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In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at the Puritan Revolution and its impact on literature. Shakespeare's Prospero and Milt...
This essay pertains to Shakespeare's "Othello" and Rudyard Kipling's poem "If-," which lists various qualities that are required t...
This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Othello" and the role of gender, race and class. Five pages in length, four sources are cited....
opens by referred to her distant husband not by his titular name, but by his holdings and titles of lordship: "Glamis thou art", s...
his darkest. It is concerned with power, ambition, and the exercise of pure evil. This paper examines the characters, setting, plo...
well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...
in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...
at war with the Turks, that not all of Othellos men are loyal to him, and that there remains a great deal of cultural suspicion ab...
mere lust, but sacred and precious. Therefore, he constructed a poetic dialogue that would "provide this decisive encounter with ...
slightly surreal way, youthful innocence. Juliets bedroom, for instance, is full of images of the Virgin Mary: an interesting vari...
This essay pertains to Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's Inferno and the impact of exile on the protagonists. Four pages in leng...
as falsely inferred, would have good reason in the end to become distrustful of all thinking" (Nietzsche 821). Those who wished a...
bodies in its past, the King confidently reassured his ailing people, "My search has found one way to treat our disease - and I ha...
"teach" him "how to think and speak" (3.2.35) and "create" him new" (3.2.41), which is a reversal of the Elizabethan gender stereo...
preserve her image against the confusion of emotions and her denied lust for Benedick" (BookLore). Beatrice is essentially a res...
is served by an earthy, half-demon by the name of Caliban and a sprite named Ariel. In the course of the play, we learn that Prosp...
theme of servitude and freedom" (Smith 1608). We learn that Ariel was once the servant of the witch Sycorax, who was banished from...
is young and ignorant and she lies to him about many things. But, he is happy in this, for truth is far more demanding and it is e...
in front of her. In these two lines she faces defeat as she envisions her power in the image of less than a simple milk maid, a se...
has arranged for her so she can rejoin her husband and live in exile. Upon seeing what he believes to be the dead Juliet, Romeo s...
volatile for no apparent reason. The conflict, in other words, has no real foundation but it is tradition. The lovers marr...
he doubts her, believing the words of others, one can see that he is a very insecure man where his love is concerned. In the cas...
relates to issues of magic and creation, and the identity of Prospero/Shakespeare. In examining this perspective the opinions and...
play: he asks the audience to use their imaginations to understand whats going to happen. The Prologue noted that the "wooden O" c...
creature in the vessel" (Shakespeare I ii). This indicates that he set the storm in motion and ensured no one was hurt in the proc...
impose magic and enchantment to seek his revenge. But, in the end he forgives those who put him on the island and he suffers a sea...
an end to Tobys activities. Even Maria has warned Toby that the Lady Olivia is growing impatient with him: "Your cousin, my lady, ...
for fear Creep into acorn-cups and hide them there" (Shakespeare II i). This is a very magical surreal image, but also a very fun ...
run away, thus setting up the main action of the plot, because the man she loves, Lysander, agrees to run away with her. They end ...
we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...