Need a Comparison Between the Tragedies Othello and Antigone?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Othello\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone\n\nread something
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I'm not sure I understand your question exactly, but if you are asking who has control over who, in the entire play, then you're asking the million dollar question. Scholars have argued this many different ways for a long time, but essentially, the if there is one true master of control it has to be Iago, who after getting passed up for a military promotion over the Moor Othello, Iago befriends Othello and skillfully, bit by bit convinces him that his pretty wife, Desdemona, who happens to be white, is cheating on him. Conflicted, Othello ends up killing her only to later realize what Iago was doing to him. \n\nIago is one Shakepeare's greatest villian, a dispicable characther that controls all the action in Othello.  So does that answer your question?
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All the tragedies which were composed by Shakespeare had the main protagonist modelled with the clay of "Hamartia". According to Aristotle's Poetics, Hamartia is the Tragic Flaw in the personality of the Main protagonists which leads up to a tragic eventuality. \n\nI case of Othello, his character was based upon 3 Flaws. First, He was highly suspicious of the people around him. Second, he was extremely conscious of the fact that he belonged to a base class as he was the Black Moor. Third, he had a tendency to go high on emotions quickly.\n\nIago, the clever manipulator that he was, exploited him on these counts and made him believe that Desdemona had turned amorous and was into an affair with cassio.\n\nFurther, he was helped by the coincidences that happened along the way like his wife finding the Handkerchief of Desdemona.
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try this \nhttp://www.temple.edu/classics/odysseyho.html
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The Forcefulness of Love \n\nRomeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. In the course of the play, the young lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families (“Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” Juliet asks, “Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”); friends (Romeo abandons Mercutio and Benvolio after the feast in order to go to Juliet’s garden); and ruler (Romeo returns to Verona for Juliet’s sake after being exiled by the Prince on pain of death in II.i.76–78). Love is the overriding theme of the play, but a reader should always remember that Shakespeare is uninterested in portraying a prettied-up, dainty version of the emotion, the kind that bad poets write about, and whose bad poetry Romeo reads while pining for Rosaline. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves.\nThe powerful nature of love can be seen in the way it is described, or, more accurately, the way descriptions of it so consistently fail to capture its entirety. At times love is described in the terms of religion, as in the fourteen lines when Romeo and Juliet first meet. At others it is described as a sort of magic: “Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks” (II.Prologue.6). Juliet, perhaps, most perfectly describes her love for Romeo by refusing to describe it: “But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth” (III.i.33–34). Love, in other words, resists any single metaphor because it is too powerful to be so easily contained or understood.\nRomeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and passion of being in love, combining images of love, violence, death, religion, and family in an impressionistic rush leading to the play’s tragic conclusion.\n\n\n\n\nLove as a Cause of Violence\n \nThe themes of death and violence permeate Romeo and Juliet, and they are always connected to passion, whether that passion is love or hate. The connection between hate, violence, and death seems obvious. But the connection between love and violence requires further investigation.\nLove, in Romeo and Juliet, is a grand passion, and as such it is blinding; it can overwhelm a person as powerfully and completely as hate can. The passionate love between Romeo and Juliet is linked from the moment of its inception with death: Tybalt notices that Romeo has crashed the feast and determines to kill him just as Romeo catches sight of Juliet and falls instantly in love with her. From that point on, love seems to push the lovers closer to love and violence, not farther from it. Romeo and Juliet are plagued with thoughts of suicide, and a willingness to experience it: in Act III, scene iii, Romeo brandishes a knife in Friar Lawrence’s cell and threatens to kill himself after he has been banished from Verona and his love. Juliet also pulls a knife in order to take her own life in Friar Lawrence’s presence just three scenes later. After Capulet decides that Juliet will marry Paris, Juliet says, “If all else fail, myself have power to die” (III.v.242). Finally, each imagines that the other looks dead the morning after their first, and only, sexual experience (“Methinks I see thee,” Juliet says, “. . . as one dead in the bottom of a tomb” (III.v.242; III.v.55–56). This theme continues until its inevitable conclusion: double suicide. This tragic choice is the highest, most potent expression of
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Prologue\n\nArguably Shakespeare's most famous play begins with a Prologue which establishes that this play will be a tragedy and that the children of two feuding families, Romeo of the Montague family and Juliet of the Capulet family, will both love and die in the course of this play...\n\nAct I.\n\nSampson and Gregory, servants to the Capulets and Abraham and Balthasar, servants to the Montague family start a street fight, which is joined by Benvolio (Montague) and Tybalt (Capulet). Escalus, the Prince of Verona who angrily learns of this fight, declares a death penalty for further feuding between the two families. Romeo we learn is lovesick; Rosaline, the object of his affections will not requite (return) his love. His friend Benvolio tells Romeo to look at other girls...\n\nMeanwhile Capulet is keen for Paris to marry his daughter Juliet and plans a party to be held later that night. Romeo and friends decide to turn up uninvited, Romeo hoping to see Rosaline, whom he still pines for...\n\nLady Capulet discusses the idea of marriage to Paris with Juliet. Juliet keeps her options open. The Nurse wishes Juliet every possible happiness...\n\nMeanwhile Mercutio attempts to cheer a lovesick Romeo up, telling him to be rough with love if need be.\n\nAt the Capulet's party, Romeo who is disguised by a masque (mask), falls in love with Juliet on sight. Capulet stops Tybalt from attacking Romeo at his party, telling him there will be other opportunities. Both Romeo and Juliet learn that they are each enemies of the other's family... A Prologue sung by a choir dramatizes the conflict both Romeo and Juliet feel between their love for one another and their loyalty to their respective families.\n\nAct II.