Iago's Motivation
.... of
evil, a pernicious escort, steering good people toward their own vulgar
destruction.
Iago must first make careful preparations in order to make certain his fire
of human destruction will burn with fury and rage. He douses his victims with a
false sense of honesty and goodness. And, as do most skillful pyromaniacs, Iago
first prepares his most important target, Othello:
Though in the trade of war I have slain men, \ Yet do I hold it very
stuff o'th' conscience To do no contrived murder. I lack the iniquity.
. .\ I had thought t'have yerked him under the ribs\ . . .\ . . .he
pr .....
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Intensional Or Accidentall? Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet And Much Ado About Nothing!
.... might have ejected him from the party and he might not have met
Juliet. Much Ado About Nothing has a similar but also different approach
towards love at the masque. In Much Ado, Count Claudio is not able to gather
the courage to court Hero. Instead Don Pedro, who is one of Claudio's very
close friends, offers to go and woo Hero for his friend. This point is
illustrated by Don Pedro for his great plan to get Claudio and Hero together
"Thou wilt be like a lover presently/ And tire the hearer with a book of words. .
.. That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? "1 Don Pedro's costume allows
him to woo Hero, posing as Claudio.
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Is Hamlet Mad?
.... which is a
trigger for all the subsequent events in the play.
Moving on to the fourth scene, the next interesting speech is on l. 23. It is a
long and complicated speech, but its general gist is that if a person has one
fault, no matter how virtuous they may be in other ways, they are soiled by "the
stamp of one defect". This speech is quite ironic, because it is Hamlet's "one
defect" (his hesitancy and inability to take action), regardless of his other
qualities (such as honour and integrity), will be the main reason why the play
ends so tragically.
Although we are supposed to suspect that "something is rotten in the state o .....
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Is Macbeth A Thoroughly Representative Character?
.... his way to that place of honor.
Readers may debate that Macbeth was indeed insane, thus leading the
reader to believe that he was not representative of a typical human. This is
true, yet any human can be insane, which further proves the validity that
Macbeth was a common individual. Perhaps driven to insanity, no evidence exists
to say that Macbeth was not ordinary, which means that he was not in any way
different from the rest of humanity. What he did in the drama was no different
than what anyone would have done given the position Macbeth was in. Conceivably
an individual may not have murdered and become so very evil, howe .....
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Julius Caesar: Jealousy
.... describes it as "mere foolery" (Act I, sc. II,
235). Casca agrees with Cassius that Brutus is an essential part the
conspiracy. He says, "O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; / And that
which would appear offense in us, / His countenance, like richest alchemy, /
Will change to virtue and to worthiness" (Act I, sc. III, 157-160).
Brutus is the only conspirator who does not act out of jealousy and envy.
He is Caesar's friend, and holds a powerful position in Rome. Therefore, he
has no reason to feel jealous of Caesar. Brutus makes his decision based on
what is the best for Rome, and is tricked into believing that .....
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Julius Caesar: Background Knowledge Is Needed To Understand Play
.... if any man wish that the monarchy should be restored, he was to be
declared a public enemy and be put to death.
Brutus and the rest of the conspirators had killed Caesar, but they made
an error, which was letting Mark Antony, one of Caesar's friends live. Antony
later united with Bepidus and Octavius, to go against Brutus, Cassius, and the
other conspirators. At the battle of Philippi, in Thrace, Brutus and Cassius
took their own lives when their army was destroyed. Just as Caesar and Pompey
had struggled for the world when Cassus died, so now when Bepidus died, Antony
and Octavius were left confronting each other. Octavius hel .....
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Julius Caesar: Brutus Is The Protagonist
.... in further detail one will be sure of the fact that Brutus, without
question, clearly dominates the play as a whole.
Caesar warns numerous people of ensuing tragedies multiple times, and not once
is he listened to. Calpurnia cries out terrified three times during the night,
"Help ho - they murder Caesar!" The reader soon learns of a dream in which
Caesar's wife visualizes her husband's death. She begs and pleads Caesar to
stay home that day, however, nobody ever pays any attention to her dream. In
this instance, Caesar has no influence on the outcome of the play. Again, when
Brutus sees the likeness of Caesar in .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew: Kate's Soliloquy
.... of females in society for an innumerable amount
of years.
After the conclusion of The Taming of the Shrew, including Kate's
soliloquy, the audience is left with a proud feeling - proud of the fact that
Petruchio tamed such a shrew so well. The men of the audience are about with
feeling of satisfaction and justification. Shakespeare skillfully catered
towards both sexes by using Petruchio much like the stereotypical action figure
of today; a character who does the unbelievable effortlessly and leaves the
audience in awe. In the play Petruchio, short after the inception of his
skillful wooing, begins a plan "to kill a wif .....
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King Lear: Themes
.... order is unnatural.
King Lear's sin was that he disrupted this chain of being by relinquishing
his throne. By allowing his daughters and their husbands to rule the kingdom,
the natural order of things was disturbed. His notion that he can still be in
control after dividing the kingdom is a delusion. According to Elizabethan
philosophy, it would seem that this is the beginning of his mistakes and is also
the cause of much of the misfortune that occurs later on in the play. Chaos
rules the unnatural.
As well, King Lear makes another devastating mistake which affects his
relationship with his daughters by asking them t .....
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King Lear: Lear The Tragic Hero
.... happen on them.
Lear, the king of England would be the tragic hero because he held the
highest position in the social chain at the very beginning of the play. His
social position gave him pride as he remarked himself as "Jupiter" and "Apollo".
Lear out of pride and anger has banished Cordelia and Kent and divided his
Kingdom in halves to Goneril and Regan. Lear's hamartia which is his
obstinate pride and anger overrides his judgment, thus, prevents him to see the
true faces of people. As in Act One, although Cordelia said "nothing", she
really means everything she loves to his father. However, Lear only believed
in the b .....
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King Lear: Consequences Of One Man's Decisions
.... to offer pieces of his kingdom to his daughters as a
form of reward to his test of love.
"Great rivals in our youngest daughter's love,
Long in our court have made their amorous sojourn,
And here are to be answered. Tell me, my daughters
(Since now we will divest us both of rule,
Interest of territory, cares of state),
Which of you shall we say doth love us most?
That we our largest bounty may extend
where nature doth with merit challenge."
(Act I, Sc i, Ln 47-53)
This is the first and most significant of the many sins that he makes in this .....
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King Lear: Rejection
.... response further clarifies this rejection. " Good sir, no more ;
these are unsightly tricks : return you to my sister ( King Lear II.iii ).
Lear's reaction is pure rage. He understands that he had not given them too
much of his time, but he had given them their percentage of the kingdom only
because they had made a pledge to him that they would care for him in his
elder years. The bond broken in this situation is a very weak one. The only
thing that held it together was this flimsy pledge that the daughters had no
intention of honoring. But no matter the conditions, he was their father and
his well-being was a sort of payment fo .....
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