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- 6831: Romeo and Juliet: Love and Hate
- Romeo and Juliet: Love and Hate In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare wrote the story of two lover's Romeo and Juliet. The love of Romeo and Juliet was a great and unforgettable love. The two cross star lovers had shared their love and hate to each other. The families had to have love and hate or story would have been so good. The fight of ... kills the wife's cousin that was an act of real hate. The fact about this part was that hate over ruled the love of Romeo to its family. The love of them had the great effect on them. The fact is that hate was more powerful in a way that it beat love. After that what did Juliet think about Romeo, the killer of her cousin, she did not realy ...
- 6832: Macbeth: Power Is The Paradox
- ... Scene 3) He realizes that his father was murdered because of the position he was in. It would be much safer to not be king, despite the loss in power, because the threats are too great. Power serves as both a blessing and a curse. Gaining power causes discomfort. When trying to gain power, hoping to increase their pleasure, people find themselves wracked with guilt and paranoia. Macbeth sees how lucky ... than Macbeth, who lives in fear of losing the throne. As he observed, "To be thus is nothing, / But to be safely thus." (Act III, Scene 1) His power as king wasn't really as great as he though it would be, and his power is really for nothing because he feels so threatened. The same idea is found again when his wife opinions "Nought's had, all's spent, Where ...
- 6833: Othello: Othello A Tragic Hero
- ... valiant Moor", (Act I scene 3, 47) . This is an example of the many comments which shows Othello's character and personality as a person and an officer. They say he is one of the great leaders. Not only does he posses great character and courage, but also dignity. He keeps his control even when he is being accused of witchcraft during the first encounter with the senators when Desdemona's father confronts him about see his daughter ...
- 6834: Othello: Iago Makes Othello Believe His Wife Is Having An Affair
- ... masterfully contrasted by Shakespeare with the relationship between Othello and Desdemona, who openly express their love and passion for each other: Othello: O my fair warrior! Desdemona: My dear Othello! Othello: It gives me wonder great as my content To see you here before me. O, my soul's joy (II.i.175-180)! Perpetual love and affection and contrasted with lusting animal attraction. What does Iago feel when he sees ... Othello having had an affair with his wife, enticing the "green-eyed monsters" within him. The feelings Iago feels is common jealousy. But to have it without surety, and to take it to such a great extent as to only describe it as being "mad." In an attempt at revenge, he does more than Othello supposedly did to him. By putting Othello through the same feelings he himself had gone through ...
- 6835: Oedipus The King: Existence of Man
- ... with extreme diversity of thought, its core is focused on one theme: man. All literature carries with itself three main characteristics: it is written by man, for man, and about man. Oedipus the King, the great Greek tragedy by the unparalleled philosopher, Sophocles, is no exception to literature's domain. It deals with one king, Oedipus, and his plight to avenge the death of his predecessor, King Laios. In his determined ... today. For example, if an individual committed ruthless acts such as theft or murder, was not caught by the law, and later realizes that that particular aspect of his or her life has caused them great grief and regret, he or she will make the effort to change and become a new individual. Let us say that individual becomes one who cares about the welfare of others and takes social action ...
- 6836: Romeo and Juliet: Night - Rejoice or Rebel?
- ... has a positive image, a welcomed time for love, protection and exchanging of covenants, while in Night the image is portrayed in a negative way, a time for fear, suffering, and death. Night in the great romances is a greeted time of romance and in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet a time to hide from the harsh reality of the outside world. Juliet greatly yearns for the coming of night. "And ... be the complete opposite --- fear, suffering, and death. Elie Wiesel uses stunning, vivid descriptions to show the readers the negative side of night, the side probably most metaphorically associated with night. Night can bring on great fear, whether on a lesser scale during Halloween or on a greater scale the horror of the Holocaust. The fear starts early in the book, when the Fascists are slowly taking control of Elie's ...
- 6837: The Merchant of Venice: A Tragic Play
- ... looking and observing The Merchant of Venice I have seen a small equivalency in the amount of comicness and tragedy in the play. I have come up with the conclusion that William Shakespeare was a great playwright and must have been an absolute genius to compose the great and wonderful things that he did. The Merchant of Venice is excellent in it's way of describing the characters. The emotion is spread out thoroughly like warm butter on hot toast. The tragedy in ...
- 6838: Macbeth: Superstitions
- Macbeth: Superstitions The tragedy of Macbeth was written by Shakespeare in 1606 and produced in 1610. Macbeth is the most concentrated of Shakespeare's tragedies. The action gushes forward with great speed from the beginning to end. The main characters in the play are Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, who are very noble, but their evil ambition ultimately causes their downfall and death. The play focuses around ... tell him how and when. So as you can see superstitions were greatly believed and related to in Elizabethan time and the same superstitions were used in the play with a bit of imagination a great play writer and book was written.
- 6839: The Cause of Macbeth's Ruin
- ... Act.5,Sc.8,Ln.16-17) and in the end kills Macbeth. The third apparition was a child crowned with a tree in his hand who proclaimed that "Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to Dunsinane hill shall come against him." (Act.4,Sc.1,Ln.92-94). Macbeth believed this prophesy was in his favour since it is impossible for a forest to reach Dunsinane hill ... that he has not enough courage to do the deed of becoming king. Her condescending taunts which insult his manhood and reassurance build up his courage. During the murder Lady Macbeth's help was of great importance; she sedated the guards, returned the bloody daggers, washed the blood off of her husband and gave him optimism. If it was not for Lady Macbeth's care Macbeth would have made a failure ...
- 6840: Macbeth: Macbeth - A Tragic Hero
- ... rather through some flaw in him, he being one of those who are in high station and good fortune, like Oedipus and Thyestes and the famous men of such families as those." (Poetics, Aristotle). Every great tragedy is dominated by a protagonist who has within himself a tragic flaw, too much or too little of one of Aristotle's twelve virtues. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth, a great Scottish general and thane of Glamis, has just won an important battle, when he is told by three witches that he will become thane of Cawdor and then king of Scotland. After Macbeth is given ...
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