\n\nIgnoring the danger, Romeo scales the Capulet's wall to be near Juliet, the woman he cannot forget... Unnoticed in Juliet's orchard, Romeo learns of Juliet's love for him. After declaring their feelings for each other, the two decide to marry. Juliet will send Romeo a messenger in the morning to make plans for their wedding...\n\nThe very next day, we meet Romeo's friend, Friar Laurence. He wonders how Romeo can forget Rosaline so quickly but agrees to marry the two since he hopes this marriage it will end the long running Montague / Capulet feud...\n\nRomeo catches up with his friends Mercutio and Benvolio. Juliet's messenger, the Nurse, arrives and the wedding is set for later that day. The Nurse brings Romeo "cords" or ropes which will allow Romeo to climb into Juliet's bedchamber as her husband later that night... Act II ends with Romeo and Juliet's marriage.\n\nAct III.\n\nBenvolio and Mercutio (both Montagues) meet Tybalt (Capulet). Tybalt attempts to provoke Romeo into fighting. Mercutio fights Tybalt and is killed. Romeo then kills Tybalt. Escalus, the Prince of Verona banishes Romeo from Verona threatening death should he ever return. Juliet learns of Romeo killing Tybalt and despite being torn between her loyalty for her family and Romeo, mourns her husband Romeo's banishment.\n\nRomeo learns of the banishment order, realizing he will not be able to see Juliet again. Friar Laurence suggests Romeo go to Juliet's bed chamber to comfort his wife... Capulet, who does not know of Romeo and Juliet's marriage, decides that the marriage of Juliet to Paris must now proceed, bidding his wife to make Juliet aware of Paris' love for her. The day of the marriage has been decided; it will be Thursday.\n\nWe learn that Romeo has spent the night with his Juliet. Juliet who is now already secretly married to Romeo, learns that she is to marry Paris. She tries to fight her father's wishes, failing to dissuade him. Juliet decides to commit suicide if all else fails...\n\nAct IV.\n\nParis reveals that the wedding will occur on Thursday. Juliet is cold to Paris. Friar Laurence tells Juliet to take a potion simulating death, allowing Romeo to take her away, unopposed to Mantu
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Shakespeare\n\nHamlet
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Try Lycos, or even webcrawler search engines. I can't remember the name of the article, but there used to be a collection of critical essays on Hamlet, one in particular dealt with the Ophelia and her insanity. Good luck.
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Is it Oedipus? Or Agamemnon? Not sure.
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Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/romeo-and-juliet/\n\nI have found 12 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nNotes:  Act 1 Scene 2.\n\nIn this brief scene, the audience learns more about Juliet, the heroine of the play who has not yet been introduced on the stage. She is young girl of fourteen and obviously Capulet's pride and joy. The father says of Juliet that "the earth has swallowed all hopes but she." When Paris asks Capulet for her hand in marriage, he hesitates at first; then he says that he will agree if the idea pleases Juliet. In the thirteenth century, when noble marriages were usually arranged by the family, it is a loving father who wants to please his child. His concern for Juliet is similar to the concern for Romeo revealed by Lady Montague in the first scene. Even though these families hate one another, they dearly love their children.  More…….\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/romeo5.asp\n\n\nhttp://summarycentral.tripod.com/romeoandjuliet.htm\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=363\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Romeo\n\nhttp://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/RomJul/index.htm\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/romeoandjuliet001.html\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Characters\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/romeojl11.asp\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Homer's Odyssey.\n\nor, ask your classmates what they chose ;)
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Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/romeo-and-juliet/\n\nI have found 12 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nConflict \n\nRomeo and Juliet is based on external conflict and portrays the long-standing quarrel between the two established families in Verona, the Capulets and the Montagues.\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/romeo1.asp#conflict\n\n\nhttp://summarycentral.tripod.com/romeoandjuliet.htm\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=363\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Romeo\n\nhttp://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/RomJul/index.htm\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/romeo/index.html\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/romeoandjuliet001.html\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Characters\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/romeojl11.asp\n\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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a lot of shakespeares plays are examples. they are plays written in the middle ages (medieval times) that have a hidden moral adn your suposed to learn something from them
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Poe wrote on both. Otherwise.... \n\n(http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_266.html )
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Cassio, commanding the night watch during the time of feasting and drinking, takes his orders from Othello, who directs the soldiers to drink with moderation and keep the peace. Cassio and Iago, his second in command, will see to this. Then Othello and Desdemona retire to bed, the first night they will spend together since their marriage.\n\nAlone, Iago makes suggestive remarks about Desdemona to Cassio, which Cassio turns aside; then Iago invites him to drink. Cassio declines, but Iago wheedles and urges him, until Cassio finally relents. Iago spurs Roderigo into a fight with Cassio; others join in and Iago sends Roderigo to ring the alarm bell, waking Othello and bringing him and his armed men to the spot. Othello demands to know who started the fight, and feigning reluctance, Iago names Cassio. Othello relieves Cassio of his post on the spot. Then he and Desdemona return to bed.\n\nIago advises Cassio to ask Desdemona to speak on his behalf with her husband. Cassio agrees, and Iago uses his wife, Emilia, to arrange a private meeting between Cassio and Desdemona.
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Two comprehensive sites that cover loads of works by loads of authors, such as theme, character analysis, so on and so forth. All of Shakespeare's plays are covered and it's free to down load!\n\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit\n\nhttp://www.cliffsnotes.com/wileycda/litn...\n\nOnce there navigate around and use the search facility to find what you need. Highly recommended. Good Luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, UK.