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Julius Caesar: Brutus
Number of Words: 730 / Number of Pages: 3
... of his wife again.
“Lucius a bowl of wine!
I did not think you could have been so angry,
O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.
Of your philosophy you make no use
If you give place to accidental evils.
No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.
Ha! Portia!
She is dead.
How ‘scaped I killing when I crossed you so?
Oh, insupportable and touching loss!
Upon what sickness?
Impatient of my absence,
And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony
Have made themselves s ...
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Exploring Sexuality In "Taming Of The Shrew"
Number of Words: 1284 / Number of Pages: 5
... however, knows how to be flirtatious, witty, and coy around her
admirers, and yet is almost intentionally mean to Kate. For instance, Bianca
knows that it hurts Kate to have no suitors while she (Bianca) has several.
Bianca uses this to hurt Kate. When Kate tries to find out which suitor Bianca
really likes, Bianca swears that she won't take the suitor that Kate likes. She
casually offers Kate whichever suitor she wants. Kate is enraged by this
because she knows that the only reason that Bianca has suitors while she has
none is because Bianca plays the sexual flirtation game.
When Kate gets a ...
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The Taming Of The Shrew: Kate's Soliloquy
Number of Words: 613 / Number of Pages: 3
... play, as well as similar plays of the Elizabethan era, assisted in
contributing to the oppression of females in society for an innumerable amount
of years.
After the conclusion of The Taming of the Shrew, including Kate's
soliloquy, the audience is left with a proud feeling - proud of the fact that
Petruchio tamed such a shrew so well. The men of the audience are about with
feeling of satisfaction and justification. Shakespeare skillfully catered
towards both sexes by using Petruchio much like the stereotypical action figure
of today; a character who does the unbelievable effortlessly and leaves th ...
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The Symbol Of Black In "The Crucible"
Number of Words: 423 / Number of Pages: 2
... go along with it.
She gets blamed for many things that she did not do. For example she is
accused of poking Abby with a needle by a poppet.
Mary must also feel black because she meant no harm by putting a
needle inside of the poppet and yet she gets in trouble also. The black
signifies Elizabeth's anger hate for Abby. It is clearly shown when she
says that Abby should be ripped out of the world and that Abby is murder.
Black also signifies confusion. First of all when all the colors
are mixed together they form black. When everything is mixed it causes
chaos and confusion. Mr. Proctor ...
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Attitude Changes In Macbeth
Number of Words: 1208 / Number of Pages: 5
... night. On the other hand, as the time for murder comes nearer, he begins giving himself reasons not to murder Duncan, this is because as lady Macbeth said "he is to full of the milk of human kindness" and his elaborate imagination causes him to see the crime in all its horror before the deed is actually done.
Lady Macbeth uses her cunning rhetoric and persuasive techniques to convince Macbeth that this is, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the right thing to do. He then tells her that "I am settled." He is firmly seated in his beliefs that killing Duncan is the right thing to do-until he performs the ...
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Oedipus The King: A Tragic Hero
Number of Words: 874 / Number of Pages: 4
... Iocaste, the queen,
and together they have four children. In Thebes the murder of the old King
Laios remains unknown, a plaque is again placed upon the city by the gods.
Oedipus, being the new leader of Thebes, pledges to discover the identity
of the murderer so he can end the disaster. In his searching, Oedipus
discovers that he is the murderer of the king and eventually discovers that
Iocaste is really his own mother. In a Greek tragedy the hero is a
character amply capable of choices, capable, too of accepting the
consequences. Whether Oedipus' sufferings are due to a flaw of character
or to ...
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Another Hit Movie With The Wayan Brothers
Number of Words: 592 / Number of Pages: 3
... in any of these movies," she replied. Ashtray meets up with his cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who has marijuana and condoms in his hair, and meets a bunch of gangsters from the hood. Tracy Cherelle Jones plays the hoods biggest prostitute. At one point in the movie she says, "Now sweeties, what do you say when you meet a nice man?" "Are you my daddy?' The children answer.
When they are trying to make fun of the hood they over do it too much. For example making soup out of malt liquor and marijuana. Also cops playing beat up Rodney King video game during their free time. On the house to one ...
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Hamlet: Emotions Of Despair, Sadness, Anger, And Inner Peace
Number of Words: 1067 / Number of Pages: 4
... Hamlet goes through.
Sorrow, perhaps the most evident emotion, is very well developed
throughout the play. Initially, the only cause of Hamlet's sorrow is his
father's death. However, after reading Act 1, scene 2, we see in Hamlet's
asides that another source of his melancholy is his mother's hasty marriage
to Claudius, the new king of Denmark. Further, when Queen Gertrude asks her
son why his father's death "seems" so important, he replies, "Seems, madam?
Nay it is. I know not 'seems'." In addition, Shakespeare reveals another
source of sadness; now Hamlet is alone, with the most loved character i ...
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Comparison/Contrast Essay On Hamlet And A Machiavellian Prince
Number of Words: 1298 / Number of Pages: 5
... his father really died, he wanted his revenge. Hamlet carefully planed out how he was going to catch Claudius. He couldn’t just go in and kill the guy because the people would be against him.
A Machiavellian Prince has to be liked by his people. His people are his fortress. If he were to just walk in and kill a king, the people would kill him. Hamlet had to catch Claudius in front of the people. He devised a plan to add some lines to a play. The lines would consist of King Hamlet’s murder exactly how Claudius did it. When the lines are read, the emotional reponse of Claudius would be observe ...
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Captain's Letter Regarding Macbeth
Number of Words: 218 / Number of Pages: 1
... to tell you
what I am thinking. I hope I can write again very soon. I want you to know
that I am in good health.
I feel this is a good opportunity to tell the tale of our great victory
over the Thane of Cawdor and evil MacDonwald. Things were looking very horrible,
it seemed like all my troops had perished. Our brave general MacBeth came from
nowhere to the center of the battle and slayed MacDonwald like the dragon he
truly is. MacBeth took a spear and forced MacDonwald's head onto it and
rejuvenated our troops while striking fear into the hearts of the enemy,
Before the smoke cleared ano ...
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