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almost always determined to meddle in the business of the divine or the immortal. As a result, there is never a truly positive out...

audience would see this dark scene as entrancing and somewhat frightening. We can envision this when we hear the first witch ask, ...

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

a Denmark in decay, resulting from the marriage between Claudius and Gertrude, which enables the cunning brother to seize the thro...

as he, also, is an exile from civilization (12). Also like Prospero, Valerian exerts control over the rest of the characters (Walt...

arms off and place them somewhere, nor did she wage a real battle on the high window. Even the terms high window and shadow can be...

him completely off-guard, Othello is completely unprepared for the "depth and intensity" (Vanita 341) of his love. Just as his pu...

we see the same, though we know differently. Lady Macbeth, Lennox, Ross, the ladies and lords, and the attendants are not really i...

In this we are set up with a very quiet and harmless love that is only waiting for consummation. It is a pleasant little scene tha...

/ I had lived a blessed time, for from this instant / Theres nothing serious in mortality. / All is but toys; renown and grace is ...

In this way the sinfulness is likened to the darkness, since evil and dark tend to go hand in hand. And the fact that one is a mi...

myth. It is a play that demonstrates a profound intelligence on the part of the author, and a play that illustrates how the autho...

blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...

is so black that it seems like death itself. The inference we have to make here is that he is dying, or at least is old enough to ...

exists between Antony and Cleopatra and through his overblown language show the audience that the romance between Antony and Cleop...

historical piece in that regard, as are all other Shakespearean plays it would seem. In providing us with this particular time per...

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

her innocence and lack of understanding in her words as she dies, words that do not even point to Othellos guilt as Emilia asks he...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

his lovers eyes he is saying, "When I look in your eyes/ There I see/ What all that a love should really be" (Vandross 24-26). He ...

Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...

works called The Mourning Bride which was created in 1697 contains the following well known line: "Heavn has no Rage, like Love to...

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...

begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...

In five pages this essay examines what tensions led to the disintegration of the Macbeth marriage within the context of William Sh...