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Romeo and Juliet

it prest With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown Doth add more grief to too much of mine own. Love is a smoke raised wi...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

This will sorrow Hamlet greatly and make him feel guilty, perhaps the only time he feels guilty, in his actions towards her....

Hamlet, Oedipus & Death of a Salesman

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

The Glass Menagerie and A Raisin in the Sun

these women are not too controlling in relationship to every move their children make. This does not mean that one or the other wi...

Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest

relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...

Character Study of Hamlet

This essay presents a discussion of Hamlet's character. The writer argues that Shakespeare's characterization of Hamlet focuses on...

Was Hamlet Sympathetic or Unsympathetic?

lost her mother at an early age, was brought up in a very sheltered environment, with her father Polonius - one of Claudius best f...

The Glass Menagerie and Tom’s Many Roles in the Play

be an enduringly popular play. Not as sensational as A Streetcar Named Desire, it offers just as bleak a portrait of a family stru...

Social Interactions in Hamlet

This essay pertains to the thematic content of Shakespeare's play and provides insight into the relationships that Hamlet has with...

Virtue in Henry V and Brave New World

are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...

Willy Loman and Blanche Du Bois

bowling alley, she refuses to have her brother-in-law see her yet: ""Oh no, no, no. I wont be looked at in this merciless glare" (...

Questioning the Sanity of Blanche Du Bois

is a true lady. She is coming to the city to stay with her sister, and her sisters husband. When she meets her sister, in a bowlin...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Kingship

price because, as author Isaac Asimov observed in his consideration of Shakespeares works, "To kill a king... was to commit the hi...

Pandosto by Robert Greene and The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

Hamlet and Historic Literary Figures in Film

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...

Caliban, Political Powers, and The Tempest by William Shakespeare

political systems: Antonio represents what we might call the "real" government in Milan and Prospero represents a "state of nature...

Playing in Hamlet: Ophelia

who are listening can better estimate if he is mad or not. Ophelia is essentially being used by the leaders for their own gain but...

Macbeth and Macduff

heath. There is something essentially uncivilized about Macbeth, which may be why he is such an outstanding soldier. Macduff does...

Women in Much Ado About Nothing

preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...

Flaws in Characters Vivian Bearing, King Oedipus, Willy Loman, and Othello

bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...

Katharina v. Petruchio in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

In five pages these leading characters in Shakespeare's comedy are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....

Transcendent Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

The character of Laura and the purpose she serves in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie are analyzed in a paper consisti...

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare and the Fool Feste

but around him revolve some of the most significant issues of this extremely complex play. Feste, whom George Steiner calls "Shak...

Jon Williams' 'Taking Care'

Jon Williams' story 'Taking Care' is analyzed in terms of the story itself as well as the character development in five pages. Th...

Shakespeare's Hamlet and Iago As Icons of Madness

that evil, corruption, guilt, lust, and avarice can all cloud the mind of a good man. Consider another of Shakespeares characters...

Act I, Scene iii Analysis The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare Lines 183-228

In five pages these lines are analyzed in terms of assessing Shakespeare's choices, his use of such literary techniques such as rh...

Othello by William Shakespeare and the Antagonist Iago

Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...