Macbeth: The Murder
.... what
he had done. Macbeth hired murderers to kill Banquo and his son. The
murderers killed Banquo, but his son escaped. This meant that the
prophecy that Banquo's son would become king could still come true.
Again Macbeth made another big mistake. At the dinner party he
kept mentioning that he wished that Banquo was there. Finally Banquo's
ghost appears and sits in Macbeth's seat at the table. Macbeth keeps
screaming at the ghost until it disappears. Lady Macbeth told the guests
that Macbeth was ill and that it would pass. Then Macbeth again says that
he wished Banquo was there. When the ghost appears again, Macbeth a .....
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Oedipus Rex: The Punishment Of The King
.... the kingdom. So in the end, the
only way to cure the plague and keep the kingdom stable seems to be the
banishment of Oedipus. In this case, the question of whether or not he
deserved to be punished seems irrelevant; Oedipus' only goal was to stop
the plague and by leaving, he has accomplished that goal. Banishment was
the only choice.
But what exactly was Oedipus being punished for? Even after re-
reading the play, this still seems to be a gray area. Incest? Immoral, to
be sure, but Oedipus was obviously ignorant to his actions, and to my
knowledge, in Sophoclean times, there was no written law against it and
therefore no punish .....
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The Crucible: An Analysis
.... an ordeal for the girls, because they are finally having
power thrust upon them, after being shunned all their lives, because they
are both female and children. By giving the pointing finger to the girls,
they suddenly have the highest status of any in the town, with as much
responsibility and reverence as the minister. They believe that this is
only child's play, and that no one will be hurt by it, but the frightening
truth is revealed after the first woman is hung. They must keep calling
names, rebelling against all they have learned in their lives to keep the
so-called worship of the townspeople. There is an unseen burden of al .....
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Oedipus The King: Dramatic Foreshadowing
.... of attack, complication and crisis all be caused by an act
of foreshadowing or prophecy. Indeed, “Oedipus the King”, which was
considered the greatest play in history by Aristotle, was one such play.
"Oedipus the King" was the story of the King of Thebes, Oedipus,
and his dark past history which no one, including himself to a point, was
aware of, one that involved abandonment, patricide and incest. Thebes was
beset by a plague, and a delegation was sent to Apollo, the Greek God of
healing, where they received instructions to find the murderer of the
previous king of Thebes, King Laius. This form of foreshadowing was
n .....
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Analysis Of Albee's "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?"
.... In an epic, Abrams explains that the "fate of a tribe, a nation, or
the human race" lies in the out come of the hero's battle. The battle
between George and Martha only affects their relationship and on this night
spills into the lives of Nick and Honey. Drunkenness exaggerates their
actions, so that the extremes of the situation are explored. This allows
the reader to experience feelings which may be outside their own experience.
George and Martha continually try to gain the upper hand in the
relationship by degrading each other. This degradation is an fact a type of
self loathing. For George it seems particularly acut .....
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Analytic Play Review Of The Taming Of The Shrew
.... century and
of how one must obey the unwritten rules of a society to be accepted in it.
Although the play ends with her conforming to the society, this is in
action only, not in mind, as she assumes the role of the obedient wife.
Most of the play's humour comes from the way in which characters
create false realities by disguising themselves as other people, a device
first introduced in the induction. Initially this is accomplished by
having Christopher Sly believe he is someone he is not and then by having
the main play performed for him. By putting The Taming Of The Shrew in a
'play within a play' structure, Shakespeare imm .....
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Death Of A Salesman: The Tragedy Of One Man
.... dreams of success are rooted in the concept of the
"American Dream", which is the idea that this is a land of unlimited
opportunity in which any ragamuffin can attain riches and any mother's son
can become president (Hadomi 159). This concept of success is personified
by two characters in the play: David Singleman and Ben Loman. The first
an old sales man, David Singleman, who could travel anywhere and place
many order by phone in his hotel room. And when this man died at the age
of eighty-four people came from all over to attend his funeral. This is
the type of man Willy aspires to become and this is why he .....
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A Man For All Seasons: Thomas More
.... and became extremely frustrated with his many attempts to persuade
More to accept the divorce. Finally, when the King realized that More
could not accept the divorce, he promised to exempt More from any decisions
pertaining to the divorce.
The leader of the divorce campaign was Thomas Cromwell, who was
next in line for the chancellor's position. He framed More hoping that
More would be forced to resign as chancellor. Cromwell then wrote an oath
which forced people to prove they accepted King Henry's divorce. Even
though the King had promised to keep More out of the proceedings, members
of the King's council tried to persuade M .....
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Movie: The Time Machine
.... which take
place in this movie. It has a very good story line but since the creation
of a time machine has not yet happend that we know of.
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Of Mice And Men: Compare/Contrast Book And Movie
.... men could do. Many people said things about him. They said
how he had "paws" instead of hands and how he was a giant. George was
Lennies' hero in a sense. Lennie loved George with all his heart, whatever
George said, Lennie would do. One thing that would never leave Lennies
mind was their dream, the dream of the farm with rabbits he could tend and
how he could live off the fat of the land.
George was a leader, what he said most respected. Lennie was a
follower, but he didn't know any better, he just knew the only person he
could really trust is George. Slim was the most respected on the farm
George and Lennie worked on. .....
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Essy And Possy
.... sensations, not restriciting the reader to
mere words.
Lucky's speech is preceded by Vladimir reqesting Pozzo make Lucky
speak. Pozzo insits that Lucky needs his hat to do so. After Lucky has
his hat placed upon his head, Pozzo orders him to "Think!" Lucky begins,
while the others create a sense confusion: Pozzo becomes increasingly
appalled by Lucky's words, while Vladimir and Estragon waiver between
attentiveness and disgusted pain.
The speech is reflective of the rest of the play (and transitively,
life itself), and therefore open to interpretation. In fact, Beckett
himself stated the great importance of the passage, .....
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The Crucible: The Transition Of John Proctor's Character
.... how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a
stallion whenever I came near! Or did I dream that? It's she put me out,
you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, and
you loved me then, and you do now." In all of Abigail's persuasion to try
to get him to admit his love for her, Proctor replied, "Abby, I may think
of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I'll
ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby."
Proctor saying to Abigail that they never touched was his way of trying to
get through to her that the relationship between the bot .....
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