Love "Sonnet 116" written by William Shakesphere deals with the idea of love. It questions true love and how we often mistreat those we love. ... It shows that love does not alter or change, no matter what someone does, or no matter how it is tested. ... He says that, "love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove." ... This shows how love will last forever, and nothing can stop true love. ...

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He was not any ordinary king however; he was a well respected and loved king. ... They were not forced to love him, the voluntarily loved him. ... Thirdly, Oedipus is placed in a tragic situation because he has been given a test. All tragic heroes go through a test, which eventually leads to their downfall. ... Oedipus" test is whether or not he will continue his search for his true identity even though it could destroy him. ...

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A similar scheme was concocted to convince Benedick he has great love for Beatrice. ... A example of this is when Leaonato, Claudio, and Don Pedro pretend that Beatrice and Benedick are in love so that there eavesdropping will bring about passion for each other. And then at the end, Leonato denies that Beatrice counterfeits her love for Benedick: "O God! ... Comedy's reject bareness and urge on love as was clearly seen in the end of the play. ... The fact that the Comedy has endured the strongest test, the test of time, clearly shows it is meritorious of all its acclaim...

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Shakespeare's King Lear, is a story that takes many themes and relates them into one story, that has tested time for hundred's of years. ... His need to be loved for his own self-assurance and ego are perhaps the downfall to his character. ... His one daughter that he truly loved, is the one lady that actually had enough dignity to speak her mind, and not be tricked into buying her love from her father. ... I love you Majesty according to my bond; nor more nor less" (I,i,92-95). ... Without it what would I have to look for in a friend or a loved one? ...

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Love is a very powerful and important emotion in the world. ... Therefore love can relate to people and the extent of love is tested constantly in life today as well as in Much Ado About Nothing. ... Reason being that love is such an important part of life and so many different types of emotions can be caused by the events that occur in love. Much ado about nothing proves that many emotions can follow from many different forms of love because the other themes featured revolve around this theme of love even though the play is not a typical love story. ... The love that grows among the two e...

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The division of Lear's kingdom was made on the basis of professed love, Cordelia was rejected because she saidNothing, my Lord.? ... Lear's good daughter Cordelia displays love and goodness. ... One where two evil daughters help banishes a good daughter in a love test by King Lear. ... In his old age King Lear had divided his kingdom between his daughters, Goneril and Regan, who professed great love for him but then harassed him into madness. ...

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The lead characters in love, Julia and Proteus, Silvia and Valentine, all undergo tests of character which each handles in a very different manner. ... I could not help but fall in love with the characters of Silvia and Julia. ... She later proves her strong and noble character while she watches her one true love fall at the feet of another woman. ... Julia speaks about how she had given her ring to Proteus before he departed for Milan in order to remind him of her good love. ... I actually had tears in my eyes at this part of the play, as Julia did not speak hatefully of anyone but herself...

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Cordelia's purely good nature is tested at the beginning of the play. ... He insists that they profess their love for him. Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. Cordelia, however, says that her love cannot be put into words, and tries to convince her father that her sisters are simply trying to deceive him. ... He feels remorse, shame, and love for Cordelia, the one daughter who really loved her father for the man he was. ...

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Cordelia's purely good nature is tested at the beginning of the play. ... He insists that they profess their love for him. Regan and Goneril, Lear's older daughters, use flattery to prove their love. Cordelia, however, says that her love cannot be put into words, and tries to convince her father that her sisters are simply trying to deceive him. ... He feels remorse, shame, and love for Cordelia, the one daughter who really loved her father for the man he was. ...

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He writes about how rare this type of love is, though no matter how unattractive she may be his love for her is strong. In sonnet 116 Shakespeare writes about true love. ... When you read it, you get this picture of true love, an undying love. I got this picture of a love that never ends, a love that stands the test of time no matter what. ... For example the same words are written over and over again like " love is love", "alters when it alteration finds", and "remover to remove". ...

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Agreeing with Heffernan comments on the taming process, "The keeper must, throughout this time, also bring the bird to love and trust him by speaking soothingly to her, making her understand what she must do must do, not through fear, but through friendship and mutual endurance."... Petruchio's last test for Kate will be the all telling tale if she is tamed or not. ... (Page 215,102-136) Kate has passed all of Petruchio's tests and she show a change in heart. Katherine adds, "I am ashamed that women are so simple to offer war where they should kneel for peace, or seek for rule, supre...

