- 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
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- Love's Labor's Lost
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- The Winter's Tale
On the night the boys go swimming, the deceptive full moon symbolizes their youthful bravado. The imagery in this quote reveals the moon’s deception: the light is so bright that it is almost day, but it distorts reality by erasing the harsh facts of daylight and replacing them with “soft” and “gentle” illusions. This light encourages the boys to disregard the consequences of their actions, making them think they “[can] do anything in the world.”
In reality, the boys’ actions do have consequences. In his certainty that Willadean would want to go out on a date with him, the narrator…