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as it seems. Is Hamlets revenge motivated by a desire to avenge his fathers murder or is it sparked by the betrayal he feels over...

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

declares to Creon that the laws of heaven are "unwritten and unchanging, not of today or yesterday is their authority; they are et...

begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...

1949. The first soliloquy provides ample opportunity to witness the impact this has upon Hamlet, inasmuch as he simply cannot com...

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

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

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

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

A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...

- a group ironically consisting of the very men who had conspired against Prospero - Antonio, the King, the Kings brother Sebastia...

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

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

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...

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

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

to speak out. Of course, Oedipus is infuriated by such statements and knows that they must have been instigated by one of his enem...

by means of which men differentially accrue material [economic]as well as ideological [culturally valued] privileges from the exp...

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

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

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

This 5 page paper emphasizes how Rosalind is a woman truly ahead of her time in Shakespeare's comic farce, stronger and more intel...

In ten pages this paper discusses how the traditional and nontraditional roles of women are represented in Hero and Bianca, and Be...

of Orlando sets in motion the complex maneuverings that form the core of the plot (Kinney 299). The poems of Orlando are a mirror...

In five pages this paper considers the portrayal of single women in this comparison and contrasting of Morrison's novel and Willia...

In five pages Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach is compared with James Joyce's Araby and Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 to disccus the co...

at odds with the reality that one human being can never know for certain the inner most thoughts and desires of another (Vanita, 1...

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

surprising that there is evidence in a number of Shakespeares plays that a female characters who is "self-aware" and "skillful" is...

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...