Lysander says to Demetrius "You have her father's love. Do you marry him" implying that Demetrius might be attractive to males. ... He uses different ways, like malapropism, exaggerated alliteration, mispronunciation and also bad punctuation. ... Mispronunciations like perfet instead of perfect and bad punctuation like "We do not come, as minding to content you, our true intent is." makes the characters sound silly and the play rather funny. ... Flute who is a male had to dress up and act like a female when he was Thisbe in the play. ...

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You cannot disobey a president, or king. ... "Hamlet: Never make known what you have seen tonight. ... Hamlet returned shall know you are come home. ... "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son." ... God, like any other king, has laws and rules for his people. ...

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Shakespeare had the right idea all along. ... Shall I Compare you to a Summer's Day? ... In the fourth line of the sonnet, Shakespeare says how summer is too short and how his lover's beauty does not end like this season does. ... Your mistress's eyes are like the sun? ... Your mistress's breath smells like perfume? ...

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William Shakespeare was a master at incorporating love in his sonnets. ... He continues on and talks about how their lover is considered to be their home and like a traveler they would eventually have to come back home. ... I assumed that these lines meant that it wouldn't be so easy for me to leave you for something worthless in exchange. ... The rhyming couplet in the end explains that the universe means nothing to him and the only thing that matters is you, the significant other. ... "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments" (Shakespeare). ...

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I really liked the movie Renaissance Man because it has a good sense of humor but at the same time it has an educational side to it as well. It also shows that learning doesn't always have to be stressful - you can make it fun and educational the same time. ... He also answers some questions that his students asked about Shakespeare and his plays. ... The movie shows that anyone can feel a connection to Shakespeare and his work and it is a good way to let a class be introduced to Hamlet and Shakespeare. ... I recommend this movie to anyone that is about to get into Shakespeare or about t...

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Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

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Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

• Word Count: 888
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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

• Word Count: 888
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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

• Word Count: 888
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare uses Aristotle's methods, which are encompassed all in Hamlet. ... Shakespeare also follows Aristotle's idea of tragedy being of a certain magnitude. ... Shakespeare utilizes diction perfectly and everything his characters say is appropriate for them to be saying. ... And, when you are asked this question next, say "a grave-maker." ... Shakespeare broke some of Aristotle's rules and still wrote an effective tragedy that has been appreciated by audiences for centuries. ...

• Word Count: 888
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• Grade Level: High School

Othello Many people believe that in Othello, by William Shakespeare, the main character, Othello, is depicted in a racist way by the author. ... Then there's the characterization of Othello from Shakespeare; by this I mean that Shakespeare speaks of Othello directly through the characters that display a lack of bias, Desdemona, the Duke, etc. ... They also exhibit their racism by using phrases like "thick lips" (1-1, line 71), "an old black ram is tupping your white ewe" (1-1, line 97), and "your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (1-1, line 125). ... Desdemona says of Othello "y...

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Shakespeare's Sonnet 98 has a 4-6-2-2 pattern. ... Shakespeare's sonnets can be divided into 2 groups. ... "The second and third quatrain of both Sonnet 97 ("How like a winter hath my absence been") and Sonnet 98 ("From you have I been absent in the spring") are linked by muted anaphora in lines 5-9" (Booth 209). ... The keyword in this sonnet is the word "you". The couplet tie that Shakespeare uses is in the word "you" (Vendler 420). ...

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In Sonnet 73 one will realize Shakespeare follows the classic pattern of the iambic pentameter with a slight variation; the poet utilizes the "spondaic foot" or heavey stress in the beginning of the fourth line in each of the quatrains. ... ( "Upon those boughs which shake against the cold") "Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang." suggests a bare ,desolate place, empty of people, filled with decay and despair, much like the doom and gloom the poet feels in the late autumn of his life. In the second quatrain Shakespeare uses the day in the passage of time...

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"If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?... I know a lot of other people who like his plays. ...

