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Evil In Macbeth
Number of Words: 865 / Number of Pages: 4
... true is to kill Duncan the king of Scotland. So Macbeth and his wife decide to kill Duncan and Macbeth becomes the king. He then decides he should kill Banquo because he could betray him, the witches said that Banquo would be the father to the line of kings and that means Macbeth will not be king for a long time. The murder of Banquo lead to Macbeth's downfall.
Lady Macbeth an evil and weak woman made her husband kill Duncan, the king of Scotland at the time. With her words and her love for her husband she changed his mind. Besides who would ever suspect them as being the murderers.
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Human Flaws Of Orgon In Tartuffee
Number of Words: 763 / Number of Pages: 3
... son when she states:
"He's a fine man, and should be listened to."(I, i ,44), while speaking of
Tartuffe. Although they share this trait throughout the play, Orgon's eyes are
finally opened at the end of the play while his mother is still held by the
farce of Tartuffe.
Although Tartuffe is portrayed as the main character of the play, Orgon is
the character who should really be paid attention to the most. As suggested in
an essay on "Tartuffe" audiences who concentrate on the character who titles the
work may miss the author's point: "…vitriol and spleen vented on one man
suggests that Moliere's s ...
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Macbeth
Number of Words: 1005 / Number of Pages: 4
... his one weakness - that is ambition. His wife knows of his ambition and stirs him to act on it. struggles with a choice; should he let the witches prophecies realise themself, or should he take steps to the achieve them. He knows that the latter choice will involve the murder of his virtuous king Duncan, but even this isn't enough to sway him as he, after urging form his wife, chooses the latter. In doing so, unrobed himself of all that is good in the human soul - kindness, courage, honour and love. becomes so obsessed with his chase of glory that he turns away from all that he once cherished ...
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Hamlet: Sane Or Insane
Number of Words: 888 / Number of Pages: 4
... up my sum" [Act V, scene I, lines 250-253], during the fight with Laertes in Ophelia's grave, but he tells her that he never loved her, when she returns his letters and gifts, while she was still alive. Hamlet subtly hints his awareness of his dissolving sanity as he tells Laertes that he killed Polonius in a fit of madness [Act V, scene II, lines 236-250] Once Ophelia meets Hamlet and speaks with him her love abandons him. Hamlet realizes that his mother and step father are aware of this love and might use this to end his threat. Hamlet must end their thoughts of using Ophelia to rid him of his c ...
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Hamlet: Hamlet's Inner Thoughts In His Soliloquies
Number of Words: 1116 / Number of Pages: 5
... after his father died his mother remarried his uncle. As a result Hamlet's mother was actually married to her dead husbands brother, which was conceded incest. "[O God! A beast hat wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer] (1.2.156-157). This quote vividly expresses how Hamlet feels about the quick remarriage of his mother. By the use of animal imagery the reader can see the hate towards the marriage. The reader can also see how Hamlet feels about how quick his mother remarried by the use of the phrase "mourned longer." Another quote to support this idea is "...she married" (1.2.1 ...
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Barbara Walters' Interview With Christopher Reeves
Number of Words: 443 / Number of Pages: 2
... time. However, in today's highly competitive world, where
Nielson ratings are god, there is no longer a place for journalistic
integrity in a profit based field. It is up to the journalist to determine
whether or not they are comfortable with what they are doing and how they
do it.
Yet the question still remains, was everything that Barbara Walters
did ethical. No. There were times in my mind when she should have laid
off. In my view she had no right intruding in the Reeves' personal life,
even venturing into their sex-life. I am sorry, however I do not wish to
know certain things about Mr. and ...
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A Doll's House: Nora Perceived By Other Characters
Number of Words: 2808 / Number of Pages: 11
... independently for herself.
As Nora realizes that she must find her true self, the ways in which Krogstad,
Christine and Torvald perceive her dramatically change.
Christine Linde, a woman who has had to live independently since her
husband died, suddenly comes back to visit Nora and finds Nora has not changed
from her childish ways in high school. Nora for an instant does not recognize
her old friend because of the time that has passed since the last time she saw
her. Christine tells Nora of her husband's passing and how he did not leave her
any money or "even any sorrow or grief to live upon ...
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Talk Shows And Their Effects On The Audience
Number of Words: 1484 / Number of Pages: 6
... segment of The Jenny Jones talk show expecting his admirer to be a woman, not his gay neighbor. When Schmitz found Scott Amedure, a 32-year-old unemployed gay man, telling a television audience about a fantasy that involved Schmitz, some whipped cream, strawberries and champagne, he became embarrassed and, his lawyers said, enraged. Three days after the taping Schmitz received an anonymous, sexually suggestive note on his doorstep and assumed it came from Amedure. Schmitz purchased a 12-gauge shotgun, went to Amedure’s mobile home, and fired two shots at close range into Amedure’s chest. A few m ...
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Our Town: Universal Theme Of Family
Number of Words: 371 / Number of Pages: 2
... By the use of the stage manager constantly pausing and giving
us a reality check, he makes sure we know we are still in reality. The
Stage manager creates quite and effective environment by playing different
parts. Although in the play he plays many miscellaneous roles, to the
audience he is the constant reminder that this is a play. He serves as a
gateway between two worlds of "Our Town" and 1998.
In the third act of the play, the sub-theme, death has a big impact
on the whole plotline. Emily has died, and many others included that were
main characters have also died. This play not on ...
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Review Of "Saving Private Ryan"
Number of Words: 1600 / Number of Pages: 6
... of a nation? As difficult as it may be to
distinguish between national pride and blind nationalism, Spielberg makes
his film by insisting on visualizing an overwhelming sorrow at the loss of
so much human life, and a similarly gratitude for the sacrifices that have
been made. The flag in this certain frame represents everything worth
fighting and living for, however, it doesn't tell the whole story. Its
mere presence in the frame insists that something else, perhaps something
still more important, remains behind.
That "something else" may be America as a concept, the United
States as an abstr ...
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