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Essays 1411 - 1440
"extracts" on scholarly subjects, is encouraged to be outgoing; the fretful Kitty is encouraged to stop coughing, because people f...
In four pages comparisons between the two heroines are made with emphasis upon plot, theme, and characterization in a consideratio...
Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...
In six pages this report compares women's subservient status in each of these literary works. Eight sources are cited in the bibl...
be a relative of Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem features as its protagonist Sir Gawain, a nephew of King Arthur, who is revered by hi...
bent, has produced in him that blindness to human limitations, and that presumptuous self-will" (282). It becomes readily apparen...
leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...
that sounds like ritualistic chanting: FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? / In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND ...
for himself - with a kiss. Her husband retorts, "Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows o...
between Richard and the audience so as to establish an immediate intimacy. He "remains in direct contact with the spectators thro...
fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die- to sleep- / No more; and by a sleep to...
"Id plan and work revenge with her" (line 102). With the gods approval, Electra and Orestes set out to avenge their fathers murde...
tongue slow to respond is more than fear, it is also rage (line 3). This rage is so intense that it weakens his heart, that is, hi...
he received from those closest to him, emphasizing his own over-inflated sense of importance and intellect. His overbearing natur...
Moor, and his looks and primitive demeanor are woefully out of place in civilized Venice. He may have married the esteemed Senato...
over his military service. Shortly after the wedding, he was dispatched to Famagosta, the capital of Cyprus, to battle Turkish fo...
my cold blood, I am of your humour for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me" (Much Ado About...
plot progresses, Richard allows things to develop till there is virtual defiance of his royal will. This intolerable situation o...
no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...
alienate himself from his mother, uncle, fianc?e Ophelia and his old school chums, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. The lone confide...
differently in different periods of time, but the man as a writer stays very much the same. The homogeneity of his works is remark...
receive our duties, and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants, / Which do but what they should, by doin...
they marry or not, for there have been no grandiose expectations placed upon them to act a certain way. Benedick remarks, "That a...
do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...
he would have to address. This information provides him with a foundational understanding of the various kingdoms and allows him t...
idle pleasures of these days. / Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous" (Shakespeare I i). In Othello Iago tells us, "And whats h...
a time and oft / In the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances; / Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, /...
find a different word. The line "Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with" (III.iv.2)is difficult because "broad" does...
he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...
really be proven wrong, and the only thing that Othello has to go on is really the word of his wife who he ultimately disbelieves....