This is a story about a General who is thrust into the world of politics, namely because he was such a good general. However, while he happpens to be a great general, as a politician he positively sucks. Basically, Gaius Marcius' main flaw (despite the fact that I don't believe in fatal flaws) is th...
Hadst thou in person ne'er offended me, Even for his sake am I pitiless. Remember, boys, I poured forth tears in vain To save your brother from the sacrifice, But fierce Andronicus would not relent. - Tamora Titus Andronicus 2.3, ll. 161-165 Note: The reviews below were taken directly from my Go...
Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do: and the reason why they are not so punished and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. - Rosalind As You Like It 3.2, ll. 362-365 Note: The review below was taken...
Reviewing this particular book properly would require over a thousand other books... It is brilliant to the point of blinding, and it is formative to the modern human mind. Harold Bloom (you, the fat, ugly, old guy that didn't dig Harry Potter all that much...) has it inventing you - the modern huma...
…I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us once. Rene Descartes‘Who’s there?’ Bernado asks—frightened, confused, unable to rely on his senses—and Hamlet begins with the very question that shall haunt its lines throughout. Who is ther...
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