The play As You Like It, was written about 600 years ago by William Shakespeare, yet the morals of this poem are still discussed today. ... "My father charged you in his will to give me good education," he stormed at his eldest brother Oliver, "but you have trained me like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities!" ... "Ten days," he told her, "If you outstay the time, you die." ... They talked and in the end Rosalind decided to test Orlando and said that "he" would like to meet the young man who "haunts the forest abuses our young plants with carving "Rosalind" ...

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There is no power like the power of a woman. ... In Shakespeare's renowned tragedy, Macbeth was drawn in a plot to murder his King. ... (Shakespeare, I, vii, 25-28) Macbeth knew himself to be an ambitious man. ... (Bealey, pg. 30) It is certainly not worth it to fight for a title and loose it because you cannot maintain it. ... "When you durst do it, then you were a man" and "to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man." ...

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His sympathy seems sincere, but you could also see it as tainted because he says nothing about being sorry for the act, only that he's sorry it was commited against Laertes. You might say that for all he's done Hamlet is a corrupt bastard, plain and simple. ... Hamlet isn't corrupt at all at least not in the same sense you would call someone like Claudius or Stalin (two very different cases). ... Shakespeare is trying to tell us that violent revenge is not the answer. ... Shakespeare is also saying something about people in general. ...

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In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare uses relationships to show how Macbeth becomes corrupt and turns his back on friends and loved ones as he becomes obsessed with the witches prophecy. ... He calls her things like his "dearest partner of greatness" (Act I; v line ii). ... The relationship then changes so that it is more like the relationship between mother and child. Lady Macbeth gives Macbeth instructions like to hide his feelings by changing the expression on his face. ... This also shows that Macbeth thinks he is now above Lady Macbeth as he used the term "dearest chuck" wh...

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At the time Shakespeare wrote this play, at about 1599, Elizabeth I was queen of England. ... The scene is written in blank verse, which is important, as Shakespeare only used this form of writing for important characters or speeches. ... Shakespeare has called them these names for a reason. ... Up until Benedick declares his love for Beatrice they are almost like sworn enemies, and even after that they still continue to argue. ... Benedick starts off by saying, " I do love nothing sin the world so well as you. ...

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Hamlet Contrasting Fortinbras and Laertes with Hamlet in William Shakespeare tragedy Hamlet.Laertes,Fortinbras and Hamlet find them selves in similar situations, while Hamlet waits for the right time to avenge his fathers death,Laertes learns of his fathers death and immediately wants vengeance,and Fortinbras awaits his chance to recapture the land that used to belong to his father.Laertes and Fortinbras go about accomplishing their desires quite differently than Hamlet.While Hamlet acts slowly and carefully, Laertes and Fortinbras seek their revenge with hate.Although each character plots t...

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After that, Shakespeare exploits blood as a symbol, takes place in Act 2, when Macbeth is preparing to kill Duncan. ... Shakespeare most likely put this in as premonition of murder and death to come later in the play. ... She is setting up the innocent servants of the king, making it look like they committed this horrendous act. ... Furthermore, Shakespeare pertains blood as a sign of guilt. ... From this essay you will see that there are many connections with blood and what it symbolizes. ...

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That was very odd during this time because many of Shakespeares other heroes were very somewhat arrogant. ... Everyone has had hard times in their life and you can very much sympathize with Hamlet. ... Hamlet was certainly a unique character in Shakespeares time. ... It didn't seem like such a far off fictional story, but rather a real life drama. You can attribute that to Hamlets different approach at being a hero....

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For example, in Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, we see how two teens dealt with being separated from each other. ... There are many ways in which teen suicide can be prevented like, if you know that your friend is feeling like they want to kill themselves, make it known to them that you are there for them no matter what the circumstances are. Let them know that you care and that you are there to listen. There are also hotlines that can be called if you don't know what to do if you are placed in a position like this. I personally feel like these situations can not be prevent...

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The protagonist in William Shakespeare's' Hamlet is Hamlet. ... He says "My father's brother, but no more like my father than I to Hercules." ... It's like being a whirlpool. ... Things near a whirlpool get sucked into the spin, whether they like it or not. ... Is a father's death, a mother's remarriage, your new stepfather, and a ghost enough to drive you mad? ...

