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"Richard III", 2002.
A paper which looks at the role of women in Shakespeare's play, "Richard III".
2,180 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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A paper which presents a detailed discussion about the role of women in "Richard III" by William Shakespeare. The writer of this paper brings forth the roles played by females as well as a discussion about the impact they bring to the work both in emotional as well as movement areas of their life. The paper shows how the women in the real life of Richard III were strong and intelligent but Shakespeare chose to portray them with personality traits he needed for the play.
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"In the real life of Queen Margaret she played a marginal role in the life of Richard III but in the play she was a key and central figure to the Kings rise to power and fame. She was a presenter of truths through her visions. Instead of being the strong and capable woman that she was in real life Shakespeare had her a constantly crying woman because she felt her cause was lost. One of the reasons he may have placed her in the position that he did was because it allowed him to write some things he wanted the audience to understand without having to create entire scenes for them and hire more actors to carry out the scenes(Rackin pg 47). "
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"Hamlet" and "Henry IV", 2002.
A comparative analysis of father/son relationships in Shakespeare?s "Hamlet" and "Henry IV".
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 43.95
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The paper presents a discussion of the male characters in both plays and then constructs a comparison between the two plays in terms of the father/son relationships therein.
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"Polonius and Laertes, on the other hand, are portrayed as opposites in character. Although the play sees more of their relationship in the play, the viewers/readers cannot conclude that a happy relationship exists between the two of them. Laertes is a good and trusting son, who obeys his father unconditionally. Polonius, meanwhile, is a suspicious character that perceives his son as an alcoholic and womanizer. Polonius? distrust in his son was seen at Act Two, Scene One, when he ordered his servant Reynaldo to spy on his son Laertes at France. He even went to the extent of making Reynaldo tell a lie by telling the Danes (Denmark people) that Laertes has full of vices to affirm if Polonius? suspicion is true. Laertes, a man who left in good faith that his father bids him well, is unknowingly ?stabbed at his back? by his own father because of Polonius? suspicious nature. Although Polonius? has not been a good example for his children, Laertes showed unconditional love for his father when he returned to Denmark to avenge his father?s death wherein Hamlet was the murderer. In the end, both Hamlet and Laertes died, two men who sacrificed their lives to give justice to the death of their fathers."
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"Othello", 2002.
A study of the main characters in Shakespeare's "Othello".
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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The paper examines the claim that Othello's own weakness of character is responsible for his downfall. It uses Othello's feelings of jealousy and his low self-image as examples of this claim. It traces the way Othello's personality changes through the play in response to Iago's plot. The paper also looks at the animal imagery used in the play to describe the characters.
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"Othello is an accomplished military leader who has the trust and admiration of the duke and the senate, as well as that of Desdemona and her father, Brabantio. But his greatest battle and tragic failure takes place within him, his weakness of character, especially his response to the temptations of jealousy by the vile promptings of Iago, his ensign. Othello is prepared for the most difficult fights with strong opponents, but not when his opponent is his own reaction.
Despite his high rank in the military and the Venetian society, Othello remains insecure within himself and suddenly realizes his small self-regard when Iago dubiously suggests that fresh, young and beautiful Desdemona and his newly-stalled lieutenant Cassio are having a secret love affair. Othello becomes conscious of his perceived liabilities, namely his being a black man with ?thick lips? and his being older than Desdemona, which perhaps make him not that attractive to her:"
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"Macbeth", 2002.
An analysis of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" and how it differs from other Shakespearean tragedies.
2,530 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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"Macbeth" is one of Shakespeare?s most well-known tragedies. This paper highlights the difference of this play to some of his other famous plays. The play is very short compared to other plays. Shakespeare uses the play to mimic contemporary issues that were of concern in his time. But unlike some Shakespearean plays, Macbeth is a hero and also a villain. This paper takes a look at these issues.
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"Macbeth is based on the life of the king of Scotland. Macbeth was the governor of Moray and killed a man named Duncan in 1040 in a fight. Macbeth was probably of royal blood. Macbeth's wife was a royal she was the granddaughter of Kenneth III. Kenneth III was overthrown by one of Duncan's ancestors. Macbeth was eventually defeated in 1054. A man named Malcom killed Macbeth in a fight and sat on the throne as Macolm III. It has been said that Shakespeare probably adapted the story from versions told by Raphael Holinshed and Hector Boece (Macbeth). "
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Puck of ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream?, 2002.
This paper discusses the character ?Puck? in Shakespeare?s ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream.?
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 51.95
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This paper examines the Shakespearean character ?Puck? in the play ? A Midsummer Night?s Dream.? It describes him as the head fairy and protagonist in the play and the reason this play is so magical. The paper describes the use of language in order to set apart the fairies from the ?mortals?.
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"'Spirits and fairies cannot be represented, they cannot even be painted, -- they can only be believed'" (Bloom 87). This could be the opening line of Shakespeare?s ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? for as we watch the play unfold, we are taken out of the world of today, and into a magical world full of romance, magic, and farce, and Puck is a major player in the story that unfolds."
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"Hamlet", 2002.
A paper which explores Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in light of its original audience.
