Shakespeare's The Comedy Of Errors
.... work, such as the TV sitcoms like "Sister, Sister." Something that
surprised me in the play was Adriana's character. She was insecure and
portrayed the typical damsel in distress. She was completely dependent on her
husband and this fact alone made the play somewhat out of date. Shakespeare is
said to be "not of an age, but for all times," but Adriana's character, in my
opinion, would not fit in to the modern world. I feel the most important part
of the play is the message it conveys and should be .....
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Franco Zeffirelli And Baz Luhrmann's Romeo And Juliet
.... the
spirit of Shakespeare. First, the movie starts with an prologue masked as a
news broadcast on television. This sets the scene of the play by illustrating
the violence occurring between the two wealthy families, the Montagues and the
Capulets. In Zeffirelli's film of "Romeo and Juliet," the prologue takes the
form of a dry narrator relating the story of the Montagues and Capulets over a
backdrop of an Italian city. For most modern viewers (especially teenagers),
the Luhrmann picture is fast-pa .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew: Summary
.... the men who desired Bianca needed somebody to marry Kate, as it was customary
for the older daughter to be married before the young one. Finally, Petruchio
came along to court Kate, saying he wanted to marry wealthily in Padua. It
appeared, though, as if Petruchio was the kind of man who needed an opposition
in life. The shrewish Kate, who was known to have a sharp tongue, very
adequately filled his need for another powerful character in a relationship
(Kahn 419). When Petruchio began to woo Kate, ev .....
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Shakespeare's Definition Of A Ghost
.... be the devil disguised in the
form of a deceased loved one, tempting to procure the soul of one of the living.
The nonbelievers among the Elizabethans saw ghosts as omens, telling of troubled
time ahead, or simply as the hallucinations of a crazed person or group.
Shakespeare recognized the complexity of the Elizabethan ghost's identity and
played off of the confusion, making the question of identity a key theme to his
play. Throughout Hamlet Shakespeare explores each of the possible identities of
the .....
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The Merchant Of Venice: Shylock - Victim Or Villain
.... incident occurred in 1594, The Merchant of
Venice was written only two years later. Anti-Semitism was prevalent during
Shakespeares' time, and therefore we must understand that it was as easy for him
to make a Jewish man the villain as it would be for us to make a Nazi the
villain. According to Sylvan Barnet "The Merchant of Venice [shows] the
broad outline of a comedy (not merely a play with jests, but a play that ends
happily). . . the villain in the comedy must be entirely villainous, or, rather,
com .....
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The Merchant Of Venice: Shylock - An In-depth Character Analysis
.... how you storm ! I would be friends with you and
have your love, forget the names that you have stained me
with, supply your present needs and take no doit of usance
for my moneys, and you'll not hear me! This is kind I offer.”
-Shylock
Often, this quote from Act 3 Scene 1 line 83,
“Why, there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two thousand
ducats in Frankfurt! The curse never fell upon our nation till now, I
never felt it till now. Two thousand ducats in that and other preciou .....
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Sir John Falstaff's Influence On Prince Hal In I Henry IV
.... Falstaff is a dissenter against law
and order. This conclusion finds support in his witty tautologies and epithets.
Falstaff is invariably aware that Hal will one day become king, and when that
happens, robbers will be honored in England by “Let[ting] us be indulgence
Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, monions of the moon; and let[ting]
men say we be men of good government, being governed as the sea is, by our novle
and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal” (I, ii, .....
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The Soliloquies Of Hamlet
.... talking with his father's ghost, in the 3rd Soliloquy Hamlet is
angered by the news that Claudius had murdered his father. Hamlet assures that
he will think of nothing but revenge. “I'll wipe away all trivial fond
records...and thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of
my brain” (1296), he proclaims.
In Hamlet's fourth soliloquy, his mental state shows signs of
declination. He castigates himself for not taking action to avenge his father.
He realizes that he has ca .....
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Suffering In Shakespeare's Plays
.... through emotional suffering when he must succumb to his daughter's wishes.
Desdemona also goes through emotional suffering when she is accused by Othello
of cheating on him when he is convinced of this by Iago.
In The Tempest, the theme of purification through suffering can
clearly be seen. Prospero, in his long exile from Milan, has more than attoned
for whatever mistake he might have made while he ruled. Ferdinand must suffer
through Prospero's hardships and laborious tests before he can win .....
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Macbeth: Symbolism
.... or unusual events
in Macbeth occur under a cloak of darkness. The murders, Lady Macbeth's
sleepwalking, and the appearance of the witches all take place at night. Lady
Macbeth's sleepwalking scene is the epitome of the light/darkness symbol. She
once craved the darkness but now carries a candle to dispel it. The line, "She
has light by her continually; 'tis her command." (V. i. 19), symbolizes Lady
Macbeth's fear of darkness or evil.
The image of blood plays an important role in the event of Du .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew: Katherine
.... Luciento mentioned to Petruchio marry Katherine.
Petruchio though of the profit and thought it could be great. “Petruchio can
have no illusions about the fabled shrew, Katherine, for others are quick to
tell him quite frankly what to expect”(Vaughn27). Petruchio and Katherine's
father meet and decide that Petruchio will get twenty-thousand crowns if he
weds Katherine. Petruchio and Katherine meet and they do not start off on the
best of terms. But Petruchio decides they should get married anyway and he .....
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The Merchant Of Venice: The Relationship Between Antonio And Bassanio
.... go?
They are always together. Unless they are living together, this is a mystery.
But letÕs say they are living together. A male and a male doing the same things
and living together?
I conclude that Antonio is gay because he loves and adores Bassanio, Bassanio is
bisexual because he loves both Antonio and Portia. But this is not the end.
Think about these: In the masquerade, Jessica went as a boy. She likes to dress
up as boys; Nerissa likes Portia in a romantic way. I will not go into these
subjects be .....
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The Character Of Macbeth
.... they only increased this by making his
ambitions seem like they could be reality. The war hero becomes a murderer and
then dies a shameful and violent death. Shakespeare creates an atmosphere of
evil and darkness mainly through his language, although scenes containing
violent actions or the witches are often played in darkness. Shakespeare uses
poetry (verse) as opposed to prose, as poetry often contains more metaphors and
imagery, which he used to create a feeling of darkness and evil. The language
gives .....
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Macbeth: Darkness, Evil And Tragedy
.... of how he has enough
ambition but not enough courage. His "overiding ambition" is not enough. When
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth speak, they speak to eachother with such closeness and
bond; he calls her his "dearest chuck", his "partner of greatness". She knows
that he is too weak to do anything and states her position in the murder "leave
the rest to me".
In Act 1, Scene 7 establishes the force and power that Lady Macbeth posseses
over her husband. Upon hearing of Macbeth's decision not to kill Duncan, she .....
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The Downfall Of Lady Macbeth
.... intentions would have been less
serious if his wife was not more anxious than he was. She, more than her
husband, is to blame for the death of King Duncan, due to her relentless pursuit
of power and authority.
Lady Macbeth is a heartless fiend with an savage disregard for life.
This is evident in the manner in which she downplays the murder of Duncan to her
husband:
"A little water clears us of this deed;
How easy is it, then! Your constancy
Hath left you unattended...
Get on .....
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