These highly subjective sonnets are wonderful tales full of love, deception, and betrayal. ... He presents a new question to her, asking if she does not want children only because she does not like sex. ... When she looks upon her self, she will be looking into a mirror that reflects her past beauty, basically a living mirror of years before. ... She will loose her one chance at immortality, and worse yet, she will die alone and unloved. ... It is during this time when the flowers are blooming, trees are full of leaves and the weather is warm. ...

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When Lysander abandons Hermia, she is convinced that being alone in the dark could lead her to death: Speak, of all loves; I swoon almost with fear. ... She lingers my desires/ Like to a step-dame" (Act 1, Scene 1, 2-5). ... The power of night transforms the gaze in that the eye's ability is diminished, but the ear's strength is augmented. Hermia is able to find Lysander eventually by using her hearing to its full potential: "Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes. ... Thou art not by mine eye, Lysander, found; Mine ...

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Rosalind explains her motives as such " No,some of it is for my child's father / O" how full of briers is this working day world, " (1.3.11-12). She hopes the child's father will be someday be Orlando. ... She believes that she has full intentions of wedding Orlando, thus making it necessary for her to attend the wrestling match. ... During the course of the conversation Audrey reveals that she is not of the " wench " type but she does not deny that she is solely good and pure. ... He proclaims , " Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love. every eye which in this forest lo...

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In order to do that, he decides to change his exterior disguising himself as Caius: "If but as well I other accents borrow That can my speach defuse, my good intent/ May carry through itself to that full issue...... As as aristocratic woman, she appears in the play in "poor and mean attire" (1.3.109). ...

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She is full of "Dutch courage," and boasting of her part in the plot to murder Duncan. ... She was willing and prepared to commit a terrible murder. ... She also mutters exclamatory utterances, "Hark! ... We are already aware that Lady Macbeth thinks her husband is "too full o'th milk of human kindness" from Act I and had she not convinced his to murder the king none of the trouble they are encountering would have occurred. ... He is like this until Lady Macbeth takes the situation into her hands and says "tis the eye of childhood." and even though her "hands are of Macbeth's colou...

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In her soliloquy she asked the spirits to: " Unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty Come, thick night, And pull thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry "Hold, hold!"" ... He was "too full o" the milk of human kindness" (Shakespeare, I, v, 17) in her point of view; his gentleness would get in the way of their plans, which was the case. She was forced, under her own circumstance, to bring out the worse she could think of. She had to someho...

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It is a gloomy play, full of darkness and evil. ... When Lady Macbeth is preparing for Duncan's murder, she calls on the spirits of darkness and evil: "The raven himself hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements. Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty! ... He sends for two murderers and says: "So he is mine, and in such bloody distance, That every minute of his being thrusts Against my near'st of life: and though I could With barefaced power ...

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He believes that Cordelia possesses the most love for him, however, when she says, "I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less"(1.1.94-95), Lear becomes outraged and increasingly rash. ... Full oft 'tis seen, our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities"(4.1.18-21). Gloucester learns that clear vision does not emanate from the eye, but that sight comes from within. ... The eye alone cannot create clear vision. ...

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A character far more complex than seems at first, there is more to Iago than meets the eye - making him a man who is not merely pure evil but rather a true villain in every respect of the word. ... Traversi, Beneath Claudius" impressive ability to assume, on the surface and in the public eye, the appropriately judicious and authoritative mask, which has even led some students of the play to minimize the full extent of his malignity, lie the obsessive realities of insecurity, ruthlessness, and hunger for power. ... Rather, he uses Desdemona's sweetness to convince Othello that she is...

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He has been given full martial and political command of Cyprus and is a figure of high standing and esteem within the Venetian community. ... His mind does not argue yes or no, once she "be false" she must be killed, which in turn diminishes his character in the audience's eyes. ... He tries to convince himself, even after Emilia has told Othello he "hast killed the sweetest innocent / That did e"er did lift up eye" (V, ii, 197-198), that she was false, and rather than realising his weaknesses and flaws, he takes the blame away from himself saying the murder was planned by fate: "...O...

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He has been given full martial and political command of Cyprus and is a figure of high standing and esteem within the Venetian community. ... His mind does not argue yes or no, once she "be false" she must be killed, which in turn diminishes his character in the audience's eyes. ... He tries to convince himself, even after Emilia has told Othello he "hast killed the sweetest innocent / That did e"er did lift up eye" (V, ii, 197-198), that she was false, and rather than realising his weaknesses and flaws, he takes the blame away from himself saying the murder was planned by fate: "...O...

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Lear cannot see that she refuses to speak out of her true love for him, so he strips her of her dowry. ... Oppositely, Cordelia can see very well what is happening in the court, and she tells him she is glad she does not have a "still soliciting eye" like her sisters, always begging for more (1577)1. ... Goneril rejects her father and for the first time Lear is beginning to see that she does not love him. ... He is still partly blind to the truth, for though he now knows they do not love him, he is rather insane and cannot quite grasp the full situation. ... She must insist that she is t...

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She is abused, stolen from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines from the Moor! ... It is the green eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on; " but Othello still bites the line! ... She plans to taunt Iago with it; however, Iago grabs Emilia, kisses her she is taken by surprise and Iago snatches the cloth out of her hands. Emilia is disappointed at her husband's rejection; but she continues on she does not try to get Desdemona's handkerchief back or pursue to question Iago's intentions. ... " "I know not, madam " "Believe me I had rather lost my purse full of Port...

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In ""Romeo Must Die"" Trish is shown as an independent and classy women: she owns her own shop, house and is capable of taking control of her own life. ... She has the strength to reject her father after Colin's death, however Juliet is dominated by her father and sees the way of avoiding his decisions for her is to fake her death. ... She is hip, sassy and most importantly, more independent than Juliet. Trish does not let her father influence her choices in life and unlike Juliet; she has the strength to stand up to him. ... The predominant comical character in my film is Maurice who is ...

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Jealousy is a motive that leads the witches to strike and " The witch derisively sees her enemy as a sexual object whose role she intends to usurp " (Biggins 256). ... His mind is racing at a thousand miles a minute while his wife, Lady Macbeth, feeds plans of what she believes will make them prosperous as a whole. ... I is too full o'th' milk of human kindness/ To catch the nearest way " ( I.iv.16-18). ... Near the end she sees that peace of mind will never come again because of all her and Macbeth's guilt. ... In his monstrous way, Macbeth reflects on how " He has anticipated ...

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Suddenly the couple is the talk of the town, being in the critical eye of all those who bother to involve themselves. ... Othello lives for Desdemona's love and she is the love of his life. ... Othello's seed of jealousy is finally in full blossom, ready to conquer and destroy all that lies in its path. ...

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