... Duncan herself, except she claims that he looked like her father. Lady Macbeth states, "Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had don't." Even so, Macbeth went along with the plan and murdered Duncan. After his first murder, King Duncan, Macbeth becomes very ashamed of what he has done, "to know my deed, "twere best not to know myself." Lady ... this." Apart from Lady Macbeth's taunting and pressuring, he feels that there is nothing pushing him into murdering King Duncan, only ambition. Macbeth says, "That tears shall drown the wind. - I have no spur To prick the sides of my int...

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... ' lies of their affection towards him. In addition, he was unable to see the reality of Cordelia's true love for him and as a result, King Lear banished Cordelia by saying that "for we Have no such daughter, nor shall ever see That face of her again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison" (Act I, Sc I, Ln 265 ... Lear's behavior in check. He goes wherever his master goes, and this reinforces the impression that the Fool's purpose is to protect Lear until Cordelia can arrive to help her father. From early on in the play, the Fool is probably the character with the gre...

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... punish by their personal sins. The parallel structure continues throughout the play as Lear reconcile with Cordelier and Gloucester with Edgar. The blindness is the main factor that leads to the tragedy in the play because of the blindness itself that is a root for all the false decisions. Firstly, Lear's blindness is the main issue of all the disaster in the play because he is the blindest among all the characters. Due to his pride ... ; and "for we have no such daughter, nor shall we ever see that face of hers again". Therefore be gone without our grace, our love, our benison." Likewis...

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... of Cordelia's love for him. He banished her from the kingdom without one thought to what she had said. Lear banished her by saying; "for we Have no such daughter, nor shall we ever see That face of hers again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison." (act1, sc I, 264-267). Lear's blindness also caused him to banish his ... loyal follower Kent, who stood for the honor of Cordelia and was trying to tell him that Cordelia's love for him is true. "This ... Goneril; " O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face!" ( act4,sc 2, 29-31) Unlik...

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... most loyal to him, is deceived by Regan and Goneril, and thrown out into a storm. The storm represents the folly occuring inside Lear's head, and it is here that he begins to lose his sanity. "Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters. I tax not you, you elements, unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, called you children ... ; you owe me no Subscription (3,2,14-24) Lear is beginning to realize that he could have done more to help the needy in his kingdom. Ironically, through the loss of his mind, Lear begins to think ... of his daughter...

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... . First, his two eldest daughters deceived him, then he was unable to see the true love Cordelia's felt for him, and as a result, he banished her from the kingdom with the following words: " For we Have no such daughter. Nor shall ever see That face of her again. Therefore be gone Without our grace, our love, our benison." (Act I, Sc I, Ln 265-267) Kent, one ... was all Albany needed to see. Finally, Albany recognized what a devil he was married to and for once let out his emotions when he said: "O Goneril, You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face!" (Act IV, Sc I...

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... hate of Hamlet towards his mother. Hamlet is still lamenting his father's death when he is struck with the news of his mother's remarriage. This is concretely evident in the beginning of his soliloquy, as he remarks on the fact that the world has only unpleasant things in it. Hamlet is so distraught and confused that he wonders why God has made it immoral to ... for even two months, not long enough to feel the wind of heaven. Hamlet illustrates the love he has for his deceased father, and then wonders the question "Must I remember?" (Line 15). Hamlet figures that if he did not remember ...

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... jealous nature and is easily led to mistrust his wife. "Why? Why is this? Think'st thou I"d make a life of jealousy? To follow still the changes of the moon with fresh suspicions? No! To be once in doubt is once to be resolv"d."(III, iii, 177-180). It is Othello's weakness that Iago preys upon ... it is true, "If I do prove her haggard, Through that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I"d whistle her off, and let her down the wind to prey at fortune"(III,iii,260-263). Othello is not one to take it if his wife Desdermona is being unfaithful, and if it is proven to ... took with his dou...

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... as men can breathe or eyes can see" (ll. 13). On the surface, the poem is simply a statement of praise about the beauty of Shakespeare's love. However, a conflict arises due to the fact that summer is sometimes becomes unpleasant with extremes of wind and heat. This conflict is resolved throughout the sonnet by Shakespeare's mentioning that the beloved is always mild and temperate by her nature and nothing ... imagery, Helena asserts that real love has little to do with the eyes: "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, / And therefore is winged Cupid blind" (1.1 ll. 234-5). Th...

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