In As You Like by William Shakespeare the search for love acts as the primary motive behind the actions of the play's three characters - Rosalind, Touchstone and Orlando. ... Thus , Rosalind , Touchstone and Orlando quest for love throughout William Shakespeare's As You Like It . ... During Shakespeare's time , the word was commonly used to refer to young men who engaged in homosexual romances (About Shakespeare). ... She says to him " I would cure you, if you would but call me / Rosalind and come every day to my cote and woo me , " (3.3416-417). ... In As You Like It ...

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Desdemona Shakespeare's sweetest star A Outline of the role of Desdemona in the text : Desdemona is the sickly sweet innocent in Shakespeare's play Othello. ... Brabantio tried to find a suitor for his daughter like any father of the time but she rejected them all. ... How to respect you. You are the lord of duty. ... It does not really let us see any other side of Desdemona's personality we have seen it all before. 2 ) " Alas the heavy day : Why do you weep Am l the motive of these tears, my lord If haply you my father do suspect a...

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According to Shakespeare keeping the balance between these extreme forms of relationship is the best way to complete life and love. ... Katahrine goes more with vulgar and offensive words like, "No cock of mine. You crow too like a craven." ... Beatrice is disgusted by Benedick's being a soldier "I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars?   ... If Shakespeare would have written "The Taming of the Shrew" later, Katherine could have been more complicated and brilliant. ...

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Beatice is believed to the first woman in Shakespeare's writing to "have a brain" (ref: Page 132 Shakespeare's Happy Comedies, by John Dover Wilson). ... To this Beatrice replies: "No, but at the gate, and there will the Devil meet me like an old cuckold with horns on his head, and say, "Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven, here's no place for you maids." ... Shakespeare has deliberately done this, to make us love Beatrice, who displays all Shakespeare's feminist ideas. If he didn't want us to like Beatrice he would have depicted her as irritable old ...

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In both Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, we see the controversial subject of morality versus the law. ... If there was a Maslow's Triangle for society like there is for the individual, law would be at the bottom of it. ... You would lose your reputation in society and go to prison. ... Nichomachean ethics suggest the same thing, that all should aim towards good, and things like small laws shouldn't stand in our way. ...

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To this end, Shakespeare once again reinforces a strictly patriarchal hegemony. The film 10 Things I Hate About You is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. ... Until the end, she remains shallow and princess-like, seeming only to be concerned with making other people like her. ... The film 10 Things I Hate About You provides the audience with a much less damaging view of women than does Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. ... In the scene where Patrick and Kat are outside at the party, Patrick says to Cameron, "Don't let anyone ever make you feel ...

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"No mates for you unless you were of gentler, milder mould." ... Shakespeare unequivocally communicates messages stating the preferred natures of women in an imminent marriage situation, with men clearly desiring wives of acquiescent ways, like Bianca, while avoiding those of bolder natures, like Katherina. ... Petruchio demonstrates this domination when he tells his wife "that cap of yours becomes you not. ... Shakespeare's exploration of both clear and implied messages about marriage is a key feature of this play. ... Implicitly, Shakespeare presents the particulars of the rol...

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It is always important when reading Shakespeare to remember that Shakespeare was writing for an Elizabethan audience so therefore we will interpret and respond differently to the situations presented to us. ... This is further emphasized by contrast to Beatrice and Benedick's down-to-earth mockeryWould you buy her, that you enquire after her??. ... I personally do not think that Shakespeare was trying to portray Claudio as against women. ... I feel we are more likely to like and admire the character of Beatrice as she is more conventional of our time. ... At the very beginning...

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How mean you that? No mates for you,/ Unless you were of gentler, milder mold- (I.i.59-69). ... "Rebellious women- were a concern for Englishmen during the time that Shakespeare wrote his plays (Detmer, Shakespeare Quarterly, 273). ... The critics have a good basis for their beliefs when Katherine speaks like this to Hortensio, "To comb your noodle with a three-legged stool,/ And paint your face, and use you like a fool- (I.I.64-65). ... For instance, he tells Baptista " I see you do not mean to part with her, or else you like not of my company- (II.i.63-64), when he knows that the father ...

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Claire McMurdock 10.A Year 10 'Shakespeare' Assignment 'Romeo and Juliet' Discuss the ways in which Shakespeare creates dramatic tension based around the transformation of Juliet's character. ... Shakespeare uses the Elizabethan times and society to help him do this. ... Juliet will not want her life to be like this. ... He gives her the ultimatum, either marry Paris and be happy or I will disown you and bring you to shame. ... She is not acting like an obedient, innocent young girl acting on her parent's wishes. ...

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To what extent do Katherina and Bianca conform to the ideal of women and marriage in Shakespeare as time? ... The Taming of the Shrew is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays, and has weathered well into our modern era with adaptations into popular films such as ëten things I hate about you. ... The reason for Katherine's shrewish demeanor is never given in the play, though many directors have interpreted it as an act to discourage suitors, much like Hamlet's feigned madness. ... Yet they share the same characteristics that Shakespeare imparted onto many of his heroines...

