Essays 1561 - 1590
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, "...
gloried in the proud history of the plantation South that secured a place of honor for the aristocrat, and yet he abhorred the opp...
own precipitous fall from grace. The narrative is composed primarily of internal monologues and is subdivided into sections that ...
there, she might have added a dose of common sense to the proceedings, and pointed out to her husband that dividing the kingdom am...
with Macbeth as Malcolm states, "Come, go we to the king; our power is ready;/ Our lack is nothing but our leave; Macbeth/ Is ripe...
that sounds like ritualistic chanting: FIRST WITCH. When shall we three meet again? / In thunder, lightning, or in rain? SECOND ...
leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...
a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...
guilty: difficulty concentrating or making decisions or in the extreme, feeling suicidal" (Nicolson and Clayfield 136). It is inte...
about his troubled time and place" (Hair, 1986; 3). In this we see that Hair simply seems to desire to convey to the reader a hist...
commoner was forced into a position of submission by this fact in Europe. Cr?vecoeur realized immediately that in America land ow...
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...
youngest, wants a toy train. The two remaining brothers, Jewel and Darl, want nothing for themselves, but the journey brings to it...
good enough for her. Another issue that Bianicas situation brings up is the sign of the times. These days, wed scratch our...
the novel. He is caught up in the outdated cultural mythos of the South, where men were suppose to be strong and women were virgin...
a time and oft / In the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances; / Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, /...
of the careful construction lends enough credibility for the reader to suspend disbelief, but all the while, when one backs up to ...
extended outline of the 1960s and piquing our interest. ONeill clearly illustrates the decade as one of change, and one of desi...
approach the demon with great trepidation; although they both know they harbor the protection of God while on their mission to exo...
faithfully perform its most basic function-enforcing laws." (Greider, 1993; 107). His work is focused on letting the reader know...
also allows us to feel the emotion more, to look for the meaning more than we would if it rhymed. In Alcocks the rhyming makes the...
of Spiritus Mundi" (Yeats, 1920). "Spiritus Mundi" can be translated as the "Spirit of the Universe" which Yeats saw as holding i...
that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...
in humanity until he hears the voice of his wife. When he stumbles out of the woods the next morning, he is a changed man. He ha...
the best Shakespeare company in the world so perhaps the director might want to consider a minimalist production. The focus of th...
him from within and turns him into a murderer. Blakes Songs of Experience have been described as an "unforgettable condemnation of...
maximum benefit, and his practical reaction is immediate action (Cahn 146). As Victor L. Cahn noted in his consideration of Edmun...
he is clearly the stable rational order, but by himself he is nothing in the face of the nature of mankind. The Lord of the Fli...