" I am in blood/Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,/ Returning were as tedious to go o"er", Here Macbeth has the opportunity to turn back rather than wade further into a sea of blood that he has already made. However, he knows that to turn back would mean resigning his kingship and his power, something he cannot bring himself to do. ...
This could mean that the last section of the scene is not so dramatic. ... I am engaged; I will challenge him." ... This being that both their names mean "the blessed one". ... - O God that I were a man! O that I were a man for his sake!" ...
I have sounded the very base-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers and can call them all by their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis" (II.IV.4-8). ... In Act I Scene II Prince Hal makes an important speech saying, "So when this loose behavior I throw off/ And pay the debt I never promised,/By how much better than my word I am,/ By so much shall I falsify men's hopes,/ And like bright metal on a sullen ground,/ My reformation, glitt'ring o'er my fault,/ Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes/ Than that which hath no foil to set i...
Whiles I may'scape/ I will preserve my self... (2.3.3-6). ... Rosalind decides to cross-dress: ...Because that I am more than common tall/ That I did suit me all pointes like a man?... / Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. ...I'll put myself in poor an mean attire... ... As as aristocratic woman, she appears in the play in "poor and mean attire" (1.3.109). ... In line 132, Lear uses the pronoun "I" with relation to power : "...I do invest you jointly with my power......
Beatrice says, "I thank God and my cold blood, I am your humor for that: I rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swears he loves me."" (1.1.130-2) I think that she only says this to match wits with Benedick. ... - In the opening seen of the play, Beatrice says some pretty mean harsh words to Benedick in the first act in the play. ... "(2.I.18-19). ... They both confess there love again in the 5th act when Beatrice says, "I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will... For indeed, I promised to eat all of his killing." (1.I.36-43) Also, Beatrice blames he lack of su...
(I, ii, 17-19) and that "...... (I, ii, 31-32). ... This can be seen when Cassio says, "I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest [than Iago]" (III, I, 38) and Othello refers to Iago's "...honesty and love..." ... Any thought or idea of Desdemona's betrayal would mean he would turn against his wife with a much greater alacrity, even before any "ocular" proof has been provided, as a need for the preservation of his social status therefore compromising his stature as a tragic hero. ... After he has committed the crime, Othello makes sure that he is remembered as the hero he b...
(I, ii, 17-19) and that "...... (I, ii, 31-32). ... This can be seen when Cassio says, "I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest [than Iago]" (III, I, 38) and Othello refers to Iago's "...honesty and love..." ... Any thought or idea of Desdemona's betrayal would mean he would turn against his wife with a much greater alacrity, even before any "ocular" proof has been provided, as a need for the preservation of his social status therefore compromising his stature as a tragic hero. ... After he has committed the crime, Othello makes sure that he is remembered as the hero he b...
For indeed, I promised to eat all of his killing." (1.I.36-43). ... I will go sit and weep till I can find occasion of revenge." (2.I.31-35) Beatrice speaks in a similar way when her cousin Hero is about to get married to Claudio, "Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes everyone to the world but I, and I am sun-burnt. ... (2.I.314-316). ... For the audience it is easier to feel sympathy for the one who is lacking the beauty, than to the one who is mean and seeking for the ways to revenge. ...
After seeing Bianca for the first time, Lucentio is already telling Tranio, "Tranio, I burn, I pine, I perish, Tranio,/ If I achieve not this young modest girl- (I.i.147-148). ... How mean you that? ... For me, that I may surely keep mine oath, I will be married to a wealthy widow, Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved me As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. ... And so I take my leave, In resolution as I swore before."" ... For instance, he tells Baptista " I see you do not mean to part with her, or else you like not of my company- (II.i.63-64), when he knows that ...
She says "I cannot heave my heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bound, no more nor less". ... Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters". ... Before Lear leaves the castle, he told the fool "O Fool, I shall go mad!... I tax you not, you elements, with unkindness". ... Cornwall says to himself that he has no right to put Gloucester to death without a trail, but that doesn't mean he can not tortured him. ...
Eliot: "I said the king was an incredibly foolish old man, which God knows he was; and that if he'd been my father I would have run away from home at the age of eight instead of waiting until I was ten...I pointed out that King Lear's opening speech was the height of idiocy. Imagine (I said) a father asking his three children: Which of you kids loves me the most?" I am sure that most critics would, as Eliot evidently did, reject this characterization of King Lear, but the question remains: is there anything in their readings of the play that would allow them to counter this view of ...
