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almost always determined to meddle in the business of the divine or the immortal. As a result, there is never a truly positive out...

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

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

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

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

seek vengeance for the father. Hamlet goes through many different changes because of the realities he has been told, and becaus...

see that vengeance is in order. That is another classic theme in humanity. If someone were to have killed one of our parents we wo...

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

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

thoughts terrify him. The fact that Macbeth is thought of as a loyal and noble person at the beginning of the play is made eviden...

may wish to add that Claudius and Gertrude both attempt to find out what is bothering Hamlet, which only serves to make it more pl...

note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...

whetted it for a more impressive title. It was a seemingly innocuous meeting with a trio of witches that would sow the seeds of M...

of our known world esteemd him." As we note, Horatio had a great deal of respect for Hamlet, and later illustrated how Hamlet had ...

Rome itself is portrayed as moving from a society dominated by heroes, such as Julius Caesar and Pompey, to one which is more frag...

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

lovers and Shakespeare is more sympathetic to their plight, considering the rebelliousness to being relevant to the lovers need to...

of both on the individual. Certainly, Hamlet offers insight to a man who is torn by a number of powerful emotions but who also thi...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the character of Prospero featured in William Shakespeare's final play and how this protagonist...

it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a most sterile promontory; ... Man delights ...

begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...

Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...

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

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

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...

ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

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...