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confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

people who dabbled in witchcraft were conspiring with "the Devil" (Fripp 646). According to St. Paul, "And then shall that wicke...

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

book itself is symbolic, it has to be thought, of Prosperos secret desire to remove himself from reality and the world all togethe...

coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...

shivering in the gale/ The bark unfurls her snowy sail/ And whistling oer the bending mast/Loud sings n high the freshning blast" ...

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

etched in the hearts and minds of the mens affections they willfully toyed with. Estella is the quintessential cold bitch that vi...

a women faced with the types of situations that they face in his plays. Twelfth Night examples this most concisely. The plot of T...

its extreme, I pointed out the evil being perpetuated against the Irish." Lady Macbeth interrupts, "I am familiar with this wo...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hamlets touch with reality begin to influence him very strongly. This is first seen through Ophelias words of her encounter with h...

for the Jews at that time. Lastly, William Golding in his novel "The Lord of the Flies" (1954) reveals the theme of the horrors of...

ever see a production of the original play. In light of such information we can assume that, in their original context, both stori...

with the civilized manner of a Venetian court, he is clearly out of his element. "If stirred to indignation, as "in Aleppo once"...

are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...

Shylock loses. He loses, however, perhaps because he was unable to truly and adequately argue his case, and because he was a Jew, ...

man who feels isolated and alone in that he is different than those around him. He truly has no real friends and thus his wife ser...

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

men pitted against one another. As a reader, and as an audience member, one does not have any sort of emotional attachment to any ...

true nature. Goodman Browns problems stem from his decision to reject certain facets of the human condition. In fact, after he ret...

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. ...

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...