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slightly surreal way, youthful innocence. Juliets bedroom, for instance, is full of images of the Virgin Mary: an interesting vari...
before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to th...
as it seems. Is Hamlets revenge motivated by a desire to avenge his fathers murder or is it sparked by the betrayal he feels over...
in tone, but still harbors the undercurrent that there is reason to dread. The poem describes the "soote" (sweet) season of spring...
1949. The first soliloquy provides ample opportunity to witness the impact this has upon Hamlet, inasmuch as he simply cannot com...
man is that he truly loves his wife and he is a noble and sensitive man. Unfortunately he has a weakness and that is his love of h...
an unexpected remark, as if to himself and not meant to be overheard, leaving you, Othello, intrigued and mentally disorganized (O...
who one is, murder is deemed to be wrong. It is ones duty to find other means of solving ones problems than to simply murder the o...
begins to see things. Macbeth imagines that he sees a bloody dagger floating before him. This serves to show the state of mi...
Iago and others are not around, we know that Iago is a liar. Our first true indication of how Iago plans to use Othellos love a...
own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...
ultimate sleep that all people must experience. In this scene he is talking to Ophelia and perhaps, in a roundabout way, telling h...
A.E. Housman. They are both young men who die before they age, before they have perhaps achieved a powerful greatness it would see...
will be the real winner in the scheme. Macbeth talks to himself about his desire to murder. He is tortured by it, thinks...
is perhaps the worst mistake he could have made. He was not a man of murder, or a man who lusted after power. But, his wife was bo...
Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...
often "little more than a litany of abuse echoing and amplifying the indictments men level against her" (Corum 183). She is accus...
with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...
heart. His insecurities are compounded by the dark color of his skin, which makes him a social outsider. Therefore, when he meet...
ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...
Cordelia do? Love, and be silent" (Shakespeare I i). She is completely dismissed by her father, yet she still succeeds in becoming...
eye"(Shakespeare Act 1, sc. 1, line 140). Thus, this first criteria and/or convention has been met. Hermia wants Lysander, bu...
the ghost of his father who tells him that Claudius has murdered him and stolen his Queen. Hamlet vows to avenge his fathers death...
- a group ironically consisting of the very men who had conspired against Prospero - Antonio, the King, the Kings brother Sebastia...
wife. Claudius states, "Though yet of Hamlet (the late king was also named Hamlet) our late brothers death/The memory be green" (I...
tragic reality. It comes as no surprise to note that one of the most powerfully, if not the most powerfully, tragic individual ...
and leave her father, or suffer through this madness with Hamlet. While she is still deciding, her father is killed and she is sur...
with Henry V losing only a small amount of men while the French lost many. Finally Henry V and King Charles meet and discuss the l...
readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...
is established that she has not yet reached her fourteenth birthday. Yet, she is also shown to be a practical, level-headed girl. ...