Think not, thou noble Roman, that ever Brutus will go bound to Rome. ... Even though Cassius had had a similar conversation with him earlier that day, Brutus was so overly trusting that he was incapable of seeing the truth. ... More important than Brutus's honor and lack of caution is his devotion. " O Rome, I make thee promise, if the redress will follow, thou receivest Thy full petition at the hand of Brutus!" ... I killed not thee with half so good a will." ... In conclusion, the way a person lives their life is a good indicator of who they will die. ...

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I had people else this isle with Calibans? ... The second mistake Caliban makes is when he counters Miranda after she says,But thy vile race, though thou didst learn, had that int which good natures could not abide to be with. ... ll rack thee with old cramps, fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar that beasts shall tremble at thy din? ... When they are near Caliban says,Within this half hour will he be asleep. ... Caliban is so angry he will do anything to end his slavery and his cruel treatment. ...

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"All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis" "All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor" "All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, that shalt be King hereafter". ... "Lesser than Macbeth, but much greater" "Not so happy, yet much happier" It is possible that Macbeth believes the witches very easily because now he has been told he will be king. ... He soon tells Banquo that he has passed that thought and will not do it. ... The witches play a large role in making Macbeth commit the murder because they only tell him good things, and not the whole truth. This leads Macbeth to think that...

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"When I raise my flashing sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will take vengeance upon mine enemies. And I will repay those who haze me. ... Murphy says: "So that which is good may flourish." ... So We Shall Flow A River Fort To Thee, And Teeming With Souls Shall It Ever Be. ... Do not kill, do not rape, do not steal. ...

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"Hamlet: No might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I"ll do't: and so he goes to heaven: And so am I revenged. ... He sharpens the end of the fencing sword and puts a very lethal poison on the end of it so all he has to do is scratch Hamlet and he will die. Laertes accomplishes his little mission on killing Hamlet and says, "Laertes: It is here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain: No medicine in the world can do thee good, In thee there is not half an hour of life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenom"d:"...

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And so ye shall evermore; For, in faith and thou go to hell I will not forsake thee by the way! ... I will not a foot with thee go; But, and thou had tarried, I would not have left thee so. ... Both of these men can see that Everyman is not doing so well, so they ask what is wrong with him and notify him that they will be there with him whenever he needs them. ... Nay, Everyman; I sing another song, I follow no man in such voyages; For, and I went with thee, Thou Shouldst fare much for worse for me; In the bible, Jesus states that people can love God and Money but not both at...

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Brutus, not paying any attention to the dead and gone Caesar, does not listen. ... "Caesar, thou art revenged, even with the sword that killed thee."(Shakespeare, Pg.96) Brutus's final words are somewhat similar to the previous quote, "Caesar, now be still; I killed not thee with half so good a will."... Caesar had nothing to do with their deaths. ... In this I bury all unkindness."...

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Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! ... Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, yet I see thee still." The dagger then becomes bloody, "And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, which was not so before". ... Her intentions are to rise up Macbeth's pride with false promises; which will lead to his downfall. ... Macbeth would not have been so sure of himself had it not been for the witches" seemingly unbreakable promises. ...

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Good or Bad? ... Brutus" personality clashes with the other characters when they do not make the same ethical decisions. ... Brutus is ready for all of the chaos and torture to be over with when he announces his final words, "Caesar, now be still:/ I kill"d not thee with half so good a will." ... In a way, I think that this comment makes the audience react with a form of frustration, because Brutus is saying that he killed his friend for the good of the people. ... Brutus is a hero for sacrificing his life so that he and his people would not be conquered. ...

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Another group of people that are dynamically different in who they are, the lifestyle they live, the language they speak, and cultures that they can identify with, are not so lucky. ... Instead of being embraced for their differences and respected as human beings, homosexuals have been, time and time again, condemned to hell, killed, or discriminated against. ... (Hyde 12) So, then, what is love? ... Sodom has become so identified with homosexuality that laws banning same-sex behavior are called sodomy laws. ... , do not so wickedly. 8 Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known...

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Hamlet did not want to live with this pain but had fear, and doubt in his mind that made him not go through with it. ... "Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell, be thy intents wicked or charitable, thou com" st in such a questionable shape that I will speak to thee." ... Hamlet did not want to embrace Claudius as his father, who he feels is half the man his father was. ... If Hamlet did not have so much pride in him, he would have taken the one thing that was important to Claudius, the crown. ... Hamlet then uses Claudius" reaction to...

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Honor thy father and mother; that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth." ... You may not like them, but you are still supposed to think of their highest good, which is what is meant by love. ... Compensating, or at least trying, so everyone is happy with their situation is a necessary ingredient for respect to flourish, so as to not be selfish. ... What is so sickly ironic is that I was pushed and pushed to go through confirmation within this church, and not more than half a year later the same people forced me out of it without even my knowledge. ... Extreme d...

