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remind the audience that because of his noble status, he must avenge his fathers murder not only for himself but also for the Dani...

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

this framework. The Amish and the Mennonites are the antithesis of Macbeths nihilism, as these Anabaptist congregations reject th...

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

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

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

almost always determined to meddle in the business of the divine or the immortal. As a result, there is never a truly positive out...

This 9 page paper examines the way in which three different directors approach Shakespeare. It looks at Kenneth Branagh's producti...

in joining such a group. By discussing books and plays with peers, an individual can hear other opinions on subject matter that h...

short temper gets him into trouble. In Book IX, Polyphemus, the son of the sea god Poseidon, decides to dine on a few Greeks who ...

the way the authors developed the theme of appearance vs. reality in their plays, I was trying to show the distinct difference in ...

claiming that not only is Othello an outsider but akin to the devil, or an animal. It is not that he is just from a different coun...

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

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

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

her. Antigone The second question involves characters in the story of Antigone. The characters under discussion are Antig...

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

of the Soul Jonathan Lear describes the knowledge someone has regarding something already known as knowingness. This is developed...

is in seeing pompous buffoons made fools of, and lovers brought together. However, Aphra Behns play, though a comedy, also deals...

have to hear; and he ends up discovering the truth about himself, a truth so agonizing and abhorrent that he blinds himself (Sopho...

he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

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lovd me for the dangers I had passd / And I lovd her that she did pity them" (I.iii.167-168). Pity here doesnt mean that she was s...

black man in a white world. Not only that, but hes married a white woman, and although she loves him very much, he is easily drive...

soldiers, and Iago responds that he too is upset with Othello for promoting another soldier, Cassio, over Iago, despite Iagos havi...

This book review is on William Stringfellow's A Private and Public Faith. The writer recounts Stringfellow's criticisms of contemp...

from the beginning of the play, leaving no doubt that Iago is a conniving and deceitful individual (Anonymous Iago the Liar Othell...

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