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An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

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...

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...

King Claudius and Machiavelli

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

Social Interactions in Hamlet

This essay pertains to the thematic content of Shakespeare's play and provides insight into the relationships that Hamlet has with...

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare and its Play Development

in one another that is very attractive. So Romeo makes his way to her window in the night and we have the infamous balcony scene w...

Macbeth and Blood

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

Friendship Between Othello and Iago According to Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Contrasts in William Shakespeare's Othello

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

Free Will of Macbeth

the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...

Twelve Lines from Othello by William Shakespeare

line indicates how Iago begins to chip away Othellos confidence in his lieutenant and his wife, as Iago insinuates there is someth...

Act 3, Scene 4 of William Shakespeare's Othello

immediately to fetch the handkerchief. Emilia, Desdemonas maid and Iagos wife, comments: 4. "Is not this man jealous?" (III.4.99)....

Traditional Staging vs. Contemporary Cinematic Interpretations of William Shakespeare's Plays

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

Flaws in Characters Vivian Bearing, King Oedipus, Willy Loman, and Othello

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

Pessimism of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

King Duncan naming his loyal lieutenant Macbeth Thane of Cawdor in recognition for his faithful service. But a fateful meeting wi...

Cinematic Interpretations of Hamlet

decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...

A Hypothetical Letter Writen to Othello

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

A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

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

Three Cinematic Visions of Hamlet

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

Greatness of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

as it seems. Is Hamlets revenge motivated by a desire to avenge his fathers murder or is it sparked by the betrayal he feels over...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and the Royal Court

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

Prince Hamlet and Willy Loman in a Consideration of What Makes a Tragic Hero

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

Sins of Macbeth

of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...

'Time is Out of Joint' in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...

Analyzing Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...

Opening scenes in Romeo and Juliet

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

Lyrical Significance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, and Richard II

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

William Shakespeare's Coriolanus

men pitted against one another. As a reader, and as an audience member, one does not have any sort of emotional attachment to any ...

Desdemona and Antigone

In essence she marries Othello without her fathers permission, something not done by a traditionally obedient woman. But, this onl...

Spying and Eavesdropping in the Works of William Shakespeare

readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...

Maturity in the Relatoinship of Romeo and Juliet

is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...