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Essays 781 - 810
a man who is perhaps willing to sit back and let prophecy go its own course, without intervention from him. This is evidenced when...
realistic representations of his daughters love for him. Eldest daughter Goneril begins this love fest, pledging, "Sir, I love y...
Id is associated with the immediate gratification of the unconscious. In other words this level is the most primal and does not co...
pining away because of his unrequited love for Olivia, who also has a potential suitor in Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Olivia wants no m...
indicates, Lady Macbeth provides the necessary motivation for the initial murder. She tells Macbeth that if she had sworn an oath ...
true circumstances of her first husbands death, and the exact nature of her guilt. There does not appear to be much in the play th...
for the rest of the world, There will never, never be another Laurence Olivier" (69). The article goes on to report that at the "s...
power was not necessarily through the might of his military, but from the popularity of a kings subjects. In Henry V, ther...
Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...
appears to be Lucentio, but should he be unable to produce his father (which would verify his lineage and financial status), then ...
say, shows that how each man reacted to this situation was a matter of choice -- not fate. Traditionally, much of the blame for ...
The overall story of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" follows fairly well its primary source that is Chaucers "The Knights Tale" from his c...
the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...
forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...
Had they employed reason by waiting for the light of day, perhaps they would not have rushed into love, marriage, and ultimately, ...
makes men the center of her life. In fact, Beatrice makes it clear that she has no wish to marry, and thinks very little of most ...
Verona, Italy, where a feud has broken out between the families of the Montegues and the Capulets. The servants of both houses ope...
father, as he speculates that the specter could have been a devil that assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into s...
to why Iago hates Othello to such a degree. Presumably, Iago is angry over being passed over for promotion in favor of Cassio. The...
regarded as the "polite" or "formal" form of the second person (Garvey 12). The familiar use of "thou" is best illustrated throu...
thinks she is ignorant because she is unsure and innocent. He feels that she is an idiot to even begin to believe the words or aff...
central conflict involves Claudio, who had been living out of wedlock with his lover, Juliet, prior to her marriage and she subseq...
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...
story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...
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...
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...
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...