YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Characters of Portia and Calpurnia
Essays 361 - 390
or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...
The steward is immediately threatened by anyone who is perceived as funnier or more intelligent than he. Olivia is the only perso...
no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...
essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...
romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...
the sinners. We must not make a scar-crow of the Law, Setting it vp to feare the Birds of prey,...
rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...
the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...
a purpose that is perhaps very subtle. In the beginning of this play we know that there is great tension between England and Fr...
for himself - with a kiss. Her husband retorts, "Sir, would she give you so much of her lips / As of her tongue she oft bestows o...
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...
Prince. Despite his antic disposition or pretending to be mad as another ploy to ensnare Claudius in his revenge trap, maybe Haml...
blood. The Fool ironically exhibits more sense than Lear, and reprimands his master for what can only be described as a foolhardy...
But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...
will is responsible for the subsequent chain of events. Therein is the problem of free will. If it in fact exists, how...
her innocence and lack of understanding in her words as she dies, words that do not even point to Othellos guilt as Emilia asks he...
were old With which she followed my poor fathers body Like Niobe, all tears;-why she, even she,- O God! a beast that wants discour...
strong man to dominate his wife. There were few constraints placed upon male behavior whereas for women it was quite the opposite...
with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...
myth. It is a play that demonstrates a profound intelligence on the part of the author, and a play that illustrates how the autho...
that Hermia wants to marry Lysander but that he has forbidden it and told her she must marry Demetrius (Shakespeare). Theseus unde...
is so black that it seems like death itself. The inference we have to make here is that he is dying, or at least is old enough to ...
a character claiming he is "sick at heart," sets the stage for all the struggles that will take place (Shakespeare I i). It is the...
move from one emotion to another. There is depression, sorrow, despair, anger, frustration, and perhaps a bit of madness mixed in ...
It also sets the stage for the viewer/reader to know the foundations of history concerning the families when Romeo and Juliet firs...
Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...
his lovers eyes he is saying, "When I look in your eyes/ There I see/ What all that a love should really be" (Vandross 24-26). He ...
the most inept such plots in theater-but we can see it as his attempt to revenge himself upon the man who stole his island from hi...
Clare within the historical context of the work of Mary Ward, who established her "own missionary order, the Institute of Mary, in...