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harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...
between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...
the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...
sense of landscape and, in particular, his sense of certain locales as cherished landmarks ("even sacred places") is inevitably li...
only reinforces the theme of madness. The book is one of dense layers. On the purely shallow context, this book is about a mans ...
of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...
indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...
fundamental structure of the story. These inferences help the reader to understand the symbolic messages hidden within the framew...
South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...
readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...
In three pages this essay analyzes Othello in a consideration of jealousy's featured role in the characterizations of the protagon...
the play, and enable him to comment on the actions and feelings of his fellow characters with some distance. He is not fully inte...
took the time to teach him a "proper" language, and not the "gabble" that he spoke when she and her father first arrived. Caliba...
during the 19th century, Sigmund Freud managed to be one of the first to actually map the subconscious as a key to the motivations...
romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...
story is told in a way that is anything but straightforward" for "the novel has no single narrator" but rather "has 15 narrators- ...
used his inspiration to create a business that would put his vision into full bloom. How did he do it? To a great extent, it was h...
wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...
recognize the black women of the Western frontier including the talented but overlooked poet Lucy Prince, the freed slave and Colo...
not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...
flies. Though that his joy be joy, / Yet throw such changes of vexation ont / As it may lose some color" (I.i.69-75). When Senato...
(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...
story (Sparknotes). Her husband is Roskus, a man who suffers greatly from rheumatism, a condition that will kill him. T.P. is...
Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...
and logical, while Dean is his complete opposite. These two men also indicate the fallen state of mankind attempting to find himse...
gory detail, down to the whippings, punishments and general mind control games that overseers regularly played with their slaves. ...
With Amanda and Laura however, it is the way into reality (Symbolism in The Glass Menagerie). In the case of Laura the fire escape...
position in the court was not higher than it was. He is the source of all conflict in the story for he presents Othello with subtl...
explains more precisely: " There were too many volunteers and too few heavy machines. But then, rather quickly, a crude management...
hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...