... or four hogsheads. I have sounded the very base-string of humility. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers and can call them all by their christen names, as Tom, Dick, and Francis" (II.IV.4-8). Another example is that Falstaff is the only person in the play that can match Hal's wit and his intelligence. It can be argued that ... that honor? Air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? He that died on a Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible then/ Yea, to the dead. But will't not live with the living?" In this quote we are given a unique insight into h...

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... character to speak in the play. In response to her father's question of love, she immediately delights him: Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty; Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare; No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor. (1.1.54-57) Goneril's answer appears perfect initially, showcasing grace ... 's character is the embodiment of evil. Pulling the beard of Gloucester, an extreme insult, she and her husband capture and tie him down, plucking out the elder's eye as punishment. Upon her request, his second eye is...

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... strong. The two brazenly defended their love despite Venice's racist setting, and Desdemona's hot-tempered father Brabantio. It would seem that nature was also on their side. A storm left many dead during the journey to Cyprus by ship but nature cooperated in the general movement with a storm that dispersed, while preserving the favored lovers.2 It would seem that Othello's marriage to ... in the face of this awareness, demonstrated a profound moral disorder.15 "Stars, hide your fires! Let now light see my black and deep desires: the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye f...

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... a story of revenge, gone wrong. He created revulsion so we look back and see the deprived way of life that existed in castle Elsinore. We see the room littered with dead beings and Fortinbras taking his rightful throne among the vengeful. There is also a bit of foreshadowing found in Hamlet from all the way in the beginning. Hamlet drawing on biblical ... addresses his purposes. As Polonius puts it so perfectly "by indirection's, find directions out"(A2,S2,L71-73) One of the main themes of the play is revenge. "An eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth." But revenge is not always right. We ...

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... as a means for Cassio to gain his position again). Cassio cannot face Othello yet from shame so departs as Othello enters. Iago then goes to sour the event in Othello's eye by insinuating that Cassio is less than decent. He does this as subtly as he can, creating suspicion by refusing to explain his comment: " Ha! I like not that." By refusing ... the only course left open to him is to murder Cassio. In this deception, Iago solves two problems simultaneously as Iago plans to kill Roderigo as soon as Cassio is dead. Unfortunately, Roderigo does not manage to kill Cassio (Act V, Scene 1) ...

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... as a means for Cassio to gain his position again). Cassio cannot face Othello yet from shame so departs as Othello enters. Iago then goes to sour the event in Othello's eye by insinuating that Cassio is less than decent. He does this as subtly as he can, creating suspicion by refusing to explain his comment: " Ha! I like not that." By refusing ... the only course left open to him is to murder Cassio. In this deception, Iago solves two problems simultaneously as Iago plans to kill Roderigo as soon as Cassio is dead. Unfortunately, Roderigo does not manage to kill Cassio (Act V, Scene 1) ...

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... as a means for Cassio to gain his position again). Cassio cannot face Othello yet from shame so departs as Othello enters. Iago then goes to sour the event in Othello's eye by insinuating that Cassio is less than decent. He does this as subtly as he can, creating suspicion by refusing to explain his comment: " Ha! I like not that." By refusing ... the only course left open to him is to murder Cassio. In this deception, Iago solves two problems simultaneously as Iago plans to kill Roderigo as soon as Cassio is dead. Unfortunately, Roderigo does not manage to kill Cassio (Act V, Scene 1) ...

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... guilt. Lightness turns to dark much faster that day as the Scottish people lose someone dear to their hearts. Macduff is the one who discovers the king, and "When the dead king is discovered in the morning in Macbeth's castle where he had been a guest, the loyal thanes, ultimately suspecting the murder, unite in horror, but Macbeth becomes king " (Jorgenson 2). Macbeth ... monstrous way, Macbeth reflects on how " He has anticipated how Duncan's virtues will plead against the ˜deep damnation' of his murder and blow the ˜horrid deed in every eye' "( Bell 16). Macbeth's cowardly ways shi...

