- 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
In this passage, Tha'mma explains to the narrator that she used to tell Mayadebi that their uncle Jethamoshai's side of the house was upside-down, and she admits that after so many years, she began to believe her own fantasy. This illustrates the power of stories, as even though the idea that Jethamoshai's home is upside-down, backwards, and wholly different from Tha'mma's is absurd, telling the stories enough times is enough to make it feel almost real. In turn, this shows how the narrator is not the only one to rely heavily on stories to understand the world.
The story itself…