Tamed Shrews And Twelfth Night
.... women on the nature of being a good and dutiful wife.
In direct contrast to Shrew, is Twelfth Night, whose main female protagonist is by far the strongest character in the play. The main character Viola, has been stranded in a foreign land and adopts the identity of her brother so that she might live independently without a husband or guardian. She serves as a courtier to a young, lovesick nobleman named Orsino. Throughout the play she plays as a go-between for him to the woman he loves. In the cour .....
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Taming Of The Shrew
.... captured. Hortensio describes Kate (I.ii.85-89) as wealthy, young, beautiful, properly brought up intolerably cursed, shrewed and froward. Though Hortensio finds the last three traits negative characteristics, Petruchio appears to be a man who also posses, and is proud of, these negative qualities. That the qualities are considered negative in Kate and not Petruchio is a reflection of the societal standards of the fifteen hundreds. It was okay for a man to be that way, but not a woman. Petruchio is the kin .....
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The Character Of Macbeth
.... efforts in battle - and
so on. He may even conceived of the proper motive which
should energize back of his great deed:
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself.
But while he destroys the king's enemies, such motives work
but dimly at best and are obscured in his consciousness by
more vigorous urges. In the main, as we have said, his nature
violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in order that
he may be reported in such terms a "valour's minion" and
"Bellona's bri .....
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The Finger Of Blame In MacBeth
.... the story when Macduff went to join Malcolm, Macbeth had Macduff's family killed. Macbeth was a man that murdered far more people then his wife did. So he was a more guilty person then she was. Through the story Macbeth got obsessed with killing others and he wanted to kill more, while Lady Macbeth became so self conscience that she went crazy and killed herself. Throughout the course of the story it is tough to decide who is a more guilty person, but if you look at it through the eye's of today's la .....
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The Hamlet In Me
.... he creates through the story. Like Hamlet, I use often a long thought process to plan projects that I wish to do. We both are not quick to act, but rather devise a plan to attain our goal. Spontaneous thinking can bring about undesired and sometimes deadly results. A careful thought process is a safer, but not as exhilarating and self-fulfilling way of confronting life without being spontaneous. A balance between the two thought processes would produce the most desirable result.
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The Madness Of Prince Hamlet
.... with out demonstrated reason becomes mired in confusion.
When Hamlet appears again in act two, it seems that he has lost the conviction that was present earlier. He has yet to take up the part assigned to him by the ghost. He spends the act walking around, reading, talking with Polonius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and the players. It is not until the very end of the act that he even mentions vengeance. If he had any of the conviction shown earlier he would be presently working on his vengeance. So in .....
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The Merchant Of Venice - Anti-
.... is damned by both her father and mother because she was born Jewish. Launcelot tells Jessica that her only hope is that, “Your father got / you not--that you are not the Jew’s daughter.” (3.5.9-10) When Jessica hears this, she defends herself by telling Launcelot, “I shall be saved by my husband. He hath made / me a Christian.” (3.5.17-8) This conversation between Launcelot and Jessica supports that Shakespeare was anti-Semitic because it states that Jews can only be saved by becoming Christians.
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The Merchant Of Venice - Anton
.... companion, Bassanio after he travelled to Belmont to woo Portia.
Early in the play another side of Antonio is revealed. Antonio is displayed as a hard cruel man, although a Christian, he displays hatred and contempt towards the Jewish race, usurers and especially towards Shylock. After kicking and spitting upon Shylock, Antonio shows no remorse or sympathy for the man he has abused. Antonio even goes to the point of saying that he would once more spit upon him and kick him like a stray dog. -
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The Power Of Langauage In Othe
.... thy light,
11 Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
12 I know not where is that Promethean heat
13 That can thy former light relume: when I have plucked the
14 rose
15 I cannot give it vital growth again,
16 It needs must wither. Ö
(Othello, 5.2.7-16, p. 306)
Shakespeare sets the tone of the passage with one simple introductory line, "Put out the light, and then put out the light!" The line
begins: "Put out the light," perhaps it is an imperative, perhaps it is a simple declaratory rem .....
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The Role Of Enobarbus In Acts
.... 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 t .....
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The Sanity Of Hamlet
.... Obviously, Hamlet’s character offers more evidence, while Ophelia’s breakdown is quick, but more conclusive in its precision. Shakespeare offers clear evidence pointing to Hamlet’s sanity beginning with the first scene of the play.
Hamlet begins with guards whose main importance in the play is to give credibility to the ghost. If Hamlet were to see his father’s ghost in private, the argument for his madness would greatly improve. Yet, not one, but three men together witness the ghost before even think .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew
.... not by their love for a woman, but by how well they can provide for her. All suitors compare the dowry each can bring to the marriage and the one with the most to offer 'wins' the woman's hand in marriage. This competition for marriage is like a game to the characters of the play. While discussing the courtship of Bianca with Gremio, Hortensio says "He that runs fastest gets\ The ring" (Act I, scene i, l. 140-141) likening receiving permission to wed Bianca to winning a race. In the game, however, wome .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew - Anal
.... are treated like objects that can be bought and sold rather than as human beings. This is expected since the society is a patriarchal one. For example, Lucentio, Tranio and Petruchio are all defined with reference to their fathers and all the elderly authority figures, like Baptista and Vicentio, are men. The taming of Katherine is not a women's shrewishness being cured as much as it is a woman being taught the rules of the 'patriarchal game'. Katherine has learned how to be assertive and with this knowl .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew - Humo
.... as the audience has nothing to go by but what they see before them, and so they are not to know that this is not Petruchio’s true personality, and so Shakespeare employs another essential element of humour: he lets the audience know what is truly transpiring, while the characters themselves remain oblivious to the truth. He does this using a soliloquy, in which Petruchio states the strategies he shall use in order to tame Kate:
She ate no meat today nor none shall she eat…and as with the meat some undes .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew - Mist
.... As a result of this Katherine, whom we thought would never love anyone, at the end of the story is the only wife who comes when she is beckoned. The other wives only make up excuses. This shows how Kate has a mistaken identity becuase she appears rude and insolent. This situation is one of the ways Shakespeare uses mistaken identity to display theme.
Another part of the theme is that when a person changes outfit's and roles, their personalities and attitudes stary the same. The first and most promi .....
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