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First Soliloquy of Lady Macbeth

In seven pages this tragedy by William Shakespeare is examined within the context of Lady Macbeth's first soliloquy and its signif...

Leontes in A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

In five pages Sicilia's King Leontes is analyzed in terms of his character's functions in Shakespeare's tragedy. Five sources are...

Hamlet and the Film Adaptations by Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares these 1948 and 1996 film interpretations of William Shakespeare's tragedy with the ...

Edward Albee's Tragic Play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

tortured marriage. The world of George and Martha is a closed, stagnant environment. It is filled with highly destructive element...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Deception, Poison, and Disease

the same way the Ghost has presented himself to Hamlet" (Kozokowski 126). Poison In the end of the story we see the people of ...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Jealousy

of his own standing among his peers would have ignored or challenged Iago. But Othello fully agrees with Iagos voiced concern that...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and 3 Issues

In six pages this paper examines how the American Dream, family relationships, and tragedy of Willy Loman within the context of th...

Dark Drama Macbeth by William Shakespeare

audience is presented with circumstances and relationships where there is never a truly positive outcome for any of those involved...

Tragedy as Defined by Aristotle

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

Hamlet and Images of Disease

a Denmark in decay, resulting from the marriage between Claudius and Gertrude, which enables the cunning brother to seize the thro...

Evil and Characterizations in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

travelling with Banquo, a general in the army, meets three witches. MACBETH Speak, if you can: what are you? First Witch All...

William Shakespeare's Play Macbeth and 2 Film Interpretations

conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...

William Shakespeare's Macbeth and Dramatic Effects

While she has gone to do this, Macbeth, again imagines that he hears knocking and sees an image of a hand plucking out his eyes. ...

Identity Search in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

his true intellect becomes completely clouded over and his ability to understand who and what he is becomes an even more distant p...

Levin's View of the Future in Anna Karenina

are made. Levin believed that the sacred nature of all living things demanded that mankind re-vision the current belief to see ...

A Macbeth Analysis

audience would see this dark scene as entrancing and somewhat frightening. We can envision this when we hear the first witch ask, ...

Euripides' Hippolytus, Iphigenia in Tauris” and Alcestis and Aeschylus The Oresteia, Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers and The Eumenides and Tragic Drama

specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...

Character Greatness in the Tragedies of William Shakespeare

that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...

Revenge and Hamlet

tells Hamlet that "So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear" (I, v). Hamlet is confused and surprised, and he then learns that...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Significance of Ophelia

that only involved royalty and their pursuit of power. Bearing these conditions in mind we present the following paper which exami...

Tragic Themes in Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, Sophocles' Antigone and William Shakespeare's Macbeth

Shakespeares characters that the audience (or the reader) immediately understands will not have an easy time of it. The story of "...

Early Comedy's Birth and Development

plenty of time to waste" (Anonymous astudyof.htm). As well, the very nature of the prose and movement became based more in realit...

Graffiti Phenomenon

the case, then graffiti may be see as one of the oldest art forms or forms of expression, dating back over 20,000 years (Reichert,...

Doomed Love: Cleopatra and her Man of Men, Antony

of this woman. Enobarbus continues his description of her and her progress through town and her meeting with Antony, whom she invi...

Death of a Salesman and the Definition of Tragedy

by some serious flaw of character and/or judgment," with the ultimate goal being to inspire either pity or fear in the audience (K...

Antebellum Southern Culture and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

culture to some extent. The culture is implicit in much of what goes on and is woven throughout the content of the book. Identity ...

Shakespeare's Use of Emotion in Othello and Macbeth

emotion, to act. But what is Iagos motivation? It could in fact be that he is envious of Othello. At the same time, in reviewing...

Hamlet's Dilemma and the Audience's Response

three types of characters - one who to be killed, one to kill, and one to avenge the killer (89). For audiences during the early ...

Theories of Tragedy from Aristotle to Freud

audience feel watching a tragedy" ("Greek Theory of Tragedy: Aristotles Poetics"). The audience has to feel something significant ...

Othello Themes

really betrayed Othello. Iago is determined to manipulate Othello to his own desires, which are many. Throughout the play the re...