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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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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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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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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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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