A Midsummer Night’s Dream
.... the lovers have, at a loss to explain the inexplicable changes of heart they\'ve experienced, dreamed them up: \"And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet\'s pen turns them into shapes and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.\"(14-17) A trick of the light, an abundance of shadows, lack of sleep, an overactive imagination or any one of these or million other causes are the most likely explanation. In equating lovers, poets and lunatics Theseus gets into inte .....
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A Midsummer Nights Dream - Hermia And Helenas Relationship
.... 3, Scene 2, Lines 200 - 201, Helena)
Although Helena and Hermia were two separate people, they were, \"a union in partition\", compared to a double cherry.
\"Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.\"
(Act 3, Scene 2, Line 211, Helena)
Their friendship was so strong that they seemed to be connected, the same person in two different bodies.
\"So with two seeming bodies, but one heart,\"
(Act 3, Scene 2, Line 212, Helena)
This had lasted all their lives until the intervention of Lysander a .....
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A Midsummer Nights Dream Character Analysis Hermia
.... So obviously she is aware of her lack in height and it seems to cause her a bit of pain. Though Helena is taller than Hermia even she admits that Hermia has "sparkling eyes and a lovely voice".
Hermia is very set in what she wants from the very first scene. She has eyes only for Lysander.So obviously she is very faithful. Even when faced with the decision her father gave her she did not waver for a second in her love for him.
Throughout the story Hermia’s emotions were .....
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Antony And Cleopatra: The Role Of Enobarbus In Acts I And II
.... (I.ii.162), essentially saying that Fulvia\'s death is a good thing. Obviously, someone would never say something like this unless they were in very close company.
While acting as a friend and promoter of Antony, Enobarbus lets the audience in on some of the myth and legend surrounding Cleopatra. Probably his biggest role in the play is to exaggerate Anthony and Cleopatra\'s relationship. Which he does so well in the following statements:
When she first met Mark Antony, she pursed up his heart, upon .....
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Falstaff
.... truth-telling, and bravery in battle? He is not to be taken seriously...he is a wholly comic character.\"
At the end of Henry IV part II we can see what happens to Falstaff when he is surrounded by reality, he is caught off guard and is out of place. Baker states that when Falstaff is entangle with the realities of life \"he cannot shine.\" We see this first at the coronation of Hal, once his friend in mischief, when Falstaff is told, quite bluntly by Hal that \" I know thee not, old man.\" Falstaf .....
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Hamlet
.... and unique steps to gain his revenge on Claudius. Hamlet’s play within a play, a brilliant scheme in which he caught the conscience of the king, was a prime example of the young prince’s need for perfection in revenge. Inaction resulted from this perfectionistic nature. Hamlet missed golden opportunities, and even passed up a chance to kill Claudius and to take his revenge simply because Claudius was praying at the time. Hamlet did not only want to kill his father’s murderer; he wanted to send him to an e .....
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Hamlet - A Comparison To Humanity
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when he writes:
What we have in Hamlet.is the exploration and implicit
criticism of a particular state of mind or consciousness.In
Hamlet, Shakespeare uses a series of encounters to reveal the
complex state of the human mind, made up of reason, emotion,
and attitude towards the self, to allow the reader to make a
judgment or form an opinion about fundamental aspects of human
life. (192)
Shakespeare set .....
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Hamlet - Appearance Vs. Reality
.... asked by the king to find out the truth by hiding within a lie, by pretending to be his friend: A dream is but a shadow Act II. Hamlet knows there purpose for their visit is to dig into his soul to find the real reason for his actions as of late. As the play continues the twins are asked again by the king to go to Hamlet and try again to find the real reason for Hamlets behavior. Hamlet insults them at every chance knowing they are lying to him about there purpose of the visit: Tis as easy as lying; gov .....
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Hamlet - Appearence Vs Reality
.... their appearance of being Hamlets friends. The pair goes to Hamlet pretending to be his friends when in truth they are only there because the king asked them to find the truth. Hamlet quickly reveals the truth and says, \"Were you not sent for/ And there is a kind of confession in your looks, which your modesties have not craft in color." (Shakespeare 2:2:278) From these words he is demanding an answer from his schoolmates as to their unexplained arrival. At the end he tells them nothing. As the p .....
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Hamlet - Characters And Plot
.... so profoundly distressed at the death of Ophelia they jump into her grave and fight each other. Although Hamlet and Laertes despised one another, they both loved Ophelia. Hamlet was infatuated with Ophelia which was obvious during his constant anguish over her(in her rejection of Hamlet, and in her death
Hamlet suffered greatly). Laertes shared a strong brotherly love for Ophelia which was evident in his advice to her. Laertes further displayed his love for Ophelia during her funeral were he fought w .....
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Hamlet - Characters: Hamlet Laertes And Fortinbras
.... Hamlet, Sr.
Leartes
Laertes is a young man whose good instincts have been somewhat obscured by the concern with superficial appearances which he has imbibed from his father, Polonius. Like his father, Laertes apparently preaches a morality he does not practice and fully believes in a double standard of behavior for the sexes. But if his father allows him these liberties, it is that he may better approximate the manner of a so - called gentleman. More concerned with the outward signs of gentility than .....
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Hamlet - Claudius
.... noble youth The serpent that did sting thy father’s life
Now wears his crown.\" (Act I, Sc. V, Lines 42-46)
Claudius not only wanted to be the king of Denmark, he also wanted the queen that came with it. In Act I Sc. II Lines 8-14, Claudius has just recently been crowned king and is addressing the court. He shows in his words how happy he is to be married to Gertrude, the Queen.
\"herefore our sometime sister, now our queen,
The im .....
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Hamlet - Claudius Vs. Lady Macbeth
.... murder in order for her husband to obtain the crown. In doing this she was extremely deceitful of her lover also. She employed many conniving tricks in order to convince Macbeth to kill King Duncan, such as in scene in Act I, scene seven when she says, ³From this time such I account thy love.² Here she is basically saying that Macbeth may prove his undying love for her by killing the king, thus causing him to feel that he is obligated to murder King Duncan. King Claudius and Lady Macbeth are also very goo .....
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Hamlet - Collective Unconscious In Hamlet
.... are the archetypes (refer to figure 3).
The first archetype that we see in the play is that of the persona. The persona is the personality that an individual presents to the public. The most important point to consider when dealing with the persona, is that it is only a mask that the individual shows to others (refer to figure 4). \"The persona is a complicated system of relations between individual consciousness and society, fittingly enough a kind of mask, designed on one hand to make a defini .....
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Hamlet - Elizabethan Revenge In Hamlet
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family to avenge."
Seneca was among the greatest authors of classical tragedies
and there was not one educated Elizabethan who was unaware of him or
his plays. There were certain stylistic and different strategically
thought out devices that Elizabethan playwrights including Shakespeare
learned and used from Seneca’s great tragedies. The five act
structure, the appearance of some kind of ghost, the one line
exchanges known as stichomythia, and Seneca’s use of long rhetorical .....
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