The story of Shakespeare in Love is that the playwright William Shakespeare has sold his future play to two different men and theaters (Shakespeare in Love). ... William sees through her disguise and they begin a love affair. ... Separated by social classes but brought together by their love. ... Viola was a woman from a family that had money, upper class (Shakespeare in Love). ... Wealthy upperclassmen married within the class to gain land, money, and strong family ties. ...

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Nothing it seems will veer him from his path of righteousness, not understanding, not reason, not friendship or family, or the mightiest emotion of them all, love. ... No one, not friends, family or lover can bend him from his path of self-destruction. . ... Hamlet can no longer feel love and for that reason he is no longer able to receive love. ... Her father now lays slain by her former love's own hand, sealing an end to their love forever. ... It seems unreasonable that such a loving family be ripped apart by something as trivial as murder. ...

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Their love seems real. ... In the Elizabethan period, violence was a nobler concept seen as a means of conserving one's honour and family pride. ... This recurring imagery conveys to the audience the growing divide between the two lovers and their respective families. ... Their families on the other hand, live in a world of deep hatred and violence. ... Similarly the values love, loyalty, justice and order are eternal. ...

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What he does not understand fully is that the people of the World State have been conditioned from birth to hate all things important in Shakespeare's works; emotion, family, love and death. ... Love is not encouraged, rather promiscuity is socially acceptable in the World State, "everyone belongs to everyone else."" ... Love, death, family, and passion are major themes in his plays, every one of these removed from the minds of the World State citizens. ... Love is also devalued; seeing one person exclusively is the kind of thing that would give a person a bad reputation. ... No more u...

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One of his most famous love stories is Romeo and Juliet. ... How did he understand love and the characteristics that surround it? ... This means that by the time Shakespeare was 21 years old, he had a full family of 3 children and a wife who was 29 years old. ... You could say that this is what might have lead him to write about love in so many of his plays, a love that he wished that he would have had, rather than the love that he got. ... Unfortunately, his family did not approve of her and their union, and he was forced to break things off with her. ...

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The idea of love is everywhere, partners, friends and family. Therefore love can relate to people and the extent of love is tested constantly in life today as well as in Much Ado About Nothing. ... Reason being that love is such an important part of life and so many different types of emotions can be caused by the events that occur in love. Much ado about nothing proves that many emotions can follow from many different forms of love because the other themes featured revolve around this theme of love even though the play is not a typical love story. ... Throughout the first scenes Shakespear...

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I also think the he chose to use a sonnet is because Romeo and Juliet is about love and this is what sonnets were used for. ... This means both families are eminent and have stature. ... The third line "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny," describes the argument between the two families as an "ancient grudge". ... This is not representative of all of the family though. ... The third section of the prologue "The fearful passage of their death-marked love and the continuance of their parents" rage, which but their children's end nought could remove, is now the two hours" traffic on our...

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As well, King Lear makes another devastating mistake which affects his relationship with his daughters by asking them to tell him how much they love him in order that he may divide his kingdom according to the strength of their love. Cordelia, the youngest daughter, states that she loves her father "according to her bond" (p.4). She is saying that she loves him as much as any child could love a father. ... By doing this he is destroying the natural family unit and lacks the insight to know this. ... Again, the natural unit of the family is disturbed for Gloucester has a bastard son w...

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There is an evil that takes over her well intended ambition for her husband, family, and unfortunately it is what leads her to an uncontrollable state far exceeding her true love for Macbeth, and her best interests for her country. ... With her greatest ability; manipulation, she strives to establish her place of power through the name of love, not knowing that desire can also lead to self destruction. ... Although Lady Macbeth cares and loves her husband, she uses that to gain what she desires more than love. She uses love to manipulate over and over her husbands decisions. ... One can onl...

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Following both the major plot of King Lear's family, and the parallel plot of Gloucester's family, the parental flaws of the patriarch's King Lear and Gloucester become evident, becoming the catalysts to the domestic anarchy to follow. ... However, the domestic anarchy that is to follow would not have been perceived as only because of Lear's actions to those who valued family unity but rather as a result of family interaction. ... This is further highlighted in the irony in "I gave you all" in reference to the division of the kingdom, demonstrating the Jacobean&#x...

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This leads him to ponder true love and make a hasty generalization about all women. ... The relationship between his mother and father in comparison with his mother's decision to embark on a new relationship with his uncle makes Hamlet give up on true love. ... Realistically, his decision is one which will cause him even more pain for himself and which will play out to cause more drama for all of the people in his family as well as other families which are close to his own. ... Since it sets up Hamlet's depression and ends with no action, the soliloquy actually intensifies what was...

