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    Love in The Taming of the Shrew Wonder, for a moment, what Shakespeare means when he uses the word “love”, if it really does exist in any of the relationships in this play, particularly between Petruccio and Katherine. Is love not a certainty? Such winds scatters young men through the world To seek their fortunes farther than at home, Where small experience grows. But in in a few, Signor Hortensio

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    Shakespeare had forged many relationships between his characters and struggles that have taken place within his plays. These bonds create character dynamics that become core to his main plot and themes. It drives the ‘soul’ of his plays in various forms from start to finish. Within the play King Lear, we have the father daughter relationship struggle between Lear and his daughter Cordelia that is central to the play. King Lear has land that he wishes to divide among his daughters Cordelia, Goneril

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    How Cinema and Theater Convey Pleasure in the Acts of Search and Lust In her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, British film maker Laura Mulvey attempts to demystify how pleasure can be fulfilled in film. Contending that a pleasure in looking (scopohilia) and a pleasure in possessing the female as what to be looked at (voyeurism) fufills the audience’s desires, Mulvey suggests how filmmakers use this knowledge to create film that panders to our innate desires. In “Meshes

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    from Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale. In The Winter's Tale Paulina is faced with the trauma of seeing her best friend Hermione falsely accused of infidelity, put into prison, and eventually die of heartbreak from losing her child. She watches as Leontes, a man she loves as a friend, is overcome with jealousy and is the person who does those treacherous things to Hermione, his wife, that eventually leads to her death.

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    is that since everyone has a slight yearning for control, all people can relate. When people can relate to a situation, they would fully understand it, and consequently would find the story tremendously engaging. For example, in The Winter’s Tale, Leontes exploits too much control over his wife Hermione when he unfoundedly surmises she is having an affair, and punishes her. This is a common situation

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    With the preseason underway, the Miami Dolphins are 1-1 having loss this past weekend to the Dallas Cowboys 41-14. For many teams, the preseason simply presents an opportunity to get into shape and establish some team chemistry going into the regular season, For the Dolphins, a team clearly in rebuilding mode, the preseason holds extra importance as new Head Coach Adam Gase desperately needs to assess the team's current status and how to start putting all the pieces into place. The one thing the

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    Hatred, in Shakespeare’s Othello, destroyed the lives of so many innocent people, creating an atmosphere of fear and mayhem. Jealousy turned into a deep hatred, and liberated the "beast in man" (Bloom's major dramatists).This mayhem caused a substantial amount of destruction and led to the demise of many. Hatred in Othello starts with Brabantio, who claims Othello is a noble, respectable man. However, Brabantio hates dark skin and foreign roots, two attributes Othello possesses. Brabantio’s hatred

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    26.7 PPG. By limiting mental mistakes, the Scarlett Knights were able to score enough to keep them in games that led to victories and a place in the post-season. The best overall performance from a Rutgers offensive player in 2014 came from SR WR Leonte Carroo who dazzled fans with 1,086 yards of receiving and 10 TDs. The return for his senior season is a big positive for the team,

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    similarity of their names is interesting) repents (he is even ready to accept death as his punishment) and is then forgiven by the generous Posthumus. The theme of forgiveness is characteristic of Shakespeare's romances - Hermione's forgiveness of Leontes is one of the most beautiful moments of The Winter's Tale, and Prospero's decision to return to his kingdom is itself a forgiveness of the wrongs done him. Another staple of romantic epics is the story of lost and found children. Often, the lost child

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    Nayla Windham Mrs. Leah Armstrong English 102, Section 3 1 April 2015 Dangerously in Love In Anthony Hamilton’s song “Love is so Complicated,” he sings, “ Love is complicated, the way I feel about you make me wanna change my attitude.” Obsessive love can lead to many dangerous consequences in a relationship. Browning and Marvell both examine dark love in their poems. Both poets want their mistress to commit to them so they can have control over them. Both Robert Browning in “Porphyria’s Lover”

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