- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Immediately after finding the butterfly, Eckels thinks back to the most important recent event: the presidential election. Here the foreshadowing present in the initial pages of the story is fulfilled in a twisted, ironic fashion. As the company officer told Eckels before his trip, the company does not conduct “escapes” from undesirable political circumstances. It appears, however, that Eckels’ blunder has brought about the very political future that he feared. Dictatorial, foreign-sounding Deutscher has replaced Keith as president-elect, effectively putting into motion the slide towards authoritarian government that Eckels had been so relieved to avoid.
The seeds of this shift…