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Macbeth: Macbeth - A Human To A Killer

... to the focus of everyone's fear and anger, because he loses his human characteristics of conscience and remorse. As the play starts Macbeth is very human; he has feelings and friends and he is a war-hero. As time elapses, he begins to change into a ruthless killer, "a tyrant". Once he meets the witches and learns he will become king he begins to plot and think murderously. When he arrived at a plot to kill Duncan, and told Lady Macbeth, he realized it was the only way. However, in doing this he made a lot of people suspicious. Thi ...

Number of words: 505 | Number of pages: 2

Dramatic Irony And Characters In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

... is a quiet person, but he cares about people. The part where Mercutio is slain by Tybalt is a good example of this. Because Tybalt killed his good friend Mercutio, Romeo killed Tybalt. Another would be the part where he finds Juliet dead. He cared so much for her that he killed himself. In the book Romeo says some things that reflect on his personality. "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, / For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."(Act 1 Sc. 5 Ln. 59-60) Romeo easily becomes infatuated with girls. "With Rosaline, my ghost ...

Number of words: 2804 | Number of pages: 11

Movie: The Last Emperor

... being able to leave the forbidden city when his biological mother had died and when there was a war going on in his country and he couldn't even see beyond the walls of the forbidden city. Also at the age of twelve it was accustom for him to get married, so he married two seventeen year old girls, one as a wife and one as a secondary console. One time he was so mad that he wasn't aloud to leave the forbidden city to go see his mother that had just die of swallowing a opium ball, he took his mouse and through it against a wall. Towards the en ...

Number of words: 371 | Number of pages: 2

The Shawshank Redemption

... really thinks of a prison as such, but it seems to hold true. This movie showed a prison not only as a place where murderers and thieves live, but as a community of people who have had problems and may or may not be rehabilitating. It seems that some prisoners go in and accept what they have done and try to make something of an already disastrous life while others give up and really don't care if they commit other crimes (inside and outside of the prison). But in all reality, the prison was home for the inmates and they made it into what ...

Number of words: 1414 | Number of pages: 6

A Clockwork Orange

... a criminal with only good morals and conditioning an automated response to "evil." Burgess enforces the idea of the medical model of corrections, in terms of rehabilitating an offender, which is up to the individual. That one should determine the cause and then find an exclusive treatment to resolve that individual's case, then apply it. This is the case with the character Alex, a juvenile delinquent introduced into prisonization then conditioned by governmental moral standards. This lack of personal moral choice imposed upon Alex c ...

Number of words: 1717 | Number of pages: 7

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Resolution

... of his untamed jealousy over Titania's new servant, Oberon orders Puck to sprinkle love juice in Titania's eye and, taking pity on Helena, the eyes of Demetrius as well. A solution is very close at hand until Puck mistakes Lysander for Demetrius and causes Lysander to fall desperately in love with Helena. This is the main conflict. Characters that are desperately in love are torn apart by forces they c annot control. Helena is in great anguish because she cannot have Demetrius and now it seems that Lysander is mocking her over this ve ...

Number of words: 475 | Number of pages: 2

King Lear's Mistake

... to appease his mistake. As the play opens, one can almost immediately see that Lear begins to make mistakes that will eventually result in his downfall. The very first words that he speaks in the play are: Give me the map there. Know that we have divided In three our kingdom; and 'tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths while we Unburdened crawl toward death.(Act I, Sc i, Ln 37-41) This gives the reader the first indication o ...

Number of words: 1199 | Number of pages: 5

Hamlet's Madness

... has lost his father by murder, and is urged to seek vengeance by his father who appears to him as a ghost. This raises the first bit of suspicion of madness. Hamlet talks with his father and is told, Hamlet: If thou didst ever thy dear father love- Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. Most would say that the fact that he saw the ghost of his dead father would be enough to warrant that he is insane. The only fact that hinders this observation is the fact that others saw the ghost as well and were even the ones who ...

Number of words: 743 | Number of pages: 3

A Street Car Named Desire: Blanche

... attitude as she commits on Stella’s home saying, “This-can this be-her home?” This statement clearly shows the reader that Blanche thinks she is better than Stella’s lifestyle. This attitude is seen by the reader many times throughout the play as Blanche belittles others and their possessions. Blanche’s critical comments of her sisters house makes the reader feel less sympathy for her early in the play. As Blanche greets her sister later, one of the first statements she makes is “Open your pretty mouth and talk while I l ...

Number of words: 810 | Number of pages: 3

Iago's Motivation

... his victims and then watches, with an excitable evil in his eye, as his human pyres go up in flames. Iago undeniably has an unquenchable thirst for power and domination. Critics such as M. R. Ridley believe that the ability to hurt is the most convincing display of one's power (Ridley lxi). Iago has a deep, inbred desire to cause and view intolerable suffering. The power of Iago is exercised when he prepares and then implements an evil plan designed to inflict man with the most extreme amounts of anguish possible. Iago controls the pl ...

Number of words: 1248 | Number of pages: 5

Movie Villains

... series or on the Friday the 13th series, but sometimes it is just a little enemy, sometimes killed off, that is the villain. Sometimes the protagonist turns out to be the biggest antagonist in the story, like in the movie La Strata. Villains usually meet their end by death, but sometimes their fate can be worse than that, like in the movie Time After Time a character call Dr. Stevenson, who is also know as Jack the Ripper, meets his death by traveling to the farthest time ever in the face of the earth, probably when the earth is completely ...

Number of words: 953 | Number of pages: 4

Trifles: Summary

... oldest boy, and himself were on their way to deliver potatoes and decided to stop by the farmhouse so that he could talk to Mr. Wright. When he knocked on the door, he wasn’t sure if he had heard a voice inviting him in or not. He went ahead and opened the door to see Mrs. Wright sitting in her rocking chair. Mr. Hale asked her if he could see Mr. Wright. She replied that he was lying upstairs, dead, with a rope around his neck. Mr. Hale didn’t know how to react to her statement, so he just asked her who had killed him. Mrs. W ...

Number of words: 653 | Number of pages: 3

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