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The Tempest as a Reflection of the Life and Times of William Shakespeare

the birth of twins Judith and Hamnet, who died during infancy. Shakespeare enjoyed a very close relationship with Susanna, althou...

Character Study of Othello

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

William Shakespeare's Othello and Its Pleasurable Aspects

actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and the Characters Lorenzo and Jessica

rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...

King Lear by William Shakespeare and Precepts of Niccolo Machiavelli

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

The Serious Side of A Comedy of Errors

history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...

Act One of William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Development of the Protagonist's Character

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

Water Symbolism in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Race Issues

we see Roderigo and Iago discussing the fact that this Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters ...

William Shakespeare and Love's 3 Levels

of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...

Deconstructing “The Glass Menagerie”

Lye, Derrida and others, then The Glass Menagerie is a perfect play to apply this technique to, because it is full of silences, me...

Virginia Woolf’s Descriptions of Literary ‘Beacons’ Antigone and Desdemona Applied to Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

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

Faulkner: “The Reivers”

whats wrong, one character yells, "HES SLOW!" But Ned knows a secret: the horse will run through almost anything for a sardine! He...

Othello and Gender Roles

fact that her opposition to her father by eloping with the much-older Othello reveals her internal strength, which is comparable t...

The Letter by Somerset Maugham and Characterization

to kiss her, but naturally, Proudlock was convicted of murder (PG). She received a death sentence but the the European community ...

Citizen Kane

seems that Hearst brought in representatives to look and find flaws that would give him power. One article states how, "The lawyer...

Tennessee Williams and His Glass Menagerie

of the American theater; it is also one of the first to combine realism and symbolism successfully. This paper discusses Williamss...

Tennessee Williams and His Streetcar

of Tennessee Williams"). To relieve his boredom, Williams wrote at night but he broke down, depressed, after the breakup with Kram...

12 Angry Men, film analysis and the RAP Model

he will abstain until all votes are in. If they still unanimously vote for conviction, he will go along with the majority, but if ...

Poems of Brooks and Dunbar

(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they...

Tennessee Williams' Style of Writing

Within these tragedies, the unfortunate fate of the hero or heroine is usually determined by some type of sexual desire. The them...

Twelfth Night and Themes of Romantic Love and Friendship

William Shakespeare's comedy is analyzed in terms of how the relationships of Olivia and Orsino, Cesario/Viola and Orsino, and Ces...

Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and Shakespeare's Macbeth

This essay is on "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare and "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe. The writer asserts that the centra...

"Troy" (2004) and Homer's Iliad

This essay discusses Homer's ancient classic epic, The Iliad, and the film Troy (2004, directed by William Petersen), indicating ...

Much Ado About Nothing: The 'Comedy' of Scapegoats

This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...

Shakespeare and Jonson and Elizabethan Clowns

This essay pertains to William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Ben Jonson's "Every Man in His Humor," and how each p...

Idealist, Realist Women, Shakespeare, Sheridan

This essay pertains to "The Comedy of Errors" (1594) and "Twelfth Night" (1601) by William Shakespeare and "The Rivals" (1775) by ...

Simon and Piggy, Lord of the Flies

This essay concerns Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and the roles played by Piggy and Simon in supporting his primary thesis...

Tragedy of William Shakespeare's King Lear

Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...

'Machiavellian' Julius Caesar as Depicted by William Shakespeare

deal of support for the fact that Machiavelli always had the interests of the people at heart. Much of The Prince revolves around ...