Movie: Dead Poet’s Society
.... standards created by the school, centered around discipline and conformity, opposed to creativity and initiative. Mr. Keeting, a new teacher from the Chester School in London, not only introduced his students to a European method of teaching, but cultured them with independent thought and originality. He lead his students into the battle field of life, upon the unbalanced sea of struggles and triumphs, he is appropriately referred to as “Oh Captain, my Captain.” Neil, the instigator of the group, seemed to be the one that was most enthusiastic about Mr. Keeting’s teaching. Mr. Keeting taught the boys to look at things in a .....
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Communication Analysis: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
.... tension between the two that ends with a faulty relationship lacking in communication. Women often times try to communicate but the men just do not let it happen. Men will fake listening to conversations, saying things like “yeah” and “uh-huh.” This is not too hard for women to notice and their feelings are hurt most of the time. They feel as if their husbands just don’t care. When in fact they do care, they just do not know how to show it. They say that women drag out stories that do not need to be so long. They also say that women become irrational during more intense conversations and are oversensitive. Men need “alone .....
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Hamlet
.... that are trying to betray him. The soldiers: Marcellous, Bernardo, and Francisco show their loyalty to Hamlet by coming to him with there situation of seeing the ghost who looks like the dead king. They also all swear not to tell a soul about what they had seen and heard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern on the other hand are terrible friends to have, they agree to spy on Hamlet and be Cladius' little tools. In my opinion it is the worst to betray a friend, but fortunately they both get what they disserve once they reach England. Horatio is also a good friend to Hamlet and I think his is very loyal, even though Hamlet acted a litt .....
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King Lear: Main Issues
.... using irrelevant judgements to divide land. "Which of you shall say doth love us most?" Lear asks his three daughters. To please Lear, Gonerill and Regan speak words of flattery and Cordelia, so 'true', says "I love you according to my bond." To hear this, Lear praises Gonerill and Regan by reward of land, but punishes Cordelia by "disclaim my paternal care, property and propinquity of blood." This demonstrates Lear's lack of understanding as a father, his inability to see his daughters' inner thoughts and intentions. However, through the mental suffering of Lear later in the play, Acts III and IV, he comes to term with his tr .....
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Much Ado About Nothing: Pretense
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In "Much Ado About Nothing", everyone is pretentious. Don Pedro deceives Hero by acting the part of an honest friend, concerned for his brother and Claudio's honour. Leonato and his family act as if Hero were dead, encouraged to this deception by, of all people, the Friar who feels that deception may be the way to get at truth and all the main characters in the plot pretend to Benedick and Beatrice so convincingly that they reverse their normal attitudes to each other. In scene I.1 Don Pedro offers to play Claudio and win Hero for him. But, this plan is overheard, and misreported to Antonio. His excited retailing of .....
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Macbeth: Imagery Of Planting
.... early scenes of the play evil is scarcely visible in Macbeth, but it spreads through his soul at an alarming speed. Macbeth takes his first giant step towards complete corruption when he murders his gracious king, Duncan. Duncan thinks highly of Macbeth and praises him often, such as when he states, "I have begun to plant thee, and will labor/ To make thee full of growing." (IV, 4; 28-29) The irony is that when Duncan fails to pronounce Macbeth his successor shortly after this phrase, he firmly plants the notion to Macbeth that homicide is his only means of attaining the throne of Scotland. Macbeth's first murder is the point in .....
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Death Of A Salesman : A Social Criticism
.... a job more suitable to his talents, even though perhaps he could function as a member of society if he did; and he lives in a deluded bubble, angry, self-righteous, too proud for his own good... qualities that simply do not survive in America's production-based, time-crunch, fast-food and fast talk society.
The play opens with Linda, the loving and ever-supportive wife, welcoming Willy home from another grueling and fruitless day's work. Linda loves her husband even though she knows "Willy is essentially a self-deluded man who has lost the power to distinguish between reality and the obsessions that come to dominate his life" (Fu .....
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The Crucible: Struggle For Conformity
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the girls start making accusations about who is practicing witchcraft. The girls claim in court
that they have all been witnesses to these terrible acts and can see the devil inside individuals.
The culpability of these devilish occurrences fluctuate drastically and the girls conclude that they
would keep their intentions a secret and inculpate one by one other residents of the village.
However, Abigail’s true intention in accusing village residents is to earn another relationship
with John Proctor after a recent affair by accusing his wife which would lead to her hanging.
Abigail threatens the other girls that if t .....
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Hamlet: Hamlet Resembles A Real Person
.... all women are evil, yet he really does love Ophelia, because when he finds out Ophelia has died, he cries out, "I lov'd Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum."(Act V, Scene 1) The ghost provides Hamlet with a dilemma.
In Shakespeare's plays, supernatural characters are not always to be trusted; think of the three witches in MacBeth, who are instrumental in his downfall. Hamlet does not know whether the ghost is telling the truth or not. If Hamlet had killed Claudius solely on the ghost's advice, he would certainly have been tried and put to death himself. There would prob .....
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From Noble Macbeth To This Dead Butcher
.... the beginning of the play when he is prey to doubts and fears. We first see Macbeth afraid when he thinks of murdering Duncan it makes his hair stand on end and his heart pound. In Act2, scene 1 when Macbeth makes his “Is this a dagger…” speech he is horrified at the murder he is to commit, afraid that even the stones he walks on will give him away. In Act2 scene 2 after having committed the murder he is hysterical. In his fear he brings the daggers away from Duncan’s chamber and cannot bring himself to return them. Lady Macbeth has to do this for him. In the banquet scene Macbeth can again be seen to be terrified when Banquo’s g .....
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The Phantom Menace: I Swear I’ve Seen This Movie Before
.... and existence have to offer. They firmly believe that what they want to encounter, lies far away from their home. Our protagonist in The Phantom Menace, Anakin, yearns to eventually be a pilot who leads a squadron of fighters. He satisfies that longing at home by racing pods. Although he possesses great skill at this dangerous sport, competing in races does not fulfill his desires enough. The protagonist in A New Hope, Luke, wants to leave his uncle’s farming business and go to piloting school to fight in the rebellion. Luke dreams to be the leader of a fighting squadron. He thinks he will be able to contribute significant .....
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Who Is The Villian In Macbeth?
.... She questions him because of his unwillingness to kill Duncan. Lady Macbeth is a villain because she insults Macbeth by calling him a girl. In the next quotation Macbeth is being directed by Lady Macbeth, to be a person in which he is not. "Look like the innocent flower, / but be the serpent under't" (1.6. 73-74). Lady Macbeth wants Macbeth to act innocent but be evil. Although he wants to be king, he doesn’t know if he can kill King Duncan. She wants him to look like a flower which is pretty, perfect, and innocent, but be its dirt, evil and vain roots/serpent, which is something he is not, except for when he goes off to bat .....
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