... against a background of moral decay. Just as Isabella, Wendla expressed her conflicting feelings of love for her mother and the desire to know the truth. The play revealed the issues of mercy, justice and truth just as Wendla tried to figure out. She wanted her mother to help her ... admitted he was. The theme of homosexuality was reinforced. The third reference to a work of Shakespeare was in act two. Wendla and Melchior were talking about there moment of intimacy. They sang "The Guilty Ones" and this was a reference to Shakespeare's play The Tempest. In the song, Wendla said ... "And ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... thanks to his father's financial difficulties. On November 27th, 1582, Shakespeare had got married to Anne Hathaway. She was eight years older then he was. The reason they got married is just a calculated guess, but at the time, she was pregnant with Shakespeare's child. If they did not marry, it would be a sin. They had a total of three children together, Judith, Hamnet ... , and Susanna. From 1584-1592 are reported to be the "lost years." After the lost years, documents had shown that the plague had taken over from 1592-1593. Because of this, all the theaters had closed. During this ti...

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• Grade Level: High School

... has placed on love. He speaks of alteration and of removal, showing that there was once "true" love that has now changed, and any change will bring forth the death of love. Then, the speaker tells what love is through a metaphor: a guiding star to lost ships "wandering barks" (Line 7) that are not susceptible to storms it "looks on tempests and is never ... and gorgeous, becomes perfectly exact; either you have true love or you do not. The speaker then goes on to describe the permanence of love, how nothing can destroy its permanence or power. It looks upon a tempest and remains immutab...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School