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old black ram is tupping your white ewe"(Shakespeare, Act I, sc I, li 88-89). Brabantio is Desdemonas father and as such would hav...

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

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

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

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

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

We can see that he is panicking because he has killed a man and there is blood on him that he cannot wash off. Even though his wif...

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

lightness! serious vanity!/ Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!/ Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,/ sick health!/ Stil...

also aware that Desdemona is not one of his soldiers, obliged to obey orders; she is her own person and if she chooses not to love...

must reach unto" (Shakespeare I, i). When the two meet in the next scene we note that Lady Anne has absolutely no feelings for ...

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

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, ...

upon the very nature of man to enjoy learning something about others and in return about him or herself. In this way, he argues, w...

of patriarchy and the political state (Shakespeare, 1994 and See Also Lambs Tales from Shakespeare - Othello, 2001). This essay ...

it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a most sterile promontory; ... Man delights ...

when she comes across her father once more, when he is mad and lost and truly a tragic figure, she does the right thing and stands...

In fact, Lewis Wagers 1567 morality play based on biblical teachings, The Life and Repentance of Mary Magdalene, presented a chara...

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

are sending her and because she has led a sequestered life, Ophelia lacks sophistication when it comes to dealing with matters of ...

connection between Iagos perception of race and the cultural perception that "black" equates with "evil." This perception of race ...

"Ralph is the evenhanded, honest, thoughtful leader, while Jack is the exact opposite, an unjust, callous dictator. When Ralph is ...

follow Jack are weary, yet Jack maintains a sense of order that is completely irrational and stifling: "When his party was about t...

specifically tailored their works to suit the tastes of their Athenian audiences, mirroring the "fears, tensions, and potential vi...

the novel. He points out that it has been generally accepted among scholars that Simon is an "analogue of Jesus Christ" and that h...

we see that the boys have perhaps just been initiated into the real world of men. They have bridged the gap between boyhood and ma...

he is clearly the stable rational order, but by himself he is nothing in the face of the nature of mankind. The Lord of the Fli...