The silhouette of Tornabuoni captures her with no emotion displayed on her face, removing any sign of character that may display her as an active contributor to society; she is to sit quietly. ... He portrays his female characters, Hermione, Perdita, and Paulina, as active members of society with powerful traits of courage, eloquence, and dignity. In "The Winter's Tale", the central female character, Hermione, embodies courage, eloquence, and dignity when accused of committing adultery with her husband's childhood friend, Polixines. ... By breaking her silence and declaring, with di...

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Shakespeare has based his play on Plutarch's 3narrative of Roman characters .A.C.Bradley does not consider it the real tragedy because he thinks that it lacks certain convention of tragedy. ... Their moral standard was also comparatively very poor as Shakespeare has highlighted all these short comings of the Egyptian society in the character of Cleopatra. ... William Shakespeare has puts less racist remarks in the month of key Roman characters regarding Egyptian queen and Egypt. ... However, Shakespeare has shown through Romans characters that superiority is on the Roman side and histor...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Critics may go on speaking of the grandeur of Shakespeare's achievement and of Lear as a character, but if the standard readings of the play were correct, a more honest reaction would resemble that of Groucho Marx, when, in a meeting almost as improbable as Lear's encounter with Tom o' Bedlam, he...

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