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Macbeth and Blood

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...

Tragic Couples Romeo and Juliet and Othello and Desdemona

esteemed Senator Brabantio. She has maintained a childish naivet? about the world, because she has not seen much of it, beyond th...

Scenes from Shakespeare

In five pages this paper discusses characters and themes in certain scenes from William Shakespeare's plays Troilus and Cressida, ...

Everything Julius Caesar

In nine pages which also includes an outline of one page this essay describes the Forums of ancient Rome and then offers a critica...

Fate and Foreboding in Romeo and Juliet

It also sets the stage for the viewer/reader to know the foundations of history concerning the families when Romeo and Juliet firs...

Shakespeare/Sonnet 73

spring of renewal, for the person that has died. This fact is emphasized in the final metaphor, which is addressed in the next fou...

Musset's Lorenzaccio & Hamlet

marriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet remarks that she overcome her grief and remarried within a month of his fathers death-...

Madame Butterfly and Othello, Themes Compared

Masks and weaknesses are two themes permeating Othello by William Shakespeare and M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang. This paper co...

The Poet’s Use of Shakespeare’s Themes in the Sonnets

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

Hamlet, Oedipus, and the Theme of Illusion v. Reality

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Incest Issues

poisoned herself at the end is of little consequence to Claudius. But of notable significance is the continued interaction b...

Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare and Truth Searching

relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...

Theme of Sexuality in Works by Sophocles, William Shakespeare, and Toni Morrison

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

Revenge and Hamlet

tells Hamlet that "So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear" (I, v). Hamlet is confused and surprised, and he then learns that...

Historical Portrayals of Women in Literary Works

This paper contrasts and compares the female characters in The Birds by Aristophanes, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Buried Ch...

Temptation in the Works of William Shakespeare

possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and How Ophelia is Treated

will be. And, as a ruler he has obligations. Ophelia is likely not ignorant of such conditions considering she has grown up in a h...

Paternal Loss in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

Drama Then and Now

In five pages drama is considered in the works Wit by Margaret Edson, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, and Medea by Euripides. Ther...

Sin's Differing Degrees in Various Works of Literature

In seven pages this paper examines sin and punishment in a contrast of how they are portrayed in The Thousand and One Nights, Don ...

British Literature and the Theme of Sin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how sin is depicted in the Books of Genesis and Romans as well as how it is thematically dev...

Did Hamlet Commit Suicide or Was He Murdered in William Shakespeare's Tragedy?

In five pages this paper presents the argument that despite opposing evidence, Prince Hamlet in fact committed suicide in this tra...

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Influence of Seneca

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

Classic Western Literature and the Portrayal of Women

The portrayals of Cunegonde by Voltaire in Candide and Gertrude by William Shakespeare in Hamlet are contrastes and compared in fi...

An Interpretation from Hamlet's Where's Polonius?

This five page paper interprets Claudius' question to Hamlet as to what has become of Polinus' body, the question preseted in Act ...

Females in William Shakespeare Plays Queen Margaret and Lady Percy

In eleven pages Queen Margaret in William Shakespeare's Richard the Third and Lady Percy in Shakespeare's historical play Henry IV...

Star Wars by John Williams

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

Justifying Authority

The ways in which authority has been justified in literature is examined in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' William ...

Hamlet is Not the Medieval 2 Dimensional Hero

In five pages this paper considers the tragedy of Hamlet not representing the two dimensions of Medieval heroes who act out of bli...

Fate in Romeo and Juliet

progress, the use of word-play reiterates what is fated, and even though we might wish to change the outcome of fate, we begin to ...