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In five pages this paper discusses how the concepts of law and justice are featured in the play's famous courtroom scene. There a...

can further see feminist perspectives. Lorie Jerrell Leiningers essay, The Miranda Trap: Racism and Sexism in Shakespeares Tempes...

to follow it, which he does. The ghost says that he is Hamlets father, and that he was murdered; further, he says that the crime ...

When Hamlet returns home, he is greeted with what he is convinced is his fathers ghost. After identifying himself, the ghost prom...

as an under-current that influences all other actions. Shakespeare pulls his audiences into the experience of such dichotomy throu...

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. / But this eternal blazon must not be / To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O, list! ...

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

the result of the action he has taken and that such "psychic" revenge is having a far more powerful impact on him than any possibl...

This paper discusses John Edgar Wideman's, Philadelphia Fire, and Shakespeare's, The Tempest as they relate to the common literary...

tells Hamlet that "So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear" (I, v). Hamlet is confused and surprised, and he then learns that...

theme of servitude and freedom" (Smith 1608). We learn that Ariel was once the servant of the witch Sycorax, who was banished from...

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...

without power, who plays the role of the colonizer. He is a teacher and a controller of the story itself, thus he serves as a symb...

example, how he constantly throws huge parties that are very elaborate and clearly of wealth. Yet he never really attends them. He...

off to die but rather became a victim of nature and fate it would seem. Prior to becoming stranded on the island...

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...

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

by wedding the daughter of Creon, the "lord of this land" (Euripides). As this speech indicates, Euripides begins the thematic c...

he received from those closest to him, emphasizing his own over-inflated sense of importance and intellect. His overbearing natur...

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

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax. Miranda retains a childlike innocence as a result of her idyllic existence, but at the same ti...

took the time to teach him a "proper" language, and not the "gabble" that he spoke when she and her father first arrived. Caliba...

Unburdend crawl toward death", states King Lear in the opening act. Having decided to step down from the throne, King Lear has pos...

rich gift. O Ferdinand, Do not smile at me that I boast her off, For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise And make it halt...

She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, Yet a tailor might scratch her whereer she did itch: Then to sea, boys, and let her ...

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...

daughter, Miranda; his faithful fairy, Ariel; and his loyal Councilor (advisor), Gonzalo. But also living there is a lifelong nat...

In five pages this paper presents a description as well as an interpretive analysis of the final play by William Shakespeare in a ...

efforts to civilize his behavior. Prosperos ultimately tragic physical and metaphorical journey had been traveled by others befor...