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Laertes, having such noble qualities as being inherently good and having a basic honesty and courage, takes up this challenge to kill Hamlet. ... In his wrath, he conspires with Claudius to develop a plan to kill Hamlet. ... Hamlet, thou art slain; No medicine in the world can do thee good; In thee there is not half an hour of life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenom'd: the foul practise Hath turn'd itself on me lo, here I lie, Never to rise again: thy mother's poison'd: I can no more: the king, the king's to blame."" -- (V.ii.314-32...

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As Brutus' friendship with Caesar grew stronger, his fear of power became deeper. Brutus admits, "I do fear the people choose Caesar for their king,"" (I, 2, 79-80). ... He had now started a war with Rome over the death of Caesar. ... Upon his death Brutus left the last words of, "Caesar, now be still, I killed not thee with half so good a will,"" (V, 5, 51-52). ... The murder of Caesar did not turn Rome against him. ...

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Horatio answers that he has come for Hamlet's father's funeral, but Hamlet says in reply "I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother's wedding"(Act I, Scene 2). ... If Claudius starts getting squirmy or uneasy, Hamlet will no for sure that Claudius did in fact kill his father. ... The meaning of this speech is whether or not he should kill himself. ... Maybe you can't go that far as to say Hamlet forgives him, but rather he forgets about seeking revenge for the moment because" now he is praying and now I"ll do't: and so he goes to he...

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It is not, nor it cannot come to good. ... And live the purer with the other half. ... (3.4.156-167) Hamlet feels that if Gertrude repents what she has done and becomes virtuous, it will help to dispel his pain and anguish, so he can once again become emotionally closer to her. ... Forty thousand brothers/ Could not with all their quantity of love/ Make up my sum" (5.1.272-274). ... / I took thee for thy better. ...

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Brutus says that he must kill Caesar for the good of Rome even though he has no personal grudge against him. ... The reason that Brutus uses not to kill Antony is that they need not kill everyone close to Caesar just because they were friends of Caesar's. ... Brutus also makes it clear that it was: "not that I love Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." ( III, ii, 23-24) to further justify his act. ... Also, 4 in his last sentence, Brutus admits to Caesar that: "I killed not thee with half so good a will." (V, iiiii, 57) meaning that he did not kill Caesar as willingly as he...

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Just before he talks: "I go, and it is done: the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell" (2.1.62-64). ... Lennox and some other people then assume that the servants killed the king even though the servants were not the ones who killed him. It looks like that Macbeth did a pretty good job of framing them. ... "To half a soul and to a notion crazed say thus did Banquo." (3.1.82-84) Macbeth tells the murderers that Banquo killed the king so that they could kill Banquo easily. ...

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In the opening scenes, Iago begins his plot for revenge by enticing Roderigo to wake Brabantio up with cries of animal sounds and exclaiming: "Zounds, sir, you are robb'd, for shame put on your gown Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul; Even now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe; arise, arise, Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you, Arise I say- (I. i. 86-92) Iago uses an abundance of animal imagery to create a repetitive theme that animal instinct plays a vital role in human behaviour rather then ...

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When Brutus has been defeated and runs onto his own sword to avoid being captured, he seems to welcome his death as though it were almost a punishment for his offence in killing Caesar: "Caesar now be still; /I kill"d not thee with half so good a will" (Act 5, Scene 5, Lines 51-2). ... In his speech to the Roman people, Brutus offers justification for his act: "not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more" (Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 20-3). ... Brutus will not agree that Antony should be killed along with Caesar because this would turn what he seems as ritual sacrifice into bloody butc...

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In the beginning of the play when she is brought to the court to defend her relationship with Othello in front of her father, she does so and is honest with her father regardless of the consequences, "To you I am bound for life and education I am hitherto your daughter. ... And so much duty as my mother showed you, preferring you before her father, so much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord... However, she does try to manipulate Othello to attempt to let her live longer, "Kill me tomorrow; let me live tonight But half an hour!"... Another time she is faithful to Othello ar...

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So, in returning home, and with the help of persuasion and instigation from his wife, he kills King Duncan. ... The following quotes show Macbeth''s confidence take over: (Act 4. sc. 1 ln 93-97) ""Then live, Macduff; what need I fear of thee? ... Thou shalt not live, That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder... Sweet bodements, good!... He is now positive that he will be killed. ...

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So, in returning home, and with the help of persuasion and instigation from his wife, he kills King Duncan. ... The following quotes show Macbeth''s confidence take over: (Act 4. sc. 1 ln 93-97) ""Then live, Macduff; what need I fear of thee? ... Thou shalt not live, That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder... Sweet bodements, good!... He is now positive that he will be killed. ...

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The witches chant, " hail to thee, Thane of Glamis/ hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor/ that shalt be king hereafter." ... Ultimately he decides against murder as the bad consequences far outweigh the good, as he is afraid he will trip over his own ambitions. ... She asks Duncan whether he will murder Duncan that night, and when he replies that he will not because, "He [Duncan] hath honoured me of late, and I have bought/ Golden opinions from all sorts of people," she tries her up most to dissuade him. ... If not for his partner I do not think that Macbeth would have committed regicide, but a...

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