… He is a Moor, a dark-skinned man born in Africa, and has risen through the ranks of the Venetian army through hard work and success in battle. He is a respected general, but less respected as a person, because of his dark skin and foreign roots. He…

… that an author may use to seize the attention and interest of the reader. These tools may be used in any manner of ways in order to capture the readers’ attention. The tools set the mood, which will engross the mind of the reader and will thus draw…

… a comedy, cruelty runs rampant throughout the entire text of the play. Most of the characters exhibit some form of cruel behavior toward one another, including Lancelot who is cruel to his father Gobbio when he runs into him on the street.…

… is not truly tamed because she simply follows Petruchio’s orders without changing her spirit. Petruchio gets his hands full when he marries Katherine. She is a very wild and rough woman who needs to be tamed. In the beginning of the story, Katherine…

… Slavery occurs on a widespread basis in The Tempest. Occurrence of slavery to many of the characters, all in different ways, helps to provide the atmosphere for the play. The obvious slaves are not the only slaves, as Prospero has basically…

… green world and its inhabitants as a symbol of imagination. The characters flee from reality to escape the laws that govern everyday life in Athens. The importance of imagination reveals itself when the constraints of everyday life are lost in this…

… opportunity for Shakespeare to represent a well-known story of a public figure whose life and death enormously affected the future of his nation and it citizens. Caesar’s life could serve as a reflection on the prevailing worries about monarchal…

… to represent a well-known story of a public figure whose life and death enormously affected the future of his nation and it citizens. Caesar’s life could serve as a reflection on the prevailing worries about monarchal leadership, while dipping…

… is a mediator between characters throughout the play. He has no strong feelings, weather it be love or hate, toward the remaining characters. Thus, knowing each character from previous encounters (not within the play), Horatio is left to introduce…

… to be...". (Source Unknown) "The major question in 'To be or not to be' cannot be suicide. If it were, as many have noted, it would be dramatically irrelevant. Hamlet is no longer sunk in the depths of melancholy, as he was in his first soliloquy…