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The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
Number of Words: 722 / Number of Pages: 3
... symbol presented deals more with Tom than any of the other characters:
Tom's habit of going to the movies shows us his longing to leave the apartment
and head out into the world of reality. A place where one can find adventure.
And Tom, being a poet, can understand the needs of man to long for adventure and
romance. But he is kept from entering reality by Amanda, who criticizes him as
being a "selfish dreamer." But, Tom has made steps to escape into reality by
transferring the payment of a light bill to pay for his dues in the Merchant
Seaman's Union.
Another symbol, which deals with both ...
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Oedipus Rex
Number of Words: 737 / Number of Pages: 3
... saw
a coach coming. It contained his true father, King Laios of Thebes and his
bodyguards. When they almost ran him over Oedipus attacked them killing the
bodyguards and his father, thinking that they were highway bandits, and by doing
so he unwittingly fulfilled the prophecy. When he realizes this he is
devastated. This really contributes to the theme, that you cannot escape your
past. The fact that he killed a king and his father no less, is a major factor
in his exile later in the story.
When he discovers that King Laios was his real father he sees that by
not running away that he could have ...
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Hamlet: The Cause Of Ophelia's Insanity
Number of Words: 838 / Number of Pages: 4
... made many tenders
Of his affection to me.
Pol.
Affection, puh! You speak like a green girl
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
Do you believe his "tenders" as you call them?
Oph.
I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
(I, iii, ln.107-113)
Ophelia openly professes her confusion. Polonius' response is presented in
a manner which is clearly intended to sincerely disdain Hamlet before his
daughter, making obvious his opinion of their involvement. His intent for
her actions, however, will merely magnify her confusion. Ophelia concedes
that she is not aware of a solution wit ...
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Re-educating A King: King Lear's Self-Awareness
Number of Words: 1162 / Number of Pages: 5
... critically and thus seems to foreshadow
situations that an ignorant Lear is completely oblivious to. This is evident in
act 1, scene 1, when a prodding Fool asks the king if he knows the difference
between a bitter fool and a sweet fool. When Lear admits that he does not, the
Fool attempts to lay it all out in front of him:
That lord which councelled thee
To give away thy land,
Come place him here by me;
Do thou for him stand.
The sweet and bitter fool
Will presently appear;
The one ...
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Hamlet Was Weak And Diminutive
Number of Words: 2009 / Number of Pages: 8
... by “the trappings and suits of woe” --his black
clothing and cloudy face. These feelings that may very well be hidden from
his own conscious are - what I believe - a truth to his indecisiveness on
anything he attempts. Indecision in a man, or woman, for that matter, is a
strong symbol of his/her lack of perception.
Hamlet says that the King is “My father’s brother, but no more like
my father / Than I to Hercules.” This comment made by Hamlet, makes it
appear that he does not consider himself particularly strong or heroic. If
one doesn’t have confidence in his own self, how can any other person hav ...
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Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
Number of Words: 697 / Number of Pages: 3
... have stored in my
room. I don't think I could ever get rid of them. Also, each Transformer came
with a stat card on the back of the box he was sold in that described his
various skills and attributes. I used to always cut these stat cards from the
back of the boxes, and tape them onto large sheets; which I hung on my bedroom
wall. Along with the action figures, I also had Transformer books and
Transformer bedsheets. I couldn't get enough of the Transformers. I saw about
every episode, and I knew about everything there was to know about them.
The Transformers were intelligent robots with the abili ...
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Symbolistic Roleplaying
Number of Words: 1084 / Number of Pages: 4
... to get her way. She feels that victory is not just important in the definition of winning an outcome, but that victory should be the primary priority. Her determination to win her battle against the Greek men will not be judged or questioned. this liberal trait is an outstanding aspect concerning women because she ceases to be denied.
Lysistrata: Enough of these shams, you wretched creatures.
You want your husbands, I suppose. Well, don't you think
they want us? I'm sure they're spending miserable nights.
Hold out, my friends, and endure for just a little while.
(775-778)
T ...
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Movie: The Fan
Number of Words: 196 / Number of Pages: 1
... baseball fan who was an appalling father
and a die-hard for the game. This crazy man just wants credit for giving a Barry
Bonds-like player ( Wesley Snipes ) his number back. Unfortunately, the ‘fan'
gives Wesley his number back by killing the player who occupied the number
before him. When the baseball player's son is kidnapped by the disillusioned man,
the police held the man at gun point in the stadium. When the deranged man made
a move to open fire, the police gunned him down right on the ball field.
My attitude toward this hostile man was that he was very baneful and my
heart was lif ...
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Hamlet: Growing Pains
Number of Words: 1472 / Number of Pages: 6
... canon ‘gainst self-slaughter' (I. ii. 131-2). To Hamlet appears
his dead father's spirit, and he must continue to live in the ‘unweeded garden,
/ That grows to seed' in order to fulfill the obligation he has to his father
(I.ii. 135-6).
Making Hamlet more a story of personal growth than a dark murder mystery,
Shakespeare emphasizes the emotional, rather than the physical, obstacles that
Prince must face in accomplishing his goal. Immediately, Hamlet must determine
whether the ghost speaks the truth, and to do so he must cope with theological
issues. He must settle the moral issue of private reve ...
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The Cinema Of Ernst Lubitsch
Number of Words: 1753 / Number of Pages: 7
... One Hour With You (1932), and Trouble in Paradise (1932), elements of Lubitsch’s style, such as deception and corruption, role playing and performance, relationships, and the concept of desire as motivation for everything are common staples. To understand the thematic aspects of Lubitsch style, we must look at each of these in turn.
Deception and Corruption
There are surface deceptions and self-deceptions in all corners of The Marriage Circle. Misrepresentations are both deliberate and accidental. Even the song the notion of love is corrupt. This all but reinforces Lubutsch’s position that corruptio ...
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