... , thou pale and common drudge t"ween man and man/ but thou, thou meager lead, which rather threathenest than dost promise aught/ Thy paleness moves me more the eloquence/ and here choose I: joy be the consequence!" This passage is important because it shows how little Bassanio values himself and how simple ... Prince of Morocco chooses gold because he feels he is worth the weight and price of the casket. The inscription on the gold casket reads, "Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire." Because he is a prince, he feels that he should get what he desires, namely, Portia. In Act I...

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... Author: William Shakespeare During William Shakespeare's That time of year thou may'st in me behold, life and its youthful passion faces depletion symbolized by an autumn day. A time in the author's life is observed when few yellow leaves or none at all because of ... ...

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... in this play, is purely speculation. However, it can be assumed what action must follow. Fortinbras now has control over the kingdom, as Hamlet's dying wish was to let Fortinbras be king. Why? Why let Fortinbras, a man who, again, mirrors Hamlet so brilliantly, take a throne he was on his way to usurp? Perhaps it is because Hamlet realized for himself that his ... . It seems there is no doubt that Hamlet's actions were for nothing, and that his revenge was wasted. There is no better way to describe it than by using the lyrics in 'In The End' by Linkin Park. The fleeting nature of li...

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... know where babies come from, her mother answered that to conceive a child, a woman had to love her husband. With the song "Mama Who Bore Me," Wendla lamented that her mother did not wanted to tell her the truth. The young girl was upset about the lack of knowledge presented to her. This song ... his femininity, must died or be used for his pleasure. Hanschen was masturbating and he said to Desdemona: "One of us must go-it's you or me"(Sater 30). He did not wanted to be gay but later, he admitted he was. The theme of homosexuality was reinforced. The third reference to a ... love where th...

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... before he chooses; and in the song the singer drops hints at which box for him to choose. (see the song 3/2/62) The first major hint is in the songs' lyrics, multiple words rhyme with lead, "bred, head, fed" the lead casket being the one Portia knows is the correct choice. The song also speaks of love that cannot ... ...

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... to kill Duncan. Also, Right before Macbeth returns, she calls the spirits by saying, "Come, you spirits/ That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/ And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full/ Of direst cruelty!"(I.v.44-47). She is trying to make the spirits fill her with evil because ... that he begins to panic and says things directed towards the ghost such as, "Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake/ Thy gory locks at me." (III.iv.64-65) All this commotion makes the guests of the banquet suspicious of something strange, since none of them can see the ghost. Lady ... to conv...

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... viewpoint here with Shakespeare's, we need to look more critically at what the king says. Shakespeare deliberately builds an error into Lear's reflections in this scene: "Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son Was kinder to his father than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful sheets" (4.6.114-16). These lines should give ... of grief as age, wretched in both. If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger, And let not women's weapons, water-drops, Stain my man's cheeks!" (2.4.272-78) Lear re...

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... all to a sudden end. Othello and Desdemona's reasons for marriage were highly irregular and therefore weak and unable to endure Iago's evil schemes. "She loved me for the dangers I had passed, and I loved her that she did pity them." Desdemona fulfilled a place in Othello's view of himself.3 She merely ... order of things.8 He wanted to be king, but he knew it wasn't his place to be one. "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir." Macbeth knew that his restless desire to interfere with destiny was arrogant and useless.9 However, Macbeth was too ambitious ......

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... not your wife? I deserve to know what the secret you are not sharing with me. I am equal to you and you should share it with me. Please do not do anything that would dishonor me. When Portia says do not dishonor me, she is reminding Brutus that she is already honorable and deserves trust and respect as ... Caesar being the leader of Rome. Brutus replies, "Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other/ And I will look on both indifferently;/ for let the gods so speed me as I love/ The name of honor more than I fear death" (1.2, lines 86-89, p.17). Brutus is saying that if he were to kill .....

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... eyes to see the truth, Lear response by saying "Out of my sight" when Kent reminds Lear that "See better, Lear, and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye". Unexpectedly, as a loyal fellow Kent disguises himself to help Lear because he knew Lear was blind from ... not distinguish that the new servant was his loyal Kent. These display that his mental blindness and lack of sight pull him to the downfall. He let's his anger control his judgment by judging people from the current situation and ignore the things they have done in the past. As we can see, ... he asks Tom to lead him ...

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... father but she has a husband now. " I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education My life and education both do learn me. How to respect you. You are the lord of duty. I am hitherto your daughter but here's my husband ; " My first impression of Desdemona is that she is ... weep Am l the motive of these tears, my lord If haply you my father do suspect an instrument of this your calling back, lay not your blame on me : if you have lost him , I have lost him too. " Shakespeare used very emotive language in this part of the text. The use of pro's ... they can t...

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... , but he is also commonly known for his sonnets. John Donne originally Catholic, became an Anglican priest and was known for his sermons. William Shakespeare's "Let me not to the marriage of true minds," also known as "Sonnet 116" discusses love, as does John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning." These two poems ... are identical in theme and they express similar meanings of love. In Shakespeare's sonnet "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" it is emphasized that real love endures. Shakespeare put forth an ideal of love that it is as constant as ... never writ, nor no man ev...

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... little girl growing up, I spent a lot of time with a Hispanic lady because my mother worked all the time. She was like a grandmother to me. I loved to hear her speak of her late husband and how much she loved him. Her voice would change when she spoke of him. She ... Meeting at Night. She uses iambic pentameter lines (Wadsworth 637) and starts to count the ways in which she loves him. Let's analyze the first two lines of the poem, "How Do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I Love thee to the depth and height my soul can reach (l. 1-2). Browning is trying to count the ... because he was ...

