... even be mentioned without someone blushing or being offended. When grown in test tubes and bottles until "decanted-, then raised by various teachers in the Center London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, families come to be thought of as primitive and unhygienic, preventing people of this society from identifying a major theme of almost every Shakespearean play. Love is also devalued; seeing one person exclusively ... is the kind of thing that would give a person a bad reputation. Promiscuity is highly encouraged, and without disease, pregnancy, or love to think about people are not forc...

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... the innocent young couple to commit suicide without experiencing their strong dream to marry, thus conveying the universal theme of how one should value intimate relationships over civil law. One could observe the incongruity in Haemon's family values between the selected passage and an earlier excerpt, thus suggesting an ironic tone. Before Antigone commits suicide, Haemon agrees with his father ... values, thus conveying the omnipresent tone of pathos within this passage. The pathetic tone within the tragedy, Antigone, leads to the universal theme of how one should value intimate relat...

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In both Othello and Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the notion of doomed love or star crossed lovers is a theme that dominates the plays" climatic progress and protagonist development. Successful romance in these works then, is what drives the characters and brings joy to the gloom that ensues when apart from the object of one's affection. Two Shakespeare productions that veer from this common pursuit of love ... are Macbeth and Love's Labour's Lost, which focus not ... his mother's womb untimely ripped" (Act 5, Scene 10, 15-16). This suggests that MacDuff's masculinity is greater t...

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