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    and unreliable. His firmness in his belief was both admirable and ignorant; however‚ he drove himself toward his demise. More has a reputation as a moral man and is perceived as saint-like. He is known to be fixed to his conscience and he tells Wolsey “…I believe‚ when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties…they lead their country by a short route to chaos (22). Ironically‚ it is More’s conscience that leads him to chaos and forsaking it could have saved

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    the promotion of lieutenant to Cassio instead of him. Roderigo wants revenge because Othello is married to Desdemona‚ the woman Roderigo is madly in love with. The passage then ends with Roderigo leaving the stage‚ leaving Iago alone to recite a soliloquy‚ revealing his true emotions to the audience for the first time. In his first speech‚ Iago seems very controlling over Roderigo; he starts his speech by two consecutive gestures implicating that he is the superior character in the scenario. He

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    In this soliloquy Iago’s schemes are becoming a reality and his tone is one of confidence as he continues to play the villain and appear to be honest. The idea of him playing a game is expressed in the words "I play the villain". Also the idea of "win the Moor" showing innocent his victims are also‚ is also supported with the repetition of the word "honest" and his use of sacrificial Imagery "all seals and symbols of redeemed sin". Iago is viewed favorably by the other characters and he maintains

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    Doors Cardinal Shower Enclosures offers several trim levels of sliding door enclosures‚ from the basic Cardinal Builder series up to the luxurious Heavy Euro and Apollo series. Framed sliders have metal all the way around the glass while frameless sliders have clips holding the top of the glass. Be sure to check out the Cardinal S-Curve option. It can dramatically change the look of a basic shower enclosure. Cardinal Builder Series Available as the "Trojan Series" on the West Coast The Cardinal Builder

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    allows him to view the world in a way that causes him to act according to this perception. Finally‚ Shakespeare’s use soliloquies to show how an individual’s questioning of ideas changes their perception of themselves‚ and therefore

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    humanity and the shifting‚ conflicting paradigms between Medieval and Renaissance thinking. Shakespeare explores Hamlet’s struggle to exist in a morally vacuous world where duplicity is so easily masked by authentic appearances. Hamlet’s first soliloquy highlights his disgust for this “weary world” a world he compares to an “unweeded garden”. The metaphor emphasises Hamlet’s sense of entrapment within the court‚ which has now become rotten and lacks authenticity due to a change in leadership‚ where

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    and changed by ambition and greed. Soliloquies‚ dialogue‚ character actions and symbolism are all used to portray their ambitious traits‚ which eventually lead them to their destruction. Macbeth is a strong man‚ whose fatal flaw is ambition. His wife Lady Macbeth encourages and manipulates him‚ planting the seed of ambition and deadly greed in his mind. Her influence on Macbeth leads him to developing this dark side of his character. Through Macbeth’s soliloquies and dialogue between Lady Macbeth

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    We Shall Meet in Imagery and Diction In all Shakespeare’s tragedies‚ Imagery and diction have an appearance. In the play Macbeth‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ imagery and diction are two literary devices that are present and have a great significance to the play. Imagery is a form of a literary device to create a vivid image in the reader’s mind. As for diction‚ it is the choice of appropriate words and phrases‚ that the writer uses to make the message clear that is being said. The use of animal

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    reveals Macbeth’s moral development through the use of symbolism in the soliloquys which portray how Macbeth feels yet would not be able to admit to others; “The prince of Cumberland! That is a step in which I must fall down‚ or o’erleap for in my way it lies. Stars hide your fires; let light not see my black and deep desires. The eye wink at the hand yet let that be which the eye fears‚ when it is done to see.” This soliloquy demonstrates his inner human feelings of desire for the position of king

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    hell‚ and purgatory were foreign‚ frightening possibilities for Hamlet. Throughout the first three acts of the play‚ the afterlife significantly impacts Hamlet and his decision in his III.i soliloquy. Afterlife first presents itself in I.i to an officer‚ Bernardo‚ and a watchman‚ Francisco.

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