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Trifles: Summary
Words: 653 / Pages: 3 .... and opened the door to see Mrs. Wright sitting in her rocking chair. Mr. Hale asked her if he could see Mr. Wright. She replied that he was lying upstairs, dead, with a rope around his neck. Mr. Hale didn’t know how to react to her statement, so he just asked her who had killed him. Mrs. Wright said she didn’t know. Thinking that he may need help, Mr. Hale called in Harry from outside and they both went upstairs. After seeing Mr. Wight dead, Harry went down the road and called the sheriff. Mrs. Wright just kept rocking in her chair.
So, the attorney’s murder investigation continued, with Mr. Hale and the sheriff following. They first .....
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Is Hamlet Insane Or Not Insane? That Is The Question
Words: 1004 / Pages: 4 .... puts the play into full action and Hamlet puts his intelligence to work. He formulates a plan “to put an antic disposition on” (82) in order to move about the castle to get information about Claudius in order to avenge his father’s death. This is a truly ingenious plan in order for Hamlet to gain what he needs.
He has made believers out of those around him that he is mad (when actually is not). Polonius says to Ophelia “That [rejected love from her] hath made him mad” (94). The king, however has a different opinion that “since nor th’ exterior nor the inward man resembles that what it was. What it should be, more than his father .....
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Macbeth: The Supernatural And The Theme Of Death
Words: 453 / Pages: 2 .... with the supernatural. The death of his wife in Act V, Scene IV is the death that sends him over the abyss and into mental instability. Lady Macbeth is like a joined appendage to Macbeth. They work as one, communicate as one, and when that appendage is lost, so is MB's grip with reality. Lady Macbeth was the only person he could truly confide in. The supernatural also had another key factor 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! m .....
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The Frequent Death Of A Character In Hamlet
Words: 901 / Pages: 4 .... king and queen’s wishes and it is this loyalty that eventually proves to be fatal for him. An example of hoe Polonius’ innocent involvement with the royalty results in his death can be found at the beginning of Act III, scene iv, when Hamlet stabs him while he is hiding behind the arras in Gertude’s room. This shows how Polonius, a man unaware of the true nature of the situation he is in, is killed by a member of the royalty during the execution of one of their schemes. This makes Polonius’ death a tragedy.
The next member of Polonius’ family to die is his daughter Ophelia. Ophelia’s death is tragic because of her complete innocence in th .....
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Macbeth: Influencial People
Words: 638 / Pages: 3 .... (I, ii, 70-78) The witches make Macbeth curious, he wants to know how he is to be named thane of Cawdor and king.
The second person to influence Macbeth is his wife, Lady Macbeth. I also think she plays a big role in influencing Macbeth to kill Duncan. I think this because in Act II Scene vii, Lady Macbeth explains to Macbeth the plan of murdering Duncan, and when she is through Macbeth says,” If we should fail?” (I, vii, 58) Lady Macbeth answers by saying,” We fail… but screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail.” (I, vii, 59-60) I think she is trying to give him confidence, telling him to be calm and everything will .....
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King Lear: Motifs
Words: 572 / Pages: 3 .... And must needs taste his folly." (Act II, Sc ii, Ln
289-290)
They both were interested only in getting Lear's land, and used any means
necessary to get it. Edmund, in the other plot of the play, deceives his father
in order to gain his favor. Edmund, the Earl of Gloucester's bastard son, tells
his father that Edgar, Gloucester's legitimate son, is plotting to ruin
Gloucester. This causes the Earl to banish Edgar and give his title and land to
Edmund.
The ironic misuse of power used by the Earl of Gloucester shows up in both plots.
Gloucester punishes Edgar and later finds that Edmund was the one taking
advantage of him. Similarly, Rega .....
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Baal Of Desire
Words: 869 / Pages: 4 .... Then more and more people start to dislike him and he moves from job
to job and location to location with nothing but Ekart to see him through. But
then he realizes that he is finally in love - with Ekart, but she doesn't love
him and makes it obvious by having other men and women in her life. So, Baal
kills her since he can't have her for his own. By the end, Baal has nothing but
himself to blame for his condition. His drinking problem and his problem of
seducing every woman he meets drives him to his death, and causes everyone to
repudiate him.
The acting ranged from not-so-great to very good. The only problem was
that since not all t .....
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Death Of A Salesman - Willy
Words: 1289 / Pages: 5 .... convince Arabella to résumé her engagement to Lord Petre. Most of
Pope's efforts here were written with time. Now, Keats has romantically
serenaded his reader with descriptive lust and desire, which can be
compared with popes' efforts by the difference in eighteenth century
literature and romantic poems, their descriptive natures and ideas they
portray to the reader through their writing.
Pope has written an eighteenth-century poem which he calls, "An
Hero-Comical Poem." This poem has exalted an over all sense of
worthlessness for common rules. The mentioning of Achilles and the ever-
popular Aeneas, are symbols of Pope's Gothic style. .....
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Movie - Dead Man Walking: Capital Punishment
Words: 872 / Pages: 4 .... they are viewing him being
strapped into his deathplace. They make no attempt to save his life, even
though Sister Jean tries to talk the parents out of going through with the
execution, they do not agree with the view that Sister Jean, and they go
through with the execution. And since Sister stuck behind the killer, the
parents of the murdered would not allow Sister to talk to them, or accept
Sister in their home at any time.
At the beginning of the movie, Sister Jean feels completely
different than she does at the end of the movie. Early in the movie,
Sister feels somewhat afraid, and does not feel like she wants to help out
with his case. But .....
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Macbeth: The Symbol Of Blood
Words: 879 / Pages: 4 .... is that?". This is symbolic of the brave fighter who been injured in a valiant battle for his country. In the next passage, in which the sergeant says "Which smok'd with bloody execution", he is referring to Macbeth's braveness in which his sword is covered in the hot blood of the enemy. After these few references to honour, the symbol of blood now changes to show a theme of treachery and treason. Lady Macbeth starts this off when she asks the spirits to "make thick my blood,". What she is saying by this, is that she wants to make herself insensitive and remorseless for the deeds which she is about to commit. Lady Macbeth knows that the evidence of b .....
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