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Macbeth: Macbeth The Tragic Hero
Words: 928 / Pages: 4 .... extremes. The
last, and most devastating to Macbeth, was his cripled conscious which made him
act out of selfeshness and lust. The sequence of these factors were most
defenitely provoked by the evilness and twisted nature of the witches, for if it
weren't for their influence, then Macbeth would have never turned his desires
into reality.
At the very beginning of the play Macbeth is nothing but a general
fighting for his country. His fellow fighter's admire Macbeth, for in their
eyes, and even in the eyes of the highest of authority, his nobility and
couragousness is looked up to. His success for his acheivement is rewarded, and
his confidence is .....
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Hamlet: To Kill Or Not To Kill
Words: 477 / Pages: 2 .... some foul play./ Would the night were come./ Till then, sit still, my soul./{Foul} deeds will rise, though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.”(Hamlet 1.3.276)
The only problem is that Hamlet would find it difficult to gather the strength to kill. He had the chance and passed it up. However, to him this seemed to be the moral thing to do. He would wait until Claudius had sins on his soul. Why put a killer in heaven. Claudius quickly learns that Hamlet wants to have a fencing match, so Claudius decides to place poison on end of Laertes sword. Nevertheless, this was not enough, they also poured a cup of poison that Hamlet would drink, to .....
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Nature’s Significance In King Lear
Words: 1563 / Pages: 6 .... much she loves him, Cordelia responds by saying that she loves him “according to my bond.” (1.1.102) Cordelia means that her love for her father is based upon the law of nature and involves the clearest recognition of her filial obligations. It is this very law which Lear himself depends on when he expects to be revered and obeyed both as a king and as a father by all his daughters. Shakespeare demonstrate this idea when he points out that at a later point in the play, after Lear was treated horribly by Goneril, Lear express his conviction that Regan, unlike Goneril, knows better “The offices of nature, bond of childhood.” (2.4.202) It is i .....
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Animal Farm: The Danger Of Ignorance
Words: 583 / Pages: 3 .... that the law as being changed without their
consent. In other words, because the animals were ignorant and could not
read, the pigs (government) were able to change the law whenever they
wanted to, and the animals did not even realize what was going on. This
basic idea of ignorance can be proven in the real world by simply looking
back at Hitler. Since the common in Germany was too ignorant to see past
Hitler's ideas, he easily became dictator of Germany.
Manipulation in government is shown when the animals were forced to
build the windmill. The pigs manipulated the animals into thinking that it
would be beneficial, when in reality it turned .....
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Movie: The Last Emperor
Words: 371 / Pages: 2 .... so he married two seventeen year
old girls, one as a wife and one as a secondary console.
One time he was so mad that he wasn't aloud to leave the forbidden city to go
see his mother that had just die of swallowing a opium ball, he took his mouse
and through it against a wall.
Towards the end he gets arrested and brought to jail for crimes he didn't commit
such as trying to reform the empire. In jail the guards found that he was
getting special treatment like getting his shoes tied so they moved him into
confinement. He disliked jail so much that he tried to commit suicide, He did
it by slighting his wrists and sticking them in hot water but .....
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Julius Caesar: Jealousy
Words: 483 / Pages: 2 .... much:
such men are dangerous" (Act I, sc. II, 194-195). Cassius thinks that Caesar's
temper is dangerous. He declares, "Ye gods! It doth amaze me, / A man of such a
feeble temper should / So get the start of the majestic world, / And bear the
palm alone" (Act I, sc. II, 128-131).
Casca also is jealous of Caesar. He is disgusted by Caesar's
manipulation of the commoners. He describes it as "mere foolery" (Act I, sc. II,
235). Casca agrees with Cassius that Brutus is an essential part the
conspiracy. He says, "O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; / And that
which would appear offense in us, / His countenance, like richest alchemy .....
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TV Violence: Impossible To Get Rid Of Violence On Television
Words: 320 / Pages: 2 .... How could they of anything else?
Violence is everywhere, TV, Music, Movies, Video games, news, and newspaper.
You would have to ban all violence to stop people from thinking about it. TV is
not the only problem.
Is there too much TV violence, or is it just what people want to see?
In a recent survey, violent scenes in nonfictional shows went up 150% and in
fictional shows they went up 39%. The overall violence went up 41%.
What about the V-chip? The chip that would block out violence
and sex on TV. But is that offending people's freedom of speech? Who would
choose to use the V-chip? The government can't force people to use it, s .....
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Immortality In Shakesperean Poetry
Words: 853 / Pages: 4 .... immortality through art. Da Vinci painted "Mona Lisa" and became immortal through legacy that he left behind him. Beethoven wrote his "5th Symphony" and he is still remembered for it. These ideas of eternal life were mirrored in poetry of William Shakespeare - the Renaissance man of England. In a number of his sonnets Shakespeare talks about immortality from diverse points of view. It is a wonder how Shakespeare can take an issue and approach from different perspectives and each time the same issue is presented in new light, and charged with new emotions.
There are two basic ways in which Shakespeare relates to the idea of immortality. In first appr .....
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Media Vs. Masses...Who Controls Who?
Words: 901 / Pages: 4 .... that one would
watch on the public access channel. They, in many ways were considered
"boring." Networks were growing more interested in attracting their
audiences. As the years advanced and technology followed, media began
taking different approaches to arouse the public. Conflicts on television
where seen as a more interesting and productive approach to increasing
ratings. After a while, interviewers would attempt to provoke debate, mud
throwing and even emotion out of it's political guests. Politicians who be
allowed air-time to address questions presented by viewers and interviewers.
One major complaint however, was that the media was mor .....
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Witchcraft In The Crucible
Words: 546 / Pages: 2 .... were accused of performing witchcraft. Abigail claimed that no witchcraft had taken place by her, but that Tituba had done a ceremony pertaining to witchcraft. After this event Abigail had accused many people of witchcraft and her friends had followed her in faking the occurrence of witchcraft. In the long run Abigail had lost John Proctor who falsely admitted to witchcraft, so Abigail had fled Salem and it was known that witchcraft had never taken place in Salem.
From witchcraft came the false accusations from Abigail unto the people who had gone against her, Mary Warren, and the people who had hindered her quest to marry John Proctor. Mary Warre .....
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