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... ;with a kind of umber smirch[es] [her] face" (1.3.110). Rosalind decides to cross-dress: ...Because that I am more than common tall/ That I did suit me all pointes like a man?/ A gallant curtle-ax upon my thigh,/ A boar-spear in my hand... (1.3.113-116). The decision of the two female heroins to change outward ... in the "contentious storm". As a noble, Edgar in the form of Tom rebels and protests against the customary dress of his class: "let not the creaking of shoe nor the rustling of silks betray the poor heart to woman" (3.4.96-7). The same sense of rebellion is seen in Celia ... hi...

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... Bianca was also a character affected by jealousy, after finding Desdemona's handkerchief, she accused Cassio of infidelity. "Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now? I was a fine fool to take it I must take out the work? – A likely ... be hanged, and then to confess-I tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction. It is not words that shake me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips. Is't possible? Confess!-Handkerchief! - Oh, devil!" (IV.I.35-43). After watching Desdemona laug...

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... Stairs' grievance" I believe the queen is heart broken and is weeping her ex boyfriend/ husband, "I let down the crystal curtain and watch the moon". I may have watched too many movies but to me this symbolizes her grieving her partner. While it states the description of the "Jewelled steps", I can ... the moon so long outside to where her clothing gets soaking wet from the snow. The princess can also be inside her palace while she "let down the crystal curtain" and "watch the moon". The quote where she describes the "crystal curtain" could resemble the ... . And the moon symbolizes hope...

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... The first time we see Hamlet lose his level headedness is when he is confronted by the ghost, and threatens Horatio, "Unhand me, gentleman. By heaven I'll make a ghost of him that lets me, I say, away-(I:iv). Hamlet displays the emotional complexity of the tragic fault here. The ghost informs Hamlet that he is ... two sided. Yet another hint into Hamlet's madness appears in Act III:ii, by which he already stages a play and by doing so, will let him know the truth of his Father's murderer and at the same time allow Claudius to see his plan. After the he decides Hamlet then tries to ... O...

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... thing! How easily murder is discovered!" (Pg 42 line 286). He silenced the brothers so that they couldn't talk and tied them up and sentenced them to death. "Let them not speak a word; the guilt is plain; for, by my soul, were there worse end than death, that end upon them should be executed." (pg 43 ... to the Empire and its campaigns against the Goths." (Epinions). Titus even offered his own life in exchange for his sons" lives. "I did, my lord, yet let me be their bail;" (pg 43 line 295). The emperor refused to forgive the sons for what they did. When Titus asked to be their bail Sa...

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... . She always remains faithful to Othello; even when she is dying and asked to name her murderer she does not mention his name, she simply says, " Nobody- I myself. Farewell. Commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell! " (Act 5, scene 2, lines 125-126). This quote shows Desdemona's virtue and loyalty, even in death. It is this virtue, innocence, and loyalty that Shakespeare contradicts ... , and explains his evil role in the strange coarse of the misunderstood events. When Emilia says, " No, I will speak as liberal as the north. Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry in sh...

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... the English (three quatrains and a couplet). The change in structure gave a different way to create an argument within the poem. This poem is an English sonnet. The first quatrain states: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. The first quatrain tells ... what love is not. The first phrase "Let me not" is the author assuring saying, "I will not let." The second phrase, "to the marriage of true minds," is talking about true love despite physical limitation people put in marri...

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... him to become less self-assured and more insecure, which then leads him to question his own identity for the first time. "Who is it that can tell me who I am?- (I.iv.197). As time goes on he is betrayed more and more. Kent is put into the stocks, which largely insults Lear, and his daughters ... madness. By the end of the play he is able to admit and come to terms with how low he has become. "They are not men o' their words: they told me I was everything; tis a lie- (IV.vi.100). When he realizes that he is nothing, he becomes something; he becomes wise. "Yet I am doubtful, for I am mainl...

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... Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see," said Macbeth (Macbeth, 1.4.4). Macbeth's desire began to turn into greed ... soon as possible. When he speaks of not carrying on with the plan Lady Macbeth becomes very upset. She says, "How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And da...

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... . Throughout these next thirty lines, love and jealousy, sexual desire and creaturely differences - these seem to be the major subjects of deep and ambivalent interest. OTHELLO: Give me a living reason she's disloyal. *Note: for the sake of saving space, O=Othello, C=Cassio (The scene takes place in a poorly light room made out of ... That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. Once of this kind is Cassio. Cont"d: In sleep, I heard him say, "Sweet Desdemona, Let us be wary, let us hide our loves!" Iago attempts to control O's anger by assuring him that the information he is going to...

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... the dance and bless the marriages. A Midsummer Night's Dream contains many elements of a comedy. The most important ones to me are that the play ends happily, it isfunny and it made me laugh. Shakespeare wrote Much Ado About Nothing which is also acomedy, but it is a different type of comedy than A ... person. Claudio is beinglogical about marriage by inquiring about Hero's financial stateand social standing. After finding out she is an only child, heagrees to let Don Pedro woo Hero in his favor so she would be hiswife. When Claudio and Don Pedro put their plan into action at themasked b...

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... by his disrespect rouses the King's anger, so that he strikes him and calls him names. Lear then strikes himself and says "O Lear, Lear, Lear, beat at this gate that let thy folly in, and thy dear judgment out. under a burst of passion Lear curses upon Goneril and is ashamed that she should see how deeply her conduct moves him. Another ... on a journey to meet Regan. He finally realizes that these passionate outbreaks may affect his mind. He says "O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper: I would not be mad." Those are very powerful lines in which Shakespeare wants...

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