Even with a contemporary play and a classic Shakespears tragedy, similarities can be found. ... In Hamlet, the main character, Hamlet, finds out from the ghost of his father that his uncle killed him so he could marry Hamlet's mother. Hamlet had been close to his father, and to avenge him, he must kill his uncle. ... Hamlet has a difficult time doing this, since he is very close to his mother. ... In actuality, however, Jewsie cares very much about her mother, In fact. that is the reason that, rather than just leave a note, Jessica shoce to spend the night with Mama befoer killing he...

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Between the time periods of the Medieval era and the Renaissance, one can note numerous significant changes, mainly those pertaining to religion and art, and specifically, drama. ... We see the culmination of the destroyed safety of the Medieval world in Shakespeare's plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard III, and King Lear. ... He also developed the classic archetype of the Machiavel, which we see in almost every dramatic text from The Spanish Tragedy on. ...

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Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, considered by many a classic example of a novel about the Oedipus complex; Lawrence himself claimed not to have read Freud2, and dismissed the theory of complexes as "vicious half-statements of the Freudians"3, but his wife Frieda was greatly interested in psychoanalysis and claimed that they discussed Freud's theories together. " Sons and Lovers should have appeared just as Freud's theories were beginning to become widely known in the English-speaking world. ... Note that he cannot get along with Miriam, because mommy does not approve, and that Mrs. ...

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Many critics regard "King Lear" as the greatest, and most tragic, of William Shakespeare's plays; indeed, some claim that it is the most tragic play ever written. And yet, it is difficult to see why we should regard "King Lear" as a tragedy for the King is basically a pathetic old man, vain and foolish, rash in his judgment and incapable of controlling his emotions. This characterization seems to preclude viewing Lear on the Aristotelian model of a tragic hero, as someone raised above the ordinary level of humanity, except in the most conventional sense of his social status. Moreover, in ...

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