Beatice is believed to the first woman in Shakespeare's writing to "have a brain" (ref: Page 132 Shakespeare's Happy Comedies, by John Dover Wilson). ... To this Beatrice replies: "No, but at the gate, and there will the Devil meet me like an old cuckold with horns on his head, and say, "Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven, here's no place for you maids." ... Shakespeare has deliberately done this, to make us love Beatrice, who displays all Shakespeare's feminist ideas. If he didn't want us to like Beatrice he would have depicted her as irritable old ...

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In both Ibsen's "A Doll's House" and Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, we see the controversial subject of morality versus the law. ... If there was a Maslow's Triangle for society like there is for the individual, law would be at the bottom of it. ... You would lose your reputation in society and go to prison. ... Nichomachean ethics suggest the same thing, that all should aim towards good, and things like small laws shouldn't stand in our way. ...

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In many of William Shakespeare's works, it is evident that Shakespeare is alluding the lack of intelligence and weakness of women. "Frailty, thy name is woman" (1.2.146), quoted by Shakespeare in Hamlet is an example of this. In Hamlet, Shakespeare depicts characters like Ophelia and Gertrude as demonstrating weakness and being tools of manipulation by the males in their lives. ... Secondly, when Ophelia sings a song "Before you tumbled me,/ You promised me to wed...

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Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing," by William Shakespeare, is unlike any other women in the play, especially Hero. ... Shakespeare allows Beatrice to be so outspoken to show how few women were like her. ... Reminding Hero, Leonato says: "Daughter, remember what I told you, if the prince do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer" (2.1.65-67). Hero silently agrees with her father's wishes because she looks at this situation like it is an order she must obey. ... Shakespeare's idea of putting feminist ideals into this character was greatly achieved and inspiring to ...

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When do you know a work of literature has stood the test of time? When William Shakespeare wrote it. ... Shakespeare's work, though complicated, will never have just one meaning. ... Shakespeare will always be powerful and applicable throughout time. ... If you read through the play, you will always find something to take from it. ...

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Strong Women of Othello William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... "And so much Duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much that I may profess due to the Moor my lord". Like many of Shakespeare's other female characters, Desdemona does not embody the stereotypical role of sixteenth century women. When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... Let husbands know their wiv...

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William Shakespeare often described the women in his plays as being strong, confident individuals, much different from the stereotypical roles of the time period in which he lived. ... "And so much Duty as my mother showed to you, preferring you before her father, so much that I may profess due to the Moor my lord". Like many of Shakespeare's other female characters, Desdemona does not embody the stereotypical role of sixteenth century women. When Shakespeare wrote Othello, women had few rights and little power in society. ... Let husbands know their wives have sense like them. ...

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This is the case in William Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, the main character Hamlet and his father both face deception and betrayal as they come to realize that the ones closest to them aren't who they claim to be. ... Shakespeare's use of the word serpent was very well thought out, as the country of Denmark believes that a snake bit and poisoned the king, however, Shakespeare also alludes to the traitors as snakes due to their unethical and betraying actions. ... Hamlet says to his mother: Mother, you have my father much offended You are the queen, your husband's wife T...

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Othello: Truth in Life The realization of truth in people's everyday lives is seen though the character analysis in the play Othello by William Shakespeare. ... (Rowse,271) Jealousy leads Othello to treating Desdemona like a "whore in a brothel" as he questions her chastity, as well as, having an uncomfortable intercourse with Desdemona. ... (Shakespeare,42) Also in his deception he uses Roderigo, who had once hoped to win Desdemona. ... (Shakespeare,99) Othello who completely loves his wife in the beginning goes on to hate her for the whore he's only persuaded to believe she is....

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The movie, 10 Things I Hate About You, directed by Gil Junger, and the play, Taming of the Shrew, written by William Shakespeare, are based on the same storyline. ... In 10 Things I Hate About You, Kat appears to have genuinely become a better person. ... Bianca aspires to have ultimate popularity in her high school in 10 Things I Hate About You. ... In Taming of the Shrew, Bianca seems like the sweet, perfect, beautiful girl that every man desires. ... Furthermore, in the end of 10 Things I Hate About You, both Bianca and Kat are happy. ...

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Cassio: What make you from home? ... Do you intend? ... Whether or not that includes Cassio is left a mystery, only Shakespeare knew what became of them. ... Let husbands kknow Their wives hvae sense like them. ... In my personal opinion, Shakespeare wanted to keep the readers in anxiety about the relationship between Emilia and Iago. ...

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Other readings such as "A Midsummer Night's Dream", by William Shakespeare, puts more of an imaginary view of how women grew up and lived their lives. ... Hale even said, "Well, women are used to worrying over Trifles." (6) With her being so unhappy she, metaphorically speaking, lived like her bird that she called her own. ... As for Shakespeare's, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", an interesting twist is put in on how women lived their lives, and were treated in society. ... "What say you Hermia? ... Life was not fair and if you wanted freedom to marry who you loved then you ...

