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Essays 361 - 390
the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...
birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...
number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...
His pride, which leads him to attempt to save Thebes from a devastating plague by exposing the murderer of his predecessor, King L...
assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...
was, most likely, rejected for being "too young and untried" (92). When he is first introduced to the plays action, in Act I, Sce...
speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...
debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...
(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...
now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...
typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...
serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...
term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...
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...
of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...
soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...
in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...
to what happened and why Kaylas case fell through the cracks, it is only through a thorough analysis of the situation, and the eff...
Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...
to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...
this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...
men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...
men...so that we must obey in these things" (Sophocles, 2002). Antigone makes it clear in her reply t hat she is fully aware that ...
psychological and emotional loss she withstands. It ultimately comes to pass that Electra begins to plot Clytemnestras death to h...
plenty of time to waste" (Anonymous astudyof.htm). As well, the very nature of the prose and movement became based more in realit...
prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...
Verona, Italy, where a feud has broken out between the families of the Montegues and the Capulets. The servants of both houses ope...
with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referr...
Rome itself is portrayed as moving from a society dominated by heroes, such as Julius Caesar and Pompey, to one which is more frag...
her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...