... of mind is very unjust. We are first witness to her prejudice when she is made aware of Morrocco's arrival: "If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil I would rather he shrive me than wive me." (I, iii, 129-130) Poria's comment reveals her intolerance for dark complexions, she is admitting to her superficiality. We are able to determine that ... half yours - Mine own I would say, but if mine then yours. And so all yours." (III, ii, 16-18) She even gives Bassanio an unfair advantage by playing a song that foreshadows the correct casket. The one suitor that Portia ...

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... son's rowdy behavior and praises what he assumes is truly honorable conduct in Hotspur's blind ambition. Later in Act III, Henry IV chastises Hal for not being respected in the public opinion in the way Hotspur is. He also notes that Hotspur, like himself, had to prove his worth through battles and praises his ... fortitude; "To bloody battles and to bruising arms. What never-dying honour hath he got-(III.2.105-106). To Henry IV, this is a highly regarded way of proving oneself through bravery and regal duty. Hotspur, on the other hand, has his own voice when it comes to honor. Shortly ...

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... choosing not to fight, but it appears that she makes this choice because she is cowed by Petruchio's unyielding stance. During their honeymoon, as Act IV, scene iii opens, Kate has clearly been affected by Petruchio's treatment, especially by the excuses he continues to give for his behavior. She complains to Grumio that what particularly infuriates her is that Petruchio torments under ... for her to react to his actions with her typical anger, since he seems to have the best intentions and only desire her happiness and comfort. In Act IV, scene iii, Kate once again tries to draw the li...

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... sadistic in their attack on him: "Why, we shall make him mad indeed." "The house will be quieter" (III, 4, 131-2) This would be humorous as an empty threat, yet the action is something that they genuinely attempt. It backs up Broom's statement about sadism and therefore tests the bounds of the Romantic Comedy genre. Their saying such things in retaliation for Malvolio's comments that they ... -2) would be fine had they not made a genuine attempt to drive him to insanity. Comments such as these and the retort "Go hang yourselves, all." (III, 4, 121) do back up Levin's "officious snob" sta...

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... has such rich and varied incidents, characterization, subject matter and use of language. One of the main techniques is how Shakespeare represented characters. He manipulated audience's minds by changing the way characters behaved in certain situations. Act III Scene 4 plays a very important role in the play "Hamlet" because it reveals aspects of Hamlets" and Gertrude's characters which help us understand ... how Shakespeare manipulates the audience's feelings about these characters by changing the way the characters act and react in different situations. This is ... future lover, when i...

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... A ghost is also not visible for everybody. In the last appearance of the ghost in the Queen's closet it is only Hamlet who can see and hear him. The Queen is wondering: "Alas, he's mad!" (III.4.119), "to whom do you speak this?" (III.4.146) This changes her whole attitude towards Hamlet. She ... now thinks that he is "mad" and who would trust somebody who is out of his mind? Hamlet looked up to his father because he felt that he was a great leader and the bravest ... with. The appearance of the ghost in the first act changes the fate that has struck Denmark with the sudden death of Old ...

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... through affection; madness through misfortune. It is through devotion for his mother and the effect of his father's ghost's revelations that causes Hamlet to feign madness. Hamlet unwittingly destroys Ophelia, by his pretence of insanity, which results in Ophelia being blamed for "the happy cause of Hamlet's wildness". [III.i.39] It is presumed that Ophelia is a tool used by Shakespeare to ... reveal Hamlet's true feelings, and also as a test of the reader's attitude to, and empathy towards him. Hamlet's madness can be reviled as ... role in Hamlet's madness, but makes limited appearance...

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... father's death and recover his father's lands. The ends of the various vengeful sons dramatically challenges the revenge ethic: Laertes, the hot-blooded avenger, falls into the trap he made for Hamlet; Hamlet, the reluctant avenger, has fallen victim to Laertes's revenge; Fortinbras, who has disavowed vengeance, inherits the kingdom. In this bloody tragedy, Fortinbras's history alone has a comic trajectory. III. Hamlet thus presents a negative typology of redemption ... . Denmark is a fallen world, needing to be set right. Instead of showing us the redeemer, however, Shakespeare shows us...