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Where it attracted not only just older more mature audiences but rather a wider range of teenagers through its change in context and style but still keeping the original theme of love tragedy with a modernized outlook. ... In the studied text Shakespeare text the taming of the shrew one of the earliest of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, audiences witness universal theme such as gender relationships, family relationships and love. ... Such as love and achieving success. ... Petruchio is a gentleman from Verona who marries Katherine neither for love nor her beauty but rather for the price ...

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In the opening of Shakespeare's King Lear the first error in judgement is introduced in scene 1.1 lines 95-98, where Cordelia confesses her love for her father. Good my lord, You have begot me, bred me, loved me; I return those duties back as are right fit, Obey you, love you, and most honor you. ... Lear ignores the fact that cordelia is pouring her heart out and confessing her unconditional love for him and in return he turns his back on her. ... Faustus and Lear overlook their valuable assets such as their family members, friends and the unforeseen angel. ...

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He shows us this by creating conflict between family members from the same house. ... It is shown that characters feel so strongly about conflict and protecting their family honour because they believe it is their destiny. ... He is trying to tell us how noble it is for these six hundred men to go into battle, almost certain to not return, just for the pure love and passion they have for their country. ... Similarly in 'Romeo and Juliet' all of the characters are bound by the love of their house, and would do anything to protect its pride and would never dare to dishonour them. ......

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We realise that this marriage is more than one of mutual love and support; it is not only a new political alliance, but also an exchange of patriarchal power. ... The preservation of a woman's virginity is a recurring theme in Shakespeare's plays; in A Midsummer Night's Dream, we see Helena make known her love for Demetrius, which of itself is a measure executed almost exclusively by men. Whilst she is proclaiming her love, albeit in an unfashionable manner, Demetrius' terse response is that she ought take care as to not lose "the rich worth of [her] virginity" in...

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Lear started his trouble, when he came in like a big jackass and made everyone declare their love for him. "Which of you shall we say doth love us most, that we our largest bounty may extend where nature doth with merit challenge" (I.1 51-53). Now I don't know much about royalty and how they treat their family, but I know in my family, you don't play favorites. ...

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The language, scenery, weapons, and modes of transportation have undergone changes over the years, and thus making the tragic love story a little more confusing to understand in a new generation. ... The two families have been battling with each other for an inordinate amount of time. ... At this stage in the play/film, the audience does not understand the depth of the hatred each family holds for the other. These two families have hated each other for many years, and the fighting does not appear to be ending in the near future. ... As the audience now realizes, the mere presence of a memb...

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When looking back at one's life, it seems as though everyone always looks to the points in life where things went wrong, for example, cheating on a girlfriend, failing a test, getting in a huge fight with family. ... To fall in love is what she fear'd to look on! ... He no longer believes in the true love he thought he had shared with Desdemona, which drives him to the point of plotting to murder her. ...

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With the concept of forging a letter supposedly penned by Edgar in order to cause his loyalty to be in question, he shows that he is deeply aware of the necessary "buttons- to push to cause a rift in the fabric of his family and A Look at Shakespeare's Edmund his society. ... Our father's love is to the bastard Edmond As to th'legitimate. ... (1.2.15-22) Were materialistic reasons the only concern, he would not be mentioning legitimacy and would not be concerned about the love of his father. ...

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A bit like opera; not everyone will love his works, but those who do not love his works will nonetheless have an appreciation for the artistic skill and beauty they contain. ... Due to his family's status in the community Young William most likely attended the King Edward VI School, a free grammar school in Stratford. ...

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Without the ridicule of Lady Macbeth's final words on the evening of the planed murder, Macbeth would have used his better judgment and overlooked the poorly planned assassination, which ended up destroying himself, his family, and his friends. ... He had loyalty to his King, love for his family, and a good sense of morality. ...

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To Be or Not To Be? Around 1568, a group of actors visited Stratford and put on a play before the entire town, with permission from John Shakespeare, the mayor of the town. The people loved the play, especially the small children. All of them looked up to the actors, as they returned each year t...

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"The concept of evil has not been elsewhere been portrayed in great mastery as we see in Shakespeare's character Iago" (Bradley, 206). By analyzing and reading Shakespeare's play Othello, we can indeed say that Iago is Shakespeare's most notorious and evil character. Iago is the triumphant villain i...

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