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as Shakespeare used it, and as we know it today, is different; in other cases, it has changed completely (Vernon). For example, th...

off to die but rather became a victim of nature and fate it would seem. Prior to becoming stranded on the island...

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

ignore Lady Macbeths continual rants and her role in all of it. Just as the man who is "henpecked" claims that his wife drives him...

Cassius proposed that they assassinate Antony also, Brutus opposed it. He argued that the assassination of another man would make ...

in the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than ...

keep him out of their clutches: "Because I would not see thy cruel nails / Pluck out his poor old eyes, nor they fierce sister / I...

but at a very high cost. He requires a pound of flesh for debts not paid and this is literally what it sounds like, for a pound of...

has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...

volatile for no apparent reason. The conflict, in other words, has no real foundation but it is tradition. The lovers marr...

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...

slightly surreal way, youthful innocence. Juliets bedroom, for instance, is full of images of the Virgin Mary: an interesting vari...

an unexpected remark, as if to himself and not meant to be overheard, leaving you, Othello, intrigued and mentally disorganized (O...

the king is furious at his sons interference. The king asks if the reason he has come was to save Antigone. His foreknowledge, whi...

in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

he doubts her, believing the words of others, one can see that he is a very insecure man where his love is concerned. In the cas...

relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

play: he asks the audience to use their imaginations to understand whats going to happen. The Prologue noted that the "wooden O" c...

she wants to be as close to the seat of power as possible and will do anything to keep her power as queen" and this sets him on a ...

creature in the vessel" (Shakespeare I ii). This indicates that he set the storm in motion and ensured no one was hurt in the proc...

impose magic and enchantment to seek his revenge. But, in the end he forgives those who put him on the island and he suffers a sea...

him, he will show "great mercy" (II.ii.50). Henry then turns the discussion around to the real point of the scene. He asks the me...

without being overly garish and they appear to be relatively true to the historical time period. These elements, which are related...

grows older, his hatred will also continue to grow until he hates all mankind, not just the Athenians. The fact that Timon seems...