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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Egeus
Number of Words: 870 / Number of Pages: 4
... jurisdiction where they can get married. She gladly agrees and they decide to meet the following night in a wood a couple miles from Athens. At this moment Helen, Hermia's good friend appears, so they tell her about their plan and she promises to help the lovers. Helena, who is hopelessly in love with Demetrius, rushing to try to win his favor by telling him of Hermia's plan to elope. Demetrius got very upset and he hurries away to stop the elopement, but Helena follows him. Peter Quince a carpenter and a group of common laboring men are preparing a short comic play, to be performed before These ...
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The Crucible: Reverend John Hale - A Dynamic Character
Number of Words: 438 / Number of Pages: 2
... point when Reverend Hale begins to change is in Act III during the
trial of John Proctor. “I am a minister of the lord, and I dare not take a life
without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may
doubt it.” He starts to doubt if the very thing that he searches to rid the
people of might be a lie.
Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own...where I turned the
eye of my great faith, blood flowed up. Beware Goody Proctor-cleave to
no faith when faith brings blood. Reverend Hale realizes his job of finding
and ridding the world of witches is false. “It is mistake ...
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King Lear: Consequences Of One Man's Decisions
Number of Words: 811 / 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 abdicatin ...
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Macbeth’s Destiny
Number of Words: 504 / Number of Pages: 2
... to visit Macbeth’s castle. The thought of royalty for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and the opportunity to have the king within striking distance appeal to both of them. This causes them to act against their king even though they were loyal to him. The events all occurred because the witches’ simple knowledge of what would happen if they told Macbeth that he would become king in the future.
The witches use warning as “predictions” this time. They show apparitions to give these warnings. The first says “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff,/Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.” ( ...
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Othello: Iago As A "Type" Of Satan?
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... Desdemona when she tires of Othello. He also tells Roderigo that Cassio is in love with Desdemona and convinces Roderigo to murder Cassio (Iago later murders Roderigo). Iago even deceives his own wife, Emilia, convincing her to "find" Desdemona's handkerchief, given to her by Othello as a gift. He then drops it in Cassio's room and uses that as proof of Desdemona's infidelity. He later tries to kill Emilia to silence her. Not one escapes his web of deception.
What is the reason for all this deception? Pure and simple, it is evil greed and jealousy. Iago is jealous of Michael Cassio's position with ...
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Macbeth: His Downfall Was Due To His Ambition For Power
Number of Words: 756 / Number of Pages: 3
... of Scotland, a man
whom trusted and loved Macbeth. With Duncan dead and the two princes
fleeing, Macbeth was crowned king of Scotland. In the end, Macbeth had
fulfilled his prophecies but in doing, he had committed treason against his
country. Macbeth's second great crime was committed against his friends,
the people around him whom use to admire him. After he had been crowned
king, Macbeth believed his greatest obstacle had been overcame but that
assumption was far the truth. By committing the first great crime, Macbeth
had unconsciously paved the way for his downfall. Perhaps the turning point
of th ...
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The Use Of Camera Angles In Citizen Kane
Number of Words: 412 / Number of Pages: 2
... large numbers to work and then when it is shut down there is no one around and the whole place is empty. This really shows the impact of which the plant shutting down had on the people. It puts into perspective the amount of people that were fired and had no job and in essence no money. These shots help to prove the impact that the depression had on people.
The fourth example is at the very end. During the whole movie everyone is trying to figure out the meaning of the word Rosebud and Welles uses a close up of the sled with the words Rosebud on it to show the answer to the question that everyone ...
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Othello And King Lear: A Comparison
Number of Words: 255 / Number of Pages: 1
... his taste in clothes splashed across the glossy magazines. His views about
everything under the sun, from the government to kitchen furniture, would
probably appear regularly in the colour supplements. His face would be familiar
on television talk shows, his voice well-known from radio broadcasts. There
would be so much recorded evidence about his life and his opinions that it would
not be hard to write about him.
Shakespeare, however, lived some four hundred years ago in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth I, when there was no tele-vision or radio, nor even any
newspapers as we know them today. Alt ...
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Dead Man Walking
Number of Words: 1469 / Number of Pages: 6
... Instead of turning away or giving up, she persisted, showing what
love and, in a way, courage could do under such dire circumstances. Through it
all, she did it with spirit, life, vitality, and strength. Her relationship
with the convict, Matthew Poncelet, was on two levels. The first was as a
friend and confidant. Sister Helen was the first to truly explore Matthew for
Matthew. Others tried to learn about him, but only to vilify or condemn him.
The second level was as a messenger of religion, a messenger of God. For the
very first time, Matthew was given the opportunity to realize ...
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Television Censorship
Number of Words: 1589 / Number of Pages: 6
... and could be freely passed through customs. The courts
ruled that the use of "dirty words" in "a sincere and honest book" did not make
the book "dirty." Since the 1950s many obscenity cases involving books,
magazines, and film have been brought before the Supreme Court. In the cases
during the 1970s the court ruled that laws against obscenity must be limited "
to works which, taken as a whole, appeal to the prurient interest in sex; which
portray sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and which, taken as a whole,
do not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." The ...
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