Plays

Ophelia is bait. She is to engage Hamlet in conversation while Polonius and the King are secretly listening in, hoping that he will reveal to her the reason for his strange behaviour. But Ophelia is not entirely on board with this plan, about which she was never consulted, and she tries to steer the conversation away from revealing details. Hamlet's explosion of anger when he realizes that the conversation is a set-up, and Ophelia is privy to it, convinces Ophelia that he really is crazy ("O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown.") while at the same time convincing Claudius that he is not ("what he spake, though it lacked form a little, was not like madness.").

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He's a joiner, one of the tradesmen who are preparing a play to be performed for Theseus' wedding. He plays the lion in the play. Although he says he is "slow of study" and has trouble learning lines, and although Quince tells him he can ad lib roaring, he ends up having to learn an eight-line speech to persuade the audience that he really is an actor and not a real lion. The tradesmen's fears that Snug's lion will be so convincing that the ladies will be terrified is at once touching and ridiculous.

You teacher has probably tried to explain this already. Why don't you ask him or her?

Parris is starting to have second thoughts about the effectiveness of he executions. He sees them as dividing the community and his congregation, and how people are starting to question the trials.

He's referring to death.

She borrowed money while her husband was sick and was close to death....Also she signed a contract with her father's name after he died

he is less friendly

MACBETH

He means he's unlucky.

rudyalex

patricia

alicia

rudy's mom

uncle juan

el gato

mama rosa

estela

caller6

old man

waiter

Nobody can answer this without a lot more information.

A rhyming couplet is two successive lines which rhyme, like "The play's the thing/ wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.", or "Blow, wind! Come wrack!/ At least we'll die with harness on our back!".

Shakespeare often placed them at the end of scenes where they give a sense of finality.

In about 1595 when he was writing Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, he wrote a lot of the dialogue in couplets, even when it was not at the end of a scene.

Iago suggests to Othello that Desdemona may have only been satisfying her curiosity by being with a black man. He says that it is only natural for people to want to be with others that are like them (a refrain sung by racists of all ages), and once her curiosity is satisfied she is bound to look for someone more like her, someone white and young and aristocratic like, oh, I don't know, like Michael Cassio maybe.

Othello is not ashamed of who he is but he is a genuinely humble person who is amazed that a person as lovely and wonderful as Desdemona could possibly love him. And it is that humility which gives rise to the doubt which Iago exploits.

Claudio means when he explains to Don Pedro that now you are returned and that war-thoughts have left their places vacant that he can fall in love without the pressures of battle weighing him down.
Claudio means when he explains to Don Pedro that now you are returned and that war-thoughts have left their places vacant that he can fall in love without the pressures of battle weighing him down. He is now able to fall in love because he is done with the war.
Claudio means when he explains to Don Pedro that now you are returned and that war-thoughts have left their places vacant that now they've come back from the war, he can remove all of his thoughts of combat from his brain and make room for all the feminine and loving thought of Hero. I don't know if it's personification or not though.
He can fall in love without the pressures of battle weighing him down.

Primarily the fact that Iago has suggested to him that that is what is being talked about. By this point, Iago has got Othello into such a state he cannot interpret anything Cassio or Desdemona does as being innocent.

doesn't a single person reading this know why?

every pass play involves action! WHY is it called that (NOT what is it)?

Lear has placed control over the wealth of the kingdom in the hands of his daughters and their husbands with the provision that they should provide for him and a hundred knights (servants), and allow them to live in their houses. Goneril instructs her servant Oswald to acknowledge her as his boss, and therefore to show that she is superior to her father. She complains about the behaviour of Lear's knights, again asserting that she is entitled to govern them. Regan and Cornwall order that Lear's servant Kent be put in the stocks.

Their first attack is on the servants Lear commands, eroding his authority. Eventually they all abandon him except Kent and the Fool. By removing the people who acknowledge Lear's authority they enable themselves to assert their own power.

realism, naturalism and symbolism

Othello is jealous because he thinks Desdemona has betrayed him and she has gone after Cassio so, he takes revenge by asking Iago to kill Cassio and he suffocates Desdemona to her death. Use quotes from Othello to prove this point e.g. when Othello starts talking about death.

Who of the following are representatives of the government? Check all that apply.

A. Danforth

B. Parris

C. Hale

D. Hathorne

E. Proctor

When Abigail is accused of witchcraft, she is quick to blame Tituba. She says that Tituba influences her spirit to make her laugh in church.

Shylock, the jew.

Cassius lied to Brutus saying that the storm was a sign from the gods that they were angry that Caesar would become king but this we now now know is false because one, it was a lie, and two there is only ONE true god.