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The protagonist's attainment of self-knowledge shines through the darkness in Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints and Shakespeare's King Lear.
... to America, Vittorio must face a father he barely knows, face responsibility for his newborn sister and face a new and unfamiliar home, ... has driven him to utter madness. He loses his grip on reality, assuming a wretch in similar anguish (namely Poor Tom) ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Death Of A Salesman vs. Hamlet
... eventually, is in such a wild rage that he accidentally kills Polonious believing him to be his father. Hilarity ensues. Ophelia, ... of a Salesman, Willy Loman , a salesman who believed himself to be a powerful man, has his life unravel before him as he loses ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
King Lear
... cast off while the father promises land to the unworthy child of nature, Edmund . Lear is blind and irresponsible as a father and ruler, ... see this, in the end he loses all his daughter's from it. Cordelia clearly loves her father, and yet realizes that her ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
`Why does Hamlet delay his revenge?'
... s exertions to gain a small piece of land, he berates himself: 'How stand I then That have a Father killed, a Mother stain'd, ... the brave Fortinbras, who is prepared to lose two thousand men over a matter of honour and a small piece of land, and finds ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
The theme of familial love in Hamlet
... a father-son relationship is portrayed. The strength of such a bond is still very evident today in the closeness of not only a father-son relationship, but a ... wants him to stay around: Let not thy mother lose her prayers, Hamlet I pray thee, stay with us. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet
"A Doll's House" and "The Wild Duck" by Henrik Ibsen.
... wild duck in that she loses her family and place of origin. She is in some sense her father's adopted child. When Hialmar ... guides the process of self-emancipation for Nora, the protagonist of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Objects like the macaroons, the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"The fotunes of Silas Marner" by George Eliot.
... of this book. Silas ends up a man that 'had brought a blessing on himself by acting like a father to a lone, motherless child'. This ... as a segment of pure innocence as he feels that she encompasses 'everything that was good in Raveloe'. He also loses the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Analyse the dramatic qualities of act three scene five of "Romeo and Juliet"
... throws his voice at Juliet in a hateful way. This is not the way you would expect a father to treat his beloved daughter. Lord ... is where lord Capulet loses his temper and threatens to throw Juliet onto the streets, Because he is her father, he brought her ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet
The Lake Poets
... tell her story. In the first part she loses her father. He was religious man:"My father was good and pious man", very honest:"An ... existing place under the ground. Actually Kubla Khan existed; it was a Mongol emperor for 13th century. In the poem he built ' ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Great Expectations
... both as a young boy and as an adult. Joe acts as a father, a brother, and a friend throughout Great Expectations . As a child, Joe ... to change forever. This is basically where he loses his childhood innocence. As a teen he first becomes Joe's apprentice in ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens