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Differences Between Laurence's West Side Story And Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet
Words: 421 / Pages: 2 .... between Maria and Juliet, and
Romeo and Tony. When Juliet finds that her lover Romeo is dead Juliet kills
herself. Maria does not kill herself but instead she puts her sadness into
treating the two gangs with a gun. When Romeo finds Juliet supposedly dead he
drinks poison to kill himself too. Chino killed Tony because Chino was in love
with Maria but so was Tony. This is just one way that Romeo and Juliet differ
from West Side Story.
Another way the two stories differ is the wealth of the two families, or
gangs. At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare describes the
Montague's and the Capulet's houses. The size of the two houses show .....
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Comparison And Contrast: Stanley From A Street Car Named Desire
Words: 638 / Pages: 3 .... Belle Reve which he thinks it's a
part of partly him, but she does not give him any money. The most important one,
he "assume" that Blanche describes him as "common" and bestial. Thus, he plots
a plan to revenge. In all, both Lago and Stanley start tragic plan their hatred.
Lago is absolutely inhuman while Stanley has little consciences in his
heart. In order to achieve the target, Iago does everythings that will benefits
himself even killing other's. He kills Roderigo who helps him a lot in his paln.
He persuade Othello to kill his Desdemona. Furthermore he kills his wife at the
end. Stanley has not yet totally lost his humanity. Although .....
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Hamlet: Act V-Scene 2 - The Climax
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less by chance, the pirates proved kind and, for sufficient compensation, they
returned him to Denmark.
Throughout the play, after we have itemized Claudius' major crimes, the
Prince does not receive an answer to his question, one which is basic to his
status as a moral symbol in the play:
- is't not perfect conscience,
To quit him with this arm? And is't not to be damn'd,
To let this canker of out nature come
In further evil?
It has been seen here a Hamlet who is still in doubt, still troubled by his
conscience; and his view should not be ignored, if only because it illustrates
once more the difficulties of interpretatio .....
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Hamlet: Growing Pains
Words: 1472 / Pages: 6 .... infirmities and by a disgust of the evils in a
world which has led him to the brink of suicide. Hamlet voices his thoughts on
the issue: ‘O that this too too solid flesh would melt...' (I. ii. 135). He
is prevented from this drastic step only by a faith which teaches him that God
has ‘fix'd/ His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter' (I. ii. 131-2). To Hamlet appears
his dead father's spirit, and he must continue to live in the ‘unweeded garden,
/ That grows to seed' in order to fulfill the obligation he has to his father
(I.ii. 135-6).
Making Hamlet more a story of personal growth than a dark murder mystery,
Shakespeare emphasizes the emotiona .....
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The First Movie
Words: 439 / Pages: 2 .... baby and the mom would wipe her chin. After the baby takes a few spoonfuls of her cereal, the movie ends. This first movie was received with an enthusiastic round of applause.
This pioneered the movie business. From this humble beginning came movies with actual plots. Of course, they got a bit longer than this first minute and half. The movie business flourished in the twenties, but when the Great Depression came along the it suffered greatly. As the economy began to pick up, so did the movie business.
New genres like horror came on the scene in the early thirties. The first horror movies were Dracula directed by Todd Browning and Frankenstein .....
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Hamlet’S Motives For Revenge
Words: 392 / Pages: 2 .... commanded and came up with the strategy of acquiring power.
One other thing that had to be a motive for Hamlet actions, was that all the people around him stopped mourning the king’s death and started celebrating the marriage between his mother and Claudius. And including that it seemed to be happier with her new partner than with Hamlet’s father.
When it came down to love life, the whole idea he had of acting crazy affected Ophelia. Therefore obliterating the love he had shown her before during the peaceful times. And his action would later drive Ophelia to kill herself.
Although the previous announced made a big impact on Hamlet’s decisi .....
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Antigone: Following Her Beliefs
Words: 597 / Pages: 3 .... the rules, that is why she says " If it's a crime, then it's a crime that God commands." Basically, God is the only one she believes in making the rules for her and others.
Secondly, Antigone knows that she is going to die due to Creon's death sentence, but Antigone is not going to be killed easily. From reading this book, Antigone defends her belief of God's having the power of making the rule's, not a King, such as Creon. Antigone say " I don't consider your Pronouncements so important that they can just........ overrule the unwritten laws of heaven. You are a man, remember." Antigone says that he is only man and that he does not have the pow .....
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Richard III: Impact On The Audience
Words: 576 / Pages: 3 .... man. That fact cannot be disputed. He killed anyone who even tried to question him or was in his way to the throne. This included even the innocently helpless children who actually have the true right to the throne. This would make any audience hate the man, however, Shakespeare gives Richard a string with which to pull at the audience’s heart: his grotesque deformities and the effect they have on Richard and his life. Richard uses this string to his advantage during the first thirty-five lines of the play. How could anyone hate a man who pours the disappointments of his life out to them? Richard might be a great warrior and the main ma .....
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Dicks' Androids And Scotts' Replicants
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You, was made into a movie recently. The movie was Screamers, starring Peter
Weller. He has also had two of his novels, We Can Remember It for You
Wholesale (Total Recall), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner),
made into movies. Of the two, Blade Runner (B.R.) has had the greatest impact.
B.R., however, differs greatly from Dicks' original novel, Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep? (D.A.D.O.E.S.)
Blade Runner was released in 1982 under the direction of Ridley Scott,
who also made another sci-fi classic, Alien.
The film begins in the city of Los Angeles. The year is 2019. The city of
Los Angeles is overpopulated .....
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"Casablanca:" A New Perspective
Words: 517 / Pages: 2 .... dialogue. In this instance, the viewer is
introduced to the main character, Rick, through the use of the close-up. The
first scene in "Rick's Cafe," shows people gambling and making illegal deals to
leave Casablanca. An employee of the cafe bring a check to a man seated at a
chess table to sign. The signature reads, "OK. Rick." By using this shot, the
director makes clear to the reader, without any dialogue, that the man signing
the check is Rick. This technique, however, is just the first of many used by
Curtiz.
The point-of-view shot is used by director Michael Curtiz to place the
audience directly into the action. By placing the camera .....
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