Compare And Contrast The Language Of Romeo And Juliet In The Balcony Scene
.... is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the
envious moon … Her vestal livery is but sick and green"
Romeo connects the pale moonlight with sickness and grief and says that
only fools have anything to do with it. Here Romeo refers to how foolishly
he fell in love with Rosaline. He could also be referring to the court
jesters. In those days Elizabethan court jesters wore a chequered costume
of pale and green which is why he said
"none but fools do wear it."
Romeo's comparison of Juliet to the sun provides an understanding to his
state of mind. Previously when Romeo was in love with Rosaline he always
sad, de .....
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Shakespeare's Hamlet: Investigating Hamlet's Insanity
.... river in the eye,
Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play:
But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”(1.2)
Here Hamlet shows his unstable mind. He is screaming at his mother telling
her how his actions are honest and he is not pretending to grieve, but that
he is truly saddened by his father's death. He has become offended by his
mother's inference that Hamlet is not actually upset by his fathe .....
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Review Of Shaw Shank Redemption
.... Andy and he went on trial. The
judge asked him what he had done with the gun that he had bought. Andy
said that he had thrown it over the bridge after he had left the house, but
he hadn't been the one that shot them. He told the judge that he just left
before he did anything stupid and just threw the gun away. Andy was still
found guilty because all of the evidence pointed to him and he had no real
alibi. He then went to prison and this is where he would live his life for
quite awhile. How a mans life can change with a blink of his eyes.
Andy then went off to prison to start his life sentence and live
the life of a convict .....
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Romeo And Juliet: A Review
.... Capulet is
obvious and appealing to the audience as it is direct.
Shakespeare is known to be fond of puns and uses them quite
regularly but he doesn't use them as often as the Elizabethan audience
expected him to. Shakespeare starts of the play with a lot of humour, with
the conversation between Sampson and Gregory, both of them using a lot of
puns. This type of punning, for example on the words “coals,” “collier,” “
choler,” “collar”, goes on till the end of the play. The Elizabethan
audience used to like puns and hence although Shakespeare has used many
vulgar puns, it still has a positive effect on the popularity of th .....
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Macbeth: The Use Of The Classical Tragic Mold In Character Development
.... in the
mold had begun: the descent into the abyss.
The "decent into the abyss" is the second step in the Classical
Tragic Mold. It is started with Macbeth's second soliloquy. This is after
Macbeth hears from Duncan that Malcolm was to be named the Prince of
Cumberland. "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall
down, or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies ... Let not light see my
black and deep desires." (Shakespeare, 281). This quote from the soliloquy
indicates that Macbeth has, indeed, told himself that he will commit the
murder of Duncan, although he doesn't actually admit it until his wife
pressures him .....
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Movie: Good Will Hunting
.... afraid to get to know him, and they all chose to let him into their
lives in hopes that he would do the same. The problem is that he never
knew how to do this. In turn, he couldn't fully enjoy life because he had
no one to share it with.
Like many others, Will needs someone to believe in him and
appreciate who he is, and what he stands for. He needs someone to teach
him and show him how to love and how to trust. Shawn was the open door for
him to walk through, and he provided Will with a supportive and accepting
type of love. In a sense, Shawn served as the father figure that Will
never had while growing up. He share .....
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A Review Of The "Ballet Gran Folklorico De Mexico"
.... Quetzal, 3: Festompanortena- series of dances brought by French and
Spaniards, 4: Yucaton- dances of Mayan culture, Ana Murry a.k.a. "The
dances of Ribbons." 5: Danzas Chiapanaces- dances deal with love, suffering,
and joy, 6: Fandango- performed during feast of Patron Saint, also includes
"Labamba" where couple ties a bow with their feet, 7: Donzolapuna- depicts
legend of dance of feathers, dance showing history of the takeover of
Mexico by Cortez over the leader Montazuma, 8: Ladanza Delvonado- dance of
deer. Hunters chase deer with rattles until animal gets so tired it can't
fight back anymore. It represents the etern .....
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Othello The "Mad" Moor
.... mentioned as a good leader with the
respect of the Duke. The stresses of being a black man leading an army of
white soldiers that might respect you as a leader but might not respect you
as a human would affect you also.
Othello seemed to handle the stresses of war just fine but with the
jealousy added into his life by the most evil Iago's plot against him and
Cassio was something that Othello had trouble managing. Othello was new to
the married life and did not want to leave his wife behind so he left her
in the hands of the “honest” Iago. “My life upon her faith! - Honest Iago,
/My Desdemona must I leave to thee”(I, .....
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Julius Caesar: Brutus
.... been so angry,
O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.
Of your philosophy you make no use
If you give place to accidental evils.
No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.
Ha! Portia!
She is dead.
How ‘scaped I killing when I crossed you so?
Oh, insupportable and touching loss!
Upon what sickness?
Impatient of my absence,
And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony
Have made themselves so strong for with her death
That tidings came with this she fell distract,
And, her attendants absent, swal .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy Lowman's Escape
.... 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 occurs during a discussion between Wi .....
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Julius Caesar: Loyalty
.... the angry mob
should have put the conspirators to death, not let them toy with their
minds as they would a five year old. The mob, like a great many people,
believe what is easiest to hear. In the mob of people did loyalty exist?
Doubtful, little if any. What coexisted in the crowd with that little
loyalty was ignorance, and much of it.
I believe that Brutus showed the greatest amount of loyalty to his
country. He just went about showing it in a corrupt manner. He sacrificed
a great friend for what he thought would better Rome. Perhaps Brutus was
one of the most noble in the play, but he was also the most misled. He wa .....
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Hamlet: Hamlet's Sanity
.... his mother of his plans to
pretend act insane. He tells Horatio that he is going to "feign madness,"
and that if Horatio notices any strange behavior from Hamlet, it is because
he is putting on an act. (I, v). Hamlet also tells his mother that he is
not mad, "but mad in craft." (III, iv). In addition to his confessions,
Hamlet's madness only manifests itself when he is in the presence of
certain characters. When Hamlet is around Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude,
Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, he behaves irrationally. When Hamlet
is around Horatio, Bernardo, Francisco, The Players and the Gravediggers,
he behaves rationally ( .....
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