- All's Well That Ends Well
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- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
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- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
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- Henry VI, Part 3
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- Love's Labor's Lost
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- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
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- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
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- The Winter's Tale
In elaborating the relationship between her ethical system and Marxism, de Beauvoir agrees with Marxism’s “notion of situation”—that people live in constant pursuit of something they do not have—but offers this suggestion about “the meaning of the situation” to differentiate her thought from that of Marxists. Marxists think a particular situation—specifically, the situation of a class struggle, in which oppressed people must overcome the class of people that oppress them in order to achieve freedom—necessarily creates a certain kind of attitude in people and inevitably leads them to a certain, predictable outcome (revolution). In contrast, existentialists believe that no matter…