.... Lear drove her into exile and divided the kingdom between his two eldest daughters. However, his two eldest daughters infuriated him with their cruel treatment thereafter. Hence, the king went in search of his youngest daughter. His youngest daughter had married the king of France while she was gone. His youngest daughter returned with him two Britain and helped him to regain hi throne. Shakespeare utilized this British legend to create what is arguably one of the greatest tragedies of all time. Shakespeare took this British legend and conceptualized it to fit his audience. Shakespeare added the character of the Fool as a tool in better und .....

.... on the battlefield. Likewise, Raskolnikov’s thoughts and actions confirmed he was a compassionate individual. When he saw the young girl being followed by the suspicious man, he immediately called the police and tried to protect the girl. When his friendly acquaintance Marmeladov died, Raskolnikov gave his last twenty rubles to Katerina, Marmeladov’s wife. He did not want to see her suffer any more than he could help. Also, Raskolnikov feared his sister, Dunia, was marrying Luzhin for the wrong reasons, so he interfered to try to save her from unnecessary pain and anguish. Macbeth and Raskolnikov each had flaws that led to .....

.... The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and Terms of Endearment. Brooks originally wanted Groening to make an animated pilot of Life in Hell. Groening chose not to do so in fear of loosing royalties from papers that printed the strip. Groening presented Brooks with an overweight, balding father, a mother with a blue beehive hairdo, and three obnoxious spiky haired children. Groening intended for them to represent the typical American family "who love each other and drive each other crazy". Groening named the characters after his own family. His parents were named Homer and Margaret and he had two younger sisters named Lisa and Maggie. Bart was .....

.... Act V, Scene IV is the death that sends him over the abyss and into mental instability. Lady Macbeth is like a joined appendage to Macbeth. They work as one, communicate as one, and when that appendage is lost, so is MB's grip with reality. Lady Macbeth was the only person he could truly confide in. The supernatural also had another key factor to her death. In the first act of the play, she calls on the powers of the supernatural to make her strong. The following quote, "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! make thick my blood, stop up the access a .....

.... as a young, spry lad, so he has a tendency to be more willing to unload onto her with his troubles and sorrows, seeking a companion with which to share and to teach. Thus, Viola grows in her male disguise to get a better feeling for his inner self, not the self that he shows to the public, or would reveal and share with Viola in her true female self, but rather his secret self, as he believes he shares with a peer. So, she grows to love him. But, Orsino's motivation is actually not love for Viola, but rather he seems to be in love with love itself. His entire world is filled with love but he knows that there might be a turning point for .....

.... that Romeo and Juliet are more likely lusting for each other rather than loving each other. It also appears that Antony is more in love with the idea of Cleopatra than with the woman herself. This kind of thing is very common. People often think very highly of the person that they met at on vacation, even if the person would not have been right for them. It is more likely that they love the place and the time rather than the person. Antony is also the greatest Roman soldier, and the respect for him by the people is enormous. However, this respect comes directly from his being an excellent soldier and a superb politician. Like oth .....

.... changed, but the changes are subtle. They are neither drastic nor monumental. Both remain who they were before, but now they the two are one. They gain everything and lose nothing. Whether or not their love would have bloomed without the help of their friends, we will never know. In the beginning of the play, Beatrice and Benedick do not seem to like each other very much, if at all. This can be seen in Act I; Scene I, (line 121- 131): BENEDICK: God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face. BEATRICE: Scratching could not make i .....

.... play that has a level head on her shoulders, and he leaves it up to her to straighten everyone else out. This essay will explore what Shakespeare included in Rosalind’s character that makes her the only balanced person in the play, and it will also show how she balances the other characters out. The first action taken by Rosalind that indicates her balanced state is when Duke Frederick has banished her from his court, and she decides to leave disguised as a man. This action shows that even though she is female, she doesn’t feel the need to act feminine all of the time in order to be self-assured as a woman. She doesn’t fully thr .....

.... largest and arguably best Shakespearian festival. The play carries on for almost 3 hours, and is tempered with boredom (e.g. Isabella's laughably unimpassioned speech to Angelo), and momentary spots of humour (e.g. the some-times hilarious exchange between Lucio, a servant to the Duke, and the Duke disguised as a friar. This moment of ironic comedy is certainly one of the play's highlights, and is a model for many modern humour pieces) which all serve to create a less than enthralling afternoon of "not so high" drama. I will not attempt to explain the plot, as one of the play's redeeming factors is the suspense created by the soap operatic s .....

.... and intense feelings while the word “dull� describes weak and boring feelings. The contradiction of words is used to describe what Hamlet thinks about his own vengeance of his father’s death with Claudius. He feels that he hasn’t given his best effort to revenge his uncle and therefore calls his revenge “dull� which is a powerful way to describe his feelings. We get another look into the mind of Hamlet when he is talking about his thoughts that have “one part wisdom and ever three parts coward�. The word choice here shows another contradiction between the words “wisdom� and “coward�. A coward is able to have wis .....