Macbeth: Macbeth's Personality
.... deed:
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself.
But while he destroys the king's enemies, such motives work but dimly at best and are obscured in his consciousness by more vigorous urges. In the main, as we have said, his nature violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in order that he may be reported in such terms a "valour's minion" and "Bellona's bridegroom"' he values success because it brings spectacular fame and new titles and royal favor heaped upon him in public. Now so long as these mutable goods are at all commensurate with his inordinate desires - and such is the case, up until he covets .....
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Romeo And Juliet: Who Is Responsible For The Tragedy? Does Fate Play A Role?
.... and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee.” (1.1.61-62)
The second is the instigator, who is usually very mean, and something that they do or say, is usually the cause of conflict. What this person does or says is meant to provoke someone. Tybalt says to Romeo “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford No better term than this: thou art a villain.”(3.1.53,54). These words are designed to provoke Romeo to fight.
The third role, is that of the retaliator, who responds to the provocative nature of the instigator. Mercutio says to Tybalt “Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? And thou mak .....
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The Godfather: Gangster Genre
.... and gentleness. The Public Enemy (1931) is one of the earliest gangster films - the second one from Warner Bros. in the thirties. Director William Wellman's. The Public Enemy is toughe, violent and realistic (released before the censorship codes were strictly enforced), although most of the violence is off-screen. The lead character is portrayed as a sexually magnetic, cocky, completely amoral, emotionally brutal, ruthless, and terribly lethal individual. However, the cold-blooded, tough-as-nails racketeer and "public enemy" begins his life, not as a hardened criminal, but as a young mischievous boy whose early environ .....
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Julius Caesar: Brutus’ Character Flaw
.... for an “insurance policy.” The people know Brutus’ nobility to Caesar and they will think that there was a good reason for Caesar’s assassination since Brutus was the one that committed it. Cassius declares, “Brutus shall lead the way, and we will grace his heels with the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.”(III, I, 120). Knowing this, the people will believe that since Brutus lead the conspirators, Caesars death may not have been a bad thing. Cassius knows all this and gains Brutus’ trust easily knowing he would be a key figure in the conspiracy.
Ultimately, trusting everyone brings Brutus to his downfall. This is shown af .....
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Review Of Oedipus
.... in just one day. It seems like every time King Liaos death is brought up, Oedipus always blames it on someone. Oedipus then tells everyone that the person who killed King Liaos will be put to death when found. When he says this, it tells the people that he didn’t kill him. As the play goes on he blames the death on Kreon. After that he blames Teiresias for the death. The play continues like this for a long time until it reaches the Exodus. During the Exodus, Oedipus starts noticing what he is doing wrong. It takes him the whole play to finally see what is going on. This is why one of the themes in the play is being blinded f .....
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Movie Review: Into The West
.... Some may be “luckier” than others when it comes to the severity of such a loss, but the key to surviving it, is how we chose to deal with it. In losing his wife Mary, John Riley lost himself. He was obviously a great man in the time she was with him; “King of all Travellers”, the youngest one ever, seemingly high-spirited, respectable, and fearless as Grandfather points out. With the loss of his wife, and the rejection of settled society toward him and his people, he loses sight of his own honor, and that which made his people, his family, and himself, great. This loss is unfortunate, and it appears he had a particularly s .....
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The Crucible
.... Ruth Putnum’s dead sisters. And that is all. Let either of you breathe a word. About the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you". (1044) This quote shows how Abigail would make the girls jealous by the way she is taking control of them and manipulating them not to speak a word of what happened and to convince them to keep quiet about the witchcraft or even blaming Tituba for it. She also threatens to kill anyone if they mention that they had anything to do with the acts of witchcraft. In addition there is no explanation for the actions and t .....
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Sankofa: A Movie Review
.... It is here that she finds her roots. She remembers what her ancestors went through and how she was disgracing them, now. She experienced what her ancestors went through, from the branding with a hot iron to the whippings across the back. During her journey she received a little bird from the man she loved. Its name was Sankofa. Near the end of the movie the slaves rebel and flee. While they are fleeing she talks about being taken up into the air, floating. Then, at the end of the movie she, and other people, just sit on the stairs and wait while looking out at the ocean. After class, I was thinking about this meant and how .....
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Rhetorical Genders: Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise
.... and antifeminist assumptions about gender, power, and subjectivity.
In Alice Doesn’t Teresa de Lauretis claims that
Feminist film theory has gone well beyond the simple opposition of positive and negative images, and has indeed displaced the very terms of that opposition to a sustained critical attention to the hidden work of the apparatus. It has shown, for instance, how narrativity works to anchor images to noncontradictory points of identification, so that “sexual difference” is ultimately reconfirmed and any ambiguity reconciled through narrative closure. (57)
In Thelma and Louise, however, the narrative impulse toward .....
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Titanic: The Rich And The Poor
.... The poor weren’t even sure who their roommate would be until they boarded the boat and found their room.
The director did show us that we shouldn’t classify people as “rich” or “poor”. Rose, one of the main characters in the story, was from a very wealthy family. She was engaged to marry a man from an equally wealthy family, but she wasn’t happy. Her fiancé was abusive and demanding. One night, she was attempting to kill herself by jumping off the boat, when Jack, the other main character stopped her. Jack was a poor man that didn’t even have enough money to pay for a ticket to be on the boat. He won it playing poker immediately .....
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Macbeth: The Supernatural And The Theme Of Death
.... to her death. In the first act of the play, she calls on the powers of the supernatural to make her strong. The following quote, "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, stop up the access and passage to remorse… Come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall…", is possibly the most important passage that leads to Lady Macbeth's death. She calls on the evil spirits to "unsex" her, and to replace her "milk" with "gall". It seems that she wants to be the most cruelest being in the world. The theme of the life cycle i .....
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Braveheart
.... crops and a family. He soon was married to a
girl he knew as a kid in secret so that none of the guards could enforce
the law of Primal Nuctar, which is to bless the marriage by sleeping with
the bride. He tried to dodge the law but failed. He fought off the
soldiers of the king for what he knew was right. But his wife was
captured and killed for assault on a king's guard. This is what made
William know for sure that he would fight for his countries freedom so no
one else would ever have to suffer again do to the laws of King Edward.
From this point on William Wallace never gave up hope of seeking his
freedom. William and his f .....
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