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Gawain is presented with similar atrocities and the same type of need for retribution, though his choice of actions and his determ...
In five pages this paper compares Sophocles' Oedipus Rex with the plays by William Shakespeare in terms of their similarities and ...
In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's use of the disguise motif and how deception and disguises manifest themselves in b...
In four pages this paper discusses Goneril's justification for the hardships she inflicted upon her father, sisters, and husband i...
In five pages this paper examines how positive ends are always somehow achieved despite the adversity Lear meets throughout the co...
In seven pages this paper evaluates whether or not this tragic protagonist created by William Shakespeare was senile, mad, or a bi...
In six pages this paper examines how life's meaning and human suffering's relationship is represented by these William Shakespeare...
In five pages the dramatic structures and themes are compared in this examination of a trio of William Shakespeare's plays. Two s...
In three pages the emotional conflicts that are based in anger are examined in terms of the protagonists behavior' and the importa...
In five pages this paper analyzes evil forces in this tragedy and how redemption is portrayed within the context of the Elizabetha...
In five pages the relationships between dramatic structures and themes as they exist within these three plays by William Shakespea...
Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...
the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...
Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...
in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...
others, or more intelligent than others. In short, there must be some element which somehow sets him above the average man, but ye...
realistic representations of his daughters love for him. Eldest daughter Goneril begins this love fest, pledging, "Sir, I love y...
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...
country landowner. The last thing Oliver needed was to have his authority challenged in the future by his young brother, armed wi...
praise and... desire for glory" (McNary 528). Beowulf is strong, courageous and brave in combat, and likes nothing better than to...
of Hamlets famous soliloquies, except for the ones which heightened dramatic impact, such as "To Be or Not to Be." He shrewdly ch...
provide an excuse for allotting the largest share of his kingdom to Cordelia, his favorite. Lear states that the test is so that "...
"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...
maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...
there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...
do him wrong. She is all but banished and ends up marrying into wealth and power in another region of the continent. Still she sid...
an American Hero brings the world of boxing into a sharp focus of anticipated excitement that is the essence of the match. This m...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...
gets. If anything Thoreau gives us an emotional warning, He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useles...
In ten pages this paper considers the theories of Betty Neuman and Imogene King regarding sex counseling after a heart attack with...