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What the audience does not know yet is the fact that Beatrice has only met Benedick a few times yet already creates an abstract of how she does not like him. ... What man was [with] you [last night], Out at your window [between] twelve and one? Now, if you are a [virgin] answer to this" (67). ... Like all comedies, the play ends in happy matrimony. ... When Shakespeare wrote Much Ado About Nothing, he wanted to leave the reader laughing in which he succeeded. ...

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Two classic examples of this timeless conflict are Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles" Oedipus. ... At first, Hamlet's way to revenge his father's death is to pretend to be mad "Here as before, never so help you mercy, How strange or odd some"er I bear myself, (as I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on)"(1.5. 169-172). But tragically, Hamlet really does go mad just like Oedipus. ... Shakespeare and Sophocles both wrote their plays to incorporate the long battle between good and evil. ...

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Two classic examples of this timeless conflict are Shakespeare's Hamlet and Sophocles" Oedipus. ... At first, Hamlet's way to revenge his father's death is to pretend to be mad "Here as before, never so help you mercy, How strange or odd some"er I bear myself, (as I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on)"(1.5. 169-172). But tragically, Hamlet really does go mad just like Oedipus. ... Shakespeare and Sophocles both wrote their plays to incorporate the long battle between good and evil. ...

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In the tragic drama Hamlet, Shakespeare guides the audience to question whether or not Hamlet is truly mad. Shakespeare leaves the audience to decide if Hamlet is insane or merely angry at women. ... Hamlet tells her, "Make you to ravel all this matter out. ... "I loved you not" (3.1.1628). ... But like the owner of a foul disease" (4.1, 1648). ...

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Typical jokes include the one about the kid who picks up a dead snake that isn't dead after all, they are mildly funny, but nothing that would cause you to go into any fit of serious laughter. ... Eve likes to quote Romeo and Juliet, which appeals to the people who are in to Shakespeare. Poor Mozelle is upstaged by someone with a genuine gift for prognostication, and who would like to snuff out cheap fakes like Mozelle. ... To me Eve's Bayou was a well written, and directed movie, that at times made you feel as if you were in the actual movie. ... It was like a long more dramatic sit...

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She "hated" him, (he was not a perfect person, or he was like what he used to be) simply just because she loved him, and that was true love. ... She might not like watching football at all, but she did, for the reason that she loved him. When she asked the drowning question like every girl does, he gave her a satisfied response. ... As the author writes: "One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with each other, it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again." ... Shakespeare has said, "Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds." ...

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In Shakespeare's Othello, Emilia and Desdemona's personalities contribute to their fate. ... These lines emphasize that fathers in Shakespeare's time, like Brabantio, consider their daughters as their possessions. ... This is shown when Emilia says "Let husbands know their wives have sense like them. ... Desdemona swears her innocence to Othello when she protests "And have you mercy too. ... If you think other / Remove your thought" (IV, ii. 112-114), Othello immediately assumes that she is lying. ...

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In the beginning of "The Taming of the Shrew", some say Shakespeare portrays Katherina as a very shrewish figure. ... Kate is "like a wasp, like a foal, like foal that kicks from his halter; pert, quick and determined, but full of good heart." 1. ... One author (pattern in carpet) says that Shakespeare sees Katherine and Petruchio as in love at first sight. He says that their fights are partly like a game and partly a matter of egoism. ... But any way you chose to look at it, she is definitely a changed person. ...

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The Taming of the Shrew In Shakespeare's comedy, Taming of the Shrew, Katherine and Bianca are different in their own ways. ... She is her father's favorite and liked by everyone for her kind behavior. ... "Patience, I pray you; 'twas a fault unwilling (4.1) She is beginning to mature and see the world from a perspective other than her own. ...

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By acting fascinated by the roaring she makes him look like an idiot. ... "It's been going on all night, you know."" "Why didn't you wake me, " she said. ... This was definitely not how Wilson thought you should finish such a job, according to Wilson you have to face your enemy and not run like a coward- it must be done with honour. It is of course easy to say for a man who lives by the Shakespeare quotation: " By my troth, I can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year it quit for the next."" ...

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Would you like a smoke Oh! ... You feel as if you are on top of the world. ... Jim: Oh that Shakespeare is never out of his shell at work, he hardly knows anything that goes on in that warehouse. ... You know what Tom you did it to hurt me, why don't you just go to the movies. ... People change and grow, just like my glass menagerie...

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An excellent example of a farce is the play by Shakespeare named "The Taming of The Shrew." ... Just then Petruchio tells Katherina that, "Marry, so I mean, sweet Katherina, in thy bed: And therefore, setting all this chat aside, Thus in plain terms: Your father hath consented that you shall be my wife; your dowry"greed on; and, will you, nill you, I will marry you." ... The greater one's wealth, the more respected you are, much like today. ... Also marries like this occurs so that more wealth can be gained and in turn more power. ... It shows us how marriages most likely took plac...

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Metropolitan cities like Toronto are becoming less populated. ... Many characters change throughout Shakespeare's tragic play, Romeo & Juliet. ... Characters in plays change like people as life goes on. Like Juliet, the sweetest girl you could ever know could transform into a raging disobedient monster. Or like Capulet, your father could be nice and sweet to you and then by the next day, he is dragging you on a hurdler. ...

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