Essays Tagged: "Poison"

Romeo and juliet and the theme of death

me death. He has heard of Juliet's death and is so heartbroken that he goes to an apothecary to get poison so he can join Juliet in heaven. 'To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.' (Act 5, scen ... ave; for there must I use thee.' (Act 5, scene 1, line 93). Second when Romeo is about to drink the poison he says, 'Here's to my love! [Drinks.] O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a ki ...

(2 pages) 52 0 3.6 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Othello

trikes her 'I have not deserved this.'" (141). Othello changes even more dramaticallybecause of the poison suggestions that Iago has given him. He goes out of control andeventually kills Desdemona thi ...

(2 pages) 87 1 2.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Medicine During Shakespeare

RenaissanceRomeo and Juliet both killed themselves with poison, although it was notsynthetic drugs. The poison had to be as powerful, some scholars believe ...

(1 pages) 31 0 3.4 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet, Love or Infactuation

says that if he's caught he would gladly die. When Juliet takes the elixir she wonders if might be poison, or maybe it won't work and she'd have to marry Paris instead, maybe Romeo wouldn't be there ...

(1 pages) 46 0 4.2 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

desperate grief cures with another's languish.Take thou some new infection to thy eye,And the rank poison of the old will die.'Romeo takes the advise Benvolio offered, and not another word about lovi ...

(2 pages) 39 0 4.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Hamlet. This paper deals with Hamlet and the revenge vs suicide problem

st haunting Hamlet and telling him that he has been murdered by his treasonable brother, who poured poison into his ear while he was sleeping peacefully in his garden. Subsequently his murderer succee ...

(2 pages) 234 1 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

It's an essay on Hamlet's delay in killing Claudius. It's a good paper. I got an A on it.

veals to him the true means by which King Hamlet died. The Ghost tells Hamlet that Claudius pouring poison into his ear caused his father's death. He exhorts Hamlet to avenge the murder. Hamlet's init ...

(4 pages) 339 0 4.2 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

Destiny vs. Fate. Refers to Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

ents as her marriage, her daughter's birth, her adulterous relationship with Leon and hertaking the poison, as times when, if she had made a different decision, her life would not haveended as tragica ...

(4 pages) 106 0 3.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Chapter Summaries of Steinbeck's "The Pearl"

scorpion falls on the baby and stings him. Kino kills the scorpion and Juana tries to suck out the poison. Everybody in their little seaside village comes because of the baby's cries. Juana screams f ... ledge to say Coyotito is still sick. He gives the baby a powder that may of may not be some kind of poison. Kino suspects the doctor is lying but he does not know medicine like the doctor. He comes ba ...

(4 pages) 32 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > John Steinbeck

Shylock Antisemitism

r/ as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?/ If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you/ poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?" -Shylock, II.i.58.Throughout h ...

(4 pages) 77 1 4.0 May/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

The Peregrine Falcon

However, in the 1960s the American falcon came close to extinction. Most of the damage was done by poisons that farmers used to kill insects. The worst poison was DDT. By the time naturalists learned ... nited States and southern Canada. In the west, the species was found from Mexico to California. DDT poisoning hit this subspecies the hardest. Even today, naturalists are still working hard to save th ...

(7 pages) 52 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

A brief discussion about medical ethics and autonomy

se the treatment regardless of the circumstances. The Jehovah's Witness believe that the blood will poison their bodies from purity, this in turn would prevent them from going to heaven. A Jehovah's W ...

(4 pages) 316 1 3.4 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Three situations in a social care setting

eals. her illness is at it worst. She becomes suspicious of the staff, who she thinks are trying to poison her. She frequently throws her tray down, and also head bangs the wall when staff leaves the ...

(2 pages) 109 0 3.8 Nov/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

My Term Paper is on " The shortcomings of the EPA under Anne (Burford) Gorsuch". It's about hazardous waste. My introduction is strong and includes my thesis.

arch is continually reaffirming the need for a strong, aggressive Environmental Protection Agency ("poison" 7). The average American's exposure to toxic chemicals is expected to double in the 1980's. ... rsuch. In 1982, the EPA listed 114 toxic dumping sites as posing an immediate danger to the public (Poison" 8). By 1983, this list has grown to 418 sites and only five of the original 114 have been c ...

(7 pages) 302 1 4.8 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" (by Oscar Wilde) - brief plot outline - character analysis - critical evaluation

r aristocrat, who has a certain influence to other people. His cynical outlook on life, his "mental poison" should not come into Dorian's mind. But Against Basil's wishes, the two meet, and Dorian is ... n influence to other people, but in a highly negative way. His cynical outlook on life, his "mental poison" influences Dorian from the first time they meet and Henry surrounds the young man, fascinate ...

(6 pages) 117 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Keat's ode to a nightingale

y were also thought of as brutal and uncaring. Later on, Keats says that this numbness is a sort of poison (hemlock) for his senses, the numbness really is poison for his sense as a poet because the c ... for his sense as a poet because the cool scientific detachment required of a surgeon is really like poison for the sensibility and warmth of a poet. Helmlock is mentioned in this line as thought of he ...

(5 pages) 186 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

An essay about death in 2 of John Donne's poems: Holy Sonnet 10 and Meditation 17

t is nothing more than an extended sleep. He reduces death to a very low level, associating it with poison, war and sickness. He further insults it by commenting on how it does not operate with free w ...

(2 pages) 156 1 4.1 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

This piece is about how John Keats personifies Death in his Odes

t must die; and Joy whose had is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh Turing to Poison while the bee-mouth sips; Aye in the very temple of Delight Veiled Melancholy has her soverei ... selection, Death has been personified as a veiled woman, a beautiful woman, who seduces a man with poisonous grapes. When he bites into them, the juice bursts in his mouth, which causes him demise, a ...

(3 pages) 98 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Imagery(or motifs)in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

In Hamlet, imagery of disease, poison and decay, are used by William Shakespeare for many purposes. Marcellus' line in Act I illust ... The tragic atmosphere is enhanced by the motif of disease and decay. These descriptions of disease, poison, and decay help us to understand the bitter relationships, the anxious, chaotic atmosphere, a ... to England to unknowingly be executed. When this plot fails, he stoops down even lower as to try to poison him. But Hamlet can be said to deserve some of these instances as punishments, though for Ham ...

(5 pages) 140 0 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

"The Feast" written by Randy Lee Eickhoff

Main Character: Poison tongued and sour, stands Bricriu in his spacious home. This the spirited member of Conchobar ...

(2 pages) 26 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American