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Four ‘Ghostly’ Commands in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...

Metamorphosis of Change in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth

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 ...

Villains in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Richard III

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...

Characters in Shakespeare’s Work

of Cassio. Cassio was given the position, by Othello, that Iago wanted and so Iago employs the usefulness of Cassio, pretending to...

Shakespeare's Tempest/Reflections on His World

and now Prospero sees the opportunity to obtain justice. He charms Miranda into a deep sleep and summons the sprite Ariel, who is ...

Renaissance Racism and William Shakespeare's Othello

to Todorov, the Spaniards could not conceive of the Native Americans as "equally human but culturally different" (Berry 315). The...

Comparative Analysis of Prospero and Vincentio in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Measure for Measure

city, broadening his knowledge, which, in turn, improves his skill as a ruler. While there is a logical explanation for his knowle...

'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...

Samuel Adams Radical Puritan Book Review

in his life. ""Delivering five children, three deaths among them took a heavy toll on Elizabeth...Elizabeth died on 25 July" (Fow...

Theme of Deception in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet

also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Freudian Psychology in D.C. Thomas' The White Hotel and William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

interacting systems, the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is, according to Freud, the original system of the personality up...

Christian Allegory and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Warren in his famous essay on "Mariner" stated the primary theme is that humanity needs to, somehow, live in harmony with Nature, ...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Religious Imagery

speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...

Nature's Role in 'Kubla Khan' and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ancient Mariner is perhaps the greatest Romantic statement about the consequences of psychic separation of an isolated individual ...

Figurative Language in Two of Shakespeare's Plays

a wound. / But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and its Christian Content

persecuted and killed for their faith. We also note that throughout the play Lear slowly develops into a man who understands hi...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Epiphanies

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

Women's Roles in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

husbands duty to lead his wife toward proper behavior. Inherent in the relationship between God and humanity, which the marriage ...

Poetic Comparison of William Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 127' and Sir Philip Sidney's 'Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 72'

In Sonnet 72, it becomes evident that the initial sexual flush is still very much in evidence, but the references to the distant h...

Suicide or Murder of Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...

Comparison of John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

pining away because of his unrequited love for Olivia, who also has a potential suitor in Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Olivia wants no m...

Bassiano in Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of Venice' from a Freudian Perspective

Id is associated with the immediate gratification of the unconscious. In other words this level is the most primal and does not co...

Loneliness and Isolation in Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Soprano and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

thoroughly alienated world(Beckett). Ionescos The Bald Soprano throws two families together in the course of their work week to i...

William Shakespeare's Infamous Couple Lord and Lady Macbeth

indicates, Lady Macbeth provides the necessary motivation for the initial murder. She tells Macbeth that if she had sworn an oath ...

Romantic Love Psychology and William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pa...

William Sidney Mount and Samuel F.B. Morse and Their Approaches to American Art

were the most significant paintings for American to know and recognize. Nearly forty paintings and two sculptures can be found in ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath' from Canterbury Tales

the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...

Desdemona and the 'Jewel' Motif Recurrence in William Shakespeare's Othello

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

Choice or Fate in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...