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A Comparison of Two Major Characters in Literature, Sophocles' Antigone and Shakespeare's Hamlet

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

An Analysis of Tragedy in Three Plays

man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...

Macbeth and the Supernatural from a Critical Standpoint

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

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Antagonist Iago

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...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet = Production Effectiveness

decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...

Hamlet and the Attractive Prospect of Suicide

his mother Queen Gertrude announces she eloped with Claudius, her brother-in-law who will now succeed Hamlet Sr. as King. The Pri...

"Lady Lazarus", Performance Art, and Suicide

Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...

The Puritan Revolution and Literature

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Puritan Revolution and its impact on literature. Shakespeare's Prospero and Milt...

Twelfth Night and Themes of Romantic Love and Friendship

William Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed in terms of how the relationships of Olivia and Orsino, Cesario/Viola and Orsino, and Ces...

Othello, Role of Gender

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Othello" and the role of gender, race and class. Five pages in length, four sources are cited....

Medieval Norms, Politics, Religion Aspects

This paper refers to Penny Schine Gold's The Lady & the Virgin, Image, Attitude and Experience in Twelfth-Century France and Ken F...

Character Studies: Dr. Faustus, Macbeth

This essay discusses the characterization of Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus" and William Shakespeare's "Macbeth," identifying ...

Character Study of Hamlet

This essay presents a discussion of Hamlet's character. The writer argues that Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet focuses on...

Shakespeare and Jonson and Elizabethan Clowns

This essay pertains to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humor," and how each p...

Rudyard Kipling's "If" and Othello

This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...

Talking to the Counselor

he also gave them flaws so that they would be even more interesting. This paper considers three of his troubled women, Lady Macbet...

Duncan and the Macbeths

are two of Shakespeares most memorable characters, but they change over the course of the play. This paper considers their charact...

Othello's Elements of Tragedy

Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Masking Characters Intentions in Act III

from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

Lady with Lapdog

and one could well envision how Chekhovs character, Gurov, may well have married for something other than love. "He had been talke...

Macbeth and the Corruption of Power

his darkest. It is concerned with power, ambition, and the exercise of pure evil. This paper examines the characters, setting, plo...

Destructive Effects of Iago's Greed

the social acceptance that has been denied him because of his skin color. When Othello selects the relatively inexperienced Micha...

Ibsen and Shakespeare/Doll's House and Much Ado About Nothing

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

Disorder and the Chain of Being in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

and "too full of... kindness" (I.ii.77, I.v.18). Once Macbeth steps outside the bonds of the social order by killing Duncan, howev...

Downfall of Othello

well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...

"Othello" and Shakespeare's Characterization

at war with the Turks, that not all of Othellos men are loyal to him, and that there remains a great deal of cultural suspicion ab...

Borowski and Wiesel/Surviving Auschwitz

it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with en...

"Hamlet" and Suicide as an Important Theme

not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...

Relationships Between Sons and Their Mothers in "The Glass Menagerie" and "Hamlet"

Young Prince Hamlet of Denmark has been dealt two blows in rapid succession. First, while away at college, he learns his father h...