The Crucible: Reverend John Hale - A Dynamic Character
.... a minister of the lord, and I dare not take a life
without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may
doubt it.” He starts to doubt if the very thing that he searches to rid the
people of might be a lie.
Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own...where I turned the
eye of my great faith, blood flowed up. Beware Goody Proctor-cleave to
no faith when faith brings blood. Reverend Hale realizes his job of finding
and ridding the world of witches is false. “It is mistaken law that leads you
to sacrifice.” He no longer believes in witches. Hale urges Goody Proctor to
get her husband to confess t .....
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The Crucible: The Evilness And Selfishness Of Abigail Williams
.... never seen the sun go down.”
She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and
her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings
of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these
things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for living
became to get back John. This shows that when a person is given something, which
they enjoy, and even love, and they are denied it, they feel distraught and they
will many times do almost anything to get it back.
She was very desperate and she felt willing to do anything to get back
John for herself. S .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy Loman
.... stops seeing the truth at one point of his life and he
relies on his own lies to numb his pain. The pain of knowing he cannot and wont
be able to become Dave Singleman. He is Willy Loman, who is good at fixing the
house. He is not cut out for travelling from city to city and selling goods to
people he has never met before. Willy dramatically dies living out his dream,
the dream that never suited Willy Loman.
Willy does not allow people to tell him what to do. He believes that he
cannot be bossed around and that he is too important to fall under anyone's
authority but his own. Willy teaches Biff and Happy not to take orders f .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Symbols In The Play
.... and without concern fires him. This, to Willy, was like, "eating the
orange and throwing away the peel". However, Willy is partly to blame, as he
does not accept change and wants to remain in the pas t. This is foreshadowed in
the scene where Willy is left alone with the tape recorder and is unable to shut
it off. Willy believes in using his old techniques and style to succeed. N
evertheless, in his job, it is not what you know, but it is who you know. Willy
is not up to date with the business nor technology. Yet, Willy still has hope,
and wishes to leave some fo rm of support behind for his family as illustrated
in .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy Lowman
.... they are able to deal with the problems they encounter,
but Willy Lowman takes it one step further. His refusal to accept reality is so
strong that in his mind he is transported back in time to relive one of the
happier days of his life. It was a time when no one argued, Willy and Linda were
younger, the financial situation was less of a burden, and Biff and Happy
enthusiastically welcomed their father back home from a long road trip. Willy's
need for the "drug" is satiated and he is reassured that everything will turn
out okay, and the family will soon be as happy as it was in the good old days.
The next flashback occ .....
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Death Of A Salesman Vs. Hamlet
.... elsewhere) after going slightly mad from the impact of her father's death,
then Laertes, Polonius' son, arrives on the scene enraged and ready to kill
Hamlet for what he's done, and just when you thought things couldn't get any
worse, unbeknownst to Hamlet, Claudius has been plotting to kill him. Talk
about your bad days.
A duel takes place between Hamlet and Laertes where Laertes, using a
poison-tipped sword, cuts Hamlet, thus giving way for his impending death.
Hamlet eventually gets hold of the sword and kills Laertes, then kills King
Claudius. Just as the play ends, Hamlet takes his last breath of air, appoints
Fortin .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Society's Alienation Of Willy Loman
.... hack it anymore. This is
a reflection of society's present day treatment of the elderly. Younger
generations now, move older people into rest homes and try to keep them out of
public view, for risk of embarassment. This is reflected by Howard's statement,
"I don't want you to represent us anymore." Society's assumption of Willy's
capabilities, in this case, cost him his job.
A second occurrance that displayed Willy's alienation happened in his
own family. Biff doesn't believe whatsoever in his father and has no hope for
him at all. Biff even says in act one that his father has no character. Biff
is a perfect symbol for soc .....
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Analysis Of The Ending Of "Death Of A Salesman"
.... past, he
continues to lie to himself by saying that his funeral will be a big event [2],
and that there will be guests from all over his former working territory in
attendance. Yet as was to be expected, this is not what happens, none of the
people he sold to come. Although perhaps this wrong foretelling could be
attributed to senility, rather than his typical self-deception [5]. Maybe he
has forgotten that the "old buyers" have already died of old age. His imagined
dialogue partner tells him that Biff will consider the impending act one of
cowardice. This obviously indicates that he himself also thinks that it's very
probable t .....
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How Were The Greek And Roman Theaters Designed?
.... that lead from the pit to
the outside the theatre to provide access to the spectators (Molinari, 57).
The book written by Picard and Cambridge entitled Theatre of Dionysus in
Athens describes the theatre as an open-air theatre that was built into a
hillside as many of the theatres of that time were. It was cut into the slope
of the hill and used the natural slope of the hill to terrace the seating area.
The Dionysus used wooden benches which were very practical because of the ease
of construction and they were mobile. The orchestra was surrounded on the
audience side by a stone terrace. It was approximately eighty-five to ei .....
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Epic Theatres
.... exclusion makes it difficult
for the audience to empathise with the characters and their predicament. Thus,
they could study the play's social or political message and not the actual
events being performed on stage. This process is called Verfremdungseffekt, or
the alienation effect, where instead of identifying with the characters, the
audience is reminded that they are watching only a portrayal of reality.
Several well-known Brechtian plays include Drums in the Night, Edward 2, The
Threepenny Opera, Rise and Fall of the Town of Mahoganny, The Life of Galileo,
The Good Person of Szechwan, Triple-A Plowed Under, One-Third of a N .....
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Everyone In A Man For All Seasons Is Pursuing Their Own Ends. What Makes More Different?
.... providing the end
sees him satisfied. "…our job as administrators is to make it as convenient as
we can," Cromwell states in reference to the King's divorce and the pursuit of
More's support. He is "…the King's ear," and is thus responsible for all the
menial tasks which the King would otherwise have to perform, including seeing to
it that Sir Thomas More either agrees to give the King his support or is
punished. One of these duties is to spy on others for the King's benefit. One
instance of this is on the night More goes to visit cardinal Wolsey, Cromwell ‘
magically' appears as More is on his way home. He asks of More, "You le .....
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A Streetcar Named Desire: Condeming Those Who Treat Others With Harshness And Cruelty
.... to prompt Allan to shoot himself, his mind
and body destroyed.
The harsh treatment dealt by Mitch to Blanche near the end of the play is
strikingly similar to Blanche's treatment of Allan Gray. Mitch is a friend of
Stanley's whom Blanche falls for during her visit to New Orleans. The
relationship between Blanche and Mitch had been developing steadily. Both
characters felt the need to settle down in life and both saw the image of
marriage at the outcome of their relationship. It did seem as though the image
would become reality, until Stan interfered. Stan filled Mitch's mind with
unfavourable stories of Blanche's checkered pa .....
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