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the fact that they make predictions. Unlike the psychic hotline, the sisters seem to single him out. It does not appear as if he w...

setting in the opening scene, in which the linkage between ceremony and an interdependent (and overlapping) courtly society is tru...

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

of fairness, arguing that because Macbeth suffers the most he is paying for his sins, it does not make sense because Lady Macbeth ...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the character of Prospero featured in William Shakespeare's final play and how this protagonist...

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

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...

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

lovers and Shakespeare is more sympathetic to their plight, considering the rebelliousness to being relevant to the lovers need to...

a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...

Milan (Sutton 224). To further exemplify these features, consider a close examination of one scene. As Act III, scene 2, opens, ...

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

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

In five pages this paper examines how the witches and Lady Macbeth psychologically victimize Macbeth in this analysis of Shakespea...

In four pages this essay analyzes the character of Queen Gertrude and argues that her state of denial is responsible for her actio...

Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...

God is simply incongruous with the fact that evil is a very real component of our world. Those that point out this incongruity co...

to do so throughout the play as he plots his revenge. "The spirit that I have seen May be the devil; and the devil hath power To...

Othellos stories that she would fall in love with this dark soldier. Furthermore, Desdemona has always been a meek and gentle daug...

plot progresses, Richard allows things to develop till there is virtual defiance of his royal will. This intolerable situation o...

they are in committing to marriage. The imagery evoked by "violet in the youth of primy nature" implies that Hamlet is interested...

in bed" (III.ii.206-209), then following-up with the equally matter of fact declaration, "If, once a widow, ever I be wife!" (III....

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...

In five pages this play is evaluated in terms of whether or not Elizabethan audiences would regard it as a personal tragedy or a p...

go to her, but only if she will profess love for her father to eclipse the love of any other man. Only if she promises not to mar...

so heavily reliant on the patriarchal system. She is passive and obedient, indicating that she easily goes along with the society,...

man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...

In ten pages this paper presents a character analysis of Shakespeare's innovative portrayal of the tragic protagonist. There is t...

In four pages this paper examines Aristotle's definition of tragedy and its criteria in a consideration of Hamlet and how the play...