As his sharp tongue stabs at her with insult after insult, she refuses to descend to his adolescent behavior, and declares: "How will this grieve you, When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that You have thus published me! Gentle my lord, You scarce can right me throughly then to say You did mistake" (II.i.714-718). While most women would be groveling or cursing this man for abandoning his loyalty to his wife, she most clearly states her concerns with eloquence; staying calm and collective, she addresses him with lady-like etiquette. ... Like "time " slowing down for Leontes, the image ha...

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How mean you that? No mates for you,/ Unless you were of gentler, milder mold- (I.i.59-69). ... Women like this were sometimes beaten into submission and domestic violence was very prevalent in their lives. ... 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 is only trying to warn hi...

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In As You Like It Rosalind and Celia, like Kent in King Lear, are liable to banishment by their patron, Duke Frederick. ... The text of As You Like It explicitly refers to that: Also, what danger will it be to us,/ Maids as we, to travel forth so far !... The like do you; so shall we pass along/ And never stir assailants (1.3.106-108, 109, 110-112). ... This dissonance is given attention in As You Like It and especially in King Lear. ... The same sense of rebellion is seen in Celia, in As You Like It. ...

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Petruchio sets out to "woo this wildcat" (1.2, 195), and vows to "tame you, Kate, / And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate / Conformable as other household Kates" (2.1, 273-275), (Marvel 86). ... Kate responds, "Well ta"en, and like a buzzard" (2.1, 205-206). ... But sun it is not, when you say it is not, And the moon changes even as your mind. ... Beatrice is much like Kate in her quick wit. ... So, like Kate, Beatrice stops the charades, and reforms to her role as a wife. ...

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Shakespeare use parallel structure of the main plot and subplot that mirror each other like throughout the play. ... Even more truthfully, she says "Why have my sisters husbands, if they say they love you all? ... Sure, I shall never marry like my sisters". ... I tax you not, you elements, with unkindness". ...

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Imagine (I said) a father asking his three children: Which of you kids loves me the most?" ... The Lear described in many critical essays sounds less like Shakespeare's monarch than the middle-class recreations of Lear in the nineteenth-century fiction of writers like Balzac and Turgenev. ... The king is not behaving like a doddering old fool in the opening scene, but attempting a remarkable political feat: to pass on his royal inheritance in a way that will avoid the defects of following the conventional rules of primogeniture. ... Like Jaffa, I try to show that Lear's errors are ...

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Also, when the men fall in love with her, she feels like the "butt of a joke." ... (Scott 381) Fairies, part of the fantasy world, live in the kingdom in the vague, dream-like East. ... The fairies bring the stories to you from the East. ... The lover's fall in and out of love like dolls, and like dolls...

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In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare highlights two great cultures of efficient reasonable society of Rome and self –indulgent society of Egypt. The two great civilizations were bi-polar and they repelled each other like same sides of two magnates . Tiber, 1the river of Rome connects Europe with t...

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When Hal turns against Falstaff it is truly upsetting, a terrible scene, and you see that Hal (now Henry) is a sort of monster. ... You can also argue that Hal has a strategy, his wildness turned majesty is the only possible tactic by which he could assert control. ... You can certainly make the argument that his wildness also allows him a commonality with the "people", allowing them to understand him. ... The play is full of patriotic speeches that show how proud you should be to be English. Shakespeare even uses a Chorus to introduce each act with a glowing, but somewhat misleading, build-up...

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Just like his enemies are despicable, his allies are reliable, loyal and generally agreeable individuals. ... It again lends itself to such heroic values as respect, courage, determination and the like (Time and the Tragic Hero n. pag.). ... This is quite possible evident no better than in Othello's dying words: Then must you speak / Of one that loved not wisely but too well, / Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, / Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, / Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away / Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, / Albe...

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Like Lavinia, Cordelia is placed in a social predicament at the beginning of Act I in King Lear. ... Cordelia, like Lavinia, is treated as a something that can be exchanged, who's worth changes according to her value to the men of power that she is surrounded by. ...

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Now one will start to age and look like one's mother. ... He presents a new question to her, asking if she does not want children only because she does not like sex. ... This conflict is resolved throughout the sonnet by Shakespeare's mentioning that the beloved is always mild and temperate by her nature and nothing at all like the summer. ...

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This becomes an intimate moment between the two, as Emilia is unpinning Desdemona's hair and preparing her for bed (like a mother helping her young daughter). ... Like Emilia, she appears worldly and loves her partner without any reservations, but fully aware of her place in a male-dominated society. ... "I am no strumpet, but of life as honest as you thus abuse me (line 142)." ... Cassio never talks with her about his demotion from Lieutenant, something you would confide in with your partner. ...

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The forbidden fruit; a beautiful fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, that God warned Adam and Eve not to eat. In their temptation, they decided to take a bite, thus resulting in severe consequences, death being the worst of them all. Many authors and story-tellers have used the fo...

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