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with what is purported to be the ghost of his father. It is this ghostly confrontation that also serves as the plays trigger scen...

confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

of Venice is highly revealing of his character. This characterization is vital to the internal logic of the play because the trag...

it clear that his need for his retinue does not stem from physical need, but rather is a symbolic of his status in life, his autho...

an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...

is, of course, contrary to the view of the Christian belief system. In the Christian system of belief, it is the other way around....

decides rather early on that each of them would be better off without the other to feed, fuel and nurture the dysfunction of their...

"real" (insofar as theater can ever be said to be real) happenings, but a carefully selected group of scenes that illustrate the i...

of Blue Mountains finest male suitors. She makes frequent mention of Blue Mountain and Blue Roses, and one can assume this symbol...

hopefully connect with the real world enough so that he is not mired in the dysfunctional and fantasy world that his mother and li...

her thumb. The character description of Tom tells us that is "A poet with a job in a warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but...

visit is an old school friend of the son and daughter. In the play there is a similar sense of expectation involving this man as T...

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

severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...

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

is still a little to doubt that the cover up of her impending death is just not another part of her overall facade. Yet, because ...

In twelve pages this paper examines how the theme of homoeroticism manifests itself in the Shakespearean plays Twelfth Night, As Y...

In seven pages along with an outline of one page this paper presents an analysis of the dual conflicts that appear throughout this...