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might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

In eleven pages Queen Margaret in William Shakespeare's Richard the Third and Lady Percy in Shakespeare's historical play Henry IV...

The ways in which authority has been justified in literature is examined in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' William ...

so heavily reliant on the patriarchal system. She is passive and obedient, indicating that she easily goes along with the society,...

five-act pattern. The setup creates the plays "world", introduces us to the characters, and lays the groundwork for some of the c...

one day become king of Scotland is music to the warriors ears. He is a respected figure in his homeland, but he (and his ever-per...

couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...

and imprison-ment in the stocks. But there is something that excites in us a stronger feeling than all this-it is Violas confessio...

This 5 page paper emphasizes how Rosalind is a woman truly ahead of her time in Shakespeare's comic farce, stronger and more intel...

is assumed that the narrator is offering a truthful representation, but the readers are expected to often "read between the lines"...

"Hamlet" examines numerous concerns that are central to the fundamental tribulations and despairs of being human. Hamlet questions...

In seven pages this historical text is critically analyzed through the use of such evaluation criteria as organization, plot, meth...

Imagery, content, and structure are the criteria used to contrast and compare these two sonnets by William Shakespeare in five pag...

In three pages this paper analyzes how Shakespeare uses pairs in order to create structural balance, to assist characterization, a...

In five pages the relationships between dramatic structures and themes as they exist within these three plays by William Shakespea...

Her neighbors believed she never married because "none of the young men were quite good enough" (Faulkner 437). It was only when ...

rich gift. O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise And make it halt...

She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Yet a tailor might scratch her whereer she did itch: Then to sea, boys, and let her ...

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

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...

daughter, Miranda; his faithful fairy, Ariel; and his loyal Councilor (advisor), Gonzalo. But also living there is a lifelong nat...

took the time to teach him a "proper" language, and not the "gabble" that he spoke when she and her father first arrived. Caliba...

and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. Miranda retains a childlike innocence as a result of her idyllic existence, but at the same ti...

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

he received from those closest to him, emphasizing his own over-inflated sense of importance and intellect. His overbearing natur...

"Id plan and work revenge with her" (line 102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murde...

In seven pages these two works are contrasted and compared with the focus being on Clegg's terror reign depicted by John Fowles an...

focused on Shakespeares perspectives on innocence and its consequences. As envisioned by Shakespeare according to his stage direc...