In order to share the kingdoms, he command his daughters to say how much they love him and promise to give the greatest part to that daughter. The two older daughters, Gonerill and Regan were wicked. ... 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. ... However everything goes wrong when he gave his entire kingdom to two treacherous daughters and exiles the faithful one, because she refused to exaggerate the love statement to her father. ... Crucially, his daughter order to shut th...

• Word Count: 3449
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Tranio's job is to keep Bianca's other suitors and her father off Lucentio's scent (Macrone, Brush Up Your Shakespeare, 1990). ... Even though Lucentio comes clean at the end of the story, telling Bianca "Love wrought these miracles- (V.i.98), he is still the typical male. ... He believe he can have the Pedant pose as his father and speed up his marriage to Bianca. ... Katherine is definitely not the favorite of Baptista's two daughters and she knows this. ... For instance, he tells Baptista " I see you do not mean to part with her, or else you like not of my compan...

• Word Count: 2530
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Moreover, in the view of the majority of critics, the play charts the growth of Lear's wisdom, as he learns the emptiness of worldly glory and comes to embrace the love of his daughter Cordelia as the one true value in his life. ... Ultimately, this kind of reading threatens to reduce King Lear to a form of melodrama, a story of the straightforward conflict of clearly identifiable and separable forces of good and evil, in which the outcome is tragic only in the sense of being disastrous for the main characters. ... Eliot: "I said the king was an incredibly foolish old man, which God know...

• Word Count: 8939
• Approx Pages: 36
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare was born into a wealthy family is that his father John Shakespeare was a businessman and his mother Mary Arden came from a wealthy family, but later came adversity and John Shakespeare was devoted to a butcher with the help of their children . Shakespeare was the third of eight children and seven years after his birth, his father takes over as mayor in Stratford, allowing him to study at the best school in that place, who would later leave by choice. ... In 1583, Susan and her daughter would be born two years later, her twins, Judith and Hamnet, the latter died at the age of eleven...

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Egeus, Hermia's father, forbids the relationship with Lysander and orders her to marry Demetrius. ... In retaliation to her father's command, Hermia and Lysander run away together. ... (Scott 370-373) Male domination not only exists between husband and wife, but also between father and daughter. ... In this area, legends, myths, and impossible stories originate. ... The fairies bring the stories to you from the East. ...

• Word Count: 2837
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the play "Othello," Shakespeare presents us with another male dominated society where women are inferior. Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca are rejected by their partners, but love them completely and unselfishly. All three women are in unbalanced relationships, feeling more for their self-centered m...

• Word Count: 4504
• Approx Pages: 18