Romeo And Juliet: Love And Their Ends
.... fear, too early. For my mind misgives
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels, and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death
But He that hat the steerage of my course
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.” (I, v, Lines 82-89)
However, when he reaches the party, his love for Rosaline vanishes and Romeo falls passionately in love with Juliet Capulet.
Once Romeo sees Juliet, it is love at first sight. Both are unknown to the other, but they kiss because of their love. When each discover the other .....
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Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire: Tragic And Comic Elements
.... add to the notion of self-destruction. This is the true nature of a tragicomedy. By juxtaposing two irreconcilable positions, ambiguity is produced in the judgement of the main characters, most notably Stanley Kowalski and Blanche Dubois.
Ambivalence in the play is largely caused by the relationship between Stanley and Blanche. They concurrently produce both appalling and appealing tendencies. Both characters display elements of the profane and sacred yet on two distinct levels. This is what creates the double entendre. In the social sense, Blanche can be considered the heroine of the play. In a desperate last attempt t .....
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The Crucible
.... idea that witches even existed. Reverend Parris stated that the village was talking of witchcraft and Proctor said, "Then let you come out and call them wrong", clearly expressing that he did not believe them. When hysteria about the witch trials first reached him he replied to Reverend Hale, "There are them that will confess to anything before they'll hang; have you ever thought of that?" Throughout the chaos of the trials, while hundreds confessed to being witches, John Proctor was persistent in his idea that everyone who confessed was lying in order to avoid getting hanged. It came as no surprise that when his maid, Mary Wa .....
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Weakness Of Women In Hamlet
.... of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her gallčd eyes, she married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” (Act1.scene2.158-162). The absence of a mourning period for the Queen suggests that she needed a husband so badly that she brazenly betrayed Hamlet and her late husband, and involved herself in an immoral marriage simply for the sake of pacifying her own loneliness. Gertrude’s eagerness to remarry attests to her inability to function independently from a man. Shakespeare portrays Ophelia in a similar manner to that of Gertrude in that she is incapable of maintaining a state of .....
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“Agamemnon”: Clytaemnestra
.... Troy is over, which she knows because of the torch signals, she say that they are her, “proof, my burning sign…the power my lord passed on from Troy to me!” (Line 318-319)
Even though the Chorus did not initially believe her report about the victory at Troy, this does not compromise the respect and fear they feel for their queen. They justify their disbelief the easiest way they can, with the notion that women are easily swayed by gossip. Clearly, it was more their own qualms about believing victory has come after ten years, rather than their mistrust of women that led them to their doubt.
Clytaemnestra is not only seen as pow .....
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Hamlet: Betrayed By His Mother And His Helplessness
.... thy name is woman!" (I ii 150) Hamlet’s mother had been married for a long period of time and after her husband’s death she just married her brother-in-law without even waiting for the mourning period to be finished.
Hamlet is particularly heartbroken over the behavior of his mother, but there is nothing Hamlet can do about it. He believes that "It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue." (I ii 164) Hamlet has no power that there might be Hamlet had chance to being king instead of his uncle take his father’s throne. His uncle Claudius is the king of Denmark, so that Hamlet has n .....
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Is There Any Justification For Regarding Euripedes' Electra As An Inferior Tragedy?
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The tragedy in Electra is not simply confined to the action of the play, and in the first speech the Peasant reveals to the audience that it is more of an ongoing affliction on the house of Agamemnon. In one sentence the Peasant reveals the sole reason for Electra's revenge, and the reason for this play itself, when he tells us how Agamemnon "died, by his wife Clytamnestra's treachery and by Aegisthus' murderous hand." It soon becomes apparent that Agamemnon's daughter will not let this crime rest either and she herself feels like she has been treated a great injustice after her mother, "to show Aegisthus favour, drives me .....
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The Cinema Of Ernst Lubitsch
.... deception and corruption, role playing and performance, relationships, and the concept of desire as motivation for everything are common staples. To understand the thematic aspects of Lubitsch style, we must look at each of these in turn.
Deception and Corruption
There are surface deceptions and self-deceptions in all corners of The Marriage Circle. Misrepresentations are both deliberate and accidental. Even the song the notion of love is corrupt. This all but reinforces Lubutsch’s position that corruption is everywhere. No one is truly evil, but they are all self-promoting. In the beginning of the film, only the Stocks are co .....
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Antigone: Following Her Beliefs
.... rule's, not a King, such as Creon. Antigone say " I don't consider your Pronouncements so important that they can just........ overrule the unwritten laws of heaven. You are a man, remember." Antigone says that he is only man and that he does not have the power to make the rules, only God does. " Ashamed of what? Ashamed of being Loyal to my own family, my own brother? Antigone feels that she did the right thing by deciding to bury her brother and that Creon is wrong. She is trying to defend her belief by going against Creon's decision to punish a citizen for burying a loved one.
Finally, Creon, stubborn as he is, does n .....
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Hamlet - Ophelia Character Analysis
.... her chances of love with Hamlet.
Hamlet put pressure on Ophelia by expecting her to surpass his mother’s shortcomings and be an epitome of womankind. He searched her innocent face for some sign of loving truth that might restore his faith in her. He took her mute terror for a sign of her guilt and found her to be a false person, like his mother. In his letter to her, he addressed the letter to "the most beautified Ophelia" and he terminated the letter with "I love thee best, O most best, believe it" (II, ii). He used the word "beautified" to display a sincere tribute, and it is apparent he still loves her. His attempts to win he .....
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Hamlet's Inability To Decipher Right From Wrong
.... of horrors, he comes before me.”
According to Ophelia, his apparent condition was one of distress. I thought this section interesting because although Hamlet supposedly loves Ophelia, and his act of going through her closet was out of his “love-madness” for her, it truly scares Ophelia and has the opposite affect on her than what Hamlet ultimately intended. Polonius declares that Hamlet suffers from “the very ecstasy of love”, yet his “love” has scared Ophelia from wanting him.
In Act II, scene ii, Polonius reads a love letter to the King, which Hamlet wrote to Ophelia. By doing so, Polonius hopes to convince the king that .....
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Romeo And Juliet: The New Age Vs The Old Age
.... English days. The biggest difference would be that the film was made to fit modern times. No matter the what year each production was made, the same plot of Romeo and Juliet still remain in the both stories.
The main similarity between the1996 version of Romeo and Juliet and the original play is that most things stayed the same. For example, the dialect and characters all the stayed the same. The dialect was almost word for word, but some lines had to be edited for production purposes. The dialect was still as close as it can get to original play. The dialect in 1996 version still kept its poetic sense of touch so the rea .....
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