YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and the Themes of Choice and Fate
Essays 511 - 540
with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...
maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...
there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...
finally restored by God to his previous state of good fortune when he realizes that, as a human being, he is insignificant next to...
fall upon my life" (Shakespeare I iii). In this he is leaving it all up to his wife and her father, nobly demonstrating that he do...
When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...
good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...
story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...
Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...
lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...
where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...
supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...
soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...
"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...
While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...
sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...
homoerotic desire" (114). Olivia and Maria embody this type of alliance. Maria is serving Olivia, literally and figuratively spe...
me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...
the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...
be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...
equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...
Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...
surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...
a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...
of the consequences of ones choices" (What is Choice?). This is a very important aspect of choice for if someone chooses poorly, c...
logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...
wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...
not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...
flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...