... , the image of an "unweeded garden- in Hamlet is the protagonist's description for the world. Hamlet is trying to grapple with the death of his father and remarriage of his mother, thereby causing him to use metaphors to present his melancholic state of mind: How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on ... to this! But two months dead The first soliloquy reveals Hamlet's disgust with the "stale- world and attempts to find the origin of his unhappiness, which he believes is his mother's body and sexuality. He tells us that he sees the world as an ...

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... on her own, she revealed that was breaking away from the strictness imposed by her father. She recalled the way her mother made the same decision, "I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband and so much duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much I challenge that I may assert due to the Moor my lord," (1.3, 409 ... ...

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... and education both do learn me/How to respect you. You are the lord of duty,/ I am hitherto your daughter/ But here's my husband,/ And so much duty as my mother showed/ To you, preferring you before her father,/ So much I challenge that I may profess/ Due to the Moor my lord. (I. iii. 178-187). This speech illustrates Desdemona's inner conflict and ... her submissiveness to them. One of Desdemona's most powerful speeches occurred in her final moments before Othello smothered her where she recited a song that she learned from one of her mother's maids, Barbary, "She was in love; and he p...

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... wife, Desdemona has given it away to her lover, Cassio. This treasured possession of Othello's is a handkerchief, which "Did an Egyptian to my mother give". The handkerchief is important to Othello because it is a link back to his mother who also told Othello to give it to his wife. "She dying gave it me, And bid me when my fate would have ... ...

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... to put him to ill thinking. "(Shakespeare 838).Othello asks Desdemona to "Lend him thy handkerchief, that one which I gave you " "I have it not about me" "Not! That handkerchief thy mother, dying, she gave it me, and bid me, when my fate would have me wived, to give it her. I did so; and take heed on it." Why do you speak ... ...

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... creatures, likely to betray men" with "Appetites never satisfied" . The history of the handkerchief also suggests the power of female 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 ... ...

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... violently, but the English forces gradually overwhelm his army. Now face to face with Macbeth, Macduff declares he is not of woman born, but was instead "untimely ripped" from his mother's womb. Though he realizes that the end is near, Macbeth combats until Macduff kills and beheads him. Through Macbeth's death, Shakespeare shows what can happen when ambitions go unchecked by ... ...

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... plot, reminds O of the strawberry handkerchief he gave to his wife. O becomes sidetracked when he remembers back to the blissful days when he gave Desdemona the most meaningful gift - his mother's handkerchief. Iago stokes the fire once again in an attempt to bestow vengeance upon O. It is a strange, minute and sickening upheaval when O realizes that some trivial and all-important gift ... ...

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... readily believes Iago's notion that Desdemona is cheating on him. Again, Othello loses credibility to the reader when he believes the fate of his relationship lies in a "magical- handkerchief. Othello's mother gave him this and told him that when he is wed, to give it as a gift to his wife. As long as she has the handkerchief, their marriage will remain ... ...

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... had originally expected. Similarly, Claudius is able to use manipulation and deception to alter others" views to his own. For example, he is able to convince Gertrude, who is Hamlet's mother before becoming Claudius's wife that her son has gone insane and must be sent away. Two other characters turned into Claudius's puppets through his clever manipulations are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ... ...

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... Desdemona. The handkerchief is a key quality in a majority of feminist readings to Othello as its symbolic qualities are different for each character. Othello's connection with the handkerchief is that his mother gave it to him after she used it to keep his father faithful, so to Othello it represents marital fidelity. To Desdemona the handkerchief represents Othello's love, as it was ... ...

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... the lady-, Desdemona in her first appearance on stage challenges her father, explaining to him that: I am hitherto you daughter. But here's my husband/ And so much duty as my mother showed/ to you, preferring you before her father/ So much I challenge that I may profess/ Due to the Moor my lord (I,iii) Interestingly, when Othello is told that he is to ... ...

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... in a appropriate and well rehearsed manor presenting a logical and precise account "I do perceive here a divided duty I am hitherto your daughter but here's my husband, and so much duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her farther". In this speech Desdemona shows initiative using her fathers own experience against him. Desdemona also shows independence as she does not try ... ...

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... acts continue to occur throughout the play until Claudius's death. In the beginning of the play, Hamlet returns to Denmark after hearing of his father's death only to find his mother already remarried to Hamlet's uncle, Claudius. Hamlet, upon returning, sarcastically describes his feelings toward Claudius as "A little less than kin and more than kind." (Act 1, Scene 2) referring to his awkward ... ...

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