The play has a seemingly cynical attitude towards two basic human concerns: sex and the ordering of society. ... Measure for Measure is a tragicomedy that combines tragic development with a comic resolution, utilizing irony to distance the story line. ... Angelo reinstates an old law that will help stop the youth of Vienna from having pre-marital sex. ... Despite these serious issues, the play is considered a comedy, and the story it tells is filled with amusing characters as well as broad sociological questions. ... The shady world of Pompey, Lucio, and Mistress Overdone deals with similar th...

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It is a tale that tells the story of a Scottish King, who's wife is the inspiration behind his means to take the thrown and claim his power. ... She calls upon spirits to make this wish, to suggest that she would rather lose her sex and fertility, to have the rights of a man, and even more so to be able to commit this evil act herself. ... "In women's violence and destructiveness we find the end of woman as a sex, and the end of all the consolations with which woman provides us, (Rossmann). ... (3.2 5-7) "Macbeth" is one of William Shakespeare's greatest tragic sto...

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We [women] are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men." ... The battle of the sexes is prevalent everywhere and is applicable to anything. ... The story Tales Out of Medical School, written by Adriane Fugh-Berman, which is an account about a woman that chose not to ignore the differences that faced her, shows another side to the superficial harmony. ...

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William Shakespeare wrote many great short stories and plays. ... He was known as a coward, liar, rascal, and combat soldier, and of course a lecher, someone who is overly interested in the opposite sex ("Sir" 464). ...

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The Argument of Virginia Woolf A Room of One's Own is a story of a women named Mary, she is the narrator of Virginia Woolf and tells the story in first person form. ... The purpose of this story is to show how women need to maintain leisure time, money, and a room of her own so that she can become a writer. ... (p24) "Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor?"...

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In my many years of schooling, I have had to write many stories, papers, and essays. ... One of his most famous love stories is Romeo and Juliet. ... Also in the play Measure for Measure, the act of premarital sex is condoned. ... Would Shakespeare be as popular as he is if his love stories didn't exist? ...

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Lady Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most famous and frightening characters. In the beginning of the play, she is a stronger, more ambitious, and more ruthless person than her husband, Macbeth (sparknotes). She knows her strengths and ability to influence Macbeth, and she uses them when she can. Unl...

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Throughout the context of these lines, we are also left with the lingering implication of a same sex relationship between both Iago and Cassio. ... O waves his fist in the direction of Iago as he demands for a better explanation to his madding story. ... Iago is excited that the story is infuriating O. ... Why then In God's name did you crush me with the story? ...

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However, if one man can so exquisitely write fictional stories about love and still include a controversial issue in them, then where do we draw the line between fact and fiction? ... Here Shakespeare creates an image relating to sex. He presents a new question to her, asking if she does not want children only because she does not like sex. ... The two questions presented in these lines are meant to show that it is just as unlikely to find a wife who disdains having sex with her husband, as it is unlikely to find a man who would rather masturbate then want to make love to a real woman. Thi...

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Much ado about nothing is, in my opinion, William Shakespeare's best comedy. The play has many interesting characters; especially Benedick and Beatrice. These two characters provide a great portion of the humor in this particular play. Beatrice and Benedick are alike in many ways, as well as very...

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(thinkquest.com 1-3) Throughout the play there are many references to the gender and sex roles of the characters. As described in the critical essay by Shirley Nelson Garner, the dominating male power and strange sex roles of the characters is fluent throughout the play. ... In this area, legends, myths, and impossible stories originate. ... The fairies bring the stories to you from the East. ...

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Having the plot unfold in these settings result in a light-hearted and comical story, which is better to present in a high school class than a tale of death and madness. ... In addition, high school students can relate more to characters in these comedies, because it is at the teenage level when individuals start to experience relationships with the opposite sex. ...

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In literature, one of the most commonly identified roles is the tragic hero. Whether it is in classic Elizabethan works or in modern twentieth century works, the traits of the tragic hero abound. How did this role become a force in literature? The credit goes to none other than Shakespeare and h...

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The Earl of Gloucester's sin is in his flesh, as we know from the plot that he enjoy having sex with Edmond's mother. ... King Lear is a story of intense suffering, people think it is too violence, because the suffering in the play is something people did not expected to happened. ...

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