Characters fail to reach their full potential of their self as defined by social or domestic expectations unexpectedly due to the destruction forced on them by both their society and of their family. ... Cordelia is equally shown, as Lear describes her as the most loved of his daughters and the court's happiness, "our joy" (1.1.123, 82). ... Lavinia knows the physical danger she is in, and because Tamora has declined compassion, Lavinia begs to be saved the shame of her presence as a raped woman, a disappointment to her family and society. ... By the end of the play, her value has been co...

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Family members are mistreated by each other. ... King Lear also has a political approach for it is not only about family dynamics. ... His two daughters Goneril and Regan claim that they love him a lot and they try to gather love words in order to describe their fake love for their father. ... Unwittingly, he gives away his paternal love and abandons his daughter who loves him the most. ... He was not aware that one is willing to kill his own family if he/she wants to get some wealth. ...

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In an argument over a hat, Kate demands, "Love me or love me not, I like the cap, / And it I will have, or I will have none" (4.3, 84-85). ... This strong will is changed around, however, when Beatrice "overhears" Hero and Ursula talking about Benedick's love for her. ... However, Beatrice continues to mask her desires for Benedick, and uses his love for her to get her way. She persuades Benedick to kill Claudio, asking him to, "use it (his hand) for my love some other way than / swearing by it" (4.1, 325-326). ... Thompson did a great job portraying Beatrice's over confident p...

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The man who has most control in the activity of the two families is Mr Rock who seems to have the both in the palm of his hand. There are similarities too, however, in the two texts in the distinct hierarchy present in the structure of the opposing sides/families. They both have a controlling father figure and loyalties to the respective culture/family run deep, although in ""Romeo Must Die"" this loyalty turns out to be fake. ... The role of love and fate also vary greatly in the two texts. ... "Romeo and Juliet" opens with the prologue revealing the fate of the star-crossed lovers and the na...

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Shakespeare was born into a wealthy family is that his father John Shakespeare was a businessman and his mother Mary Arden came from a wealthy family, but later came adversity and John Shakespeare was devoted to a butcher with the help of their children . ... In 1590 he wrote works of love lost and the Comedy of Errors. ... Undoubtedly the highlight was William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, this play is about two young men who fall in love but it has great obstacle to be together, the enmity between their families. ... Her want a power that sleeps for hours then their parents bury and R...

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Shakespeare tries to unify and harmonizes these contrasts in form of romantic love of Antony and Cleopatra but he is also aware of the consequences of this unification which turns to great disaster due to the clash of civilizations. The audience is introduced to this threat in the beginning of the play when the Roman Soldiers see Antony as 'a strumpet's fool' (1.1.13) where as Antony finds a 'new heaven , new earth ' in the love of Cleopatra. ... In Egypt, this practice had more religious motto rather than simply keeping the property intact within family. ... Cleopa...

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These highly subjective sonnets are wonderful tales full of love, deception, and betrayal. ... However, if one man can so exquisitely write fictional stories about love and still include a controversial issue in them, then where do we draw the line between fact and fiction? ... At the time, the sonnet was being repopularized as a common way for expressing one's love for another. ... The argument of this sonnet is if his wife does not want children, then not only does she deny herself immortality, but she also denies it to the family name. ... On the surface, the poem is simply a sta...

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He did it because he was aware that he would not be able to ascend the throne unless his three elder brothers, including Edward IV who was the eldest and the sitting King of England, George and Duke of Clarence in the York royal family are eliminated. ... This was clearly indicated at the beginning of the play when he said that he had hatched fiendish plots through drunken prophecies and dreams to set his brother George and the king in deadly hate against each other (1.1.32-35) to initiate a family feud, which would subsequently prevent George of Clarence from being a potential successor to th...

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This is a typical Shakespearean male falling in love at first sight. ... Love guides many of Lucentio's future actions throughout the play. ... For me, that I may surely keep mine oath, I will be married to a wealthy widow, Ere three days pass, which hath as long loved me As I have loved this proud disdainful haggard. ... Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love. ... He does not let love control him the way that Lucentio does. ...

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He considers love to be "merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.... He is a lady's man, and therefore cannot be concerned with such things as true love. Even Othello, the one character who truly loves his wife, mistreats Desdemona. ... He states to Iago "Alas, poor rogue, I think i' faith she loves me." (4.1.128) Cassio essentially uses Bianca's love to his own means. ...

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They exaggeratedly telling him that they love him more than anything. ... Even more truthfully, she says "Why have my sisters husbands, if they say they love you all? ... Therefore be gone without our grace, our love, our benison." Likewise, Kent a loyal Earl who able to see Cordelia's true love toward the blind king. When Lear gets mad from Cordelia, Kent tries to convince him to see which daughter really love him. ...

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Moreover, in the view of the majority of critics, the play charts the growth of Lear's wisdom, as he learns the emptiness of worldly glory and comes to embrace the love of his daughter Cordelia as the one true value in his life. ... Imagine (I said) a father asking his three children: Which of you kids loves me the most?" ...

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Hermione does not adhere to the common image of the submissive Renaissance woman but, instead, proclaims, "I do confess I loved him as in honour he required Which not to have done I think had been in me Both disobedience and ingratitude To you and toward your friend " (III.ii.1277-1283). ... His father would be revolted and furious at the idea of his son, royal-blooded and honorable, marrying a commoner and binding their family with one so inferior. ... Perdita needs to have faith in those around her and in her society for her to have a fighting chance at revealing the truth of her family line...

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