Essays 511 - 540
In five pages this paper assesses the literary greatness of Mama Day by Gloria Naylor in comparison with William Shakespeare's The...
In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...
moneylender in Venetian society. During the Middle Ages and well into the Renaissance, Venice was one of Europes chief centers of ...
This paper examines the ritual use and significance of magic in Goethe's Faust and Shakespeare's Midsummer Nights Dream. This fiv...
In twenty pages this paper discusses how the statesmanship concept of Niccolo Machiavelli manifests itself in Parts One, Two, and ...
In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares Shakespeare's tragedy with the epic by Homer. Five sources are cited in ...
In three pages Homer's Penelope is compared with William Shakespeare's Desdemona in terms of Desdemona's simplicity and naivete in...
is certain he will. Nora then discloses how she borrowed the money for their trip to Italy and has been struggling to pay it back ...
In five pages this paper discusses the similarities and differences in wifely roles between Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Oth...
The writer examines several of Shakespeare's plays (King Lear and The Tempest), as well as Fuente Ovejuna by the Spanish playwrigh...
-- but to deny their husbands sex until the men agree to sign a treaty. It is the women, therefore, who actually end the war. Rea...
In eighteen pages this paper discusses how Shakespeare's puns evoke irony, humor, and eroticism in The Taming of the Shrew, As You...
In five pages the dramatic structures and themes are compared in this examination of a trio of William Shakespeare's plays. Two s...
In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...
In six pages this paper examines the alterations Oliver Parker made to Shakespeare's play in his 1990s' interpretation in terms of...
In six pages this paper discusses how racism issues must be contended with in the staging of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. S...
Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the vengeance and madness of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Melville's Captain Ahab. Sev...
without power, who plays the role of the colonizer. He is a teacher and a controller of the story itself, thus he serves as a symb...
say "I know thee not, old man," (V.v.47) dashing any hopes Falstaff had of becoming his confidante and the power behind the throne...
toying with his free will it seems. But, for the most part Theseus, is a noble and heroic duke who loves Hippolyta in the real sen...
the past and what the traditions were at the time, which is not part of this paper because the only source being used is Shakespea...
In this introduction to the character of Titus it is obvious that he is well regarded and that he has a reputation of being a nobl...
This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....
homoerotic desire" (114). Olivia and Maria embody this type of alliance. Maria is serving Olivia, literally and figuratively spe...
example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...
and is killed. Henry then becomes King Henry VII. Richard is "not a good man who, when tempted falls, and who, when fallen, hopes...
book itself is symbolic, it has to be thought, of Prosperos secret desire to remove himself from reality and the world all togethe...
have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...
is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...