1,600 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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The paper shows that because literary critics and historians have discussed "Hamlet" so often, it is easy to forget that Shakespeare wrote his tragedy as a play to be performed in the context of an Elizabethan production, to an Elizabethan audience. The author points out that it is a refreshing antidote to consider ?Hamlet? in light of its original audience, instead of some of the more modern textual analysis of this performed text, which views the central character as a kind of an early existentialist.
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"Stephen Greenblatt?s book "Hamlet in Purgatory" attempts to accomplish this. Greenblatt advances the theory that Hamlet, rather than simply being a tragedy about a man who could not make up his mind, is really about a man wrestling with the shifting religious climate of early Protestant England, a country still in great religious flux. Greenblatt states that for Protestant reformers, the Catholic concept of purgatory stood as emblematic of the idea of ?works? rather than faith sent one to heaven and thus it was the crux on which the Catholic Church ?a vast system of pillaging and sexual corruption? depended upon. (Greenblatt 13) Hamlet begins in purgatory, with the ghost?s injunction to vengeance, but it ends in a far more theologically ambiguous place, as was typical of the Elizabethan religious climate of the period."
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Good versus Evil, 2002.
This paper discusses the theme of good versus evil in different literary works.
1,215 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce and discuss good versus evil in two works, ?Young Goodman Brown,? by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and ?Hamlet,? by William Shakespeare. The paper breaks down both works and discusses the conflict between good and evil in both works. The author concludes that despite the struggles between the characters in both stories and how evil seems to triumph over good in both stories.
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"There are many contrasts in Hamlet. There is the good in Hamlet that turns to evil when he seeks revenge. His mother loved his father, but is turned by greed and ambition into a schemer who marries when the old king is barely in his grave. Ophelia is a good woman, but Hamlet tells her he does not love her, and she should go to a nunnery. Yet, after he finds out about her death, he raves that he loved her. Shakespeare loves to use plot twists and contrast to set up the endings of his tragic plays, and Hamlet is probably one of the best examples of the darkness of these twists and turns
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"King Lear", 2002.
A study of the theme of disloyalty in Shakespeare's "King Lear".
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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The paper shows how "King Lear" by William Shakespeare, is an unforgettably disturbing story of unbearable injustice and cruelty as well as of unseen loyalty and love. The paper explores how, from beginning to end, it is a tale of deception, and not just any kind, but filial deception as well as fraternal deception and deception in relationships by affinity. The author uses quotes from the original text to show how the theme of disloyalty is seen throughout the play.
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"Birds of a treacherous feather flock together and dupe one another too. The sisters Goneril and Regan now both want Edmund, who rather than choose, takes both of them for convenience and in order to avoid the displeasure of both:"To both these sisters have I sworn my love; each jeaolus of the other, as the stung are of the adder. Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither?" (Act 5 Scene 1 lines 64-67)
"We know how the sisters try to outdo each other till the end, but with Goneril finally poisoning Regan and eliminating her from the competition, Goneril being the original and more wicked of the two. But Goneril meets her own end when her husband Albany gets hold of her secret letter to Edmund and Albany confronts her. In smoldering embarrassment and guilt, she takes her own life."
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Hamlet and Laertes, 2002.
An analysis of the similarities and differences in the two characters Hamlet and Laertes in William Shakespeare?s play ?Hamlet?.
720 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 25.95
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This paper discusses how the differences in the two characters can be seen in their roles as avengers in the play, how they deal with this role, their personal characteristics, their ability to react spontaneously and their relationships with Ophelia.
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?One of the major similarities between Laertes and Hamlet is in their role as avengers in the play. Laertes takes revenge against his father Polonius?s death, where he immediately assumes Claudius is responsible and returns from France immediately to revenge the death. Hamlet also has a role as an avenger, where his father?s ghost speaks to him, telling him Claudius is responsible for his death and asking him to ?revenge his foul and most unnatural murder? (I,iv).
The major difference between Laertes and Hamlet is how they deal with their role as avengers. Laertes on learning of his father?s death reacts immediately, by speaking of revenge, ?I dare damnation: to this point I stand, that both worlds I give to negligence, let come what comes; only I'll be revenged most thoroughly for my father? (IV,v). In contrast, Hamlet, on learning of his father?s murder is asked by the ghost of his father to revenge the death. He hesitates and procrastinates, wishing he had not been asked to complete such a task, ?the time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!? (I,iv). It is ultimately this indecision and hesitation of Hamlet?s that leads to the tragedy of the play.?
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Hamlet and his Fatal Flaw, 2002.
The following paper explores Shakespeare's Hamlet's fatal character flaw of indecisiveness.
2,140 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper examines how Hamlet's own indecisiveness and unwillingness to act in the end of the play cause a great deal of harm in the world. The writer contends that Hamlet presents himself as someone who has no choices, someone whom the fates have trapped, however it is of the opinion of this writer that fate is never absolute and thus this essential flaw of Hamlet's character, this inability to take his life into his hands, makes him all the more compelling.
