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Court Room Scandal Belmont Lady gets down and Dirty in Venice Portia, Lady from Belmont, always seemed like a sweet girl, always behaved the way her father wanted her too. Obviously her father’s death has caused some changes as recently Portia has taken some extreme risks to save her love Bassanio. Bassanio is Portia’s most…

Additionally, this is the first occasion in the entirety of the play where Hamlet is aware of the truth conveyed by the ghost and his subsequent actions are rational. Hamlet deliberately portrays himself as mad and behaves foolishly (such as killing Polonium) as a result. Hamlet hopes that Alerter can comprehend that he is not…

Love in the time of cholera The main characters of the novel are Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza. 80th Florentino and Fermina fell in love with each other in their youth. A secret relationship blossomed between the two with the help of Fermina’s Aunt Escolstica. They exchanged several love letters. However, once her father, Lorenzo…

Introduction             In the late 1991, the world was amazed at the fall of one of the most powerful countries in the world. The Soviet Union disintegrated into 15 states which marked the ultimate end of cold war. The western countries considered the collapse of the Soviet Union as a major step towards the realization…

            Charles Dickens is known for creating a rich tapestry of personalities in his novels, not just through his main characters but also through the minor ones.  These characters often have strange names, idiosyncrasies, and provide comedic and dramatic elements to the story.  In Great Expectations, Dickens uses minor characters to educate the main character…

At the very outset of “Two Formal Elegies” by Geoffrey Hill, there is a somber dedication: “For the Jews in Europe.” The poems reflect Hill’s aims in having art reconcile the horrors of history and using poetry as a healing force. “Two Formal Elegies” resurrects, in a way, those who died during the Holocaust, allowing…

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) explores the themes of love, friendship, and loyalty in his plays A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1600) and King Lear (1603-1606), presenting them with inconsistencies that can be better understood by considering the historical context in which he wrote. During the Renaissance, Shakespeare’s critical examination of these themes was significant for understanding the…

Mama as the Ideal Mother in A Raisin in the Sun W. S. Ross once said “The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.” As simple as this quip may sound, its complex implications are amplified through the life of every person born since the beginning of humanity. What attribute…

A play I have studied is The Merchant of Venice. Two characters in the play who have a tense relationship are Shylock and Antonio. This tension stems firstly from religious differences. In Venice at this time the Christians looked down on the Jewish people because of their religion. Shylock cannot understand the hatred of the…

George Bernard Shaw’s power as a dramatist is directly linked to hiswork as a socialist both before and during his work as a playwright. It isbecause these two forces are so inextricably tied that a working knowledgeof both his socialist ideals and his ideas concerning the theatricalprocess is not only useful, but on some levels…