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all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

political arena. Virginia was an important state that provided many political figures, but most southern states were largely marg...

of the narrators gender importance. It is suggested -- by a woman, no less -- that something be said to Emily in an effort to rid...

The allusion to Oscar Wildes epigram--What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities--...

limited means to make a living. The fires he sets may be construed as the rage that burns inside of him. This arsonist is continua...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

race "at the mercy of machines" (Joy, 2000). The kind of panicky point of view maintained by Joy as a result of the constantly im...

like a tragedy at this point, but we are provided with simple comedic elements throughout. For example, there is the character of ...

will never get a husband if she behaves in such a way. This offers us a very powerful image of how the patriarchal system of Sh...

indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...

that her father is dead. Therefore, she reasons that he is merely resting and is still capable of making decisions for her. She wo...

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

as opposed to being naturally inherited. This poem typifies the poems that are included in Blakes, Songs of Innocence, in...

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

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...

for the deaths of her husband, Edward V, and her father, Henry VI. Nevertheless, he demonstrates himself as quite capable in prov...

/ Is an unlessond girl, unschoold, unpractisd; / Happy in this, she is not yet so old / But she may learn; happier than this, / Sh...

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

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

will be. And, as a ruler he has obligations. Ophelia is likely not ignorant of such conditions considering she has grown up in a h...

forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...