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Macbeth And Hamlet
Words: 504 / Pages: 2 .... commits the murder, and gets the position that he longs for. The main conflict that Hamlet has to deal with, portrayed by his fated "To be or not to be…" speech, is how to deal with the suspicious death of his father - by suffering the ills of this world or taking resolute action against them.
Both stories carry with a great amount of deceit. With Macbeth, the witches explain that no one born of a woman will ever kill him. Macduff, his slayer, was born by a Cesarean section. Of all the things that the witches tell him, all are true, but are spoken in confusing riddles that are misleading. The witches trick him into believing that he an .....
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Beowulf: The Three Monsters Of The Middle Ages
Words: 907 / Pages: 4 .... this novel, they are in the form of monsters.) in their search for salvation.
The monster, Grendel, is described as being a very large and vicious monster. Grendel attacks men while they sleep, ripping them apart and eating them. Grendel is “the creature of evil, grim, and fierce, was quickly ready, savage, and cruel, and seized from their rest thirty thanes.” He killed the Danish warriors for twelve winters, and was incapable of feeling any remorse for what he had done. Grendel does not feel guilty for his wrongdoing, instead his “heart laughed” at all the men he thought he would eat. Grendel wore “God’s anger,” and he was simply depr .....
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In Despair About Nothing
Words: 1348 / Pages: 5 .... has no meaning, when there is no reason to exist. It is the hollowness or emptiness man experiences when he feels that his life has no significant meaning. If there is nothing to believe in, then life is nothing. The older waiter in the story recognizes the existence of nothing: “Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y pues nada y pues nada” (202). As existentialists, men are forced to make all decisions in their lives for themselves, with nothing to believe in except for the positive result of their choices. Existentialists are plagued with dread over their potential confrontation with nothingness, an a .....
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How Does Iago Persuade Othello
Words: 956 / Pages: 4 .... language throughout the scene is very rich and amazingly descriptive so much so that it actually acts as a projector, projecting vivid, clear pictures into the audience’s, and more importantly, Othello’s mind. This is more evident in the later part of the scene, and there is one particular speech I wish to isolate. Iago’s speech, lines 407 to 423, is where the richest image is created in the scene. He is describing a night through which he lay with Cassio, and witnessed a so-called dream. In this dream, Cassio is meant to have said “Sweet Desdemona / Let us be wary, let us hide our loves.” He then goes on to .....
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The Tempest
Words: 1036 / Pages: 4 .... storme and hideous began to blow from out the North-east, which swelling, and roaring as it were by fits, some houres with more violence than others, at length did beate all light from heaven; which like an hell of darkenesse turned blacke upon us, so much the more fuller of horror." The "Sea Adventure" was rebuilt on the island, which was not as menacing as the storm itself, and nearly a year later the ship rejoined the fleet in Virginia. By many, this was deemed a miracle.
Some believe it was this shipwreck that prompted Shakespeare to write this political, yet comic play which involves usurpation, mockery, love, reconciliation and .....
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The Client John Grisham
Words: 1152 / Pages: 5 .... and Ricky Sway, going off into the bushland near their home, the trailer park to experiment with a few cigarettes. After no more than three pages into the first chapter the action begins. Grisham effectively but also hastily sets the setting to the story then, to draw in the reader, explodes into the main event of the story, Romey’s suicide. Grisham has a amazing method of writing to make the reader feel part of the happening action. "Mark stared at the wild, glowing face just inches away. The eyes were red and wet. Fluids dripped from the nose and chin. ‘you little bastard’ he growled through clenched, dirty teeth."
As the story u .....
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Sherlock Holmes
Words: 772 / Pages: 3 .... was a great popularity in late-Victorian London for dismembering murder victims and distributing them around the town. One particular audacious murderer travelled in horse-drawn cabs with the head of his victim on his lap (wrapped in a napkin ), but gave himself away when he payed double the fare when he was told that it was 'sixpence a head'. This was also about the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in which people were afraid to step out of their homes.
The Jack the Ripper case was never solved and there was much controversy associated with the police investigation. The public had lost some of its faith in the police force and was looking for .....
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Plato Vs. Nietzsche: The Nature Of Good
Words: 431 / Pages: 2 .... encourages all men to
achieve this Goodness, which he claims should be the ultimate goal of men.
Plato maintains that, in order to be good, a man "…ought not to calculate
the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing
anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a Good man or of a
bad." From his writings in "The Cave" and the "Apology," Plato shows his
belief in an absolute, unalterable Good which man should prize above all
else.
Conversely, Nietzsche feels that there are two different sets of
morality dependent on class, meaning that the nature of good is relative.
Nietzsche outlines these two systems of mor .....
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Sherlock Holmes And The Speckl
Words: 316 / Pages: 2 .... the wall of Helens room so that she had to move into her sisters room and now she was scared for her live. So Sherlock Holmes went to investigate. Holmes investigated the whole house and he build up a plan to catch the murderer! Holmes had found out that there was an air-vent that was inside the house betwenn the sisters room and the stepfathers. Holmes now was in the room that Helen was supose to be in and sudenly the light was light in the stepfathers room, and then Sherlock jumped and hit the bellrobe under the air-vent. Then there was a little whistle and then a scream and Holmes ran to the other room and there was the stepfather dead and with a .....
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Horatios Speech To Fortinbras
Words: 910 / Pages: 4 .... each leading you in a total different direction. Hamlet went to the guard tower with us the next night and reasoned to our favor that the ghost did in fact perpetuate the look of King Hamlet. The ghost made a follow me motion to Hamlet and we grabbed him. Please do not follow Sir Hamlet, I pleaded. The spirit was insistent and Hamlets gut instinct drove him to follow the floating omen. I know not the exact words that the ghost spoke that night but from what I understand, he was back from the dead to inform his son that he had not died from the rumorous snake bite which had been presumed. King Hamlet's brother, the current King Claudius, had murder .....
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