Othello's love life is often prejudiced also as an inter-racial relationship. ... An important focus of the play is about Othello's romantic interest. ... He is deeply in love with her, and this soon becomes a target for Iago and Rodrigo (Othello -Race, Place and Identity n. pag.). This romantic interest is now yet another opportunity to build up Othello's character. This is Othello's poetic and romantic side. ...

• Word Count: 2635
• Approx Pages: 11
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• Grade Level: High School

They say that this play is the most purely romantic of Shakespeare's comedies. ... Hermia is in love with Lysander. ... Demetrius loves Hermia, but she does not love him. On the other hand, Helena is in love with Demetrius. ... nes that are bound to cross the course of true love. ...

• Word Count: 2837
• Approx Pages: 11
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These highly subjective sonnets are wonderful tales full of love, deception, and betrayal. ... However, if one man can so exquisitely write fictional stories about love and still include a controversial issue in them, then where do we draw the line between fact and fiction? ... At the time, the sonnet was being repopularized as a common way for expressing one's love for another. ... But with the next two lines, "Or who is he so fond will be the tomb/ Of his self-love, to stop posterity" (ll 7-8), Shakespeare now uses the pronoun 'he', which is the basis of the unclearness as...

• Word Count: 3329
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

He considers love to be "merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.... He is a lady's man, and therefore cannot be concerned with such things as true love. Even Othello, the one character who truly loves his wife, mistreats Desdemona. ... He states to Iago "Alas, poor rogue, I think i' faith she loves me." (4.1.128) Cassio essentially uses Bianca's love to his own means. ...

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Shakespeare tries to unify and harmonizes these contrasts in form of romantic love of Antony and Cleopatra but he is also aware of the consequences of this unification which turns to great disaster due to the clash of civilizations. The audience is introduced to this threat in the beginning of the play when the Roman Soldiers see Antony as 'a strumpet's fool' (1.1.13) where as Antony finds a 'new heaven , new earth ' in the love of Cleopatra. ... Mark Antony has not learned the lesson from tragic death of Julius Caesar , the last Republican ruler, who tried to mar...

• Word Count: 2903
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School