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three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...
even if there were a few sinful missteps along the way. However, if they put themselves and their own needs ahead of what God exp...
from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...
tragic deaths of Lear and Cordelia. Therefore, many modern readers and critics regard the plays conclusion as being devoid of red...
heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...
the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...
demesne" (Keats PG). It is here that religion first crops up in Keats explanation. Further, the entire work is about discovery, op...
famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy, followed by a talk with Ophelia. In the same act Ophelia says "My lord, I have remembrances...
worst" (Shakespeare II ii). As such she is highly berated by all that know her, save her sister perhaps. She is ridiculed and seen...
readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...
romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...
he is out of the country when Bolingbroke returns with an invading army. In Act II, scene 3, Bolingbroke and York, his uncle, di...
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...
offer some different scenes, though ultimately only about one quarter of Shakespeares Richard III is actually presented in the fil...
and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...
consents not to give sovereignty (Shakespeare, Act 1, Sc. 1). However,...
classic confrontation between the forces of good and evil in the Christian biblical tradition. The society of ancient Greece was ...
the sinners. We must not make a scar-crow of the Law, Setting it vp to feare the Birds of prey,...
variety of perspectives on Cleopatra, which serve to inform the audiences comprehension of her as a decadent foreign woman. When ...
the only thing they share: "Othello reveals a more detailed acknowledgment of Desdemonas sexual appeal. As he discusses her death ...
the second quatrain and then the third, on her own (Downing 126). In so doing, she overturns the Petrarchan convention wherein th...
appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...
if there is no hope at the end. Several other similarities exist between Antony and Cleopatra and other Shakespeare plays. Bits ...
the play, and enable him to comment on the actions and feelings of his fellow characters with some distance. He is not fully inte...
a man who is looking to the future. He looks to the future through his three daughters, imagining that his favorite, the youngest,...
Ill follow thee and make a heaven of hell,/ to die upon the hand I love so well" (Shakespeare, Act 2, Scene 1, lines 241-244). W...
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...
line indicates how Iago begins to chip away Othellos confidence in his lieutenant and his wife, as Iago insinuates there is someth...
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...
essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...