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extremely civic-minded society and active participation in the democratic process was demanded of everyone. No one took his polit...

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

In a more recent translation we note a great deal of anger and a powerful sense of revenge, as we see in the following excerpt fro...

are sending her and because she has led a sequestered life, Ophelia lacks sophistication when it comes to dealing with matters of ...

In reaction, the nurse relates that Medea, "the hapless wife, thus scorned...lies fasting, yielding her body to her grief, wasting...

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...

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

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

endeavor and not one that was expected to take very long. However, this routine project turned into a disaster primarily becaus...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

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 ...

appropriate, her husband will have "half" her "care and duty" (I.i.104). Her response enrages Lear and he sees her reasoned respon...

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

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

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

dramatic action by the end of the play (cathartic release), and falls into two parts comprising a complication and a d?nouement(El...

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...

we know Frank would have fired him long ago, or at the very least, not promoted him. In this we see Willy blaming his new boss for...

legitimately enslaved. Roxy gives birth to an infant son on the same day that a son is born to her white master. Twain emphasizes ...

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

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

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

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

the Sophoclean template, time should also be compressed and restricted, with the action of the play taking no more than one day. B...

ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...