level decisions. Relevance of Culture and Diversity i...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

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

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...

the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

marriage, and to decline / Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine! / But virtue, as it never will be movd,...

varied character base to symbolize these developments. Prosperos relationship with his two servants, Ariel and Caliban, is partic...

powers of destiny, great ministers of fate. They had determined the past; they not only foresaw the future, but decreed it" (Cours...

condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...

the titled gentleman who had lots of time on his hands, dueling for the sake of principle was a favorite pastime. According to Vi...

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

and Achiles reenact the way in which Hamlet believes his father was killed by Claudius and how revenge will be exacted on the guil...