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(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

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...

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

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

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

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

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

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...

are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

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

his fathers murder was Claudius elaborate conspiracy to become King, but he lacked sufficient proof to support his theory. When t...

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

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

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 ...

will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...

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...

eye"(Shakespeare Act 1, sc. 1, line 140). Thus, this first criteria and/or convention has been met. Hermia wants Lysander, bu...

with Henry V losing only a small amount of men while the French lost many. Finally Henry V and King Charles meet and discuss the l...

in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...

meant he was not "someone to take seriously" as a threat to his power (Derrick 14; McMurtry 41). Others seriously underestimate A...

will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...

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...

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