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lightness! serious vanity!/ Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!/ Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,/ sick health!/ Stil...

is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...

the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...

and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...

wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...

tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...

heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...

Ophelias death, he talks with the men who are digging her grave. The comic intent of the scene is evident from the onset by the ...

of heroism in combat as they fought for noble causes and died for noble causes, with visions of lavish funeral rites dancing in th...

events that all resulted in tragedy was when Laius insisted that his healthy infant son should be left to die from exposure. While...

took a vicious Civil War to legally end the "peculiar institution," although the South continued to pass such things as the Jim Cr...

of our concern. If this story simply told of Oedipus as a king who is found guilty of murdering his father and...

Jocastas acceptance of her role and of the death of her son is fundamental to the actions of the play. When Oedipus kills Laius a...

English who had come to steal corn and the result was that the English colony waited until 1613 before their leaders were sufficie...

that Hamlet must seek vengeance for the crime. This begins the powerful intrigue in the play that is filled with conflict. In t...

of the Native Americans, inasmuch as the settlers had no desire to include the indigenous people in their progressive plans. Rath...

leave his new bride to wage war in Cyprus. The departure, though bittersweet, returns Othello to familiar territory that renews h...

that had hired on with the Calvary (Hoxie, 1995). These scouts were just a handful of the thirty-three scouts that were under Cus...

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...

him. He is a man who holds to the laws of his people, he is strong and courageous, and he is fairly well defined. But events take ...

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

the planes horizontal stabilizer trim shortly before the crash and had been diverted to from its initial destination of San Franci...

as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...

"cannibals" and the "Anthropophagi." Captured by enemies, he endured slavery, it is clear that Othello suffered and accomplished ...

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...

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

The political context of the stories of the Oedipal trilogy relate to the society of Thebes and the conflicts that arise from shif...