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Essay On The Movie "Lord Of The Flies"
Number of Words: 385 / Number of Pages: 2
... movie should
have been coloured. The special effects would have looked neater since a lot of
killing was shot. If the movie was coloured the audience would focus on the
screen often, rather than seeing a black and white screen.
The settings and the props were not prepared well. My first example is that the
boys shirts, were clean everyday. Their clothes should be black and grey,
because of the dirt and all the smoke from the fire. For example Simons' shirt
was a clean as white, when Simon was watching the other boys spill blood out of
the pig. The island was to big, as the book describes it. T ...
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The Caretaker By Pinter: A Play Can Be Confrontational, Challenging And Disturbing To The Values And Assumptions Of An Audience. Discuss With Close
Number of Words: 1946 / Number of Pages: 8
... they had preconceived ideas about what they expected and what they are
going to gain from the theatrical experience. The traditional attitudes towards
theatre and the conventions of realist drama are disrupted by Pinter. This
confronts the assumptions and values of the audience, an experience which would
be disconcerting and frightening to many.
Pinter divorces and exposes society's codes, institutions and human relations.
Throughout the play the audience is rarely comfortable. This disruption is
established from the outset of the play when Mick, a character who at this stage
of the play the audienc ...
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Oedipus' Destiny
Number of Words: 901 / Number of Pages: 4
... a deserted mountain path – die.”(p. 17). But instead of killing the infant, the shepherd gave him to another shepherd who then gave Oedipus to the King Polybus of Corinth. So this poor child survived to continue his tragic destiny.
As Oedipus grows up, he becomes a self-confident, intelligent, and strong willed person. That is the kind of role that is cost for him by destiny. A drunken stranger tells him that he is not the son of King Polybus. His strong will drives him to ask an oracle about his parents. The oracle does not answer his question, but tells him that he would kill his father whom ...
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Analytic Play Review Of The Taming Of The Shrew
Number of Words: 1037 / Number of Pages: 4
... about an assertive woman coping with
how she is expected to act in the society of the late sixteenth century and
of how one must obey the unwritten rules of a society to be accepted in it.
Although the play ends with her conforming to the society, this is in
action only, not in mind, as she assumes the role of the obedient wife.
Most of the play's humour comes from the way in which characters
create false realities by disguising themselves as other people, a device
first introduced in the induction. Initially this is accomplished by
having Christopher Sly believe he is someone he is not and then by ...
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Cartoons: Land Of Imagination
Number of Words: 1130 / Number of Pages: 5
... It is this facet that makes this universe more appealing than
our own. One is free to create and manipulate not only the physical actions of
a character, but the mental behavior as well. If my recollection serves me
correct, aside from hypnosis, there is nowhere else that this is possible. In
the cartoon world, "anything goes." There are no boundaries to which one is
confined. With a little ingenuity and imagination one can create a place or
being that has never existed before.
Scribble, scribble, squeak, squeak, the colored pencils glide
effortlessly over the white canvas. A dab of golden yell ...
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Julius Caesar: The Corruption Of Power
Number of Words: 869 / Number of Pages: 4
... had a right to express their beliefs. Caesar also presents his
despotic attitude, when Metellus Cimber begs him to reverse his brother’s
banishment. Caesar selfishly replied that this request “might fire the
blood of ordinary men…know, Caesar doth not wrong…”. He refers to himself
in the third person, and considered his status to be next to the gods. He
believed he was never wrong and his judgment was always correct.
Antony loved Caesar dearly. When Caesar was assassinated, Antony’s
ruthless side showed. He was now thirsty for revenge and played with the
mob’s emotions in order to get wha ...
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Oedpius: Justice...
Number of Words: 327 / Number of Pages: 2
... blames
himself as quoted from the story "Light of the sun, let me look upon you no
more after today! I who first saw you the light bred of a match accursed,
and accursed ." The consequences of his actions are harsh. He stabs his
own eyes out and his wife/mother took her own life.
Justice is defined as "the abstract principle by which right and
wrong are defined." Utilizing this definition pertaining to the story
Justice has not been served. Since Oedipus's actions were predetermined by
the gods, he should not have to face the consequences. Even though he was
not mentally responsible for h ...
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The Tragedy Of Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark
Number of Words: 1210 / Number of Pages: 5
... drinking the night and Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus
see the ghost again. The ghost signals to Hamlet to come, but the others try
and hold him back. Hamlet struggles free and moves towards the apparition.
1.5 The ghost tells Hamlet that he is the spirit of his father and that
he was not poisoned, but murdered. He demands that Hamlet avenge his death by
murdering the killer, King Claudius. Hamlet promises to get revenge and orders
the other to swear they haven't seen anything with the help of the ghost.
2.1 Polonius sends his servant, Reynaldo, to Paris to spy and ask about
Laertes. Ophelia t ...
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The Merchant Of Venice: Theme Of The Nature Of True Love
Number of Words: 1075 / Number of Pages: 4
... whose inscription tells the suitor he must give up everything.
The Prince, after looking at the inscription of the gold casket, which read
"'who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire'" (2.7, 37), decides that
what he desires most is the Portia's hand so the gold must be the correct
casket. He insists that the gold casket is the one holding Portia's
picture because she is so much worthier than the lead casket. The Prince
believes that because many men desire Portia, the gold casket must be the
correct one. When the Prince opens the casket, he finds a skull and a
scroll, not Portia's picture ...
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy Lowman
Number of Words: 1028 / Number of Pages: 4
... to think of better times at low points in their
life in order to cheer themselves up so that they are able to deal with the
problems they encounter, but Willy Lowman takes it one step further. His
refusal to accept reality is so strong that in his mind he is transported
back in time to relive one of the happier days of his life. It was a time
when no one argued, Willy and Linda were younger, the financial situation
was less of a burden, and Biff and Happy enthusiastically welcomed their
father back home from a long road trip. Willy's need for the "drug" is
satiated and he is reassured that everything ...
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