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The Downfall Of Lady Macbeth

... Your face... is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower But be the serpent under't." This urging causes Macbeth to possess Œblack and deep desires', which lead him to murder the king. She takes it upon herself to pressure him and therefore, her bold character is revealed. Macbeth's intentions would have been less serious if his wife was not more anxious than he was. She, more tha ...

Number of words: 587 | Number of pages: 3

"Fire From Heaven", "Much Ado About Nothing", And "The Flea": Sinful Acts

... take a position on the Puritan's side and to better explain the good they were trying to achieve. The Puritans of Dorchester as we have learned about our reading, were a very religious group who wanted to create the perfect society. Their mission in Dorchester was to make extinct all the sinful acts of the townspeople. The struggle they started soon ended in failure. They were a definite influence upon his work. His views of sexual misconduct between married men and women being worse than that between unmarried people probably come from ...

Number of words: 1417 | Number of pages: 6

The Tragedy Of Hamlet

... expose the new king of killing his father, he is exiled to England because the other people thought that he was mentally ill. When Hamlet returns to Denmark he finds his secret love Ophelia being buried. Hamlet feels that he is living in a world of horror, and by the end of this miserably disheartening play, his fathers death is avenged, but at quite a cost. Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Laertes, and Polonius are all dead. I would have to say that all of the adversity in hamlets life had to have a great affect on his spirit. One can no ...

Number of words: 558 | Number of pages: 3

A Developmental Study Of Alex In Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange

... "fat farm" to pillage the goods therein. Inside, Alex stumbles upon the owner of the resort, and after a length scuffle with her, ends up giving her a blow to the head with a rather large, ceramic replica of an erect penis. When he leaves the outer gates of the complex, Dim surprises him by smacking a milk bottle against his face. His counterparts escape while little Alex is left bleeding and blinded to deal with the police. Upon interrogation of Alex, he discovers that the blow he delivered to the young lady was a fatal one. He is charge ...

Number of words: 2085 | Number of pages: 8

Othello: Summary

... He appears to help Roderigo, a suitor to Desdemona, who has run off with Othello, the Moorish general of the Venetian army. Iago hates Othello for another reason. instead of choosing him to be his lieutenant, Othello chose Cassio. In the end of scene, Iago and Roderigo have informed Brabantio about his daughter's elopement. Then they went to confront Othello with this situation. *At the beginning of Scene Two of Act One, Iago gives advice to Othello and lets him know what is about to happen. Shortly after their talk Brabantio confront ...

Number of words: 939 | Number of pages: 4

Romeo And Juliet: Who Was Responsible

... Thursday, or never after look me in the face”(3.5.161-162) He was only provoking her more to take the potion, even if he did not know that he was. And Lady Capulet was not helping the situation when she said: “Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee.” (3.5.303-204), she was only showing Juliet that she did not care, even though it is her responsibility as a parent to be there for her daughter. A responsibility that she did not act upon. The Nurse is another example of someone who, in a ...

Number of words: 524 | Number of pages: 2

Hamlet: Sane Or Insane

... the mould of form,/ The observed of all observers." A modern boy scout to say the least, but as the play unwinds, his actions and thoughts catch him and slowly turn him insane. Not to say that he was a crazed madman out of touch with reality as was Ophelia, but a man driven crazy by thought. Hamlet's behavior throughout the play, especially towards Ophelia is inconsistent. He jumps into Ophelia's grave, and fights with Laertes in her grave. He professes "I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers/Could not, with all their quantity of love,/ ...

Number of words: 888 | Number of pages: 4

Analyzing Noir Films The Maltese Falcon And The Big Sleep

... of the story. In The Maltese Falcon, many shadows disguise faces, change the mood of the story and alter the appearance of characters. One intriguing scene includes Ms. O'Shaughnessy being taken away by the police from Sam Spade's apartment. The shadows of the elevator cage bars depict those of bars in jail. During The Big Sleep, an extreme amount of shadowing constantly keeps the viewer wondering who's who. Also, translucency used on the windows of the house only allows the viewer to see a silhouette of the unidentified person on the ...

Number of words: 551 | Number of pages: 3

Brutus Is A Very Ambitious Man

... had a compassion for Caesar when he killed. “If then that a friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more” (3,2,23-24). Brutus honored Caesar but felt that he made the Romans slaves. Brutus took this as a negative and did what he thought was right for Rome. Brutus was very honorable himself. In reaching his goal for the people Brutus knew how to lure the crowd, appearing to their better judgement. At Caesar’s graveside Brutus’ eulogy appealed to the bett ...

Number of words: 498 | Number of pages: 2

A Streetcar Named Desire: Is Illusion Necessary To Life

... woman who throughout the play lives her life in illusions. The story begins with Blanche going to New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella, and her husband Stanley for a while. Here, the illusions are revealed and the battle between the illusions and the characters will begin. What initially leads to her illusions is love. When she was young, "sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely" (1368). She met Allan Grey, the perfect man - he had "a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn't like ...

Number of words: 1351 | Number of pages: 5

Amelia

... family but they possess a lack of communication with each other. In this scene many parts would be difficult for other outside cultures to understand. The first part was when leaped from the basketball rim onto the hood of her parents car. This would be hard for other cultures to understand because the parents act as if nothing happened. Other cultures would not except their children to do that. Also the style in which dresses would not be clear to other cultures. She dresses like a boy which reflects on her acting like a boy. For s ...

Number of words: 330 | Number of pages: 2

The Tempest. An Imperialist Heaven Or Hell?

... For this play it appears he made a controversial statement by challenging the values of his Queen and his country. Evidence of this is abundant in the play. The story rotates around the fact that Prospero, a European noble, had imposed himself on an island, already inhabited. Prospero is depicted as a worthy man, who was usurped from his throne. The reader has automatic sympathy for the character. This allows him more leeway for wrong doing by creating room for it within the reader's mind. Prospero came to the island with his daughter to ...

Number of words: 1204 | Number of pages: 5

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