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    Did you know that having a bad connection with your daughter as a father can lead to her making bad decisions in choosing boyfriends? Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare. It's about the son and daughter of two feuding families who fell in love. They try to live married secretly, but when Romeo gets exiled from Verona, Juliet threatens to kill herself unless Friar Lawrence helps her. A plan is made to fake her death, but Romeo thinks she's dead and drinks poison and dies When Juliet…

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    The way the teenage brain works and the story of Romeo and Juliet have a lot more in common than what some people think. Romeo and Juliet is a play written by Shakespeare , the setting is in Verona about a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families. This feud causes tragic results to the main characters in the play, Romeo and Juliet. These events contrast hatred and revenge with love and a secret marriage, forcing the young star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly and die tragically in…

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    is showing her mother that she has a voice and that she is going to use it. Also, Juliet's disobedience towards her mother goes back to the idea that disobedience well lead to tragedy as Juliet ends up dead because…

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    "I'll look to like, if looking liking move.” (I , iii, 97). This quote is uttered by Juliet from Romeo and Juliet, which is the tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet is about two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. The two lovers start out as immature children whom end as passionate, mature people who are determined to be with one another. At the start of Romeo and Juliet, the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are viewed as immature and childish. Evidence to support…

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    Through the play of “Macbeth”, the celebrated playwright, William Shakespeare, presents numerous elements of witchcraft and supernatural, accompanied by a number of other themes as well. The present theme of Appearance versus Reality contributes to the overall intriguing air of the play, and will be the focus of this piece, including the three main points being: Trust, domestication of women, and dramatic irony. Trust, being the major disparity of the piece, is an element used to the fullest to…

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    As in Ovid’s tale “Pyramus and Thisbe,” in “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare communicates the theme that familial hindrances upon a romance may induce the deaths of the lovers involved; however, these deaths may allow for the families to attain peace. Shakespeare further develops this theme, insinuating that such situations may prove avoidable, rather than maintaining an inextricable tie to human nature. Shakespeare initially mirrors the theme of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” as the families of Romeo and…

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    In Shakespeare’s play Much Ado about Nothing, each character was developed perfectly in order to fully present the plot at hand. As an author, Shakespeare carefully planned the usage and characteristics of each character in his play. He used language, comedy, and the personal attributes of each character to really develop them in his writing. After continuing to read more of Shakespeare I see that he not only did this for Much Ado About Nothing, but he makes sure he develops his characters…

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    The play Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s best. Many readers enjoyed the overall feel of the characters, the settings and the plot. However, the thing that struck people the most was the symbolism used in the play. Many of the natural objects had further symbolic meanings such as water. Water symbolized foreshadowing and the attempt to cleanse guilt through the actions of the witches, the Macbeth’s, and King Duncan’s death. Throughout the entire play, it seemed that the…

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    mutual understanding and interference from the outside are obstacles to resolving conflicts peacefully. Once blood has been spilled, we are never sure if peace can be restored.” Zahra describes that Shakespeare’s themes explain that through hatred, tragedy and troubling are the only notable outcomes to it. Messages like these are relevant and important for all to understand. In addition to, Zahra states, “ ...people around the world might find a lot in common with the ordinary folk in Iraq and…

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    The Four Humors

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    Not all references made to the four humors are poetic – in fact, most of them are humorous. These less poetic references are seen throughout, from eating beef making someone less intelligent (Shakespeare 1.3.85-86), to a gag involving someone mistakenly attributing the astrological sign of Taurus to the legs and thighs in order to get someone to dance (Shakespeare 1.3.134-139), to Malvolio, when asked what is wrong, responding “Not black in my mind” (Shakespeare 3.4.28). While none of these…

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