... of the Bible on English greatest dramatist, Shakespeare. I have to use the Shakespeare's works for example to analysis the use of the Bible allusions. 2. Allusions in Shakespeare's works 2.1 Brief Analysis Shakespeare's knowledge of the Bible was very good. He did not merely quote, but made allusions that showed ... and "Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity."(Ecclesiastes 12:8) to display Macbeth's deep mentality. It was important to show the literary value. When Macbeth heard the news of his wife's death, he was indifferent. The bloody road had turned him into a numb ...

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... he has conquered all to achieve his "vaulting ambition" MACBETH cannot rest either mentally or emotionally, showed in both texts through the dramatic and literary device of soliloquy. This unrest is caused by guilt, MACBETH's solution to this is to hide by wearing these "borrowed robes". Note that ... version it is shown through MACBETH's portrayal of his violent ambition to become king and wear the crown of Scotland. One of the main dramatic and literary devices used in Shakespeare's and Polanski's version of MACBETH is soliloquy, where the character is alone and speaking to aloud, rev...

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... , Thomas Middleton Raysor (London: J. M. Dent, 1960), 49-50, Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy, 202-3, and Kenneth Muir, Shakespeare: King Lear (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986), 32, 55. For a further elaboration of Jaffa's analysis of Lear's plan, see David Lowenthal, "King Lear, " Interpretation 21 (1994): 393-96. 7 "Nature and Convention in King Lear," to be published in Joseph Knippenberg and Peter Lawler, eds., Poets ... , Princes, and Private Citizens: Literary Alternatives to Postmodern Politics (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996). 8 Compare Apemantus's criticism of Timon of Athens...

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... Olivia as a romantic lover and a grief-stricken lady. They are comic characters because they are both wearing masks, metaphorically speaking. Orsino glories in the proper moodiness and fickleness of the literary lover; only our own romanticism can blind us to the absurdities in his opening speech (Summers, 1955). Orsino acts like he is in love with Olivia, but he clearly is ... a common theme. Shakespeare analyzed the dramatic and moral nature of feasting, and to have made it the subject of his play. In Orsino's opening speech, we can see how his analysis is schematized. Orsino thinks h...

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