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Duncan and the Macbeths

are two of Shakespeares most memorable characters, but they change over the course of the play. This paper considers their charact...

Act 5 Soliloquy/Macbeth

famous soliloquy, in Act 5, scene 5, which begins "To-morrow, and to-morrow and to-morrow,/ Creeps in this petty pace from day to ...

Why Was Macbeth a Murderer?

In six pages this paper examines Macbeth's character and conscience in order to determine what propelled him to kill. There is no...

The Poet’s Use of Shakespeare’s Themes in the Sonnets

but in actuality, its how to preserve beauty, which is still another favorite of his. The Poet is actually saying that comparing h...

Jealousy in Othello

tells Desdemonas father that he must act quickly else "youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (I.1.112-113). As p...

A Midsummer Night's Dream and William Shakespeare's Humorous Approach to Love

logic. The play consists of a quartet of couples - secondary characters King Oberon and Queen Titania, and Theseus and Hippolyta;...

Romeo's Character Development in William Shakespeare's Scene Changes in Romeo and Juliet

He and his cousin, are talking. Benvolio tried to stop the fight between the warring factions. He believed that to fight was ign...

Sex and William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

is referring to the banter that Beatrice and Benedick engage in every time they meet. This type of banter is prevalent throughout ...

William Shakespeare's Othello Act I and Iago's Persuasiveness

(Shakespeare I i). In this we see a subtle indication that he has ended his anger and is now humble, doing what he must in followi...

Thematic Analysis of Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificant and William Shakespeare's The Tempest

how his takeover of the island oppressed the liberties of the natives. Prosperos character (whose name is Italian for "to prosper...

Renaissance Racism and William Shakespeare's Othello

to Todorov, the Spaniards could not conceive of the Native Americans as "equally human but culturally different" (Berry 315). The...

Theme of Deception in William Shakespeare's Othello and Hamlet

also clear that Shakespeare is not writing the play from the perspective that it is about the problems of interracial marriage. I...

Comparative Analysis of Prospero and Vincentio in William Shakespeare's The Tempest and Measure for Measure

city, broadening his knowledge, which, in turn, improves his skill as a ruler. While there is a logical explanation for his knowle...

Male and Female Relationships in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Cleopatra is a very sensual woman who is aware of her own passion. This, however, does not detract from her ability to rule...

Comparing William Shakespeare's Plays The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream

and become crazy from the heat, so to speak. While preparations are commencing for the upcoming wedding between Theseus, the Duke...

Character Analysis of Touchstone in William Shakespeare's As You Like It

the mustard was naught: now Ill stand to it, the pancakes were naught and the mustard was good, and yet was not the knight forswor...

William Shakespeare's Histories and New Historicist Criticism

which make up the spectrum of everyday life of the period. Spiegel (1997), for instance, makes the point that one can see such tex...

Analyzing William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

and imprison-ment in the stocks. But there is something that excites in us a stronger feeling than all this-it is Violas confessio...

Past and Present Racism and William Shakespeare's Othello

to share Iagos disgust and refers to Desdemonas acceptance of Othello as her "gross revolt" (I.i.134) and Roderigo shows his dista...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Freudian Psychology in D.C. Thomas' The White Hotel and William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

interacting systems, the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is, according to Freud, the original system of the personality up...

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Epiphanies

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...

Women's Roles in William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew

husbands duty to lead his wife toward proper behavior. Inherent in the relationship between God and humanity, which the marriage ...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and its Christian Content

persecuted and killed for their faith. We also note that throughout the play Lear slowly develops into a man who understands hi...

Racism in William Shakespeare's Othello

connection between Iagos perception of race and the cultural perception that "black" equates with "evil." This perception of race ...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Religious Imagery

speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...

Poetic Comparison of William Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 127' and Sir Philip Sidney's 'Astrophil and Stella Sonnet 72'

In Sonnet 72, it becomes evident that the initial sexual flush is still very much in evidence, but the references to the distant h...

Suicide or Murder of Ophelia in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

the water by someone. As such her death is not an obvious murder. But, do we consider it murder if she was so distraught by the cr...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath' from Canterbury Tales

the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...

Romantic Love Psychology and William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

humble thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, all women shall pa...