The Merchant Of Venice: Hath Not A Jew Mercy?
.... But a few moments later, the audience witnesses
Shylock's speech about Antonio's abuses towards Shylock. (I. iii. 107-130)
This speech does well in invoking the audience's pity, however little it might
be in the sixteenth century. But again at the end, Shylock offers that Antonio
give up a pound of flesh as penalty of forfeiture of the bond, which Antonio
sees as a joke, but which Shylock fully intends to collect. (I. iii. 144-78)
This action negates any pity which Shylock would have one from the au .....
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Henry IV: Redemption
.... to the throne, he realizes that
it is imperative that he redeem himself not only for himself, but also for his
father and his people because life will not always be a holiday , for "If all
the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as work" (1.2. 211-
212). However Hal needs some type of strength to make his realization come true.
Luckily Hal's father, the King is willing to lend several comments that enrage
him and provide him with the necssary motivation. It also seems that
Shakes .....
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Henry IV: Hotspur Vs. Harry
.... valiant and has a good reputation with the
people, whereas Hal compared with Richard does not care for the welfare of the
country and spends his time entertaining himself with poor company.
Hotspur has nothing but disrespect for Hal. During the play he calls him:
'the madcap Prince of Wales'.
He thinks of Hal as an unworthy opponent. From Hotspur's point of view the only
real opponent is King Henry, and yet it is Hal, 'the madcap of Wales', who
vanquishes him in the end, much to his surprise and d .....
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Macbeth: How Money Killed
.... future as king. Shylock's greed is revealed when we learn that unlike
Bassanio, Shylock charges interest on all his loans, and that he is quite
ruthless in getting payments for money owed. "Three thousand ducats. 'Tis a
good round sum./ Tree months from twelve, then let me see, the /rate--"
(1.3.112-114). Upon this Bassanio asks Shylock if he will really owe him any
interest; Shylock reacts as almost offended, and further explains that Bassanio
will indeed owe him interest. For both Macbeth a .....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Humor
.... the meaning correctly. Inferred humor is sometimes more suited for this.
Shakespeare used something like inferred humor to get across some other
meanings that added to the play. One good example is the character of Puck.
Puck is a hyperactive child that gets into a lot of mischief. His attitude
toward his tasks is sort of a light and airy one. He does not take life
seriously, he only does what is fun. This type of character is totally
different than everyone else in the play; they are .....
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Iago's Motivation
.... evil plan designed to inflict man with the most
extreme amounts of anguish possible. Iago controls the play, he brilliantly
determines how each character shall act and react. He is a pressing advocate of
evil, a pernicious escort, steering good people toward their own vulgar
destruction.
Iago must first make careful preparations in order to make certain his fire
of human destruction will burn with fury and rage. He douses his victims with a
false sense of honesty and goodness. And, as do most skil .....
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Intensional Or Accidentall? Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And Much Ado About Nothing!
.... about the masque and decides to go,
thinking that he might be able to get away with this scheme. Upon entering he
sees Juliet and right away, he knows it is love. If he had not worn the costume,
the hosts might have ejected him from the party and he might not have met
Juliet. Much Ado About Nothing has a similar but also different approach
towards love at the masque. In Much Ado, Count Claudio is not able to gather
the courage to court Hero. Instead Don Pedro, who is one of Claudio's very
close friends, of .....
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Is Hamlet Mad?
.... the first glimpse of another recurring theme in the play,
that of Hamlet's unhealthy obsession with the afterlife. This is one of the
reasons that the ghost of his father has such an effect on him, which is a
trigger for all the subsequent events in the play.
Moving on to the fourth scene, the next interesting speech is on l. 23. It is a
long and complicated speech, but its general gist is that if a person has one
fault, no matter how virtuous they may be in other ways, they are soiled by "the
stamp .....
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Is Macbeth A Thoroughly Representative Character?
.... no matter
what they had to do. This is the situation Macbeth was in. He was seeking the
throne, and only wanted to find a faster way to obtain that authority, thus he
killed, lied, and cheated his way to that place of honor.
Readers may debate that Macbeth was indeed insane, thus leading the
reader to believe that he was not representative of a typical human. This is
true, yet any human can be insane, which further proves the validity that
Macbeth was a common individual. Perhaps driven to insa .....
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Julius Caesar: Jealousy
.... / So get the start of the majestic world, / And bear the
palm alone" (Act I, sc. II, 128-131).
Casca also is jealous of Caesar. He is disgusted by Caesar's
manipulation of the commoners. He describes it as "mere foolery" (Act I, sc. II,
235). Casca agrees with Cassius that Brutus is an essential part the
conspiracy. He says, "O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; / And that
which would appear offense in us, / His countenance, like richest alchemy, /
Will change to virtue and to worthines .....
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Julius Caesar: Background Knowledge Is Needed To Understand Play
.... themselves up as kings. From that
point on, the people of Rome hated kings, and they bounded themselves together
by a solemn oath never to tolerate a monarch, and it was formally enacted into
law that if any man wish that the monarchy should be restored, he was to be
declared a public enemy and be put to death.
Brutus and the rest of the conspirators had killed Caesar, but they made
an error, which was letting Mark Antony, one of Caesar's friends live. Antony
later united with Bepidus and Octavius, to g .....
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Julius Caesar: Brutus Is The Protagonist
.... way that Brutus seems to dominate his own
actions, whatever he is thinking. Also, Antony declares war on Brutus, but not
out of love for Caesar, but anger toward the conspirators. As these aspects are
explained in further detail one will be sure of the fact that Brutus, without
question, clearly dominates the play as a whole.
Caesar warns numerous people of ensuing tragedies multiple times, and not once
is he listened to. Calpurnia cries out terrified three times during the night,
"Help ho - they murde .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew: Kate's Soliloquy
.... and the Widow), telling
them to "Come, come, you froward and unable worms!". It may also be said that
this play, as well as similar plays of the Elizabethan era, assisted in
contributing to the oppression of females in society for an innumerable amount
of years.
After the conclusion of The Taming of the Shrew, including Kate's
soliloquy, the audience is left with a proud feeling - proud of the fact that
Petruchio tamed such a shrew so well. The men of the audience are about with
feeling of satisfacti .....
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King Lear: Themes
.... which are all above. On earth the king is next, then the
nobles, on down to the peasantry. Holding the lowest position were the beggars
and lunatics and finally, the animals. Interrupting this order is unnatural.
King Lear's sin was that he disrupted this chain of being by relinquishing
his throne. By allowing his daughters and their husbands to rule the kingdom,
the natural order of things was disturbed. His notion that he can still be in
control after dividing the kingdom is a delusion. .....
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King Lear: Lear The Tragic Hero
.... the sense of fear and pity to the tragic hero must appear in the play
as well. This makes men scared of blindness to truths which prevents them from
knowing when fortune or something else would happen on them.
Lear, the king of England would be the tragic hero because he held the
highest position in the social chain at the very beginning of the play. His
social position gave him pride as he remarked himself as "Jupiter" and "Apollo".
Lear out of pride and anger has banished Cordelia and Kent .....
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