- 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
The Rocket exclaims this as he is pitying himself for being told not to cry by the other fireworks, since they know that his gunpowder will not be able to ignite if it is wetted by his tears. Rather than heed their advice, the Rocket childishly resents it.
Once again, the Rocket’s egotism has led him to live in under delusion with no grasp of reality. The word “cultivated” is quite astute, since such an outlandish belief cannot be the result of mere observation but has to be fostered, repeated, and tended. This is an excellent example of the sharply…