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The Phantom Menace: I Swear I’ve Seen This Movie Before
Number of Words: 1178 / Number of Pages: 5
... to leave their home planet to see the galaxy. The young men urge to experience everything life and existence have to offer. They firmly believe that what they want to encounter, lies far away from their home. Our protagonist in The Phantom Menace, Anakin, yearns to eventually be a pilot who leads a squadron of fighters. He satisfies that longing at home by racing pods. Although he possesses great skill at this dangerous sport, competing in races does not fulfill his desires enough. The protagonist in A New Hope, Luke, wants to leave his uncle’s farming business and go to piloting school to fi ...
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The Merchant Of Venice: Hath Not A Jew Mercy?
Number of Words: 1345 / Number of Pages: 5
... iii. 107-130)
This speech does well in invoking the audience's pity, however little it might
be in the sixteenth century. But again at the end, Shylock offers that Antonio
give up a pound of flesh as penalty of forfeiture of the bond, which Antonio
sees as a joke, but which Shylock fully intends to collect. (I. iii. 144-78)
This action negates any pity which Shylock would have one from the audience just
a few moments before. Shakespeare, in this scene, uses Shylock's dialogue and
soliloquies to push loyalties of the audience back and forth in a result of a
negative view of Shylock.
In Act II, scene ...
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The Role Of Minor Conspirators
Number of Words: 599 / Number of Pages: 3
... Calpurnia's dream with a double meaning, “Your statue spouting
blood in many pipes, in which so many smiling Romans bathed, signifies that
from you great Rome shall suck reviving blood, and that great men shall
press for tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance.” (JC. II. ii. 85-90).
Decius successfully executed his role in the conspiracy which led to the
assassination of Caesar.
Another very influential minor conspirator was Cinna, who aided in
persuading Brutus to join the conspiracy. Getting Brutus involved in the
conspiracy was crucial because of his close relationship with Caesar a ...
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Macbeth's Blind Ambition
Number of Words: 744 / Number of Pages: 3
... She unsexes herself and becomes evil. They come up with a plan to kill the present king of Scotland, King Duncan. Macbeth had just killed a traitor who rebelled against the king and now he is planning to kill the king! The death of the king is blamed on the king's guards so Macbeth kills them to save his own behind. What a traitor, he deserves to be slained and he should be beheaded!
Secondly Macbeth's hamartea of ambition blinds him from seeing where he lye as the new King of Scotland. Instead Macbeth remembers the third and last prophase of Banquo. It was that Banquo would not be king but he ...
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Antigone: Creon
Number of Words: 2136 / Number of Pages: 8
... immature or masochistic desire to martyr herself. Others consider her a woman of innate nobility and idealism, unwilling to compromise the truth as she sees it, who suffers a cruel and undeserved punishment. In either case, it is important to realize that Antigone is driven by her principles and a reasoned analysis of the situation.
The positions of Antigone and Creon are opposed, but both possess the same stubborn belief in their own righteousness. Thus, on the issue of the burial one is right and one is wrong, but to an extent both share the blame for the tragic and of the play.
There are many ...
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Oedipus Rex
Number of Words: 445 / Number of Pages: 2
... The reader understands this truth and cannot help but feel disturbed and worried about the fate of Oedipus.
The news from the messenger of Corinth seems to bring with it good fortune for Oedipus as well as closure for the reader. All along the king’s fear was that “the oracle may come true.” By announcing the death of King Polybos, the messenger causes Oedipus to question the validity of the oracle. “Polybos has packed the oracles off with him underground. They are empty words (ln 923-924).” Oedipus experiences a reversal of fortune when the messenger later explains that he was not the real son o ...
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Death Of A Salesman: Failure Vs. Success
Number of Words: 775 / Number of Pages: 3
... go to New England for his business trip. Willy
explains that he almost hit a kid in Yonkers. He also tells his sons of his
brother Ben who made a fortune on a trip to Africa.
Charley, a father who is fairly successful and offers Willy a job
which Willy refuses on the basis of pride, comes to Willy’s house at night
complaining of not being able to sleep. Charley and Willy play cards, but
at the same time, Willy hold a conversation with his imaginary brother.
Charley has no idea what’s going on and leaves. Willy continues the
conversation regretting that he stayed in American while he could have gone
t ...
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Richard III: Strength And Weaknesses
Number of Words: 1577 / Number of Pages: 6
... Other soliloquies keep the audience updated on what’s happening and remind them of Richard’s plans. Prophecies also helped the development of the story. In the first act the audience is notified of a prophecy that was make to the king saying that he would be dethroned by someone bearing the initial "G". This resulted in Clarence being sent to the tower and eventually being murdered by Richard. The most important curse in Richard III occurs in Act I Scene III when Queen Margaret put a curse on the entire royal family. Throughout the play the curses she put on each person come true. An example of t ...
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George Lucas And Movies: No Future?
Number of Words: 1475 / Number of Pages: 6
... goal was to create a film that would show the future state of the world if
it was to continue on its path of the search for perfection of everything. He
shows the future as a place that many people would probably not want to live or
to be associated with.
Lucas shows that everyone will be the same. People will wear the same
clothes and have the same haircut. Names are no longer a part of society. In
the movie each person is given a prefix of letters followed by a number. They
are basically drones who follow orders. Technology has advanced so far that
every motion or action of the person ...
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Hamlet Revenge
Number of Words: 1141 / Number of Pages: 5
... in a seal'd compact. Polonius was an advisor to the King, and
father to Laertes and Ophelia. He was nosy and arrogant, and he did not
trust his children. He was killed by Young Hamlet while he was eves
dropping on a conversation between Hamlet and his mother. "How now! A
rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!" King Hamlet was the King of Denmark, and
Hamlet's father. He had killed King Fortinbras, only to be killed by his
brother, Claudius."My offense is rank, it smells to heaven; A brother's
murderà" Each of these events effected the sons of the deceased in the
same way, it enraged them.
Every ...
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