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... who really care about him. Oppositely, Cordelia can see very well what is happening in the court, and she tells him she is glad she does not have a "still soliciting eye" like her sisters, always begging for more (1577)1. Gloucester's first instance of blindness to the truth comes in 1.2 when Edmund reveals he wants to destroy his legitimate brother Edgar and ... to his mad state, though he now has a firm grasp on reality. Now it is the future he cannot see. He also tries to keep from seeing that Cordelia is dead. He wants to be oblivious to her death, to not accept it. His last lines a...

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... ," (3.3.87-90). Physical beauty , that which pleases most men, is disregarded by Touchstone. A "well- married" man of his day is one who wife is financially well off or is drop dead beautiful . However, Touchstone does not seek to be " well-married". Alternatively, by finding a less beautiful wife he wishes to ensure that his wife will never leave his side for another ... . At this point , Rosalind takes action. In the forest , Orlando posts verses he wrote about Rosalind on a tree. He proclaims , " Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love. every eye which in this forest looks/ the fai...

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... , My lord? (Hamlet. Act 1. Sc 3. ln.136). This lack of conviction results in her death as well. Both women have committed no crime, but end up in the same place - dead. The only argument is, which of the deaths were more tragic - a maddened girl in love who is controlled by her family, or an honest girl who could not speak a lie ... . Act 5. Sc 2. Ln. 210). Similarly, Kent too warns Lear of the mistakes he is about to make, advisingSee better, Lear, and let me still remain the true blank of thine eye? (King Lear. Act 1. Sc 1 Ln160-61). Furthermore, Kent also bears a similarity to Cordelia...

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... return. While Lear portrays a lack of insight, Gloucester learns that clear insight does not necessarily come from the eye. Throughout this play, Shakespeare shows us that the world cannot truly be seen with the eye, but with the heart. The physical world that the eye can detect can accordingly hide its evils with physical attributes, and thus clear vision cannot result from the ... eye alone. Lear's downfall was a result of his failure to understand that appearance does not always represent reality. Gloucester avoided ... ...

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... most, the night forest forces new kinds of looking. Shakespeare includes the aspect of vision and its relation to darkness. The power of night transforms the gaze in that the eye's ability is diminished, but the ear's strength is augmented. Hermia is able to find Lysander eventually by using her hearing to its full potential: "Dark night, that from the ... function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes. Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense. Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found; Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound." (Act ...

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... provokes him to pluck out his eyes, "But I shall see. The winged vengeance overtake such children", in which Cornwall replies, "See't shalt thou never. Fellows, hold the chair. Upon these eye thine I"ll set foot" (III.vii.66-69). When Gloucester is saying this, he still lacks clear vision, and would never have seen vengeance taken upon Cornwall. When Cornwall plucks ... does not come from physical sight by ones eyes, but rather than inside ones heart. Throughout this play, Shakespeare is saying that the world cannot truly be seen with the eye, but with the heart. The physical world that...

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... kill herself to live with Romeo for the rest of her life, which is what she wanted. A plan was devised, where Juliet would appear dead, and wake up in Romeo's arms. But with bad communication problems, that was impossible. Juliet faked her death, but Romeo thought she was actually ... . She should not be doing this kind of behavior to get Brutus' attention, but she did so. Finally, in Act four, Scene three, Portia is declared dead by stuffing her mouth with hot coals. There are two things that came from this. Portia could have done it herself; to stay quiet about the conspiracy, or ... k...

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... most, the night forest forces new kinds of looking. Shakespeare includes the aspect of vision and its relation to darkness. The power of night transforms the gaze in that the eye's ability is diminished, but the ear's strength is augmented. Hermia is able to find Lysander eventually by using her hearing to its full potential: "Dark night, that from the ... function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes. Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense. Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found; Mine ear, I thank it, brought me to thy sound." (Act ...

