... , being able to produce play after play in very short periods of time. What is even more amazing is in those short lengths of time, he wrote beautiful poetry and prose, and many quotations and common phrases have been adopted in everyday language today. He captured the human essence: what it is to love, to hate, to feel. As such, Shakespeare's works are first ... with death, usually of the protagonist. In Hamlet, all the prominent characters die, whether it is by poisoned wine, or the sword, or suicide. In Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers commit suicide, and Macbeth ends with a decapitat...

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• Grade Level: High School

... is compelled to want to share his knowledge with others. 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. The first appearance of the title in its context is on the savage reservation where John lives. When on vacation Bernard ... raised on the reservation, has learned to read by the teachings of his mother and himself and read The Complete Works of William Shakespeare multiple times. When full of a strong emotion quotations from the book flood hi...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate