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

drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...

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...

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

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

end. The tragic nature of the story does rely on the supposition that Othello is indeed propelled to do something because he is ...

a larger than life figure. He is perfect. He is a leader as well as a handsome and delightful mate for Desdemona. Because Othello ...

is that so many people believe in ideals like Willys. In the end, what is show is that a man with so much potential ends up losing...

they may have (Grossman, 2002). Experts believe that workplace violence can be prevented if certain types of training programs ar...

old black ram is tupping your white ewe"(Shakespeare, Act I, sc I, li 88-89). Brabantio is Desdemonas father and as such would hav...

and forces him to become more active and seek confirmation and possibility revenge (Bevington 3). This response is seen in Hamle...

point in the piece, the problem with the O-Rings are duly noted and this suggests that perhaps the scientists should have realized...

grown son would ultimately come to kill his father and marry his mother. When Oedipus was born, he was immediately abandoned on M...

that should be born to him by me" (Sophocles). This tragic portent would surely have put most couples who believed in fate off of...

were clearly outlined as the primary focus in the introduction above. And, these are issues that are very big in Antony and Cleopa...

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

his carefully crafted public persona. For an ambitious couple like Lord and Lady Macbeth, in a monarchy like Scotland, there was ...

and will stop at nothing to satisfy his ambition, even if it means killing his brother: "A murtherer and a villain! / A slave that...

a black man was not suitable to be a ruler. In clever fashion, he sets about to accomplish his goal. In fact, when Iago and Roder...

life, consuming him. It is this rage that eventually drives him to madness and murder. It seems ironic that Claudius, Laertes, a...

forthright and courageous. Coupled with these admirable characteristics, Desdemona also harbors a significant moral sensitivity a...

powers of destiny, great ministers of fate. They had determined the past; they not only foresaw the future, but decreed it" (Cours...

marriage, and to decline / Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor / To those of mine! / But virtue, as it never will be movd,...

travelling with Banquo, a general in the army, meets three witches. MACBETH Speak, if you can: what are you? First Witch All...

conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...

While she has gone to do this, Macbeth, again imagines that he hears knocking and sees an image of a hand plucking out his eyes. ...

his true intellect becomes completely clouded over and his ability to understand who and what he is becomes an even more distant p...

are made. Levin believed that the sacred nature of all living things demanded that mankind re-vision the current belief to see ...

audience would see this dark scene as entrancing and somewhat frightening. We can envision this when we hear the first witch ask, ...