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The Role Of Minor Conspirators
Words: 599 / Pages: 3 .... home in
the morning to take him to the capitol he realized that he must convince
Caesar that he had misinterpreted his wife's dream so Caesar would go as
planned. Decius needed to make Caesar realize that his wife, the
soothsayer, and all of the omens were purely coincidental which he did by
interpreting Calpurnia's dream with a double meaning, “Your statue spouting
blood in many pipes, in which so many smiling Romans bathed, signifies that
from you great Rome shall suck reviving blood, and that great men shall
press for tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance.” (JC. II. ii. 85-90).
Decius successfully executed his role in the conspiracy .....
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The Miracle Worker: Kate Keller And Helen
Words: 366 / Pages: 2 .... to the garden house for two weeks so Kate would not be there to pity her. Kate was heartbroken and missed Helen while she was gone because she loved her so much. It was a long two weeks for Kate. Annie was afraid that when the two weeks were up, Helen would go back to her selfish ways and the family would start to pity her again.
By the end on the play, Helen starts to understand what words mean (ex: water). Everyone is very excited for Helen, but Kate learns that real love also means losing the one you love. Meaning that once Helen learned everything, Kate will no longer have to do everything and be right beside her all the time. It is like .....
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King Lear Earl Of Gloucester
Words: 1556 / Pages: 6 .... true love for him. Lear’s blindness also caused him to banish one of his loyal followers, Kent. Lear inability to determine his servant’s true identity proved once again how blind Lear actually was. In contrast, Gloucester becomes physically blind but gains the type of vision that Lear lacks. It is evident from these two characters that clear vision is not derived solely from physical sight. Lear's failure to understand this is the principal cause of his demise, while Gloucester learns to achieve clear vision, and consequently avoids a fate similar to Lear's.
Throughout most of King Lear, Lear's vision is clouded by his lack of insight. Si .....
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C-SPAN, The Cable TV Channel
Words: 1280 / Pages: 5 .... people should be able to see government in action without soundbites,
computer maps, models, images, music, and news anchor commentary. Brian feels
that if people can see government in action without the normal clutter, then
they can more easily make decisions for themselves about politics and the
workings of their government. In addition to C-SPAN, a second channel, C-SPAN2
has also been created. C-SPAN2 is committed to providing live and uncut
coverage of the U.S. Senate when it is in session. C-SPAN2 continues the
tradition of the original channel by giving an even wider unfiltered and
unplugged view of our government in action. In addi .....
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The Merchant Of Venice: Is It A Classic
Words: 1002 / Pages: 4 .... that are still issues that we
discuss, worry, and care about today.
A key theme in the book is love. There are many loving
relationships in this play and not all are the type that involves the love
that a man has for a woman, or vice versa. Bassanio and Portia, Jessica and
Lorenzo and Gratiano and Nerissa are all types of love that involve a man
and a woman, which are of course relevant to today's society. When one
looks deeply into these relationships, they would see parallels to the ones
of today. For instance, the concept that all three marriages will probably
not last, is a parallel to the number of divorces that are occurring today.
More .....
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The Cherry Orchard: Reality, Illusion, And Foolish Pride
Words: 1719 / Pages: 7 .... house before it is auctioned, they throw an
extravagant party, laughing in the face of impending financial ruin) Even when
Lopakhin attempts to rescue the family with ideas that could lead to some of the
estate being retained, they dismiss his ideas under the illusion that the
situation is not so desperate that they need to compromise any of their dignity.
Lopakhin: As you know, your cherry orchard's being sold to pay your
debts. The auction is on the twenty second of August. But
there's no need to worry, my dear. You can sleep soundly.
There's a way out. Here's my plan. Listen careful .....
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Antigone: A Tragic Hero
Words: 959 / Pages: 4 .... is
unlucky to be born in the House that she is born into. As Antigone defies
Creon's law, she is cast into a pool of danger between what she believes is
right and what the state's law decrees is right. As Antigone is charged with
the burying of her brother, an action which the King has declared unlawful, she
holds like stone to her undying gratitude for her deceased brother. She holds
to this thought because of the fact that she believes that her, who died
fighting against the state, must be interred with the same honor as her brother
who died defending the state. She believes that this will help lift the curse
plagued on the household. The curs .....
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Hamlet: Death
Words: 901 / Pages: 4 .... and queen’s wishes and it is this loyalty that eventually proves to be fatal for him. An example of how 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 the s .....
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The Crucible's Giles Corey: More Weight
Words: 456 / Pages: 2 .... (p. 40) The explanation for this was very
simple: Giles was not a churchgoing man. But, not realizing what he had
done, Giles Corey had just sentenced his wife to be hanged.
The hysteria over witches continues to grow, and Corey's wife is
tried as a witch. When he realizes what he has caused to happen, Giles is
overcome by guilt and grief. He begs for his wife to be released.
Furthermore, when Giles offers evidence that Putnam falsely accused a man
as a witch in order to get his land, and the judge asks Corey to give the
name of the man who heard Putnam's conversation as evidence, Giles refuses
to give the name so to protect him, while he himself .....
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The Holy Trinity And The Isenheim Altarpiece
Words: 958 / Pages: 4 .... who looks up at the Trinity and down at the
tomb. The vanishing point, five feet above the floor level, pulls both
views together. By doing this, an illusion of an actual structure is
created. The interior volume of this 'structure' is an tension of the
space that the person looking at the work is standing in. The adjustment
of the spectator to the pictured space is one of the first steps in the
development of illusionistic painting. Illusionistic painting fascinated
many artists of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The proportions in this painting are so numerically exact that one can
actually calculate the numerical dimensions of th .....
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