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Coleridge famously describes the analysis of Iago as “the motive hunting of a motiveless malignity”. Using the soliloquies as a starting point, discuss your view of Iago and compare your views with other critics. Of all Shakespeare’s villainous creations Iago stands out as being the most wickedly stimulating yet most misunderstood character. His apparent lack…

Schema also is the prior knowledge gained through experiences stored in student’s mind. What is schema? A schema (plural schemata) is how a reader perceived or understands the text from their reading based on their own background knowledge or their point of view on the surroundings. Their understanding on reading is not basically from the…

The romantic period was a very interesting time for poetry. It was a time between 1798-1832 were poets or Romantics were able to get their views across. by nature, these poets were rebellious, unhappy with and unwilling to stand by and not writers about what they saw as wrong. They also rebelled against the literary…

Catalina De Erauso, who was depicted in the persona of Lieutenant Nun, was a woman, which at an early age was sent into a convent and was expected by her parents to be a nun. She was basically raised in the loving arms of a religious people and once surrounded by a pious environment. Apparently,…

In To Kill a Mockingbird, despite racial tensions in Maycomb, the adults in Scouts life influence her to believe that equality is a necessity. Harper Lee utilizes Atticus, Calpurnia and Reverend Sykes as role models to demonstrate to Scout the right perspective on equality. During the time period of the book, there is a lot…

In Macbeth's speech about the witches telling him their prophecies, central and dramatic purpose are given in more than one way.Macbeth's aside is mainly an inward conflict in a case of man versus himself.Many times in the passage, Macbeth relays signs of fear but with reward near by.Contained in Macbeth's aside are very important elements…

Closure at the WallIn the novel In Country, Bobbie Ann Mason writes about a young woman and her uncle searching to heal their scars caused by the Vietnam War. Sam Hughes, the young woman and Emmett Smith, her uncle, travel to Washington D.C. in the summer of 1984. Their destination is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial…

To Elizabethan society in the late 16th century Italy meant ‘crime rather than art, the devious head rather then the simple heart’. Italian women were seen as ‘very lewd and wicked’, with many thousands paying ‘monthly unto the pope for the sinful use of their bodies’, a quote from a Londoner around the time that…

Mary Warren is a character in The Crucible, a play centered around the Salem witch trials and the individuals linked to the deaths that occurred during this dark period. In this play, the circumstances leading to the trials are revealed, including the events leading up to the hanging of both the first and last victims….

            In the realm of comic books, there are heroes and villains.  There are victims and bystanders.  However there is one type of characters that defies categorization that they need a category of their own.  They are called the anti-heroes.  These types of heroes are very compelling as they seemingly have good intentions, but behave…