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Comedy and Tragedy of William Shakespeare

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...

Complex of Oedipus

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

Allegory of Social Dissolution Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

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

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...

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...

Underlying Themes in 'The Libation-Bearers' by Aeschylus

psychological and emotional loss she withstands. It ultimately comes to pass that Electra begins to plot Clytemnestras death to h...

Othello's Downfall

him completely off-guard, Othello is completely unprepared for the "depth and intensity" (Vanita 341) of his love. Just as his pu...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Betrayal

na?ve Desdemona, he marries her without hesitation or reservation because he believes he has finally found someone with whom he ca...

Disease and Darkness Imagery in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...

Antigone and Medea

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

Principle Theme of Antigone by Sophocles

men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...

Act One of William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Development of the Protagonist's Character

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

King Oedipus Was His Own Worst Enemy

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Race Issues

we see Roderigo and Iago discussing the fact that this Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters ...

Aristotle, Tragedy, and Oedipus Rex

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

Paternal Loss in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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...

Reason and Passion in Euripides' Medea

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

Outsiders Heathcliff and Hamlet

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...

Character Comparison and Contrast of Laura in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Sophocles' Antigone

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

Character Study of Othello

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

Arthur Miller's Tragedy Death of a Salesman

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

William Shakespeare's Othello and Its Pleasurable Aspects

actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...

Witches' Role in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

Hindenburg Dirigible Catastrophe of 1937

over Germany. Meanwhile, the United States, who possessed the only natural deposits of helium became more and more suspicious. As ...

Graham Greene's The Destructors and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

Ophelia and Antigone

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Desdemona's Role

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...

Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann

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

Game of Chess Represented by William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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