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Amelia
Number of Words: 330 / Number of Pages: 2
... the present culture this would have no effect on the story. At one point in this scene tells her parents that they are out of milk. To a person who isn’t familiar with the culture this would seem out of line. She comes off in a rude way which would make her seem like the one at fault to an outsider. The way this scene is perceived could extremely vary from culture to culture.
’s parents need to make their child feel more noticed and loved. She requires much more attention than what she is receiving. ’s family would be viewed differently by different cultures which makes it a modern type ...
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King Lear: Everything About The Play Hangs On First Two Scenes
Number of Words: 1587 / Number of Pages: 6
... when she states that "Everything about the play hangs on
the first two scenes not just the plot but the values as well" (Shakespeare's
Division of Experience, 226).
The opening scenes of King Lear do an immaculate job of setting up the
plot and forming the basis for all the events which occur in the later scenes
of the play. "The elements of that opening scene are worth pausing over,
because they seem to have been selected to bring before us precisely such an
impression of unpredictable effects lying coiled and waiting in an apparently
innocuous posture of affairs." (Shakespeare's Middle Tragedies, 1 ...
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Hamlet: Was Hamlet Insane
Number of Words: 696 / Number of Pages: 3
... he only manifests his “madness” around certain characters. These characters would be Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. His “madness” doesn’t come out around Horatio, Bernardo, Francisco, the players or the gravediggers. At one point Claudius himself admits that Hamlet’s “actions although strange, do not appear to stem from madness” (internet, Hamlet, pg. 1-2). Polonius also admits that Hamlet’s actions and works have a “method” (internet, Hamlet, pg. 2) to them and they are of logical nature. Hamlet tells his mother that he is not really mad, “but mad in craft” ( ...
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Medea's Revenge
Number of Words: 1985 / Number of Pages: 8
... women were almost like slaves. There is
a definite relationship between this subordination of women and what transpires
in the play. Jason decides that he wants to divorce Medea and marry the
princess of Corinth, casting Medea aside as if they had never been married.
This sort of activity was acceptable by Greek standards, and shows the
subordinate status of the woman, who had no say in any matter like this.
Even though some of Medea's actions were not typical of the average
Greek woman, she still had attitudes and emotions common among women. For
instance, Medea speaks out against women' ...
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27 Years Of Influential 60 Minutes
Number of Words: 1491 / Number of Pages: 6
... of much criticism for his stubbornness. Since its origin, 60
Minutes has continued to adhere to the same formula that made it such a success.
The hidden-camera interviews, the surprising of unsuspecting alleged crooks
with a bombardment of questions, the longevity of the featured reporters, all of
these are what made 60 Minutes a success--finishing in the top 10 Nielson
ratings for 17 consecutive seasons and counting. Other than the fact that it
changed from black-and-white to color with the new technology, the appearance of
60 Minutes has remained consistent. There is no reason to change a t ...
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King Lear - Analyzing A Tragic Hero
Number of Words: 871 / Number of Pages: 4
... Because of his good qualities, we experience pity for him and feel that he does not deserve the severity of his punishment. His actions are not occasioned by any corruption or depravity in him, but by an error in judgment, which, however, does arise from a defect of character. Lear has a "tragic flaw" - egotism. It is his egotism in the first scene that causes him to make his error in judgment - the division of his kingdom and the loss of Cordelia. Throughout the rest of the play, the consequences of this error slowly and steadfastly increase until Lear is destroyed. There must be a change in th ...
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Romeo And Juliet: Errors By The Characters
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... in spledor of mine own.” (I,iii, 105-106) It is
evident in the opening scenes that there is conflict between the households
of the Montagues and the Capulets, whom which Juliet belongs to. If
Benvolio did not suggest to Romeo to go to the ball, Romeo would have never
laid eyes on the beautiful Juliet and fallen in love with her. At the same
time, Juliet has also fallen in love with Romeo. This scene is the
beginning of the two soon to be lovers fate.
Romeo’s fate starts from the beginning when he is heart broken
because Rosaline as rejected his love for her. If however that she loved
him bac ...
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An Analysis Of A Doll's House
Number of Words: 897 / Number of Pages: 4
... been nothing but a play-
room. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll-
child. And the children have been my dolls in their turn. I liked it when
you came and played with me, just as they liked it when I came and played
with them. That's what our marriage has been Torvald."
I think that it is at this point that Nora's world transforms from
a "doll's house" into reality. After having finished this play, I think
that Ibsen had chosen the perfect title, for Nora's world was truly
reflective of the title. I also feel that Ibsen foreshadowed the end
cleverly when he had Nor ...
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Julius Caesar: Brutus An Honor Man
Number of Words: 410 / Number of Pages: 2
... there is no need for an oath because the conspirators
are self-righteous, and they are serving the romans. If the conspirators
don't bind together, then each man will go his own way, become a weakling,
and die when it suits the tyrants caprice. Brutus is advocates peace,
freedom and liberty, for all romans, which shows that Brutus is an
altruistic as well as an honorable man. Brutus also had a compassion for
Caesar when he had killed Caesar. "If then that a friend demand why Brutus
rose against Caesar, this is my answer: Not that I loved Caesar less, but
that I loved Rome more" (Shakespeare 421). Brut ...
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Hamlet: Spying
Number of Words: 1227 / Number of Pages: 5
... but she ends up lying to him in ACT III Scene i.
Hamlet: Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a
breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but
yet I could accuse me of such things that it were
better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud,
revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck
that I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give
them shape, or time to act time in. What should such
fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?
We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go they
ways to a nunnery. Where's you father?
Ophelia: At home, ...
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