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Review Of "Saving Private Ryan"

... it has become. Saving Private Ryan opens and closes with an identical image--an American flag, waving in the wind. Given that we too often take images at face value, it's easy to figure this for half-ass patriotism. We must look more closely. This isn't standard-issue symbology. The flag is blasted out, bleeding of all colors. It signals that something fundamental has been lost forever. Saving Private Ryan is a patriotic film. How could it not be, possessed of such reverence for the suffering endured by so many soldiers in the defense ...

Number of words: 1600 | Number of pages: 6

Fate And Prophecy In Oedipus Rex

... time fate is encountered we see the great new king enjoying his new life. Oedipus is trying to escape his fate but manages only to immerse himself in it. It is directly implied by the blind prophet that Oedipus is the murderer of his own father, and the new husband of his recently widowed mother, “So I charge you, then/ Abide by the proclamation you have made: / From this day forth/ Never speak again to these men or me; / You yourself are the pollution of this country” (Sophocles 1027). When Oedipus left his stepfather because of the o ...

Number of words: 629 | Number of pages: 3

Television Censorship

... that it is necessary for the protection of three basic social institutions: the family, the church, and the state. Censorship and the ideology supporting it go back to ancient times. Every society has had customs, taboos, or laws by which speech, play, dress, religious observance, and sexual expression were regulated(Microsoft Encarta 95)." CENSORSHIP OF OBSCENITY "The beginning of a new legal approach may be traced to the action of the federal courts in the 1930s, when they held that Irish author James Joyce's Ulysses was not ob ...

Number of words: 1589 | Number of pages: 6

Othello Composition: The Character Of Iago

... his advantage. For example, he knows Rodriego is in love with Desdemona and figures he would do anything to have her as his own. Iago says about Rodriego in Act I, Scene III, line 355, “Thus do I ever make my fool purse.” By playing on his hopes, Iago is able to swindle money and jewels from Rodriego, making himself a substantial profit, while using Rodriego to forward his other goals. He also thinks quick on his feet and is able to improvise whenever something unexpected occurs. When Cassio takes hold of Desdemona’s hand before th ...

Number of words: 962 | Number of pages: 4

Difference Between Plutarch's And Shakespeare's Caesar

... me Ne'er looked but on my back; when they shall see the face of Caesar, they are vanished." This attitude to a warning implying that he was given fair warning and his death was partially due to his over confidence. On the other hand Plutarch gives him a more sensitive reaction to the dream in saying, "Caesar himself, it seems was affected and by no means easy in his mind." Moreover, Plutarch's writings show the long string of coincidences almost as Fate were deeming it necessary for him to die, and that he had no control over it. "...the sc ...

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The Role Of Minor Conspirators

... almost failed because on the night before the assassination was to be carried out, during the storm, Caesar's wife Calpurnia had a dream about Caesar being killed, and she had convinced him to remain home the next day. When Decius arrived at Caesar's home in the morning to take him to the capitol he realized that he must convince Caesar that he had misinterpreted his wife's dream so Caesar would go as planned. Decius needed to make Caesar realize that his wife, the soothsayer, and all of the omens were purely coincidental which he did by ...

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Death Of A Salesman: Summary

... But something happen that year, because biff never really found himself. Later in the play we find out that Biff flunked math and had gone to find his father and tell him about his failure. When Biff got to Boston and found Willy’s hotel room he found Willy and another woman having an affair. Biff seamed to always hold a grudge agents his father and never brought himself to trust Willy again. After some fourteen years, Biff returns home. He and his brother Happy try to think of some job that Biff could get and settle down in New Yo ...

Number of words: 1134 | Number of pages: 5

Ophelia: The Forgotten Character

... describing the state of their relations (Smith 138). Northorp Frye writes that some commentators have expressed shock at the coarse language Hamlet jokingly uses toward her in the Play Scene, but also that aristocratic manners were looser then, and it is really no worse than some of the interchanges between courtly lovers in Shakespeare's romantic comedies (Frye 57-8). I imagine that Ophelia's reactions to Hamlet's language presumably come’s not from shock, but from confusion over his sudden change of mood and attitude toward her sinc ...

Number of words: 1395 | Number of pages: 6

Macbeth: The Symbol Of Blood

... progresses, he becomes a treacherous person who has become identified with death and bloodshed and shows his guilt in different forms. The first reference of blood is one of honour, and occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant and says "What bloody man is that?". This is symbolic of the brave fighter who been injured in a valiant battle for his country. In the next passage, in which the sergeant says "Which smok'd with bloody execution", he is referring to Macbeth's braveness in which his sword is covered in the hot blood of the e ...

Number of words: 879 | Number of pages: 4

The Phantom Menace: I Swear I’ve Seen This Movie Before

... available in the past few years. Lucas uses computers to generate characters and spacecrafts. This in turn, makes the new movie one of the most visually pleasing films of all time. Aside from the obvious technological differences between Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and the original film, A New Hope, there are many similarities between this summer’s hit movie and Lucas’ first directed film of the series. These similarities are discernable in plot, setting, and screenshots. The movies in discussion deal with restless youngster ...

Number of words: 1178 | Number of pages: 5

Shawshank Redemption

... to date. Spanning the years from 1947 through 1966, The takes the "innocent man in prison" theme and bends it at a different angle. Instead of focusing on crusades for freedom, the movie ventures down the less-traveled road of concentrating on the personal cost of adapting to prison life and how some convicts, once they conform, lose the ability to survive beyond the barbed wire and iron bars. As one of the characters puts it: "These [prison] walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them, then you start to depend on th ...

Number of words: 475 | Number of pages: 2

Macbeth: Imagery Of Animal Behavior And Class Status Advances

... important. The witch is incomplete, just like the rat. Furthermore I believe she is hiding something because when you are missing something you are apt to be very self conscious and hide it. In addition the rat is veer low on the chain of being. The next passage is Act 1 sc. 7 line 49. In this passage Lady Macbeth is quoted saying “like the poor cat I ‘th' adage” (1, vii., 49). That means “ the cat who eats fish but will not get his feet wet ” (Folgers, p 40). Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth that he is like the cat beca ...

Number of words: 454 | Number of pages: 2

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