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Throughout the play it becomes apparent that Desdemona is truly and faithfully, in love with Othello. Her nave conception of love is apparent in Act 4, scene 3 in her conversation with Emilia regarding adultery. ... These feelings would have been tested when Othello came to her room to "sacrifice- her. ... As Desdemona becomes increasingly aware that her love has turned sour with jealousy, she falls into a state of hopelessness. ... Also, as she loved Othello, her future outlook (life without her love) would have been negative at best. ...

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This test type allows explanatory, contextualizing the time of William Shakespeare, which was the Renaissance, is the name given to a broad cultural movement that occurred in Western Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. ... In 1590 he wrote works of love lost and the Comedy of Errors. ... Undoubtedly the highlight was William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, this play is about two young men who fall in love but it has great obstacle to be together, the enmity between their families. ... Her want a power that sleeps for hours then their parents bury and Romeo to learn first you...

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Love is not encouraged, rather promiscuity is socially acceptable in the World State, "everyone belongs to everyone else."" ... Love, death, family, and passion are major themes in his plays, every one of these removed from the minds of the World State citizens. ... When grown in test tubes and bottles until "decanted-, then raised by various teachers in the Center London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, families come to be thought of as primitive and unhygienic, preventing people of this society from identifying a major theme of almost every Shakespearean play. Love is also devalued; seein...

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When do you know a work of literature has stood the test of time? ... Hamlet's indecisiveness and the "love" that he had for his mother were two key elements of the play. ... Even in Elizabethan times, Hamlet would have been disturbed by his mother's new love. ... Whether it is a lesson on how to behave in a tough situation or a new found love, Shakespeare has the ability to intertwine so many different themes and ideas in this play. ...

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The play's complexities, highlighted through a profound investigation into the nature of life, have caused it to stand the test of time, still appealing to the contemporary responder. ... He demands his daughters to flatter him publicly in order to decide who is most worthy of his kingdom, this clearly demonstrated when he says "which of you shall we say doth love us most?...

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Lear's daughters Gonerill and Regan sabotage the power structure of the monarchy by falsely professing their love for their father in order to gain power and inheritance. ... Lear's blindness due to his power is emphasised when he fails to see through the superficial and hyperbolic words of Gonerill when she says, "I love you more than eyesight, space and liberty-, yet is angered when Cordelia states "I love you according to my bond, no more, no less-. ... This is reinforced by using the love test scene of the play as an example, proposing that this scene is a variant of the wedding ...

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When looking back at one's life, it seems as though everyone always looks to the points in life where things went wrong, for example, cheating on a girlfriend, failing a test, getting in a huge fight with family. ... To fall in love is what she fear'd to look on! ... He no longer believes in the true love he thought he had shared with Desdemona, which drives him to the point of plotting to murder her. ...

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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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Angelo gains instant power because the Duke transfers his power over to Angelo so that he could test his servants" loyalty. ... "So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons, Come all to help him, and so stop the air By which he should revive: and even so The general, subject to a well-wish"d king, Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love Must needs appear offence." ... Shakespeare believes that fear is the greatest evil and that fear drives out love as love drives out fear. ...

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His two daughters Goneril and Regan claim that they love him a lot and they try to gather love words in order to describe their fake love for their father. Lear believes them and despises Cordelia who could not have words to describe her love for her father. ... Unwittingly, he gives away his paternal love and abandons his daughter who loves him the most. ... Saying " Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my heart into my mouth: I love your Majesty according to my bond; no more nor less-, she fails the test. ... She proved to her father and the readers that she loved her father truly, madly, and d...

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His egotism in dividing up his kingdom according to which daughters praise him the most leads to the disownment of the one daughter and servant who truly care for him, and the revelation that Regan and Goneril's profession of love for him was merely empty praise. ... He realizes that Goneril and Regan did not love him, but Goneril did. ... After Gloucester is blinded, Edgar's philosophy is tested even more, and he no longer is certain that he will attain happiness again, but his will and resolve is strengthened. ...

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His simple yet deep concepts have stood the test of time and are still as insightful as they were in his day. ... Thomas Hardy chose "Under the Greenwood Tree" as the title for one of his novels, alluding to the following lines from Shakespeare's "As You Like It": Under the green wood tree / Who loves to lie with me / And turn his merry note / Unto the sweet bird's throat. " The astute quality of Shakespeare's plots is highlighted by the depth of the characterization. ...

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The only reason that Othello married her was because she showed him loyalty and love. ... Best shown by Cassio, reputation can be something created through the test of time, and also destroyed in the matter of a few words. ...

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