Knave of Hearts

Brought there to entertain Estella but leaves with more than he bargained for. Miss Havisham begins to tell him about her broken heart, due to her decision, she becomes tired and tells Pip to '"play"'. Confused, Pip waits until Estella comes back into the room. Miss Havisham influences Estella: '"well, you can break his heart." Miss Havisham states this as she has a strong resentment towards men. Due to her past of being treated poorly. Together, they play 'beggar, my neighbour'

ambitious, with more offences at my back than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. Venegas 2 What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery,” (3.1.131-139). Through this, morality is put on display and is the overall moral center in Hamlet which is shown in his conflict of the soul between honour and conscience. Hamlet’s questioning of

Miss Havisham who has raised her up as a tool to be used to break men’s hearts. Although she constantly insults and makes fun of Pip, he falls in love with her. This love for her makes Pip vulnerable to any and every little insult that comes out of her mouth and Pip puts to heart everything she says. So, when she says, "He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy!...And what course hands he has! And what thick boots!" he takes it to heart (Dickens 105). It is at this point that Pip begins to feel ashamed of

she can tell that she doesn’t see what she use to see, but that she knows that Hamlet is still the man that she had once fallen in love with because she knows that deep down, nothing can truly change the love that Hamlet felt for her. “We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where’s your father?” This quote in particular was a very interesting, but had a large impact on the story because this is when Hamlet knows that Ophelia’s father is watching and he realizes the

out by age 20: what they want in life and other are in research. Some say money can buy you happiness including love. Others say health is wealth. However people who often seem happy, powerful, intelligent and joyful on the outside, in inside their heart is darker than the color black. In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, Othello is a respected, honorable war hero who got love, happiness and power and anything that other human can wish for. However due to him being different race and his reputation

"A hero usually a man, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities" (Dictionary.com). In life, heroes will arise whenever they are needed. It may be a tall man that wears a cape and has super powers. As a matter of fact it may be the everyday heroes that are seen giving a homeless man a coffee or helping an old lady cross the street. It may be the heroes that are see in movies and graphic novels, rescuing the princess from her tower or leading their country

seek an audience with the servant of death named Despair. My heart was afire with the flames of desolation as I slowly entered his abode. Bereft of the fruits of life, the only inhabitants were black stones splashed with blood, a red more vibrant than wine. Skeletons, blackened with age, littered the ground, painting a grotesque display. Abhorred by the sight, my heart begged me to escape and I would have abided my frighted heart, if not for a moan. ‘Twas not a moan from a man or beast, but

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” In his novel, Great Expectations, Charles Dickens exemplifies Ralph’s belief and conveys that when a person has gone wrong in life, a trauma or pain can help him or her return to a better path. All through the novel, characters such as Pip, Miss Havisham, and Magwitch illustrate this theme through the decisions they made in life and where those decisions

necessary for Lear to go through madness so he can truly appreciate the consequences of his actions. The Fool was helping Lear to ‘see better'. Finally Lear's conscience catches up with him at least to an extent when he says ‘poor fool and knave I have one part in my heart that's sorry for thee.' The Fool's sarcasm is blunt and hard hitting, just like Cordelia's truth was in the ‘love test'. ‘I am better than thou art now I am a fool thou art nothing'. The Fool is one of the Truth tellers in the play.

Elleana Morrison Professor Connor Shakespeare 340 Midterm Paper, Prompt 5 7 April 2016 A Black Iago Othello is, in the opinion of many, one of Shakespeare’s most prolific plays. It broke the mold by assigning the lead protagonist role to a black man, and the central love story is of that between this older black man and a young white woman. Othello has perhaps the most wicked- and likable- villain in all of Shakespeare’s work. It has love- both fulfilled and unrequited, family conflict, rebelling