Some of them will end tragically, or end the same way they started, as nothing. ... On a good note, due to Romeo and Juliet's death, that caused the parents of the Capulet and Montague's to reconsider their feud and became friends. ... There is nothing to be blamed on Ophelia. ... There was nothing tragic about her death because she did what she knew what was right. ... Basically, it was her that told the truth throughout the entire play, (and the fool too). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Yet I persuade myself to speak the truth Shall nothing wrong him. ... As literary critic Morris White notes, His government works smoothly. ... He simply has a goal in mind, which is to be King, and will stop at nothing until he achieves it. ... Furthermore, both men appear to have intricately planned their course of action in detail, but the truth is that they only planned the beginnings of their campaigns and acted opportunistically throughout the rest of the play. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As May notes, these people more that other people questioned matters beyond their vision (39). ... May believes that it is because his own observations of the habits of animals and plants were explained by stories that were more myth that truth. ... Although the court sometimes pressured his into including some form of the supernatural in his plays that had nothing to do with his themes, he rarely allowed Elizabethans' demands to affect his own conception of how the supernatural should be used. ... The fairies mix freely with men and women of the court and, through childish pranks, do no...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Immediately, Hamlet must determine whether the ghost speaks the truth, and to do so he must cope with theological issues. ... Looking towards Horatio as a model of the Christian stoicism he needs to pull himself through the play, Hamlet comments on him: '. . .thou hast been / As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing, / A man that fortune's buffets and rewards / Hast ta'en with equal thanks. . . .Give me that man / That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him / I my hearts core' (III.ii. 70-79). ... Francisco notes, ''tis bitter cold,...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Fool's use of irony, humor, and sarcasm, help to gently say the truth, and allows him to keep King Lear's behavior in check. ... Calling Lear himself a Fool and rebuking him for diminishing himself to "nothing" by dividing and handing off his kingdom to evil daughters, the Fool recognizes that by giving up his authority without clear thinking, his master is essentially ensuring his own destruction and the corruption of power. ... Fortunately, Edgar revealed Goneril's evil intents to Albany with a note outlining her deceitful plans. ...

• Word Count: 1503
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School