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Imagery In Macbeth
Number of Words: 547 / Number of Pages: 2
... wanted to here and he believed them. He told Lady Macbeth what the witches said. She taught him and ridiculed him to be evil. He listened to her and that is when the trouble started.
The first ignoble killing by Macbeth was the killing of what was supposed to be his friend Duncan. Macbeth killed Duncan to become king.
"And only thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood
It is the bloody business which informs"
(Act 2, Scene1: lines 46-48)
Macbeth starts to hallucinate; the guilt is starting to build up within him even before he commits regicide.
The guilt inside Macbeth will lead to worse and ...
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Character Analysis: Athena
Number of Words: 628 / Number of Pages: 3
... journey of Telemachos played an important part of his becoming a man.
Athena also rescued Odysseus from certain death at the hands of
Poseidon Earthshaker and brought him to the island of Phaiacia. "Now it
was the turn of Athenaia the daughter of Zeus, and this was her plan. She
tied up the courses of all the other winds, and commanded them to rest and
be quiet; but she sent a steady wind from the north and broke down the
waves in front of Odysseus, that he might make his way and save himself
alive." (Homer 70) At this point in the novel Posiedon is enraged with
Odysseus because he is about to m ...
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Broadcasting, Programming, And The Audience
Number of Words: 1856 / Number of Pages: 7
... soaps is their first choice or it is their second
choice but their first is not available.
The FCC then offers a license to station B. After examining the audience
sizes, stations B also starts to show soaps. By programming to this audience, it
splits the soaps market with station A and both of them have 1300 viewers.
Station B does not pick another programming because no other choice can
offer more than 1300 viewers.
When the FCC offers a license to station C, things will definitely
change in this market. Station C sees the biggest audience available is the
sitcom market ...
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Hamlet’s Hamartia
Number of Words: 735 / Number of Pages: 3
... is his hesitation, rationalization, excessive thinking, all combined, to almost literally become his fatal flaw. It is his indecisiveness that almost kills him.
Although from the very opening of the play, Hamlet recognizes that it is his filial duty to avenge the murder of his father by killing the murderer, his uncle, he does not perform this duty until he is actually pressed to it by circumstance, and until it is at the point of death himself. “Now might I do it pat, now he is paying; And now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged. That would be scanned: A villain kills my fat ...
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Work In The Media
Number of Words: 459 / Number of Pages: 2
... to do.
The other type of work that is shown in the movie is the educated type of work. In this paragraph, I will show how the movie portrays educated work. Educated work is the work of scholars, people who have graduated college, the educated people. These people will have the best jobs, the biggest houses, and the nicest things. Unlike the menial work, the only physical labor these people will have to do at work is to get up from their desks to go to the bathroom. For example, the man who discovers Will Hunting’s talents is Gerald Lambo, a professor at Harvard University. He teaches his lesson ...
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Ansel Adams' Moon And Half Dome
Number of Words: 693 / Number of Pages: 3
... the feeling that Half Dome is massive is the size of the moon in relation to the rock. Although it is actually small in the Earth's sky, the moon always has the influence of being great, and anything that dwarfs it can become ominous. The black and white of the photograph also assists in giving the viewer the impression that Half Dome is enormous. The darkness of the sky draws the eye to it because among the vast blackness the moon is oddly white and somewhat blurred in comparison to the detail of the rest of the photograph. A blurred object among a large area of clarity gives the impression of d ...
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Othello: Reasons For Iago's Hatred Of Othello
Number of Words: 1571 / Number of Pages: 6
... the
battlefield, Othello appoints "a great arithmetician, one Michael Cassio, a
Florentine . . . that never set a squadron on the field" (1.1.19-22).
Michael Cassio was more of an intellectual type, a book learner, and a
student of military science. Iago only proves good at fighting, whereas
Cassio has the tactical knowledge to effectively lead and win in battle.
To make matters worse, Cassio is also a foreigner, from Florence, and he
is of higher status and family name than Iago. All of these things
combine to magnify Iago's hatred of the Moor. Iago carefully planned his
future by persuading "thr ...
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Fate In King Lear
Number of Words: 2068 / Number of Pages: 8
... so do the characters view their lives as
caught in a pattern they have no power to change. Lear sets the play in
motion in banishing Cordelia when he swears "by all the operation of the
orbs from whom we exist and cease to be" that his decision "shall not be
revoked". How like the scene in Julius Caesar wherein Caesar says "For I
am constant as the Northern star" Lear vows to be resolute but dies
regretting his decision at the hands of his daughters who claim love him
"more than word can wield" and are "alone felicitate" in his presence.
That Edmund disbelieves in the influence of the stars add ...
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Falstaff's Role In Henry IV, Part One
Number of Words: 921 / Number of Pages: 4
... a coward.
2. That you (the reader) can detach Falstaff's frivolity from the play
and it can exist for its own sake apart from the major theme of the drama.
3. That the play is really about the fate of the kingdom, and that you
(the reader) do not connect Falstaff's scenes with the main action. This
means that the play has no real unity.
Starting with Johnson's first assumption, I do agree with this. Any
discussion of Falstaff is bound to include a judgement about his moral
character. Is he a coward, a thief, a glutton? No one can deny that he is
in fact a glutton and a thief. A coward ...
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Les Miserables
Number of Words: 1756 / Number of Pages: 7
... brings Valjean back to the priest's house to confirm the theft, the priest amazes everyone by saying that he gave Valjean the silver and then he added a pair of silver candle sticks to what already was taken. When the police left, the priest told Valjean that he "must use this precious silver to become an honest man". With this kindness that was given to Valjean, he decided that he will be able to start his life again. In the opening scene Valjean has a soliloquy where he discusses how cruel the world is once branded a criminal.
Javert can be considered the protagonist and the big bad giant of th ...
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