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The Character of Henry V

Shakespeare's The Life of King Henry the Fifth is discussed along with the protagonist. This five page paper has three sources ...

Jewish Beliefs and Practices

This paper tracks the history of Jewish beliefs and rituals, from the Matriarchs up to the Hebrew Union College. The author also ...

Perspectives on Authority in Renaissance Drama

The writer examines several of Shakespeare's plays (King Lear and The Tempest), as well as Fuente Ovejuna by the Spanish playwrigh...

King Claudius and Machiavelli

This essay pertains to the anthropocentric worldview of King Claudius in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Machiavelli, drawing on his te...

Pain of Exile: King Lear, Inferno

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...

Trial of the King Killers: English Civil War

This essay presents a review of "The English Civil War: Trial of the King Killers," which is a short video that dramatizes several...

Factual or Fictitious King Arthur Legends?

In eight pages this essay assesses whether or not King Arthur was an actual living figure or if he was a fictitious creation by au...

US Culture and Violence

In five pages this paper discusses US culture's representation of violence in an overview of the actual events involving serial ki...

Comparative Analysis of Ralph in Lord of the Flies by William Golding and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...

Comparative Analysis of Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth and Aeschylus's Clytamaenestra

In six pages these infamous female antagonists are compared in order to determine whether or not Shakespeare borrowed from Aeschyl...

Shakespeare's Use of Emotion in Othello and Macbeth

emotion, to act. But what is Iagos motivation? It could in fact be that he is envious of Othello. At the same time, in reviewing...

Defining a Hero

This 5 page paper discusses what traits make someone a hero. The writer discusses actual individuals such as Rosa Parks and Martin...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Their Parallels

In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...

Peruvian Racial Prejudice and an Application of Martin Luther King's Theories of Nonviolence

In a paper consisting of five pages the similarities between modern Peru and 1960s America are noted in a consideration of how Kin...

Oedipus & Creon as Rulers

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...

Appearance And Reality In Shakespeare's Macbeth

your tongue: look like the innocent flower,/ But be the serpent undert" (Shakespeare I v). This is a very powerful example of how ...

Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare and the Relationship Between Prince Hal and King Henry

with the help of Worcester, Northumberland and Hotspur, (the Percy family) deposed and murdered King Richard. Bolingbroke is now K...

Simile and Metaphor

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...

William Congreve's Contributions

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

Romanticism in King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the Romantic qualities that are featured in King Lear, a hundred years before the genre was eve...

Critically Analyzing 'King Lear' by William Shakespeare

In this paper consisting of seven pages Lear as the bearer of blame for his tragedies, his evolution in the twilight of his life. ...

Comparison of Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Oedipus the King by Sophocles

In eight pages the protagonists of each play are compared and contrasted in terms of desire for truth, changes, and the collision ...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

In five pages this paper discusses the similarities and differences that exist in these 2 works. Two sources are cited in the bib...

Audiences' Changing Responses to King Lear by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses the way in which each generation's audiences has responded to King Lear, relating it to their o...

Gertrude in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Jocasta in Oedipus the King by Sophocles Compared

on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...

Relationship Between Father and Daughters in King Lear by William Shakespeare

In six pages this paper considers King Lear's relationship with his two older daughters Goneril and Regan and his favorite, younge...

Experience of The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

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

Journey of King Lear by William Shakespeare

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

Literary Depiction of Human Nature

In six pages this paper examines how literature depicts human nature in a comparative consideration of Hamlet by William Shakespea...

Role of the Gloucester Subplot in King Lear by William Shakespeare

Lear professions of love, but Cordelia did not and her answer was not the one he wanted from her. Because of this, he gave his ki...