King Lear: Sense Of Renewal
.... by engaging in
false flattery. Instead of trying to out due her sisters, she merely describes
her love in relation to their filial bond. Although her father views this as a
degrading insult and banishes her, it is shown that through her filial bond,
she loves her father with more depth and sincerity than her eager, self absorbed
sisters. Cordelia emerges amid the moral depravity and social decay as one who
is honest and true to her beliefs.
In banishing his daughter Cordelia from the kingdom and taking away her
inheritance, King Lear is destroying the natural order of society. She is left
abandoned by both her father and h .....
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King Lear: Suffering
.... internal death is the final stage of mental suffering, but there are
many stages before the one must go through to get to that last stage. Many of
these stages are shown in King Lear, as he breaks down from a powerful man to a
crazy derelict, all because of someone close to him, that he trusted, stabbed
him in the back. The family is part of your environment and so is the weather.
A storm can be a gusting hurricane or a conflict with your sister. Both
conflicts cause damage, and the damage may or may not be repairable. In the
case of King Lear, his mental state diminished rather badly. He was seeing
small rodents on his a .....
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King Lear: Searching For Vision
.... has divided up the kingdom before the praising even
begins. As evident as he gives each daughter her land before hearing the next
daughter's praise. Thus the who thing is just a show and an ego boost to himself.
It is because of his love for praise that makes him react so strongly to
Cordelia and Kent when they do not act as he would like them to. It could be
said he is like a child who doesn't remember all that his family has done for
them, but only sees them saying no to a piece of candy. In the play, this is
shown in his banishment of Cordelia and Kent. Kent is probably one of the most
loyal people in the room (not to mention .....
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Macbeth: Lady Macbeth And Evil
.... She is ruthless, and her evil accounts for
the murders that occur throughout the play Macbeth.
Lady Macbeth is far more savage and ambitious than her husband, yet she
convinces Macbeth to commit the murders that will make them king and queen.
Macbeth is without his wife's cruel and uncompassionate attitude towards life.
Lady Macbeth is aware that her husband is genuinely a gentle person. However,
she is able to manipulate Macbeth into committing evil deeds in order to
achieve her desires. Lady Macbeth fears that Macbeth lacks enough courage and
killer instinct to murder Duncan. Lady Macbeth might be a more vicious
indivi .....
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Macbeth: Letter From Lady Macbeth To Macbeth
.... doubt crept into my mind on the fateful night of Duncans murder. I
would have done it myself if he had not looked like my father. He was resting so
peacefully in the innocence of sleep, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. So
you had to. Who could have imagined the old man would have had so much blood in
him. This blood has stained me forever and I am afraid it has done the same to
you. Nothing can remove this blood. Many nights I would wake in cold sweat and
my hand would be red from my rubbing. The blood just wont leave me, it haunts me
night and day.
But the murder of the Macduff family was just too much. Sometimes I can
h .....
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Macbeth: Lady MacBeth
.... murders, she, unlike MacBeth, still shows no signs
of a conscience. She is very cool and collected, while MacBeth hallucinates and
goes temporarily mad. Lady MacBeth on the other hand, takes everything calmly.
She takes the daggers back to the King's room, smears blood on the drunken
guards, and attempts to destroy all evidence of MacBeth ever being there. She
knows what needs to be done and does it without any hesitation or fear.
However, it is later on in the story, that it is revealed to us that
Lady MacBeth's conscience is strong. When sleep walking one night, Lady MacBeth
(seemingly somewhat insane) begins blabbering abo .....
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Hamlet: Laertes An Important Character In Play
.... Prince Hamlet. This exemplifies his loyalty and love for
his family, and especially his sister, though she replies to his warnings and
advice with the sarcastic reply to do not ÒShow me the steep and thorny way to
heaven,/ Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine,/ Himself the primrose
path of dalliance treads/ And recks not his own rede.Ó (1.3.47) Following this,
Ophelia and LaertesÕ father, Polonius, enters, and Laertes departs with a final
warning to Ophelia.
Soon after Laertes departs, Polonius meets with Reynaldo, and instructs
him to bring money for Laertes, but first to spy on him and to make sure that he
stays out of .....
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King Lear: The Use Of Letters
.... Gloucester ‘s action. Edmund told Cornwall that his father was traitor
who wanted to help France. Edmund did this to receive more power and get the
credit from Duke of Cornwall. The action of Edmund displayed that he would do
anything to get higher rank. He even betrayed his father who is horribly
punished. Edmund becomes the Earl of Gloucester. Edmund had no loyalty to his
father. In Act III, the letter was in Albany's hand. Albany chose to fight the
French army and that showed his loyalty to England.
The last letter on the stage talked about the plan of murder Albany. It
was written by Goneril to Edmund. G .....
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Much Ado About Nothing: Love, Hate & Marriage - An Analytical Essay On The Relationship Of Beatrice & Benedick
.... BENEDICK: God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some gentleman
or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.
BEATRICE: Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such a face as
yours were.
BENEDICK: Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
BEATRICE: A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.
BENEDICK: I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a
continuer. But keep your way, I' God's name; I have done.
BEATRICE: You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old.
Were the reader to judge the relationship between .....
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Macbeth: Macbeth Is More Guilty By His Actions Than Lady Macbeth Is By Hers
.... from actually doing it. Lady Macbeth did a little more than just talk
about it though. She also urged Macbeth into doing it and that is what makes her
part of this crime, but she is not as guilty as Macbeth. He really didn't have
to listen to what his wife said. Macbeth had a mind of his own and he could
make his own decision. The other murders that Macbeth was involved in were not
committed by him, but were ordered by him. The people who did the killing had no
choice, they had to do it, because they worked for Macbeth. Macbeth knew this
and was a bit more guilty in these murders then lady Macbeth was when she urged
him.
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Macbeth: Imagery Of Animal Behavior And Class Status Advances
.... to get their feet wet, someone to do her dirty work.
In act 2 scene 4 line 15, the old man and Ross talk about the recent
murder. The old man says that the killer, an owl made sure no one was looking
and attacked the falcon and killed it. The owl, lower then the falcon on the
chain of being usually eats mice, which is low on the hierarchy. But this time
the owl eats the falcon whom is usually on the top of the hierarchy.
Later in the play during act 3 Macbeth talks bout the list of dogs and
the list of men. On line 140 in sc.1 Macbeth compares the murders with the
lowliest of dogs. In the next act, Act 4 three witc .....
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Macbeth: A Man Of Established Character
.... service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. But while he
destroys the king's enemies, such motives work but dimly at best and are
obscured in his consciousness by more vigorous urges. In the main, as we have
said, his nature violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in order that he
may be reported in such terms a "valour's minion" and "Bellona's bridegroom"' he
values success because it brings spectacular fame and new titles and royal favor
heaped upon him in public. Now so long as these mutable goods are at all
commensurate with his inordinate desires - and such is the case, up until he
covets the kings .....
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