... open sky, and list to Nature's teachings, while from all around...comes a still voice." When feeling scared of death just listen to nature whom, with it's soothing sounds, will calm your heart until that day in which nature "claim(s) they growth" and are "resolved back to the earth again" in ... ." Hamlet struggles as he tries to decide whether to suffer the "slings and arrows" which life throws at you or to "end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to" therefore making death a savior from pain and struggles. All three writings make ... and some differed. T...

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... the thinker. It will be the conflict between these two roles that will be the heart of the play. This is a fascinating part of the play. Hamlet is now totally unpredictable which can be a source of comedy in scenes where he taunts and ridicules Polonius. However even in the antic disposition ... to murder. Shakespeare here uses hyperbole "Now could I drink hot blood". This line in the context of "the witching time of night" presents a link with evil and darkness especially when he makes mention of "hell". This speech also shows his desire to punish his mother for her actions "I will sp...

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... the reader that she is not very brave. She wants to be crowned just as much as Macbeth, if not more, but she lacks the heart to stab the King and turns to macbeth to carry out the murder. Once the King arrives at Macbeth's castle, Lady Macbeth tells her ... and Scotland is covered by a shadow of darkness. In Macbeth, the witches are a prime source of darkness. First of all, the place and time of the witch's meetings all take on the feeling of darkne! ss. The only times of their meetings are in the middle of the night, and often in terrible conditions of thunder and lightning. The witches...

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... !" right before executing Duncan. Furthermore, a seemingly distraught Macbeth says "Glamis hath murdered sleep," referring to his uneasy feelings after the murder of Duncan. These phrases show that Macbeth, at point, is human and that there is uncertainty in his heart. However, as his character becomes increasingly sinister, Macbeth takes actions to remove those in his way, like Banquo, and "the very firstlings ... of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand," not caring who he harms and how he harms them. This phrase is brutal in ... washing the blood away, his fate may have been se...

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... define the Twelfth Night theme, he uses symbols to make the theme more prominent. The subplot involving Malvolio, Olivia's advisor, holds one of the most important symbols found in this work. Malvolio often wishes that he held Olivia's heart and hand, but the social order and classes found in Renaissance times restrict him. Sir Toby and Maria trick him into believing that ... insanity does not truly exist, but is what Sir Toby and Maria force upon him. Being a wise man, Malvolio turns this scenario around to mean that the darkness is the madness that exists outside of his cell. In respo...

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... . . . " (1.1 ll. 209-10). This short poetic description shows the potential ways that the normal mechanics of the gaze might be changed. Phoebe, or Diana, is the goddess of the moon and of transformation, particularly the unseen and mysterious transformations that happen under cover of darkness. The moon, the only source of light by which lovers can behold each other, is not shedding light on the activities ... , has in daylight solidified into deep feeling. Although he speaks of Helena being "the object and pleasure" of his eye, the visual metaphor is accompanied by a proclamation of th...

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... now here she is ranting and raving on about how much she loves and cares for her love Romeo. Her behaviour is not that of a normal fourteen year old. Her soliloquy is based around darkness and her cravings for Romeo: 'With thy black mantle, till strange love grow bold.' This adds to the dramatic tension ... of the audience because they can see how strangely and unpredictable Juliet's behaviour is now, they will not know how she is going ... Juliet is playing a very dangerous game here, as she is really saying she will never be satisfied till she beholds Romeo and dead is her poor hear...

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... now here she is ranting and raving on about how much she loves and cares for her love Romeo. Her behaviour is not that of a normal fourteen year old. Her soliloquy is based around darkness and her cravings for Romeo: 'With thy black mantle, till strange love grow bold.' This adds to the dramatic tension ... of the audience because they can see how strangely and unpredictable Juliet's behaviour is now, they will not know how she is going ... Juliet is playing a very dangerous game here, as she is really saying she will never be satisfied till she beholds Romeo and dead is her poor hear...

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... rage is very dangerous to not only the person acting out, but those who surround him or her. To start, Tybalt is overconfident at the beginning of Act III, and decides to challenge Romeo to a duel. Romeo does not accept, but Mercutio does. After Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo duels and kills Tybalt ... But send him back" (3.5.60-4). What she means by this quotation (on the last night her and Romeo spend together, as he is slipping into the darkness) is that she wants Fortune to be inconsistent like it has been before, so that Romeo's fate can change and he can come back to her. ... use the...

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... in Denmark during this particular period. Why what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murdered, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words. Here, audiences may experience a great sense of compassion and understanding, and thus align themselves with Hamlet. Throughout this Act II soliloquy, audiences become further aware ... in which he now finds himself that realigns audiences that may have strayed from the side of our tragic hero. "I must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words." Here, the pain of the melan...

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... in his kingdom's great defense, And poured then down before him." [I.iii.89-99]. Macbeth, like any other man, had succumbed to some form of temptation. Shakespeare utilizes him as a model, to show how no matter how strong you may be; even the strongest man can be taken in by ... is lead to believe that Macbeth is a kind man, but in fact is proved not to be. There is always perplexity and doubt in the appearance of evil, darkness rather than light, never clear, rational confidence which is in Macbeth's opening remark: "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" [I.iii.38 ... ]. Lady Macbet...

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... in his kingdom's great defense, And poured then down before him." [I.iii.89-99]. Macbeth, like any other man, had succumbed to some form of temptation. Shakespeare utilizes him as a model, to show how no matter how strong you may be; even the strongest man can be taken in by ... is lead to believe that Macbeth is a kind man, but in fact is proved not to be. There is always perplexity and doubt in the appearance of evil, darkness rather than light, never clear, rational confidence which is in Macbeth's opening remark: "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" [I.iii.38 ... ]. Lady Macbet...

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... are encountering would have occurred. Earlier on in the play Lady Macbeth establishes herself as a very headstrong and determined character. She does this when she calls upon the spirits of darkness to rid her of her natural womanliness and to instead "make thick" her blood and to fill her "direst cruelty". She is sure that nothing will get in her way and so ... "Amen". He is like this until Lady Macbeth takes the situation into her hands and says "tis the eye of childhood." and even though her "hands are of Macbeth's colour" she claims she would be ashamed to act like him, "I shame to ...

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