... his kind: "to bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge the villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction- (Act III, scene i). He says that he will lead by the example of the Christians, showing that he is no better than they are, although he complains about their behavior towards ... not reason with him and finally gives up: "Let him alone: I'll follow him no more with bootless prayer- (Act III, scene iii). Legally and technically, Shylock is right. It is not stated in the law that he should be merciful if the...

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... 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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... ; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name Prosper: it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i'th" ooze is bedded; and I"ll seek him deeper than e"er plummet sounded, And with him lie there muddled. (III.3.96-102) Antonio is the whole ... reason for Prospero being usurped, as he wanted the power of Duke in Milan. Antonio is Prospero's brother and betrayed Prospero's trust showing that Antonio is worse than ... trying to comfort Alonso and they think he cosies up to Alonso. He also has gratitude towards Gonzalo for helping him...

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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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... sanctuary and her authority. "I watched and I said we won't be at the mercy of brutes any- more, we"ll live a new life and help one another. The govern- ment's creating that new life - you must stop speaking against us."- III, iii, p.83. (All page references to the Methuen edition 1983.) She sees her role as protective but the contradiction in her ministry is her reaction to ... the threat on her government by the individual. It is the Grave Digger's Boy who is the voice of humanity in this play ... . He is killed by the new violent government and only Lear still ... ...

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... "might is right" (Alex Moseley 2003). Realism has it roots in texts such as Theucydides" Pelopennesian War, Machiavelli's The Prince, Thomas Hobbes" Leviathan and various other texts including William Shakespeare's Richard III. The basic premise of realism, is that "objective laws" rooted within human nature govern politics. "Objective laws" is used in this context to mean people behaving in a predictable ... way. Morgenthau states that "[I]n order to improve society it is first necessary to understand the laws by which society lives". The assumption that human nature is a ... ). This m...

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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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... more emotion when dealing with her, "Come, come and sit you down. You shall not budge. You go not till I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you-(III:iv). Hamlet's anger stems from his mothers hasty remarriage to his uncle and her incestuous acts. It's this emotion/anger that drives out Hamlet's deep suppressed feelings of ... make an assumption that Hamlet is not crazy and is thinking clearly throughout most of the play. Yet towards the end his thoughts appear to move away from the rational. This is shown in the same scene, after Hamlet slays Polonuis through the cu...

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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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... are, it were enough To put him to ill thinking. EMIL. Is he not jealous? DES. Who, he? I think the sun where he was born Drew all such humours from him." (III.iv.881) During this conversation Desdemona has said how important the handkerchief is to her and Othello. Desdemona has also told Emilia that Othello is a jealous man with no sense of ... give "t Iago: what he will do with it Heaven knows, not I; I nothing but to please his fantasy." (III. iii. 876) This quote is said by Emilia in a soliloquy after she has stolen the handkerchief. Once again it shows that she is aware of the impor...

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... a more convoluted version, as he is an ironical paradox of love, cruelty and common sense. His affection for Lear is demonstrated when he urges the King to come out of the storm: "Good nuncle, in, and ask thy daughters blessing." (III, ii, 11) The Fool primarily recognizes the severity of the storm, and advises Lear to forget his pride, so that he may enjoy a comfortable surrounding ... , and once she is returned, he is no longer present, so that she may fulfill her role appropriately. Lear exercises his paternal instincts on the Fool in Act III: "Come on, my boy. How dost my boy? Art co...

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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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... 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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... . Turned away by both Regan and Goneril, Lear rages against a storm, and bellows "I am a man more sinned against than sinning" (Act III, scene 2, 56-57). Lear refuses to accept fully the fact that his suffering is of his own making. The storm upon which Lear rages is itself a metaphor for Lear's growing madness and rage. When Lear declares, "No, I"ll not weep / I have ... I was a man, / Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder, / Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never / Remember to have heard, Man's nature cannot carry / Th" affiction nor the fear" (Act III, scene 2, 47-5...

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... insanity amongst humanity, but in slightly different ways. There is the professional madman, the mock madman, and the true madman. The idea of justice, and what is fair, also plays a significant role in the portrayal of madness, complemented by the contrast between reality and Lear's little fantasy world he has begun to live in. Throughout Act III, the audience is presented with numerous different forms of madness. It ... is a time in the play when the theme of madness is very strong, and the entire world appears to have gone completely insane, specifically marked by the split between t...

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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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... an excellent warrior, also being such an honest fearless leader to Venice; he has earned both respect and admiration from the Duke, the Senate, and many Venetian citizens. Most of the Soldiers in Othello's army followed him faithfully, except for "Honest iago " Shakespeare, uses clashing irony, by giving Iago ... decides to work up a plan; a plan to destroy all that was good, destroy innocence and love in "Act 1 Scene III, Iago spats out his words like fire, "I hate the Moor, my cause is heated thine has no less reason. I shall trick Othello into believing Desdemona is unfaithful, with t...

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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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