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is a spiritual reality, possessing an eternal life but a delicate constitution: it cannot be scrapped and recast as if it were a m...

his speech has often included long pauses with "ummm" or "well" or some other phrases to fill the void, the actual speech between ...

air. Banquos reaction to Macbeth taking their pronouncements seriously is one of mocking disbelief, as if to say, "you believe tha...

abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...

actions, in terms of black and white, good and bad. It is axiomatic that people wish to see those they regard as "good" as incapab...

rescue her from her loneliness. With Jessica the first hint of desire or romance comes when she asks Launcelot to give Lorenzo a n...

this theme together" (Universe). In combination with this theme, the theme of foolishness, is the theme of disguise. In summari...

A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...

beating his wife which illustrates a theme of the helpless, and perhaps primarily the helplessness of women in society controlled ...

news item which it is likely that the vast majority of those in the audience will recognize. For example, recent news stories of c...

weak compared to the others and his struggle to retain orderliness proves difficult. Similarly, order and democracy within the hum...

of his day to day life that he would never be able to keep his plans from her. So, he has decided that he must pretend to sever th...

and one in blood establishd; One that made means to come by what he hath, And slaughterd those that were the means to help him; Ab...

of art that lives forever and offers youth and vitality and passion. One critic indicates that, "This contrasts the sensual world...

underclass continues to multiply in inner-city neighborhoods (White 28). For one thing, Wilson notes, the reason for the w...

5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes...

is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

rocks carefully and diligently (University of California/Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology). While examining the rocks, Smith had ...

enter the hovel, stating that he will pray and then sleep. Lear then prays for all the people who do not have shelter on this nigh...

Likewise, Beatrice vows that she will never marry. However, the audience can see from the beginning that there is an attraction be...

to allow him to survive. Pojman draws a distinction between ethics (or morality), on the one hand, and etiquette, law, and religio...

thus, can also be seen as representing motherhood and domesticity. From this point on the boys become increasingly more primitive....

not make up an ethical life. Rather, he based his ideas on his own ideas concerning reason, but he did so within the context of hi...

since he was seven. All he knows is "broils and battles," but he has traveled extensively in mysterious regions, met with "cannib...

will be. And, as a ruler he has obligations. Ophelia is likely not ignorant of such conditions considering she has grown up in a h...

forever jolting him by its sheer majesty, giving him what we would now call an almost spiritual global sense" (Wise-Lawrence, 2003...

Back in the old country, the Sicilian Catholics had placed great significance upon supernatural messages and prophecies. When Mac...

and most of her poetry concerns her love and admiration and gratefulness to her husband. However, later in life she began writi...

a wondrous season. In this poem Keats also brings sounds into play in a very powerful manner that speaks to us of nature and of...