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the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...

confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...

forty and has epilepsy. However, the source of Jessies psychic pain is not her condition, but rather the fact that she has never ...

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

but on their bonds with other men who guarantee their honor and reputation" (Bloom 89). This is demonstrated through the characte...

and gagged her and pulled a plastic garbage bag over her head before leaving her in a locked bathroom. Putman suffocated. As a r...

biological mother and father. On leaving the Oracle at Delphi, having heard the dire prophecy that he would murder his father and ...

our power to exact our revenge? Perhaps, she suggests, there is some medium-ground that would do a little of both without going t...

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

Verona, Italy, where a feud has broken out between the families of the Montegues and the Capulets. The servants of both houses ope...

with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referr...

Rome itself is portrayed as moving from a society dominated by heroes, such as Julius Caesar and Pompey, to one which is more frag...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

corresponding functional interest in them * The interests of all stakeholders are of intrinsic value (Donaldson et al, 1995, pp. 6...

from a popular Icelandic tale in which the lead character by the name of "Amleth" experienced similar events throughout his lifeti...

several attacks that effectively took down three planes and it is thought that two others were destroyed as well (1998). The ene...

may wish to add that Claudius and Gertrude both attempt to find out what is bothering Hamlet, which only serves to make it more pl...