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end. The tragic nature of the story does rely on the supposition that Othello is indeed propelled to do something because he is ...

a larger than life figure. He is perfect. He is a leader as well as a handsome and delightful mate for Desdemona. Because Othello ...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

point in the piece, the problem with the O-Rings are duly noted and this suggests that perhaps the scientists should have realized...

retelling of the Faust legend; the story of the man who sells his soul to the devil in return for success and love in this world. ...

endeavor and not one that was expected to take very long. However, this routine project turned into a disaster primarily becaus...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

were clearly outlined as the primary focus in the introduction above. And, these are issues that are very big in Antony and Cleopa...

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...

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

most pressing issues of the times if none of Hardins suggestions are acted upon, a concept that is rightfully supported by many of...

that the whole land is "diseased" and "poisoned." Later in that same scene. Antonio predicts that Bosolas "foul melancholy" will "...

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

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...

romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...

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...

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...

In three pages this essay provides an analysis of Hamlet based upon the principles contained within Aristotle's Poetics and discus...

precede reason, and the waste of war, the works of peace. We wish that this were not so. But we must deal with the world as it i...

ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...

The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...