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    Prospero: Main character and the rightful Duke of Milan. Prospero is the main character in The Tempest. He is the Duke of Milan who was overthrown by his brother Antonio fifteen years before the beginning of the play and cast adrift in a boat with his baby daughter, Miranda. During those fifteen yeaRead more

    1. Prospero: Main character and the rightful Duke of Milan. Prospero is the main character in The Tempest. He is the Duke of Milan who was overthrown by his brother Antonio fifteen years before the beginning of the play and cast adrift in a boat with his baby daughter, Miranda. During those fifteen years, he studied and taught himself how to do magic.
    2. Miranda: Daughter of Prospero. Another main characters of The Tempest. She was banished to the Island along with her father at the age of three, and in the subsequent twelve years has lived with her father and their slave, Caliban, as her only company. 
    3. Sycorax: A vicious powerful witch and the mother of Caliban. An unseen character in The Tempest. One of the few native inhabitants of the island who died before the arrival of Prospero is the island.
    4. Ariel: A spirit in service to Prospero. Ariel is bound to serve Prospero as he rescued him from the tree in which he was imprisoned by Sycorax.
    5. Caliban: A servant of Prospero and a savage monster. Half-human, half-monster who is forced into slavery and son of the witch Sycorax.
    6. Antonio: Prospero’s brother, the usurping Duke of Milan. The main villain of the play. He dethroned his brother with the help of King of Naples.
    7. Gonzalo: An honest old councilor. An honest and trusted adviser who helps Prospero when abandoned by the king and his brother.
    8. King Of Naples: An enemy of Prospero. Neither a good guy nor a bad guy.
    9. Ferdinand: The prince of Naples and the son of Alonso. A humble, kind, and naive guy who spends most of his time during The Tempest trying to win the affection of Miranda.

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    Loyalty and disloyalty are clearly major themes in King Lear, but it leaves some questioning whether loyalty and disloyalty are two sides of the same coin. The strong sense that Lear is a good man, and that Edgar’s actions are motivated solely by greed and desire for power suggests that Lear’s “loyaRead more

    Loyalty and disloyalty are clearly major themes in King Lear, but it leaves some questioning whether loyalty and disloyalty are two sides of the same coin. The strong sense that Lear is a good man, and that Edgar’s actions are motivated solely by greed and desire for power suggests that Lear’s “loyalty” to Edgar should be viewed as different from his “disloyalty” to Gloucester. However, Shakespeare makes it clear that both Gloucester and Lear feel betrayed by Edgar, and that Gloucester’s sense of betrayal is more challenged by his moral sense of duty than Lear’s. Edgar’s primary concern is with personal greed and political power, while Gloucester has a strong sense of duty and responsibility, in which loyalty is inextricably linked. Furthermore, Lear’s relationship with Cordelia is so intertwined with his sense of self-worth that it seems plausible that his “loyalty” to her is a necessary condition for him to be able to survive.

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    The play As You Like It is a comedy in which romance is also a leading theme. In the play  — and in Shakespeare's plays generally — love is a subject which is treated with great seriousness, and love is seen to be very powerful. Rosalind is a young woman who has been raised by her father, Duke FredeRead more

    The play As You Like It is a comedy in which romance is also a leading theme. In the play  — and in Shakespeare’s plays generally — love is a subject which is treated with great seriousness, and love is seen to be very powerful.

    Rosalind is a young woman who has been raised by her father, Duke Frederick, in his country estate. Her father has recently died and she is about to be married to her cousin Oliver.

    Rosalind falls in love with Orlando, a young man of noble birth who has no money and no property. They fall in love because they have nothing in common and are totally opposed in every way. But they fall in love nonetheless, and the play follows their journey through the forest as they try to come together and find their way out of the forest, the place of all evil.  The whole point of the play is that love is stronger than all other things.

    This play is a Romantic Comedy. In this play, love is not treated as a joke or a joke subject. Love is not something which is taken lightly. It is treated with great seriousness, and is seen to be very powerful.

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    The poem Fear No More by Dirge talks about the advantages of being dead and the disadvantages of being alive. Dirge says that to be dead, one must know nothing and fear nothing. According to Dirge, there is no reason why you should fear anything if you are, in fact, dead. One of the advantages of beRead more

    The poem Fear No More by Dirge talks about the advantages of being dead and the disadvantages of being alive. Dirge says that to be dead, one must know nothing and fear nothing. According to Dirge, there is no reason why you should fear anything if you are, in fact, dead.

    One of the advantages of being dead, according to Dirge in the poem Fear No More, is that one isn’t harassed by daily life. You have no fear, pain, or sorrow.

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    Lucifer better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

    Sonnet 18 is about the unconditional love of the speaker towards the young man. The poet swears his love is eternal and uncompromised. He acknowledges the young man's beauty and compares him to the sun and other heavenly bodies. The theme of Sonnet 18 is love. It is a perfection of argument, the speRead more

    Sonnet 18 is about the unconditional love of the speaker towards the young man. The poet swears his love is eternal and uncompromised. He acknowledges the young man’s beauty and compares him to the sun and other heavenly bodies.

    The theme of Sonnet 18 is love. It is a perfection of argument, the speaker argues that his love is the perfect thing, able to cure people of their ills. It is also a love that lasts beyond the grave, as the speaker describes his love as an eternal, even if the people that love him are not.

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    Following literary devices/figures of speech have been used in the poem Fear No More: Metaphor: It is a literary device which is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common. e.g. "heat of sun" and "furious winter rages" symbolise extremes of life (tRead more

    Following literary devices/figures of speech have been used in the poem Fear No More:

    1. Metaphor: It is a literary device which is used to make a comparison between two things that aren’t alike but do have something in common. e.g. “heat of sun” and “furious winter rages” symbolise extremes of life (troubles and sorrows), “dust” refers to grave, “reed” refers to weak and “oak” refers to strong.
    2. Personification: It is the attribution of human characteristics to non human things. e.g. “furious winter rages“. The phrase means extreme cold.
    3. Repetition: It is the repetition of words or phrases in the poem for poetic effect. e.g. “fear no more” and “care no more” have been repeated several times in the poem.
    4. Alliteration: It is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. e.g. “thou thy worldly task”, “care no more to clothe”,  “To thee the reed is as the oak”, “Fear not slander, censure rash”, “Consign to thee, and come to dust”.
    5. Transferred Epithet: It is a literary device in which an adjective is used to describe one thing transferred to another. e.g. “tyrant’s stroke” refers to the cruelty of the ruler.

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    According to the poet, there are many benefits of being dead. e.g. a dead person does not fear from heat of sun or cold of winters, cruelty of his master or tyranny of the ruler, public criticism and slanders, lightning or thunder, magic or witchcraft. In fact he is free from all sorts of worldly woRead more

    According to the poet, there are many benefits of being dead. e.g. a dead person does not fear from heat of sun or cold of winters, cruelty of his master or tyranny of the ruler, public criticism and slanders, lightning or thunder, magic or witchcraft. In fact he is free from all sorts of worldly worries and troubles.

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    The tone of the poem Fear no More is restrained and encouraging as the poet is portraying a positive picture of death. Read summary of this poem.

    The tone of the poem Fear no More is restrained and encouraging as the poet is portraying a positive picture of death.

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