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Critics usually discard the subplot of The Changeling as they don't think it is relevant to the main plot in the play, however if they paid attention they would realise that it is actually crucial in reflecting the themes of the main plot.

Isabella, for example is completely the opposite of Beatrice as she doesn't just except that someone is in love with her, such as Antonio, because of her beauty, instead she disguises herself as a madwoman and confronts him.

So the point of the subplot, contrary to critics popular opinion, is to emphasise the fact that the real mad people aren't in the asylum but instead in the real world.

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Hermia has no interest in marrying Demetrius even though her father wants it and Demetrius wants it for much of the play. She speaks her mind freely before her father and is scornful with Demetrius who she suspects of doing away with Lysander. But surely it doesn't make her self-centered to know what she wants and to insist on it. She is understanding and supportive of Helena's bid for Demetrius' love. She has every concern for her friend (until she suspects her of stealing Lysander away). She is much less self-centered than her friend Helena.

As an Literature teacher, I deal with these sorts of questions every year. Talk to the Admins and email the campus librarian first. If they OKAY it, then ask yourself if you are confortable teaching themes of human sexuality, Catholicism, and anti-semitism.

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Prose blank verse found in A Midsummer's Night Dream, but they are not used at random. Each has its purpose. In general, prose is employed by Shakesepear for humorous passages and for the conversation of vulgar characters, while verse is the medium of expression for the more elevated and poetical parts of the play.

Two Gentlemen of Verona is an early Shakespeare play which contains the seeds of many scenes and devices used in later comedies. It is not often played because of its last scene which is difficult to interpret in a way which makes the people on stage look like real people.

Two pals called Valentine and Proteus come from Verona. Proteus is in love with Julia; Julia loves him back but is having some trouble admitting it. Valentine goes off to Milan for work experience and there he falls in love with the Duke's daughter Sylvia, who loves him back. Her father prefers a dolt called Thurio. Meanwhile back in Verona, Julia has at last confessed her love for Proteus but at that moment his father sends him off to Milan to join Valentine. Julia follows, disguised, of course, as a boy.

However, as soon as he gets to Milan, Proteus falls for Sylvia and turns into a real heel. He exposes Valentine and Sylvia's plans to elope into the nearby forest, and Valentine is banished to the forest where he becomes the leader of a group of outlaws. Proteus, claiming to be working on Thurio's behalf, then begins wooing Sylvia in earnest. Sylvia is scornful. Proteus even tries sending his new pageboy (Julia in disguise) to woo Sylvia; Julia does it with a heavy heart but is relieved to find that Sylvia insists that Proteus should return to his true love Julia.

Sylvia eventually has had enough of this and escapes into the forest pursued by Proteus (accompanied by Julia), the Duke and Thurio. Proteus catches Sylvia and would have ravished her except that Valentine jumps out of the bushes and stops him. He then, in an almost unplayable scene, accepts Proteus's apology and approves of Proteus marrying Sylvia (wtf?). Julia's identity is revealed, Proteus's affection for her is revived and she somehow forgives him, Thurio proves himself to be an idiot and the Duke is so impressed with Valentine that he approves his marriage to Sylvia. So everything ends up happy.

Early on the morning of Hero's wedding she expresses feeling a heavy heart. This brief moment might suggest that she feels something could go wrong at the wedding ceremony or she is having second thoughts with the wedding.

Brutus says that he killed Caesar as he believed that the Romans would become slaves under his leadership. Brutus then asks (the crowd) if anyone disagrees and when nobody responds he concludes that he has offended no one.

Caliban's mother was Sycorax, a witch from Algiers. She was brought to the island which serves as the setting for The Tempest while she was still pregnant with him. The play does not directly mention a father, though Sycorax did worship Setebos, a pagan deity.

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Set against the economic frustration of the Wingfield family, which leads to a closed circle of experience, is the ideal of the American Dream, which points ever upward. In spite of her impoverished life in the St. Louis of the 1930s, Amanda is a believer in the Dream. She tells Tom that he simply has to work hard, and he will succeed. But the poetic, imaginative Tom is not the sort of man to cultivate a normal career leading to success and wealth. Those are not his goals. The idea of the American Dream is represented more by Jim. He is in love with the achievements and the promise of technology, and he has embraced the spirit of self-help and advancement through education. He believes that his life is on an upward trajectory, and that if he studies and plays his cards right, he can go as far as he wants to go in his career.

he decides to put his personal business last instead of first

Without meaning to, she helps Borachio break Claudio's trust in Hero.

Atticus's brother, also called Uncle Jack.

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Abigail Williams was a real person but also a main character in the play, The Crucible by Arthur Miller. She accused three women of witchcraft.

Othello was first set in Venice, than in Cyprus when Othello was sent to fight the Turks.

The eagles being replaced by crows and the ides of March

Tranio is not a particularly well-developed character, but then his part is relatively minor, so that is just what you expect. He is basically a foil for Lucentio, and is a servant playing at being the master later on. If Shakespeare spent a lot of time rounding out every messenger that came in with one line, the plays would be interminable and incomprehensible.

Brutus was not at the funeral (it would be kind of inappropriate for the killer to show-up). It was Mark Anthony who gave the funeral speech.

Elizabeth doesn't beg John to confess because she wants him to have his goodness and to be able to as he wishes. John tears up his confession because he feels all he has left is his name and he won't let them nail the confession to the church door.

The story of Aphrodite and Ares.

Aphrodite was was married to the graceless and lame Hephaestus, the god of fire/forging. Her true love was Ares, the god of war. One day while Aphrodite and Ares were together they were caught in an invisible but strong net forged by Hephaestus, and exposed to the ridicule and laughter of the other gods at Mt. Olympus