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Antigone: Afterlife
Number of Words: 1329 / Number of Pages: 5
... and put us to death for our ways and beliefs.I think Antigone thought her act was courageous and valid. I myself would not have risked my life to ensure a proper burial for anyone, whether it was in modern times or back then.To go against authority and break the laws given by the monarch was a plain senseless act. When someone is dead we now know there is nothing else anyone or anything can do for them at that point. It is too bad the Greeks did not believe that. As I stated before, afterlife to the Greeks was more important than living life itself. The Greeks seemed to spend most if not all of thei ...
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Creon's Fatal Flaw
Number of Words: 548 / Number of Pages: 2
... reality dictated by hubris.
Creon's fatal flaw overcomes him in a discussion with his son.
Haimon confronts his father about Creon's reckless and unreasonable
actions dealing with Antigone. His hubris transcends his better judgement
and causes Creon to become defensive. Creon then ignores his son's
recommendations on the basis of age and seniority as follows: "You
consider it right for a man of my years and experience to go to a school a
boy?" (Scene 3, Line 95). His anger intensifies until he explodes at his
son, "Fool, adolescent fool!" (Scene 3, Line 114). At that point, Creon
was far too imme ...
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Macbeth: Lady MacBeth
Number of Words: 599 / Number of Pages: 3
... and thought nothing about the wrong they were soon to commit.
Later on, after the murders, she, unlike MacBeth, still shows no signs
of a conscience. She is very cool and collected, while MacBeth hallucinates and
goes temporarily mad. Lady MacBeth on the other hand, takes everything calmly.
She takes the daggers back to the King's room, smears blood on the drunken
guards, and attempts to destroy all evidence of MacBeth ever being there. She
knows what needs to be done and does it without any hesitation or fear.
However, it is later on in the story, that it is revealed to us that
Lad ...
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Macbeth: The Weird Sisters
Number of Words: 724 / Number of Pages: 3
... He was tempted into believing that if the King was murdered, he was
to become what the witches predicted. While the witches never said this,
Macbeth assumed that that was what they meant and the subsequent murder of
Duncan was carried out by Macbeth himself, but, he also ordered special
murderers to kill Banquo, Lady Macduff and her children. The murder and
bloodshed had absolutely nothing to do with the witches. Macbeth acted totally
out of his own will and beliefs.
Although Macbeth murdered Duncan, it was not planned and thought out.
When Macbeth heard the prediction given to him by the th ...
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King Lear: Journey To Expiate Sin
Number of Words: 795 / Number of Pages: 3
... his
throne. He goes on further to offer pieces of his kingdom to his daughters
as a form of reward to his test of love. "Great rivals in our youngest
daughter's love, Long in our court have made their amorous
sojourn, And here are to be answered. Tell me, my daughters (Since now
we will divest us both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state),
Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may
extend where nature doth with merit challenge."
(Act I, Sc i, Ln 47-53)
This is the first and most significant of the many sins that he makes in
this play. By abdi ...
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Julius Caesar: Brutus Is A Honorable Man
Number of Words: 410 / Number of Pages: 2
... cause, then 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"
(Shake ...
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Macbeth: A Shallow And Weak Man
Number of Words: 348 / Number of Pages: 2
... feels total guilt as well as remorse. However this guilt doesn't stop him from making evil choices. He also fears his friend Banquo, a truly honorable man. Banquo is a good example of a decent man, he is both caring and a courageous friend. Do any of Macbeth's fears make him decent or gentle?
Macbeth is a very brave and noble leader, but this has nothing to do with what kind of man he is. Macbeth is a very shallow and weak man who is easily influenced by the opposite sex. The analysis calls him a courageous and decent man. He shows courageousness but in no way does he prove ...
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Oedipus Rex: Self Discovery
Number of Words: 1328 / Number of Pages: 5
... after the townspeople of THebes start to get sick,and they
discover the murder of Laius,that Oedipus begins his great search.
Oedipus vows to his subjects that he will find the contaminator of
Thebes, not knowing that he has brought on the sickness of the people; "So
shall you see me, as of right, with you, venging this country and the God
together. Why, 'tis not for my neighbour's sake, but mine, I shall dispel
this plague-spot; for the man, whoever it may be, who murdered him, lightly
might hanker to serve me the same. I benefit myself in aiding him."
(Oedipus p6) With that vow he unknowingl ...
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Movie: Delta Force - Suicide In Chinatown
Number of Words: 584 / Number of Pages: 3
... from
where they pulled the gun. The woman was also young, may be working to 20 or 22
years old. She was wearing shorts and a red shirt.
She was the most nervous and she was the one who ordered everybody to
line on the floor and picked the guys as hostages.
When they ordered the hostages to line on the floor, one girl escaped
from the place and called the police.
The couple didn't ask for anything special. They just began to scream
saying that they had the power and wanted the public attention.
Five minutes after the girl escape from the cinema, the police arrived.
There were more than fifte ...
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Othello: Iago As Satan
Number of Words: 1005 / Number of Pages: 4
... "The Long Spoon" is an Irish folk tale that because of its Catholic roots has the devil included in it. "The Long Spoon" depicts the Devil as no less deceiving, but instead of leading a jilted lover to believe that two others are in love, he convinces a hearth-money collector that the two of them were going out for nothing more than to see, "which would have the best load at sunset."4 The Devil lead this hearth-money collector into thinking that the two of them were going out on a harmless trip to collect food, money, clothes, and livestock, but told him that they could accept nothing but what was off ...
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