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In the play "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare, Macbeth is driven into a murderous rampage so that he may become king. ... So, in a way, Lady Macbeth somewhat brainwashes her husband into killing the king by subtly taunting his masculinity, like when she says, "what beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man, And, to be more that what you were, you would Be so much more a man." Lady Macbeth would have even killed King Duncan herself, except she claims that he looked like her father. ... -I tell you yet again, Banquo's buried: ...

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To Trust or not to Trust In William Shakespeare's tragic play Hamlet, many relationships are put to the test throughout the play. ... That beetles o"er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason And draw you into madness? ... If there is one person in Shakespeare's play Hamlet who proves that he does not care at all for Hamlet, it is the King; Claudius. ... More than his father's death, that thus hath put him, So much from th"understanding of himself I cannot dream of, I entreat you both That, b...

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Complex Hamlet Upon examining Shakespeare's characters in this play, Hamlet proves to be a very complex character, and functions as the key element to the development of the play. ... These feelings of pain and sorrow are embedded deep inside Hamlet, and eat at him like a terrible disease. ... Hamlet is able to make smart remarks to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, comparing then to sponges, "When he (Claudius) needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you and, sponge, you shall be dry again," (pg 98, 20). ... If he were crazy, like Ophelia, he would have remained hectic and rando...

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Now in the text, there is a lack of soliloquies, where as before every other line was a soliloquy -- like a soap opera. ... 2.Shakespeare must have been running low on new material, because the protagonists in Romeo and Juliet basically die the same way). ... In order to win at the end, you have to have the perfect number to be out. Say you are three spots away from winning, rolling a two will not get you there [pure thought], but rolling a six will take you too far [pure action]. You need exactly three to win). ...

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During William Shakespeare's Macbeth, Macbeth encounters both of these things, which leads to his death and finally the last step of the process of evil, which is living in hell. ... To me you speak not. If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not." ... If you will take a homely man's advice, Be not found here. ... In conclusion, one can see that evil does not take place in one instant, but it slowly infects the person, like some viruses. ...

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The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare revolves around the issue of trust. ... Claudius confides in Laertes: Hamlet comes back: what would you undertake, To show yourself in deed your father's son More than in words? ... I'll have these players Play something like the murder of my father Before mine uncle, I'll observe his looks . ... Hamlet can not believe his mother would do such a thing like betray her own husband. ... I did love you once. ...

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Although you may think it is impossible to be both the enemy and the ally, Oedipus does manage by trying to deceive fate, but fails and then kills his father and marries his own mother. ... Sophocles and Shakespeare both used disloyalty with murder to one's family in the stories "Oedipus Rex" and "Hamlet". ... That is the story you know, the killer is himself. ... Hamlet goes "crazy", and so does Ophelia, but you would never consider this; Claudius is crazy. ... When he finds out that his mother committed suicide, he proceeds to gouge out his eyes, "He struck at his eyes-not once, but ...

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In William Shakespeare's revenge tragedy, Hamlet, the main characters, prince Hamlet and his stepfather, king Claudius both hide their true selves to deceive each other. ... The Queen accidentally exposes Claudius; "These words like daggers enter in my ears./ No more, sweet Hamlet" (3.4.95-96). ... Hamlet brings up their suspicious arrival by confronting them; "You were sent for, and/ there is kind of a confession in your looks which your/ modesties have not craft enough to colour. I know the/ good king and queen have sent for you (2.2.274-277). ...

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Especially where there is a king, as in the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, because a king is in charge of the whole community. ... Just the fact that you are there or that you are saying a prayer is not enough, you have to mean it, otherwise it is just a waste of your time. ... Did you see his face? ... It is things like this that would have made Hamlet a good king. ... Although you may not think of this as a positive quality, you have to remember what was going on at that time. ...

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Title: The Tragedy of King Lear. Author: William Shakespeare. Globe theater burnt down 1613 Date of Publication: 1608. Writing Style: Blank verse, prose, unrhymed iambic pentameter, rhyming couplets. Conventions: Asides, soliloquies, puns, subject/verb inversions. Genre: Drama, tragedy. Includes- tr...

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Macbeth used to be very humble to everybody and that was noted by all around him but later he acts more like a dictator. ... It is considered that the message that Shakespeare is portraying is that no good will come from destroying rivals on the way to the top even if it appears that you will not be found out. ...

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Throughout the first four acts of Shakespeare's Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is portrayed as a ruthless character willing to do anything to obtain power. ... You [Macbeth] mar all with this starting.... She pleads with Macbeth to stop slaughtering people as she says decisions like this will ruin everything they have done. ...

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