... as Isabella, Wendla expressed her conflicting feelings of love for her mother and the desire to know the truth. The play revealed the issues of mercy, justice and truth just as Wendla tried to figure out. She wanted her mother to help her to understand. Secondly, another Shakespearean character was mentioned; Desdemona had been manipulated by her husband, Othello, and murdered ... reference to Shakespeare's play The Tempest. In the song, Wendla said "And who can say what dream are?..."(Sater 64) and in the play, one of the characters said, "We are such stuff, As dream are made on". Pro...

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