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of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

whatever virtue she may still retain intact. Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles...

"A Midsummer Nights Dream" are both plays which rely heavily on this sort of humor, though they may be more refined in a sophistic...

it clear that his need for his retinue does not stem from physical need, but rather is a symbolic of his status in life, his autho...

her standards and lie to her father. She is seen, therefor, as the evil daughter, not the righteous daughter she truly is: "Lears ...

devastation that occurred. I was only playing my part in the prophecy, a prophecy that would not have come to pass had I not pushe...

education is still substantially elevated in contemporary culture. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees virtue as choice and so mora...

of Venice is highly revealing of his character. This characterization is vital to the internal logic of the play because the trag...

rather is a decision that is based on some principle such as self defense or an initial defensive action to prevent an attack. War...

thoughts terrify him. The fact that Macbeth is thought of as a loyal and noble person at the beginning of the play is made eviden...

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...

a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by ththroat the circumcis?d do And smote him thus" (Act V. ii. 334 - 352)...

marriage, and to decline / Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine! / But virtue, as it never will be movd,...

the "moral" issues which have been registered in regards to two or more human sharing the same genetic code (DNA). This cannot pro...

book (Rubinstein 28). He apparently married Anne Hathaway in 1582, and their surviving children, both girls, were illiterate (Rub...

an outsider, a theme which is emphasized in most critical analyses of the play, Othellos identity as the Moor in Venice was "not a...

titled William Shakespeares Romeo + Juliet (as if there were another author?) that starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Clair Daines in t...

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me saying to me Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot, o...

of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...

the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...

a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...

and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, are introduced as well as members of an amateur acting troupe who are rehearsing the p...

of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...

is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...

who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

and expression than film where the camera is able to capture the most subtle suggestions of emotion through the use of a close -up...

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...