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Bloody Thoughts: Violence And Wit In Shakespeare's The Tempest, Aubrey Keller
Bloody Thoughts: Violence And Wit In Shakespeare's The Tempest, Aubrey Keller
Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects
In this Honors thesis, I examine the roles of wit and violence in Shakespeare's The Tempest, exploring my original suspicion that the play is a pacifist work. Noticing references to "bloody thoughts" in both Hamlet and The Tempest, I hypothesized that while Shakespeare resolves his tragedies using violence, he resolves his comedies using wit, making the two foil plot devices. I discovered that the plot is not propelled by either violence or wit on their own, but by Prospero's cunning. Rejecting the conventional reading of Prospero as a sorcerer, I read Prospero as a Machiavellian figure. I examine …
The Immortal Jane Austen: Why Her Novels Remain Popular, Jayrah Trapp
The Immortal Jane Austen: Why Her Novels Remain Popular, Jayrah Trapp
Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects
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