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not he possesses the courage to commit murder. His fear and susceptibility to depression often paralyze his movements to a point ...

But outwardly, he projects himself as a man of total self-assurance (Macaulay 259). He states almost majestically, "My parts, my ...

beauty of nature and the insights it provides can unite the two. The primary focus of Tintern Abbey is the temporal or physical w...

heroine is willing to risk her life by defying King Creon in order to give her warrior brother Polynices the proper burial he was ...

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

that Blake prefers the energy of evil as opposed to the passivity of good, and its easy to understand that. When we are faced with...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

thinks she is ignorant because she is unsure and innocent. He feels that she is an idiot to even begin to believe the words or aff...

staged "fights" in movies and plays, these actions are real and therefore telegraph real emotion to the audience. When Katherina s...

of moral responsibility, freedom of action, individual effort and aspiration" (Frost, 1962, p. 50). While a pure empiricist wou...

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

like a tragedy at this point, but we are provided with simple comedic elements throughout. For example, there is the character of ...

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

the speaker--and the reader -- know that the answer is God. By using a question, Blake is questioning why a benevolent deity would...

largely concerns issues of perception. When Oedipus at last learns the truth of his origin and situation, he takes broaches from t...

indicates that "The theme of loves difficulty is often explored through the motif of love out of balance-that is, romantic situati...

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

of the aristocrats. Although Cathy took to Heathcliff immediately, her brother Hindley was not nearly so receptive, and had taken...

harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined ...

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

languages are a significant cultural resource, a cultural resource which is too often overlooked by mainstream America. He emphas...

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

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

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

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

hopes he may have of retaining and gaining the throne, Hamlet with obsessive focus, directs his attention to the matter at hand: c...

to subdue all invasions and rebellion and was very successful at achieving peace and stability in the regions he conquered (Willia...

begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...