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Essays 271 - 300
three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...
fact that her opposition to her father by eloping with the much-older Othello reveals her internal strength, which is comparable t...
kingdom among his daughters, he based what they received upon their effusive speeches to him. Goneril and Regan played along and ...
my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe. Cen...
his trusted lieutenant are confronted by a trio of witches who predict: THIRD WITCH. All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be King hereaft...
strong man to dominate his wife. There were few constraints placed upon male behavior whereas for women it was quite the opposite...
from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...
other. Since the death of Ophelias mother, Laertes and Polonius have appointed themselves as official protectors of her virtue. ...
with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...
He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...
equal pound / Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken / In what part of your body pleaseth me" (I, iii, 148-150). Antonio agre...
Oberon and make him smile/ When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile,/ Neighing in likeness of a filly foal:/ And sometime lurk I in...
surely not do anything to hurry it along, stating, "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir" (Shaks...
a sort of revenge, is quite humorous as the two individuals are seemingly confused and wary. There is humor in the fact that Calib...
Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...
the characters and how they all go about trying to define the night and day while engaged in various activities. In the...
man, a brave men, but still a relatively simple man who is not consumed with the desire to be more. He may be curious, even tempte...
be condemned if he were killed at prayer. This speaks not only to the strength of religious belief at the time, but to the depth o...
Macbeth says only "We will speak further" (I, v, 71). The next time we see Macbeth he has a long soliloquy in which he enumerates...
lines of the opening curtain, Roderigo says "Thou toldst me thou didst hold him in thy hate" (I, i, 7), to which Iago replies, "De...
where hours were spent singing songs and learning nursery rhymes. When Gertrude inquires as to how she is doing, Ophelia sings, "...
supernatural. Even before the humans enter the forest, and Oberon and Titania become involved in playing tricks on the humans thro...
soldier, but hes also immediately associated in our minds with the spilling of blood. But blood also means the blood connection b...
"too short" (Shakespeare I i). She tells him "I am alone felicitate/ In your dear highness love" (Shakespeare I i). In this we see...
story of Agamemnon we are presented with a man who sacrifices his daughter, at the request or command, of the gods, in order that ...
brought his version of the play forward 500 years into the 1930s. Both McKellen and director Richard Loncraine felt that Richard ...
fall upon my life" (Shakespeare I iii). In this he is leaving it all up to his wife and her father, nobly demonstrating that he do...
good man, whom he has treated unjustly. Desdemona has, of course, been persuaded by Iago to defend Cassio, as he knows that this w...
"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...
that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...