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Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing," by William Shakespeare, is unlike any other women in the play, especially Hero. ... Shakespeare allows Beatrice to be so outspoken to show how few women were like her. ... Reminding Hero, Leonato says: "Daughter, remember what I told you, if the prince do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer" (2.1.65-67). Hero silently agrees with her father's wishes because she looks at this situation like it is an order she must obey. ... Shakespeare's idea of putting feminist ideals into this character was greatly achieved and inspiring to ...

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When do you know a work of literature has stood the test of time? When William Shakespeare wrote it. ... Shakespeare's work, though complicated, will never have just one meaning. ... Shakespeare will always be powerful and applicable throughout time. ... If you read through the play, you will always find something to take from it. ...

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Strong Women of Othello William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... "And so much Duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much that I may profess due to the Moor my lord". Like many of Shakespeare's other female characters, Desdemona does not embody the stereotypical role of sixteenth century women. When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... Let husbands know their wiv...

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William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... "And so much Duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much that I may profess due to the Moor my lord". Like many of Shakespeare's other female characters, Desdemona does not embody the stereotypical role of sixteenth century women. When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... Let husbands know their wives have sense like them. ...

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William Shakespeare's Hamlet goes both hand in hand and contrasts with this trend. ... Scolding, "you are the queen, your husband's brother's wife; and -would it were not so!... It is the very idea that men were superior to women and the higher status you had, the more powerful you were that caused Hamlet to act rudely to the women throughout the play. ... I believe that Shakespeare gave men the higher position in the play. ... Maybe Shakespeare did not believe in women as strong characters due to the age he lived in. ...

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William Shakespeare's Hamlet goes both hand in hand and contrasts with this trend. ... Scolding, "you are the queen, your husband's brother's wife; and -would it were not so!... It is the very idea that men were superior to women and the higher status you had, the more powerful you were that caused Hamlet to act rudely to the women throughout the play. ... I believe that Shakespeare gave men the higher position in the play. ... Maybe Shakespeare did not believe in women as strong characters due to the age he lived in. ...

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The movie, 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and the play, Taming of the Shrew, written by William Shakespeare, are based on the same storyline. ... In 10 Things I Hate About You, Kat appears to have genuinely become a better person. ... Bianca aspires to have ultimate popularity in her high school in 10 Things I Hate About You. ... In Taming of the Shrew, Bianca seems like the sweet, perfect, beautiful girl that every man desires. ... Furthermore, in the end of 10 Things I Hate About You, both Bianca and Kat are happy. ...

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(back to normal voice) you are like a god to me, Petruchio.... Maybe Shakespeare was commenting on how men actually would like a marriage to be. ... Can you say Dr. ... Did I mention the play was written by Shakespeare A.K.A. ... (You know what they say: Transvestites are men who like to eat, drink, and be Mary) Another part of the story that I felt dissatisfied with was how the father basically sold Bianca like a piece of meat to the highest bidder. ...

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Cassio: What make you from home? ... Do you intend? ... Whether or not that includes Cassio is left a mystery, only Shakespeare knew what became of them. ... Let husbands kknow Their wives hvae sense like them. ... In my personal opinion, Shakespeare wanted to keep the readers in anxiety about the relationship between Emilia and Iago. ...

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Other readings such as "A Midsummer Night's Dream", by William Shakespeare, puts more of an imaginary view of how women grew up and lived their lives. ... Hale even said, "Well, women are used to worrying over Trifles." (6) With her being so unhappy she, metaphorically speaking, lived like her bird that she called her own. ... As for Shakespeare's, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", an interesting twist is put in on how women lived their lives, and were treated in society. ... "What say you Hermia? ... Life was not fair and if you wanted freedom to marry who you loved then you ...

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Shakespeare highlights the theme of marriage, in particular the role of the woman in the marriage, in The Taming of the Shrew. It is one of Shakespeare's most famous plays and has weathered well into our modern era. ... Petruchio, when talking to Kate, states what his actions and beliefs are, Thou must be married to no man but me For I am he am born to tame you, Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Conformable as other household Kates. ... Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? ... Shakespeare does a thorough job of sho...

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Two classic examples of this timeless conflict are Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles" Oedipus. ... At first, Hamlet's way to revenge his father's death is to pretend to be mad "Here as before, never so help you mercy, How strange or odd some"er I bear myself, (as I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on)"(1.5. 169-172). But tragically, Hamlet really does go mad just like Oedipus. ... Shakespeare and Sophocles both wrote their plays to incorporate the long battle between good and evil. ...

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Two classic examples of this timeless conflict are Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles" Oedipus. ... At first, Hamlet's way to revenge his father's death is to pretend to be mad "Here as before, never so help you mercy, How strange or odd some"er I bear myself, (as I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on)"(1.5. 169-172). But tragically, Hamlet really does go mad just like Oedipus. ... Shakespeare and Sophocles both wrote their plays to incorporate the long battle between good and evil. ...

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Typical jokes include the one about the kid who picks up a dead snake that isn't dead after all, they are mildly funny, but nothing that would cause you to go into any fit of serious laughter. ... Eve likes to quote Romeo and Juliet, which appeals to the people who are in to Shakespeare. Poor Mozelle is upstaged by someone with a genuine gift for prognostication, and who would like to snuff out cheap fakes like Mozelle. ... To me Eve's Bayou was a well written, and directed movie, that at times made you feel as if you were in the actual movie. ... It was like a long more dramatic sit...

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