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Antigone is a rebel who is willing to defy King Creon in order to accord her brother Polynices with the proper burial his twin Ete...

achieved little even though they are in their 30s when the play opens. Linda, Willys wife, desperately tries to hold the family ...

tumbles into despair. All the while, he treats his wife and sons quite negatively. This is not an uncommon scenario. A man has tro...

from them - / As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine -- / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracle...

might be King Lear, but if there were no Fool, there would be - in his opinion - no play. In Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley procl...

faults at all. In our modern society, and perhaps in the past century or so, a tragedy does not necessarily possess all those qu...

or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ev...

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

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

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

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...

ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...

of money and they will all essentially be wealthy. In the end the townspeople kill this man so they will receive the money....

In five pages this paper is analyzed in terms of characters and the female characters' role, symbolic elements, and themes such as...

five-act pattern. The setup creates the plays "world", introduces us to the characters, and lays the groundwork for some of the c...

In six pages this paper analyzes the importance of Claudius to this William Shakespeare tragedy and also considers how his charact...

In five pages this paper analyzes the character of Ophelia and the role she plays in this tragedy in terms of how other characters...

In five pages Sicilia's King Leontes is analyzed in terms of his character's functions in Shakespeare's tragedy. Five sources are...

In five pages this paper analyzes evil forces in this tragedy and how redemption is portrayed within the context of the Elizabetha...

This paper consists of five pages and analyzes usage of the term dead and the concept of death within the context of Shakespeare's...

to manifest in either life. They take issue with something that has gone on before their death, and in fact, the ghost in Hamlet, ...

In five pages this paper analyzes the tragedy of disorder and moral darkness that characterizes the play and considers the roles L...

The character of Mercutio and his significance to Shakespeare's tragedy is analyzed in this paper consisting of eight pages. Six ...

Quinn, "There are two major problems which arise in considering the relationship of religion and Shakespeare. The first is the fa...

In twelve pages Sophocles' tragedy Antigone is analyzed in terms of the representation of power in accordance to gender. Thirteen...

his mother." With these words in the introduction which gives us the background to the story (Sophocles, Argument). This tragic...

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the significance of dramatic irony in this Shakespearean tragedy in terms of character and plot dev...

II, scene 1, lines 83-181, Shakespeare pictures an interlude in which Desdemona "beguile(s)" the time before Othellos arrival at C...

In seven pages this essay analyzes the many functions served by the Chorus in ancient Greece's tragedy theater. Three sources are...

the still city, which is bathed in ethereal morning light, the city is shrouded in fog. This is also symbolic, in that its white s...