YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Tragic Characters in Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
Essays 271 - 300
In 6 pages the parallels that exist in these works in terms of literary similarities of allegory, metaphor, simile, irony, personi...
Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come, Ill fill your grave up. Stir. Nay come away....
In 5 pages this paper considers this supporting character's role in an analysis of Laertes' purpose and plot function. There are ...
The character of Mercutio and his significance to Shakespeare's tragedy is analyzed in this paper consisting of eight pages. Six ...
no worse a place. / But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, / Evades them, with a bumbast circumstance / Horribly stuffd wit...
The steward is immediately threatened by anyone who is perceived as funnier or more intelligent than he. Olivia is the only perso...
or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what spurs on m...
that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you, now receive them" (Shakespeare 145). He replies: "No, no; I never gave you augh...
efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...
soldier, eight-and-twenty years of age, who had seen a good deal of service and had a high reputation for courage. Of his origin w...
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...
essence, this is seen as "feminine and shrewd" (Rusche). From this description we can begin to understand that Gertrude may wel...
his foul and most unnatural murther" (I.v.29). Hamlet will need all of his inner resources to successfully meet this crisis, for ...
A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...
the treacherous feet" (III.2.14-16). Rather than action, Richard offers poetic interpretations of his situation. The tone and imag...
assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...
They have made themselves, and that their fitness now / Does unmake you. I have given suck and know / How tender tis to love the ...
from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...
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...
heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...
romantic experience and worldly sophistication, he easily falls victim to his insecurities. He is a proud man and anything that t...
Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...
tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...
- a group ironically consisting of the very men who had conspired against Prospero - Antonio, the King, the Kings brother Sebastia...
the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...
for the deaths of her husband, Edward V, and her father, Henry VI. Nevertheless, he demonstrates himself as quite capable in prov...
often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...
with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...