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Iago’s Soliloquies in William Shakespeare’s Play Othello “Othello” is a tragedy which was written in 1622 by William Shakespeare, the title “Othello” is eponymous which means that a character gives its name to the title. Othello is not the main character, where as in “Macbeth” Macbeth was the main character. Right from the beginning Shakespeare…

Shakespeare employs language tools and techniques to create a tense and exciting scene in Act 3 Scene 1 of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, as he showcases a fight scene in the streets of fair Verona, Italy. The fate of our ‘star crossed lovers’ takes a drastic turn for the worse when Tybalt and Mercutio meet their…

One of the impressive qualities of literature is its ability to excite imagination of readers with the help of textual medium by vivid depiction of events and by finding a way to make readers feel with the characters of the books and stories as if reliving their experiences. In this regard, in contrast to full-fledged…

During the Elizabethan age, love sonnets were usually written by men communicating their love for unattainable women and displaying courtly love. However, Spenser’s Petrarchan sonnets from the Amoretti sequence break conventional love poetry in many ways and challenge the usual pessimist look at love to give it a buoyant look. Spenser then sets his own…

Hitler believed in cultural cleaning. He wanted the colored race to vanish. To him non-whites were an inferior race. Persons of Judaic descent were peculiarly singled out. Hitler ordered their imprisonment in concentration cantonments which had distressing life conditions. Jewish? captives? were severely mistreated and so most were killed. This cultural cleaning didnT merely take…

Introduction In recent years, television programming, along with publishing ventures, have presented a number of projects looking at the concept of catastrophism, along with diffusionism. One of the best of these books is Brad Steiger’s Worlds Before Our Own, a work that initially earned that writer a great deal of ridicule and personal attacks. Yet…

A good father of the groom speech should be personal, humorous and/or moving. What makes THIS toast personal is the good and heartfelt advice that the father offers to the newly married couple.Even if the father’s marital track record is not that good, a “lessons learned” element can be very poignant and appropriate if properly…

“We don’ t see things as they are. We see them as we are.”This quotation mark by Anais Nin expresses an indispensable point of position for this treatment about the symbolic significance of inanimate objects, since it is our personality and our memories, which determine our character and significance. Our feelings towards certain objects are…

Plato’s definition of rhetoric is, “the art of ruling the minds of men. ” (Atlantic Monthly) All authors aim for this goal; to control how the mind perceives ones writing and to lead the audience to believe in what they have written is true. Skilled writers utilize this rhetoric to fulfill just that; yet the…

The Necklace Writers share their views about life through their literary works. In the short story, “The Necklace”, Guy De Maupassant expresses the theme of “Appreciate what you have instead of being envious of others. ” “The Necklace” is a story about a young woman which desires social standing and wealth over everything including her…