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... preconceptions of how a society should behave towards black people, but also allows the audience to empathise with Othello. However, as the play progresses and Iago's "monstrous birth- (I,iii) begins to sprout in Othello's "garden- (I,iii), he begins to conform to the assumptions and expectations which he so strongly contradicted in the open stages of the play. Othello even says himself that "passion, having my best judgement collied ... / Assays to lead the way- (II,iii). Othello gradually strays from his original composure and dignity to the point where a sudden outcry of "O, blood, bl...

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... Octavius Caesar knows. Cleopatra can be seen as either utterly perfect, or as far from it as anyone can imagine. She is a great and enchanting empress, but also the "nag of Egypt". Act III, Scene VIII, Line 28 In fact there are many ambiguities in both of their characters. Antony is a Mars and a Hercules, but also a "strumpet's fool". Cleopatra is an extremely ... I great Juno's power" (IV, xv, 35). Some other Gods that are mentioned are Venus, Isis and Hercules. Cleopatra and Antony mean much more than they actually say. In Act I Scene III, the nature of their complex emotional relatio...

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... -hold heads and unfed sides,Your loop'd and window'd rag-gedness, defend you (III.iv.35-38). Lear's insanity in-creases over the course of the play, demonstrated to the audience through more speeches, until his emotions over-throw his reason at the climax of the play. Lear erratic-ally shouts in to the storm, Rumble thy bellyfull! Spit, fire! Spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire ... are my daughters. I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness. I never gave you kingdom, called you children(III.ii.14-17). The example of Lear invoking the storm to destroy the seeds of matter along w...

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... bosom of such a thing" (I.ii.70). One who she feared "To fall in love with what she feared to look on"(I.iii.98). The idea of race developed as a way to explain social divisions in a society that thought it believed in equality. And what constitutes race has changed quite dramatically since then. Othello is ... sexuality over men: "That handkerchief Did an Egyptian to my mother give; She was a charmer, and could almost read The thoughts of people: she told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love...."(III. iv. 55-60) . Brabantio who rep...

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... course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keep on To the Propontic and the Hellespont Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace. shall ne'er look back ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love." (III.III. 452-458). After Iago manipulated Othello's feeling by proving him ... him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport. There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered. Traverse! Go, provide thy money. We will have more of this to-morrow. Adieu," (I.III.368-375). After hearing rumors that Othello slept with Emilia, paranoia takes over Iago's ... emotional exhaustion. Whi...

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... criticisms of King Lear however, cannot be completely valid, as they are all created as a subjective opinion of the director or critic about the Shakespearean classic tragedy. The examination of the performances of Act I, Scene I in Michael Elliot's film, Barrie Kosky's play and also Act V, Scene III in Peter Brook's film and once again in Michael Elliot's film, demonstrates how each adaptation of King Lear ... , yet communicate a common message to the responder by using many film techniques adapted by the director. In Brook's appropriation of King Lear, Act V, Scene III is altered to em...

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... mother, jealous of her attention to Claudius, and desperately wishing for her love. Scolding, "you are the queen, your husband's brother's wife; and -would it were not so!- you are my mother"(III.iv.18-19), Hamlet berates his mother with sharp edged comments showing his lack of respect and his ... disapproval of her marriage. Angrily thinking, "Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her galled eyes, she married. O, most ... in Denmark instead of returning to college simply because she asks him to. Hamlet's strong love for his mother is a cause for the even...

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... mother, jealous of her attention to Claudius, and desperately wishing for her love. Scolding, "you are the queen, your husband's brother's wife; and -would it were not so!- you are my mother"(III.iv.18-19), Hamlet berates his mother with sharp edged comments showing his lack of respect and his ... disapproval of her marriage. Angrily thinking, "Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her galled eyes, she married. O, most ... in Denmark instead of returning to college simply because she asks him to. Hamlet's strong love for his mother is a cause for the even...

