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A Streetcar Named Desire: Condeming Those Who Treat Others With Harshness And Cruelty
Number of Words: 769 / Number of Pages: 3
... against. What Blanche said
completely devastated Allan and he found no reason to continue living.
Although Blanche had no intentions of hurting Allan, enough damage was done
to prompt Allan to shoot himself, his mind and body destroyed.
The harsh treatment dealt by Mitch to Blanche near the end of the play is
strikingly similar to Blanche's treatment of Allan Gray. Mitch is a friend
of Stanley's whom Blanche falls for during her visit to New Orleans. The
relationship between Blanche and Mitch had been developing steadily. Both
characters felt the need to settle down in life and both saw th ...
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Oedipus Rex: Figurative Blindness
Number of Words: 964 / Number of Pages: 4
... he fled, under the assumption that they were his real parents. While fleeing, he encountered Laius and killed him. He correctly answered the riddle of the Sphinx, finally became the king of Thebes, and later married Jocasta. Oedipus fulfilled the prophecy without even knowing it. Thebes now had to endure a plague, and a prophet put the blame on a polluter of the land of Thebes. Oedipus called on Tiresias, and Tiresias clued him that the polluter was the king. As Oedipus searched further and further, he unearthed that he was the polluter Tiresius spoke of and that the prophecy had become r ...
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How Do We Evaluate Art?
Number of Words: 555 / Number of Pages: 3
... find an adult's suggestion is much more ideal than a child's. When
we are judging with our experience, we are actually doing comparison. We are
asking ourselves several questions. Is it better than what I had seen before?
Is it creative? Can it be better? Is it professional?
However, not all of our experience is good. There are bad memories.
Our judgement is therefore wrong. Thus, we have to aware that our opinion does
not have a mean of absolute. It is also important to determine with another
factor, knowledge.
Knowledge is from experience. It can be gained through experience. It ...
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Movie: Life, Like The Great Gatsby
Number of Words: 1807 / Number of Pages: 7
... Scott, Fitsgerald was an American short story writer and novelist
famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age(the 1920's), his most brilliant novel
work being The Great Gatsby(1925). He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on sept.
24, 1896 and died in Hollywood, California on December 21, 1940. His private
life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost as
celebrated as his novels. Fitsgerald was the only son of an aristocrat father,
who was the author of the star spangle banner. Fitzgerald spent most of time
with his wife, latter in their relationship they moved to fran ...
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Julius Caesar: Brutus Is The Protagonist
Number of Words: 926 / Number of Pages: 4
... on Brutus, but not
out of love for Caesar, but anger toward the conspirators. As these aspects are
explained in further detail one will be sure of the fact that Brutus, without
question, clearly dominates the play as a whole.
Caesar warns numerous people of ensuing tragedies multiple times, and not once
is he listened to. Calpurnia cries out terrified three times during the night,
"Help ho - they murder Caesar!" The reader soon learns of a dream in which
Caesar's wife visualizes her husband's death. She begs and pleads Caesar to
stay home that day, however, nobody ever pays any attention to her ...
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Death Of A Salesman : A Social Criticism
Number of Words: 1780 / Number of Pages: 7
... will not entertain the possibility of finding a job more suitable to his talents, even though perhaps he could function as a member of society if he did; and he lives in a deluded bubble, angry, self-righteous, too proud for his own good... qualities that simply do not survive in America's production-based, time-crunch, fast-food and fast talk society.
The play opens with Linda, the loving and ever-supportive wife, welcoming Willy home from another grueling and fruitless day's work. Linda loves her husband even though she knows "Willy is essentially a self-deluded man who has lost the power to disting ...
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Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid"
Number of Words: 1774 / Number of Pages: 7
... treatment. However in the play by Panych, there is no shortage of
enemas and other "bathroom" related scenes. I originally thought this change was
for comical purposes, but after some additional thought I questioned whether
Argan was imagining his illness or if he really was ill. In the text, by not
having too many bathroom scenes, Argan seems to be imagining his illness (thus,
he is the imaginary invalid). In Panych's stage version, Argan shows several
symptoms of being ill; this definitely confuses the original play by Moliere.
One of the original purposes of the play was to criticize, among other ...
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The Need For Horror And Thrill And The Movies
Number of Words: 995 / Number of Pages: 4
... working with or against the unseen cuts of the knife.
An example of a film that works with the shower scene in Psycho is obviously displayed in de Palma’s Dressed to Kill. The scene that correlates is when Peter’s mother is killed the elevator by Liz. This scene is similar to Psycho because as in Psycho when Kate has her revelation and decides to return the money, and showers as a way to “clean” her once evil thoughts, Peter’s mother also has some sort of revelation when she realizes she has been infected with a venereal disease. She then decides to discontinue her affair with the psychologi ...
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Movie: The Paper Chase
Number of Words: 267 / Number of Pages: 1
... going to college
demands a lot more than the "easy street" they've been riding in high school.
The movie teaches that you need to be able to put up with the arrogance
of the rich and uppity people that attend an Ivy League school. They are very
expensive and most students come from wealthy families.
"The Paper Chase" teaches the viewer that law school is very stressful;
it is a way of life not just going to school; and you must have what it takes
just to survive law school.
The things I liked most about Mr. Kingsfield was well organized, and
that he was a difficult teacher. Difficult teachers us ...
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A Raisin In The Sun
Number of Words: 1151 / Number of Pages: 5
... talks allot about his African past and believes deeply in his culture and heritage. He is from Nigeria where there is a lot of poverty.
is a quiet celebration of the black
family the importance of African roots, the equality of
women, the vulnerability of marriage, the true value of
money, the survival of the individual and the nature of
mans dreams (Cheney 55).
Africa is a great part of the play because it brings out good and humorous elements in the Younger family, such as Walter yelling out ^Hot Damn!^ ^Flaming Spear!^ as Beneatha walks out in her Nigerian robes (Cheney 60). Afri ...
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