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King Lear by William Shakespeare and Precepts of Niccolo Machiavelli

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

King Oedipus Was His Own Worst Enemy

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

Character Comparison and Contrast of Laura in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Sophocles' Antigone

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

Can Willy Loman, Hamlet, and Oedipus Be Considered Tragic Heroes?

His pride, which leads him to attempt to save Thebes from a devastating plague by exposing the murderer of his predecessor, King L...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Character of Brutus

assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...

Claudius in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

was, most likely, rejected for being "too young and untried" (92). When he is first introduced to the plays action, in Act I, Sce...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Religious Imagery

speech associates her with a shrine, a religious object, and then offers up his lips as pilgrims. Pilgrims often made journeys to ...

Biography of Clara Wieck Schumann

debut in the Leipziger Gewandhaus is met with rousing enthusiasm. Age eleven finds the child prodigy composing her first piano pi...

Act One of William Shakespeare's Macbeth and the Development of the Protagonist's Character

(I.iii.118). Banquo replies with a warning. He tells Macbeth that "instruments of darkness" frequently tell the truth in order to ...

Paternal Loss in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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...

Reason and Passion in Euripides' Medea

typical mythological female was not; her defiance, passion, reason and intestinal fortitude combined together with her ability to ...

Aristotle, Tragedy, and Oedipus Rex

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

Witches' Role in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

term in their prophetic greeting of Macbeth. The first witch hails Macbeth as "Thane of Glamis," the second as "Thane of Cawdor an...

Ophelia and Antigone

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...

Delayed Reaction of Hamlet to Seek Vengeance for His Father's Slaying

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

Game of Chess Represented by William Shakespeare's Hamlet

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

Experience of The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

in ego-stroking, and Lears youngest daughter, Cordelia, will have none of it. She tells her father quite simply, "I love your Maj...

Kayla McKean Child Protection Act

to what happened and why Kaylas case fell through the cracks, it is only through a thorough analysis of the situation, and the eff...

William Shakespeare's King Lear, Measure for Measure, and Justice

Angelo. However, in his efforts to restore law and order, Angelo resurrects an old law that punishes any man who lives with a wom...

Mary Shelley's Victor Frankenstein Characterization

to life, he rejects it, hoping that the life he has brought into the world will simply die, erasing his mistake (Madigan 48; Franc...

Disease and Darkness Imagery in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

this counsel. When Lady Macbeth hears of he prophecy, she immediately begins to plot and plan. This scene if chilling in its ima...

Antigone and Medea

men. It is their rules and their decisions that determine how women should act and what role they can play in society. Antigones ...

Principle Theme of Antigone by Sophocles

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 ...

Underlying Themes in 'The Libation-Bearers' by Aeschylus

psychological and emotional loss she withstands. It ultimately comes to pass that Electra begins to plot Clytemnestras death to h...

Early Comedy's Birth and Development

plenty of time to waste" (Anonymous astudyof.htm). As well, the very nature of the prose and movement became based more in realit...

Complex of Oedipus

prophet points an accusing finger at Oedipus. In a rage, Oedipus accuses the prophet of being paid by someone to say such things, ...

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Politics

Verona, Italy, where a feud has broken out between the families of the Montegues and the Capulets. The servants of both houses ope...

Allegory of Social Dissolution Lord of the Flies by William Golding

with him are Piggy, the most intellectual of the boys; Simon, the most spiritual, and the twins Sam and Eric, who are later referr...

Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

Rome itself is portrayed as moving from a society dominated by heroes, such as Julius Caesar and Pompey, to one which is more frag...

Comedy and Tragedy of William Shakespeare

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...