What is even more amazing is in those short lengths of time, he wrote beautiful poetry and prose, and many quotations and common phrases have been adopted in everyday language today. ... Homosexuality is a very important issue in society today especially in high school settings, and it is important that students recognize the issue and learn to accept it. ... An important theme in Twelfth Night is "carpe diem," Latin for "seize the day." ... Love is very important in terms of plot structure in comedies, and is usually the reason behind the protagonists" actions. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

All Hamlet regards as important is the physical body and disregards that a person can also be remembered on in the minds of many people, even if his body has long since been eaten away at. ... (106) In this quotation, Hamlet is reflecting on the fact that even people such as Alexander and Caesar will be converted into dust, despite what they have done in their lives. ...

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This quotation is the opening line from Hamlet's most famous soliloquy in which he is contemplating his fate, as he debates whether to take his own life as an end to all of his enemies. ... Joanna Montgomery Byles states in her essay, "Tragic Alternatives: Ego and Superego Revenge in Hamlet'" that "the concept of the superego is important to our understanding of the dynamics of aggressive destruction in Shakespeare's tragedies involving vengeance" (Byles). ...

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• Grade Level: High School