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Introduction

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Revenge:

-all plays are unique and different

-but they all lead into a similar climax and falling action

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Thesis

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In all of William Shakespeare’s plays, revenge ignites from the synchronistic themes of unrequited love, mutinous intentions, and the resurgence of a dead character to guide the protagonist.

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Love is seen very often in Shakespearean plays and is often a cause for revenge to be seeked.

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First Evidential Point

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The song's love is one characterized by an eternally youthful spirit and a willingness to do anything, even die, as Romeo and Juliet did, for love

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First Analysis

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This proves how strong the bond of love is and will help give the reader a feel of Shakespearean love in his plays.

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Second Evidence

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His love of Desdemona was a powerful substance; when it vanishes, the vacuum it leaves must be filled by an equally powerful force, a violent propulsion toward revenge

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Second Analysis

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This point explains what happens when a character's heart is broken in a play, and proves that the only solution to a broken heart is revenge against another person

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Third Evidential Point

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In William Shakespeare's sonnet number one hundred and forty-nine there is a very clear case of unrequited love. In a somber tone he outlines the ways in which he selflessly served his beloved only to be cruelly rejected. His confusion about the relationship is apparent as he reflects upon his behavior and feelings towards her

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Third Analysis

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This gives an example of love and revenge in not only Shakespeare's plays, but also in his poetry. It shows his personal experience and what he did or wanted to do in reaction.

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First Body Conclusion

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These points obviously show the connections between love, broken hearts, and revenge.

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Second Body Introduction

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Mutinous intentions show the reaction of hatred and the need to avenge oneself.

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II First Evidence

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Now in the names of all the gods at once, upon what meant doth this our Caesar feed that he is grown so great? Age, thou art ashamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods! When went there by an age, since the great flood, but it was famed with more than with one man? Now is it Rome indeed, and room enough when there is in it but only one man. O, you and I have heard our fathers say there was a Brutus once that would have brooked th’ eternal devil to keep his state in Rome as easily as a king

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II First Analysis

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This is revenge through jealousy as Cassius is jealous of how Caesar has been viewed by the Roman people and is persuading Brutus to join the conspiracy against Caesar.

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II Second Evidence

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And therefore think him as a serpent’s egg, which, hatched, would, as his kind, grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell

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II Second Analysis

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This quote shows how and why Brutus is against Caesar, and is a reflection of Cassius' jealousy of Caesar and his success.

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II Third Evidence

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Macbeth has often been praised for its artistic coherence and the intense economy of its dramatic action, which is replete with vivid scenes of violence and treachery

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II Third Analysis

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This explains revenge through murder, and destruction. It proves the intensity and tension between characters, which ultimately goes beyond a character's limit and sets him on a path to revenge.

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2nd Body Conclusion

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Mutiny is a theme common in Shakespeare's plays and weaves through the plot until it meets with revenge to cause a dramatic climax and falling action.

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3rd Body Introduction

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Last, the resurrection of a dead soul comes to one of the main characters, be it protagonist or antagonist, and ignites a wish or need for revenge upon another.

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III First Evidence

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The Ghost reveals that he is, in fact, the ghost of Hamlet’s father. The revenge plot is established with the Ghost’s utterance, ‘So art thou to revenge, when thou shalt hear’ (1.5.7). He tells Hamlet that he was poisoned by his brother Claudius as he slept in his orchard and, if Hamlet is not already feeling the desire, the Ghost makes plain the demand: ‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder

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III First Analysis

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This quote uses Hamlet as an example of a ghost coming back from the dead to kindle the flame for revenge: Hamlet's dad tells him how he was murdered and tells him he must find a way to avenge his death.

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III Second Evidence

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O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty yet. Thy spirit walks among us and turns our swords in our own proper entrails

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III Second Analysis

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This is Brutus speaking to Julius Caesar's ghost, saying that he has defeated them, after Antony's army beat his in battle.

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III Third Evidence

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Macbeth's murder of Duncan and Banquo, Brutus' stabbing of Caesar, and Hamlet's failure to please his father's ghost become obsessions. Spiritually disabled by affronts to his moral and ethical codes, each tragic figure ultimately envisions a ghost of the individual he has wronged

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III Third Analysis

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This is an overall summary of the many Shakespearean plays that include ghosts and the characters' reactions to seeing them.

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Third Body Conclusion

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Without the resurgence of the dead and their need for revenge, the theme would surely be cut down in significance to the audience

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Conclusion

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Shakespeare's classic masterpieces always spark some sort of revenge through unrequited love, mutinous actions, and the resurrection of spirits.

without revenge, shakespeare's plays would have no source of meaning to the plot