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truly untested man. He has recently been incredibly successful in a battle and is, to some degree, full of himself. We can envisio...

this particular poem the first four lines seem to offer us a great deal of foundation for understanding the symbolic nature of you...

will be more familiar with the work than audiences of today. It is said by most critics that Cymbeline is one of William...

employs descriptive words to create in the reader an appreciation for the reality of nature. This is not to imply that these poets...

character of Laura is very illustrative of this, and she is somewhat reminiscent of such women as Ophelia, from Shakespeares Hamle...

cistern of my lust, and my desire / all continent impediments would oerbear...better Macbeth/ Than such an one to reign" (lines 62...

Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. / But this eternal blazon must not be / To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! ...

Rome itself is portrayed as moving from a society dominated by heroes, such as Julius Caesar and Pompey, to one which is more frag...

et al, 1996, p. 1251). Robert Burns Robert Burns was the eldest of seven children, the son of a hard-working farmer (Anonymous, ...

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

she clearly lives in the past. At the time in which the play takes place Amanda has apparently raised her two children to adulthoo...

important, yet we are not really told who it is. We are puzzled at one point for the narrator uses the word I in such a way that i...

or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...

that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...

speaks so eloquently that the Duke comments that Othellos tale would "win my daughter too" (Act I, Scene 3, line 171). Furthermore...

tells Hamlet that "So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear" (I, v). Hamlet is confused and surprised, and he then learns that...

in the direction of other family members. Outside their own room and their private conversations, however, the subjects they rais...

only in the perception of the one who desires it....

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

takes place between Stanley and Jungle Fever in New York The wealthy elite of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanans world were the peo...

in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

of a belief concerning that type of individual, something discussed often in Jones book "Social Psychology of Prejudice." A black ...

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

of Lady Macbeth. Some have termed her cold and calculating, others have said that she was mad, and terribly ambitious. It would ap...

the norm. It was something that perhaps stemmed from the authors fear, but for whatever the reason he created this female monster ...

soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...

Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spiders web...

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...

know that William Stafford is a poet from Americas heartland. In fact, he may be, according to Heldrich (2002), "Kansass most famo...