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The match between Orlando and Charles the Wrestler considered as a metaphor for the confrontation between every individual human being and the world.
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Shakespeare portrays the combat between Hector and Achilles differently that it's portrayed in Homer's Iliad. Shakespeare is cynical about Achilles, cynical about Hector, and cynical about the Trojan War. There is no heroism and no dignity.
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Hamlet relates to his friend Horatio how he sent Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths.
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The Merchant of Venice weighs justice and mercy in the balance, but does it also betray Shakespeare as antisemitic?
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A woman asks her lover to kill his best friend.
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Society depends on human sympathy, including sympathy for those who are unhappy, who can also find companionship in literature and art.
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The flower Love-In-Idlesess, and particularly its juice dropped on a sleeper's eye, is the source of all erotic love and woe.
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Julius Caesar waivers over whether to visit the Senateon the Ides of March.
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The disapproval of moralists cannot suppres the fun of others.
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Shakespeare seems to bungle a play.
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Human dignity requires more than our purely physical needs
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In Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra we find two worlds: Egypt and Rome. Egypt stands for life and Rome the denial of life. The tragedy is the triumph of Rome and the denial of life overe Egypt and the affirmation of life.
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Ann infnt girl is rescued from the fate her jealous father inends for her.
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A giant green knight intrudes on the yuletide festivity of King Arthur and his Round Table.
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The masculine toxicity of Shakespeare's Othelloo isn't Shkespeare's, but Othello's; similarly the racism in Othello isn't Sakespeare's, but Iago's.
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The artifice of art and the reality of love
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What is the cost of growing up? All the world?
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Do we choose our fates? Are our fates somehow determined? Are we just the victims or beneficiaries of the world's whims?
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Is the irrational, feeling mind dominant over our rational mind?
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A demagogue stirs up a violent revolt by appealing to the mob's resentments.
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