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... stop Romeo from committing suicide as a result of him being overwhelmed by Juliet's "death". Juliet awakes only minutes after, only to find her one true love dead by her side. Feeling a great agony about her dead lover, she takes up Romeo's knife and stabs herself. Fate can be a very powerful force that is able to drive us into foolish situations, good or ... and Romeo kills Paris. Heartbroken, Romeo takes poison and dies next to Juliet's body. When she wakes and finds him dead, she stabs herself with Romeo's dagger. The families are alerted and rush to the tomb. Over the bodies of thei...

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... and Juliet throughout the play have dreams or visions of their deaths. Juliet for example says, "Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb." She sees Romeo dead in a tomb, which is where he eventually ends up in the end of the play, beside her. She talks about Romeo being so low in a tomb ... , he's dead, and she has foreseen it, before it has even happened. How could she have seen the future if it wasn't already decided for her? The answer is that she probably ... have been trying to do more than bring the two together. In Act V, scene iii, The Prin...

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... that was used effectively in this scene was set design. Set design improved the quality of the scene as when Gibson said the monologue he walked over to a statue of a dead King in a cemetery and articulated that he wished to die. This meant that he actually portrayed in his mind a picture of himself lying in the middle of the cemetery just ... lived no more and had no more problems. The theme of death is simply summed up by the set "a cemetery of dead Kings. What is a better place to talk of Death than in the middle of the dead? Lighting was used creatively on Gibson when he stated that...

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... Bottom and have great difficultycommunicating. After the truth is out that Claudio was fooled into thinkingthat Hero was cheating on him, he is full of grief because hebelieves Hero is dead. He agrees to marry Leonato's niece, who issupposed to look just like Hero, to make up his terrible mistake tohe family. After he marries the masked bride, he is happy ... . This certainly is a marriage of convenience. He didnot know Hero anyway so it would not have mattered if he knew thebride to be. In a sense, Hero was resurrected from the dead andClaudio ends up being a very lucky guy. Most of the...

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... a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd: But thy eternal summer shall not ... 's "summer" or beauty will never change. Even after death takes his lover, as long as he is alive, he will keep his lover's beauty alive inside himself, in his minds eye. In addition to his sonnets, Shakespeare wrote longer poems....

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... live with Romeo for the rest of her life. After a while the Friar thought of a potion that would make her look dead for 42 hours. In that time she was to be placed in a big vault where all the Capulets dead bodies go to rest in peace, By the time she awoke Romeo would be there to take her away from her ... find Juliet. As soon as He finds her body he lays beside her and drinks poison to kill himself. Just as Romeo drank the poison Juliet awakens and sees him dead so she kisses him thinking she could get some poison from his lips, she couldn't so she stabs herself. Friar Lawrence later o...

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... that he suspects Othello of sleeping with his wife, Emilia, which is obviously untrue. A character far more complex than seems at first, there is more to Iago than meets the eye - making him a man who is not merely pure evil but rather a true villain in every respect of the word. One of the most fascinating qualities of Iago's character is that ... audience sees that helps turn Claudius into the hated scoundrel that he was. As stated by D.A. Traversi, Beneath Claudius" impressive ability to assume, on the surface and in the public eye, the appropriately judicious and authoritative mask,...

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... category and it is predicted their relationship would blossom. Shakespeare's method of hinting their attraction is by showing one of the two lovers speaking of the opposite lover. " In mine eye, she is the sweetest lady that I ever looked on." Claudio, Act 1 Scene 1 Line 139 page 11 These are the words of Claudio speaking to Benedick. He is marvelling about Hero ... clearly as he is all part of the illusion. It questions if people today would believe such a situation if it happened to them. Is an illusion powerful enough for the eye to believe what it is seeing? In the story it was powe...

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... anybody explain himself or herself. Towards the end of the play after Othello suffocates Desdemona and kills her, Emilia shows up at the door. She freaks out about seeing Desdemona dead, and everyone else comes rushing in. She then speaks of how Iago planted the handkerchief in Cassio's possession, which is when Othello realizes what he does is wrong. He finally ... himself. This shows that he has realized his mistake of doubting Desdemona and feels bad for what he's done to her. Right before he dies, he leans over to his dead wife and says, "I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but ...

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