... , while from all around...comes a still voice." When feeling scared of death just listen to nature whom, with it's soothing sounds, will calm your heart until that day in which nature "claim(s) they growth" and are "resolved back to the earth again" in which you "mix forever with the elements" and become part of nature yourself. Bryant says that there is no "couch more magnificent ... sleep - to sleep, perchance to dream...for in that sleep what dreams may come." Hamlet struggles as he tries to decide whether to suffer the "slings and arrows" which life throws at you or to "end the heart...

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... evidence against Claudius. So at this moment in the play Hamlet is being presented in two conflicting ways. There is Hamlet the revenger but also Hamlet, the thinker. It will be the conflict between these two roles that will be the heart of the play. This is a fascinating part of the play. Hamlet is now totally unpredictable which can be a source of comedy in scenes where he taunts and ridicules ... Polonius. However even in the antic disposition Shakespeare is still presenting an insight ... This line in the context of "the witching time of night" presents a link with evil and darknes...

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... that she is not very brave. She wants to be crowned just as much as Macbeth, if not more, but she lacks the heart to stab the King and turns to macbeth to carry out the murder. Once the King arrives at Macbeth's castle, Lady Macbeth tells her husband what to do. She spurs on macbeth and renews he goals even after he starts to ... to add to the atmosphere is that of the imagery of darkness. In a Shakespearean tragedy a special tone, or atmosphere must be created to show the darkness and blackness in a tragedy. In Macbeth, Shakespeare uses the design of the witches, the guilt in Macbeth's...

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... right before executing Duncan. Furthermore, a seemingly distraught Macbeth says "Glamis hath murdered sleep," referring to his uneasy feelings after the murder of Duncan. These phrases show that Macbeth, at point, is human and that there is uncertainty in his heart. However, as his character becomes increasingly sinister, Macbeth takes actions to remove those in his way, like Banquo, and ... "the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand," not caring who he harms and how he harms them. This phrase is ... night, and a dark place are all symbolic of diablerie. Willia...

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... : "Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth behold / Her silver visage in the watr'y glass . . . " (1.1 ll. 209-10). This short poetic description shows the potential ways that the normal mechanics of the gaze might be changed. Phoebe, or Diana, is the goddess of the moon and of transformation, particularly the unseen and mysterious transformations that happen under cover of darkness. The moon, the only source of light by which lovers can behold each other, is not shedding ... . Although he speaks of Helena being "the object and pleasure" of his eye, the visual metaphor is accompanied by a procla...

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... about how much she loves and cares for her love Romeo. Her behaviour is not that of a normal fourteen year old. Her soliloquy is based around darkness and her cravings for Romeo: 'With thy black mantle, till strange love grow bold.' This adds to the dramatic tension of the audience because they can see how strangely and unpredictable Juliet's behaviour is now, they will not ... is playing a very dangerous game here, as she is really saying she will never be satisfied till she beholds Romeo and dead is her poor heart. Shakespeare includes this in order to create dramatic tension towards ...

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... about how much she loves and cares for her love Romeo. Her behaviour is not that of a normal fourteen year old. Her soliloquy is based around darkness and her cravings for Romeo: 'With thy black mantle, till strange love grow bold.' This adds to the dramatic tension of the audience because they can see how strangely and unpredictable Juliet's behaviour is now, they will not ... is playing a very dangerous game here, as she is really saying she will never be satisfied till she beholds Romeo and dead is her poor heart. Shakespeare includes this in order to create dramatic tension towards ...

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... hope thou wilt not keep him long, But send him back" (3.5.60-4). What she means by this quotation (on the last night her and Romeo spend together, as he is slipping into the darkness) is that she wants Fortune to be inconsistent like it has been before, so that Romeo's fate can change and ... he can come back to her. This does happen, as mentioned above, but when Romeo goes back to her, he thinks that she is dead and his overload of passion ... passion makes one do unsuspecting things, but it also shows that it is dangerous to act out in pride or rage. The sonnet form helps convey the ...

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... strange intelligence- [I.iii.70-76] To make the testimonial about the deceptive nature of evil, Shakespeare works onto the texture of his play, with the theme of appearances can be deceiving. The audience is lead to believe that Macbeth is a kind man, but in fact is proved not to be. There is always perplexity and doubt in the appearance of evil, darkness rather than light, never clear, rational confidence which ... is in Macbeth's opening remark: "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" [I.iii.38]. Lady Macbeth tells her husband to "look like the innocent flower But be the serpent unde...

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... strange intelligence- [I.iii.70-76] To make the testimonial about the deceptive nature of evil, Shakespeare works onto the texture of his play, with the theme of appearances can be deceiving. The audience is lead to believe that Macbeth is a kind man, but in fact is proved not to be. There is always perplexity and doubt in the appearance of evil, darkness rather than light, never clear, rational confidence which ... is in Macbeth's opening remark: "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" [I.iii.38]. Lady Macbeth tells her husband to "look like the innocent flower But be the serpent unde...

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... kindness" from Act I and had she not convinced his to murder the king none of the trouble they are encountering would have occurred. Earlier on in the play Lady Macbeth establishes herself as a very headstrong and determined character. She does this when she calls upon the spirits of darkness to rid her of her natural womanliness and to instead "make thick" her blood and to fill her "direst ... still cuts his lines into short phrses, again repeating the words "sleep" and "Amen". He is like this until Lady Macbeth takes the situation into her hands and says "tis the eye of childhood." an...

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