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heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...
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...
identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...
the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...
a purpose that is perhaps very subtle. In the beginning of this play we know that there is great tension between England and Fr...
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, /...
he would have to address. This information provides him with a foundational understanding of the various kingdoms and allows him 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...
a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...
leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...
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...
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...
that sounds like ritualistic chanting: FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? / In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND ...
between Richard and the audience so as to establish an immediate intimacy. He "remains in direct contact with the spectators thro...
line indicates how Iago begins to chip away Othellos confidence in his lieutenant and his wife, as Iago insinuates there is someth...
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...
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...
the church, so most scholars put his birthday as the 23rd of April, 1564 (Hanna - Life). John Shakespeare was a "prominent and pro...
past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...
to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...
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...
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...
say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...
to have an impact open Hamlet and his self critical guilt. The well known quote that shows the motivation for the play is "the pla...
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....
assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...
condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...