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"Hamlet's habitual indecisiveness even as he seeks revenge leads to a climax in which there is in fact no clear resolution to the play's action, no clear sense that the something that is rotten in the state has been plucked out. There is no sense of justice having overcome evil, for the world of Denmark as seen in Hamlet's court is so corrupted that it cannot be cleansed even by the degree of death that takes place in the play. By the end of the action Elsinore has been transformed into a garden of the dead, with the corpses of both the innocent and the culpable planted in the ground like terrible seeds that will bring forth another generation of the damned. There is not the sense of renewal at the end in Hamlet that one finds in other tragedies such as Othello."
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"Hamlet" and the Women, 2002.
An analysis of Shakespeare's views on women through the portrayals of women in his plays, with an emphasis on the play "Hamlet".
2,450 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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The writer of this paper counters feminists claims that Shakespeare was in agreement through the unfolding of his stories with the prevalent patriarchal culture. The writer shows that Shakespeare portrayed women as society would have understood them during that time period. By exploring the character, Ophelia, in "Hamlet", the paper shows that in fact Shakespeare holds a mirror to human experience in the play and exposes the virtues and the vices of the times.
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"One of the most important issues often addressed in studying the portrayal of women in Hamlet is the Oedipus complex theory of Sigmund Freud. He claimed that individuals had a repressed desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex. He went on to claim that there was rivalry with the parent of the same sex. Most critical readers admit that Hamlet indeed suffered from Oedipus complex. In fact, Hamlet is preoccupied with his mother's sexual life. This is part of what is driving him made."
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Reflection of Character, 2002.
A paper which compares and discusses setting as a reflection of character in "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe, and "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare.
1,850 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 59.95
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The author of this paper shows how the setting and atmosphere of the two works "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Edgar Allen Poe) and "The Tempest" (Shakespeare), are a reflection of the characters. Each work is analyzed individually.
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"Again, the setting is defining the characters and their moods. "Extensive decay" could just as well describe Roderick and Madeline after she returns from the tomb. It could also describe the family itself, who, through intermarriage and interbreeding, weakened its bloodlines until only the sickly Roderick and Madeline are left to carry on the name."
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"Romeo and Juliet" and "Anthony and Cleopatra", 2002.
A comparison of a few of the main characters in two very famous plays by Shakespeare - "Romeo and Juliet" and "Anthony and Cleopatra".
1,590 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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An in-depth analysis of four main characters in two of Shakespeare's plays. This essay details Anthony and his inner conflict between his longing to rule the Roman Empire and his strong love for Cleopatra. It also details the very fickle and dramatic character of Cleopatra and the many versatile parts she can play. It includes a brief discussion of the overwhelming love between Romeo and Juliet as well as their families' feud. Finally, it compares the plays and their characters.
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"Antony is a man in conflict throughout this play. He struggles between his need to rule the Roman Empire, and his great love for Cleopatra. When he with Cleopatra, she is the only thing that matters. He says in the first act, ?Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch / Of the ranged empire fall? (Cohen, Howard, and Greenblatt I.i.35?36). In just a few moments however, he worries that his love will cause him to ?lose [him]self in dotage? (Cohen, Howard, and Greenblatt I.ii.106) and then he is afraid that his wife had died because of him, and that this is just one ill befalling because of his ?idleness.? He has a hard time deciding whether to follow his passion, and stay with Cleopatra, or follow his duty, and return to Rome."
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Shakespeare's Sonnets, 2002.
A look at the characteristics of William Shakespeare's collection of sonnets.
1,490 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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Shakespeare's collection of 154 sonnets are analyzed for uniformity and genre. The paper shows that information about the sonnets is somewhat sketchy and incomplete. Scholars disagree on the order in which he wrote the sonnets, the identities of the people to whom he referred in the sonnets, and even whether or not he intended the sonnets to be autobiographical.
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"The sonnets address universal themes such as love, jealousy, and, interestingly, concerns about aging and the effects of the passage of time on one?s life. In Sonnet 2, for instance, the persona encourages a friend in the bloom of youth to have children to carry on his beauty before age steals it away. In Sonnet 73, the persona laments his own old age. These two sonnets have several factors in common. Both are addressed to the same young friend?or perhaps lover?of the persona, both focus on the ravages of age, and both employ the symbolism of nature. There are, however, some major differences. While Sonnet 2 deals with renewal, Sonnet 73 clearly foreshadows the persona?s impending death; and while Sonnet 2 essentially appeals to the selfish emotion of vanity, Sonnet 73 is about a selfless love."
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"Henry IV", 2002.
The following paper examines Shakespeare?s ?King Henry IV?, focusing on Elizabethan stage scenery, Elizabethan period acting and the historical accuracy of the play.
1,940 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper explores the history of the technical production of "Henry IV", Part I as well as exploring some of the historical sources from which Shakespeare obtained his historical information.
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?Most believe that the Elizabethan stage was rather bare by modern standards. It is a popular opinion that the actions and dialogue of the actors mainly dressed the stage. By modern technological standards this may be true. However records from the Revels Office indicate that scenery was quite elaborate at times and special attention was given to detail. We must draw our conclusions about staging and scenery in Elizabethan stage performances from descriptions written at the time. One of the earliest plays of which we have a description of the scenery is ?Edwardes tragedy.?
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