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1949. The first soliloquy provides ample opportunity to witness the impact this has upon Hamlet, inasmuch as he simply cannot com...

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

tells Desdemonas father that he must act quickly else "youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (I.1.112-113). As p...

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surprising that there is evidence in a number of Shakespeares plays that a female characters who is "self-aware" and "skillful" is...

sensibilities: "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else oerleap, / For in my way it lies. S...

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...

homoerotic desire" (114). Olivia and Maria embody this type of alliance. Maria is serving Olivia, literally and figuratively spe...

me in the day of success, and I have learned by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burned ...

While he adhered to Petrarchs use of fourteen lines, Shakespeare constructed sonnets containing three quatrains and a couplet. Hi...

a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...

be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...

He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...

not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...

logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...

also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...

and become crazy from the heat, so to speak. While preparations are commencing for the upcoming wedding between Theseus, the Duke...

city, broadening his knowledge, which, in turn, improves his skill as a ruler. While there is a logical explanation for his knowle...

to share Iagos disgust and refers to Desdemonas acceptance of Othello as her "gross revolt" (I.i.134) and Roderigo shows his dista...

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

interacting systems, the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is, according to Freud, the original system of the personality up...

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

husbands duty to lead his wife toward proper behavior. Inherent in the relationship between God and humanity, which the marriage ...

persecuted and killed for their faith. We also note that throughout the play Lear slowly develops into a man who understands hi...

speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...

connection between Iagos perception of race and the cultural perception that "black" equates with "evil." This perception of race ...

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...

how his takeover of the island oppressed the liberties of the natives. Prosperos character (whose name is Italian for "to prosper...

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...