- 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
After Ivan becomes so ill that all he can do is lie down, he begins to question the meaning of life, wondering why he has to suffer so terribly. In a state of hopelessness, he thinks about God, or rather the “non-existence” of God, though he still calls out as if God is listening to him. When he does this, his words echo what Jesus yells out from the cross; “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Needless to say, Ivan is not a Christlike figure, since he is self-centered, greedy, and obsessed with his own power—three things…