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A Comparison of A Midsummer Night's Dream with The Tempest

In this seven page paper these two classic plays are compared and contrasted in regard to allegorical reference, imagery, locale, ...

Threat of Chastity in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Measure for Measure

In twelve pages a discussion of whether or not Shakespeare represented chastity as threatening in these works concludes the chasti...

Hermia's Speech/Midsummer Night's Dream

to a convent or even death. The image of a snake conjures the possibly of death, and suggests that Hermia is not as brave as she...

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and its 2 Couples

In five pages Benedick and Beatrice and Claudio and Hero are contrasted and compared in this analysis of William Shakespeare's Muc...

'What is Man?' and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In four pages the question regarding the nature of man is examined within the context of William Shakespeare's King Lear....

Comic Analysis of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew

In five pages this paper presents a comic and situational analysis of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Two sources ...

Overview of Postmodern Views on William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper examines postmodern philosopher Stanley Cavell's views on William Shakespeare's tragic plays Antony and Cl...

Defining the Tragic Hero in William Shakespeare's Othello

man who seeks respectability in a white mans society. Despite his many military victories and his marriage to Senator Brabantios ...

Tragic Heroes Prince Hamlet and Willy Loman

In six pages this paper examines the tragic heroes represented by William Shakespeare's title protagonist Hamlet and Willy Loman i...

Comedy, Appearances, and Reality in Othello by William Shakespeare

only as a representation of misconstrued appearance. As time progresses, Othello - quite arguably the only character with a stell...

Tragic Heroism of Prince Hamlet

theater itself, and his own background upon the stage. Hamlet plays the clown with the other actors who arrive to perform ...

Queen Gertrude's Guilt in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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...

William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Hamlet

In nine pages this paper analyzes the tragic hero aspects of Hamlet's character in a consideration that also includes Shakespeare'...

Madness of Hamlet

In five pages this paper assesses whether or not William Shakespeare's tragic protagonist was truly mad. There are no other sourc...

Renaissance Humanism and William Shakespeare's Othello

In three pages this essay discusses how the humanism philosophy of the Renaissance is represented in William Shakespeare's tragic ...

Love That Does Not Last in the Films of Woody Allen

no matter how precious we may believe ours to actually be. Some of Allens films are more consistently filled with the idea of l...

Gender, Women, and 2 Plays by William Shakespeare

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

Prince Hamlet's Character Study

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

Laertes and Hamlet

In two pages the relationship between Laertes and Hamlet is considered in a discussion of their similiarities and differences as r...

William Shakespeare's Protagonists Hamlet and Macbeth

the King. Macbeth, while in a different conflict, is a man who, for the simple sake of his ambition, is willing to murder his k...

Scenes from Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses characters and themes in certain scenes from William Shakespeare's plays Troilus and Cressida, ...

Tragic Flaw of Prince Hamlet

In six pages William Shakespeare's protagonist is analyzed in terms of his emotional extremes, which collectively represent his tr...

Relationships and Love in 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning and Othello by William Shakespeare

This paper contrasts and compares how relationships and love are thematically represented in Robert Browning's poem and William Sh...

Imagery in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

believing in ghosts was akin to presuming that Satan had taken on the appearance of the dead so as to overtly jeopardize the decea...

Tragic Downfall of Othello

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

Hamlet as a Reflection of Past and Present Times

is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...

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...

William Shakespeare and Love's 3 Levels

of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...

Tragic Hero Othello

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

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 ...