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... four lovers end up wishing for daylight at the end of Act III, Scene 2: "Come, thou gentle day" (Act III, Scene 2, 418)"O weary night, O long and tedious night,/ Abate thy hours, shine comforts from the east" (Act III, Scene 2, 431-432). Physical darkness impairs or transforms vision, and by transforming the sense humans rely on 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 ... art no...

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... four lovers end up wishing for daylight at the end of Act III, Scene 2: "Come, thou gentle day" (Act III, Scene 2, 418)"O weary night, O long and tedious night,/ Abate thy hours, shine comforts from the east" (Act III, Scene 2, 431-432). Physical darkness impairs or transforms vision, and by transforming the sense humans rely on 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 ... art no...

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... , kind hearted and caring person, and therefore, worthy of loving Portia. An example of his worthiness can be seen in (Shakespeare) Act III, scene ii, page 48, when Bassanio says: "The seeming truth wish cunning times put on to entrap the wisest/ Therefore, thou gaudy gold/ hard food for Midas, I will have none of thee/ Nor none of thee, thou pale and common ... , at Shakespeare's time, Jews were being persecuted and were commonly seen as villains. Ironically, the villain of Merchant of Venice is the Jewish usurer, Shylock. All throughout the play, Shylock is taunted and ridiculed for bei...

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... and accuses him of using witchcraft in order to marry his daughter. Brabanzio accompanies Othello to see the Duke to confront him in front of the Senate. Due to the fact that the Duke and the Senate favor Othello, Othello gets the chance to speak his peace. He explains that he loves Des and that there was no ... and gives to Iago to start a plan of devastation. Iago then plants the handkerchief in Cassio's room as evidence of the affair. Othello demands "ocular proof that Des is cheating." (III.iii.365) Iago mentions that he has seen Cassio "wipe his beard" (III.iii.444) with Des's hank...

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... artist of evil, then this scene is the finest canvas he paints. This is the crucial moment in the play, the scene where he, , deceives Othello and induces him to fall. He does so by expanding on the tactics used in prior scenes. Once the seed of doubt is planted in the Moor's mind with a quick "Ha! I like not that" (III.iii.35) (when they come upon Desdemona and ... Cassio) and a few probing questions about the ex-lieutenant's relati! onship to Othello's wife, Iago retreats into the guise he has adopted. He becomes "honest Iago ... -eyed monster") and insisting that he will not speak sl...

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... In Hamlet, when Horatio says, "ere the mightiest Julius fell," the allusion is to the death of Julius Caesar. The ghost is also related to allusions in Hamlet. Three other Shakespeare plays have ghosts as characters: Julius Caesar Macbeth and Richard III. In Hamlet, the role of the ghost who appears in the first scene is to trigger the action by revealing Claudius" crime and by ... demanding vengeance. The ghost is much more symbolic since it has already been established elsewhere as a serious omen of things to ... come. The allusion creates much more suspense and anticipation for anyo...

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... himself whether he should kill himself, or if it is "nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune," (Hamlet III.i.57). Similarly, In Romeo and Juliet, fate is blamed the cause of trouble. After the death of Tybalt, Romeo exclaims that he is "fortune's fool!" (Romeo and Juliet, III.i.136). It is clear that these characters are primarily governed by their belief in ... as well, evident in both Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. Hamlet utters in one of his soliloquies while he contemplates suicide, "To be, or not to be, that is the question" (Hamlet III.i.55). Shakespeare tends ...

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... not fare well, and it dies sharply when he finds out she is conspiring against him. A sign of growth occurs as he shows his willingness to accept the situation as it is. He says, 'I never gave you aught' ( III.i. 96). Not wholly mature at this point, Hamlet does revert to some immaturity when he makes threats on many peoples' lives. Knowing of ... the presence of the eavesdropping Claudius, Hamlet makes a mistake when he declares, 'I say, we will have no new marriages: those that are married already, all but one, shall live' (III.i. 153-5). This statement only proves to make the situati...

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... will make one do crazy, unexpected things, and that acting out in pride or 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 ... acting out in rage and excessive hatred. In a sonnet, the volta signifies the change in the mood. In Act III Scene I, the play's entire genre shifts from romance to tragedy. Furthermore, the places where there are sonnets in this pla...

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