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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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(Lines 1-2) Here, Shakespeare is stating that there should be no obstacles between two people in "true" love. ... (Lines 5-8) Love, which is usually undefined and gorgeous, becomes perfectly exact; either you have true love or you do not. ... It looks upon a tempest and remains immutable; it is like the North Star that all boughs of the trees bend towards. ... Is Shakespeare confident of his work? ... Shakespeare uses the sonnet to fully describe love, and is able to powerfully to add certainty to his point....

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I really liked this sonnet because it talked about how a person needs a child to continue your life after you are dead. ... I enjoyed how Shakespeare intended this sonnet to demonstrate how having a child is obligatory. That there is no pint in living if you do not have a child because once you die your name will die too. ... In conclusion, many people my age do not recognize or appreciate Shakespeare because of the style of writing or the prolonged stories. But what they do not realize is that they can relate to Shakespeare a lot, if they only took the time to understand what he is portr...

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Shakespeare's Famous Language Shakespeare's legendary work has been a great impact on many things when it comes to literature and grammar. ... Shakespeare created these words for a very special reason. ... Shakespeare framed the expressive verb "beetles," to indicate a cliffs summit that juts out prominently, that projects beyond its wave worn base like the head of a wooden beetle or mallet. ... When a language is created it really gets you into the work and makes you want to figure out what is really being said. An example is when you are reading Hamlet and you look down to see w...

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In many of his plays, Shakespeare is able to use characters in a very exciting way. ... For Romeo and Juliet, there is Friar Lawrence, Julius Caesar there is Casca, and for As You Like It there is Touchstone. ... In the play As You Like It, Shakespeare creates the character Touchstone and uses his quick wit and playful attitude to add an additional amount of comedy. ... Once William says no, Touchstone replies wittingly, "For all you writers do consent/that ipse is "he." Now you are not ipse for I am he. ...

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I like to believe that Shylock is put in to demonstrate the multiple perspectives of conflict throughout the story at the time of 1596 to 1599 by Shakespeare. ... If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? ... If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. ...

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He has never seen or experienced a world like this. ... John grew up hearing myths about this "world" just like he heard stories of Shakespeare's characters. ... But when you think about it, he pretty much proved to himself that mythical worlds actually do exist! ... John's friend Linda, who was very much addicted to Soma, just like almost everybody else was passing away. ... "He feels like the book *talks to him" (Huxley, 113). ...

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Her clothes spread wide, / And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up" (4.7.174-176). ... But to make sure, Shakespeare throws in a riddle. ... A guy who hangs around the royal palace and is extremely polite, like a "suck up." ... Shakespeare now chose to throw in a pun, Hamlet and the "Clown" continue, " I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in't / You lie out on't , sir, and therefore "tis not / yours; for my part, I do not lie in't, yet it is mine (5.1.121-124). ... Dividing the play up like this, Shakespeare has created an up, down effect that allows the reader to still p...

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And like any good Shakespeare play there is the element of the supernatural and also bloodthirsty rage, two elements that are sure to draw in a crowd. ... How do you take a play like Hamlet that tells the story of a young man filled with rage and self-doubt and interject a ghost into it without losing credibility? The short answer is, hey it's Shakespeare and he can do whatever he wants because he is that good. ... So how do you introduce a ghost to reality? Local superstition is the method that Shakespeare uses in Hamlet. ...

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Throughout Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, acts of violence occur that slowly escalate as the play unfolds. ... Shakespeare sets the speculation of the audience further adrift by having the second murder occur off stage as well. ... Shakespeare releases the climax of the story with a wave of emotion "Your castle surprised; your wife and babes savagely slaughtered: to relate the manner; were, on the quarry of these murdered deer, to add to the death of you." (4.3.204-209). ... Shakespeare then completes the cycle of emotion with one last gruesome act of violence "Hail, King! ... In Macbeth,...

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