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…. She pretends to retire to a monastery for prayer before her wedding night. She dresses as a lawyer, and goes to Venice herself. At court in Venice, Shylock refuses all pleas of mercy from Antonio and the Duke. He even refuses Bassanio's offer to repay…

…with fragility and pain. Isobel's quest finally ends facing her lion, and her reaction is as powerful and hopeful as the conclusion of Elem Klimov's Come and See. Thompson's play is a wrenching plea for forgiveness and transcendence, or, as director Jeff Meyers has…

…delinquent. Unfortunately for this writer, I have seen SRS at work and have seen the damage that they have caused to otherwise good families. I have seen them totally ignore a desperate plea for help from those who are in the gravest need. Juvenile…

…the narrator’s mother can somehow accept her in one final plea. The decisions are now left to the narrator. “ I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation” (204…

…to death. However, she is not afraid to state that she has longer to lie with the dead that living and it would be very Honorable to die as a result of paying tribute to her brother. The king Creon puts Antigone to death without listening to the pleas of his…

…the children, and calls Marie names. A pregnant Marie believes that Rushes Bear’s loneliness is the cause of her outbursts, and associates with the old woman. When it’s time for Marie to give birth to her last child, she refuses Nector’s pleas to go…

…killed 167 people, including 19 children. McVeigh is presently in jail and had entered a “not guilty” plea. He said that he accepted responsibility for the bombing but did not believe that he has committed a crime. The people who have talked with McVeigh…

…of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings! 'Sympathy' ('sym' meaning with and 'pathy' meaning feeling) is a very emotional poem about a caged bird…

…to sleep in, so his servants took turns keeping her awake and denying her the sleep that she so desperately needed. When the tailor brought in what seemed to be a very pretty cap, Petruchio refused to let Kate have it, despite her incessant pleas to keep…

…the kingdom in half to the two older sisters, Goneril and Regan. This is Lear's tragic flaw which prevents him to see the true faces of people because his pride and anger overrides his judgement. As we see in the first act, Lear does not listen to Kent's plea…