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Hamlet: Hamlet's Hate For His Uncle Brought On By Ghost
Words: 467 / Pages: 2 .... nothing to take the life of his uncle. His
uncle however is not the only one Hamlet has developed a hate for. He believes
his mother played a large roll in his fathers death too.
The speedy marriage of his mother to his uncle along with the words of
his father"Taint not thy mind nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother
aught"(pg.31) lead Hamlet to believe that his mother also had something to do
with his fathers death. His mother whom he loved so dearly now becomes one
of his worst enemies, destroying him even more than before. Hamlets mother, and
uncle however are only the beginning of this emotional roller coaster, later he
is betraye .....
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Blood, Violence And Gore As Entertainment
Words: 366 / Pages: 2 .... though there
have been incidents were adults have started to kill people after watching a
violent film. An example of this is the controversial film Natural Born Killers.
Over twenty people lost their lives because of this film. In this film murder
and violence are justified, and it is these films that affect children the most.
Computer violence is a quite new phenomenon. It was introduced with the
launch of Wolfenstein in 1990. In «Wolfenstein» you are trapped in a maze among
an army of nazis. You'll have to kill your way out. This kind of violence
probably has a deeper influence on children, because they do the killings
themselves. It is inter .....
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Romeo & Juliet
Words: 622 / Pages: 3 .... be; for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households
rancour to pure love."(Act 2, Scene 3), he is saying that the only reason
he will marry Romeo and Juliet is because he hopes that the marriage will
end the hostilities between the two houses. When he says "Shall Romeo by
my letters know our drift, and hither shall he come; and he and I shall
watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee to Mantua."
(Act 4, Scene 1), he tells Juliet how everything will be all right.
Unfortunately, for all his good intentions the play still ends in tragedy.
Friar Lawrence is a man who is not afraid to take risks when he feels it is
necc .....
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Patterns Of Imagery In Macbeth
Words: 1226 / Pages: 5 .... might personify the witches, meaning
that the witches themselves are disturbances, though not limited to nature.
The bad weather also might mean that the witches are bad or foul ("filthy
air") creatures.
In Act II, Scene i, it is a dark night. Fleance says, "The moon is
down" (Line 2), and Banquo says, "Their (Heaven's) candles are all out
(there are no stars in the sky)." (Line 5) Darkness evokes feelings of
evilness, of a disturbance in nature on this fateful night. It creates a
perfect scene for the baneful murders.
Another disturbance in nature comes from Macbeth's mouth, "Now o'er
the one half-world / Nature seems dead" (Li .....
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Hamlet: To Be Mad, Or Not To Be Mad?
Words: 521 / Pages: 2 .... many times throughout the play on the value of human life and if he could actually take someone's life. So he keeps doing weird stuff convincing people that he really is crazy. In Act 3 Scene 4 his Mom the Queen says "Alas he is Mad." This shows that his plan is working out so far.
During Hamlet's act of playing crazy and planning to kill Claudius it has helped him find the real value of human life. In Hamlets "To Be or not to Be" speech he ponders the value of his own life and the value of Claudius life in retrospective to his own life. He wonders does one murder really warrant another person to die? Now If Hamlet was truly crazy he would .....
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Savagery In The Tempest And The Life Of Gustavus Vassa
Words: 1008 / Pages: 4 .... of the darker peoples of the world. Two, Caliban is painted as the vile beast of the island. Many times throughout the text he is illustrated as an animal- less than human. He is described as a “mooncalf”1, “filth”2, and belonging to a “vile race”3. In Act II, Stephano describes him as being “on four legs”4. Trinculo curses at Caliban wishing he would get a disease only cattle can contract. These statements and comparisons seek to reemphasize Caliban’s bestiality. Stephano even refers to Caliban as a monster who could make a man a fortune if taken to star in the freak shows of England.
Caliban can be interpreted as the representati .....
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Macbeth's Blind Ambition
Words: 744 / Pages: 3 .... his lady saw that he is already the Thane of Glamis. For defeating and killing Macdawnold (who is a thane), a traitor to Scotland, Macbeth has just been named Thane of Cawdor and he is viewed as the fiercest fighter in Scotland. The idea of being the next king of Scotland played on Lady Macbeth's ambition. She unsexes herself and becomes evil. They come up with a plan to kill the present king of Scotland, King Duncan. Macbeth had just killed a traitor who rebelled against the king and now he is planning to kill the king! The death of the king is blamed on the king's guards so Macbeth kills them to save his own behind. What a traitor, he deserves to b .....
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Romeo And Juliet: Who Is Responsible For The Tragedy? Does Fate Play A Role?
Words: 1566 / Pages: 6 .... who is to blame for the tragedy. To do this we must first determine the different types of roles played in a conflict. There are 5 main roles; there is cause, an instigator, retaliator, passivist, and moderator.
The first is the cause, which can be a person or thing, that starts everything, and sometimes people don’t even realize that they are playing this part. In Romeo and Juliet, one of the causes is the ancient feud between the families. Tybalt says “What, drawn 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 .....
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Dead Poets Society
Words: 1144 / Pages: 5 .... he is talking, the camera is focused on his face and hand holding
the phone to his ear. When Knox hears the news that he has been invited to go
to a party with the girl of his dreams, his face lights up and he cant help but
smile. Still with the same angle, the camera swings around to show the faces of
his friends as he tells them his news. Their facial expressions as showed by
the camera are delightful and happy ones. This makes Knox even more happy.
The scene ends with a close up of Knox hanging up the phone and then a
high level shot of him running up the stairs.
Scene where Mr Keating tell the class to come up and stand on the desk.
T .....
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Macbeth: Appearance Vs Reality
Words: 958 / Pages: 4 .... to win us to do our harm, the instruments of darkness tells us
truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence". (Act I,
Scene 3) A thoughtful yet skeptical Banquo speaks his words here very carefully
to MacBeth in order to remain honorable. He doesn't want to come right out and
tell MacBeth to be cautious in his actions, so he tries to soften his words so
that MacBeth might contemplate his future movements. However, MacBeth does not
take heed of Banquo's warnings. Because of the witch's predictions and his
impatience, MacBeth kills in order to get what he expects is coming to him.
When Banquo takes time to contemplat .....
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