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Questionable Heros In The Play Julius Caesar
Number of Words: 710 / Number of Pages: 3
... of the hero as he takes Caesar's
side after death and rallies the people against the conspirators. As he speaks
to Octavius, though, he shows that he is mainly after the power also in saying
that the third person of their new triumvirate, Lepidus, is not a worthy
adversary and is only good enough to carry messages. Antony goes on to say that
they should have him (Lepidus) killed, along with all the other people they were
making a list of. He was going to have them eliminated just because they might
stand in their way to gaining complete power. He also ordered to have figured a
way to cut some of t ...
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My Perception Of William Shakespeare's Othello
Number of Words: 2539 / Number of Pages: 10
... Yet only a couple hundred lines later he says,
"I'll tear her to pieces" (line 447) and says that his mind will never change
from the "tyrannous hate" (line 464) he now harbors. Does Othello make the
transition just because he is so successfully manipulated by Iago? Or is there
something particular about his character which makes him make this quick
change? I believe that "jealousy" is too simple of a term to describe Othello.
I think that Othello's rapid change from love to hate for Desdemona is fostered
partly by an inferiority complex. He appears to be insecure in his love for
Desdemona (as we ...
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The Simpsons
Number of Words: 360 / Number of Pages: 2
... cartoon may be what has kept
some people from watching. The cartoon though is what helps achieve many of the
humorous aspects. For example a spill of nuclear waste would not be very
amusing in a show with real people.
The show has the assumption that it is OK if your family argues all the
time. It shows this by the little arguments that the family constantly gets
into. It also shows that it's pointless to try to be good all the time. One
example is when they're eating at home they use no table manners whatsoever and
when they go to church they try to be like normal families. There are times ...
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Oedipus Rex: Fate And Freewill
Number of Words: 1205 / Number of Pages: 5
... protagonist do to there own freewill.
Oedipus was born with a horrible prophecy told to his parents which
led his parents to believe that Oedipus would kill his father and marry his
mother. They soon had Oedipus taken up to a mountain, to leave him there to
die. A shepherd saved his life and raised him, Oedipus soon went back to
Thebes were he was born. Oedipus believed that he was traveling away from
his home town, he soon found himself at a road where three corners met.
There he murdered his father without knowing it was his father. He soon
then traveled to Thebes and then he married his own mother ...
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The Merchant Of Venice
Number of Words: 970 / Number of Pages: 4
... "Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire," sees the message,
"All that glisters is not gold," and is thus turned away by Portia. The Prince
of Arragon, on choosing the silver casket with, "Who chooseth me shall get as
much as he deserves," receives a fool's head, and is told that that is what he
deserves. Bassanio however, on correctly choosing the lead casket with the
inscription, "Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath," says, "The
world is still (constantly) deceived with ornament." He chooses the lead casket
so as not to be fooled by the dull appearance, and receive ...
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As Good As It Gets: A Review
Number of Words: 1276 / Number of Pages: 5
... who demand everything to go their way and otherwise go into intense tantrums, but adults who commit mean, aggressive and antisocial behaviors as Mr. Eudoll clearly does are also sometimes said to have ODD.
Throughout the movie, Melvin Eudoll shows clear and undeniable signs of obsessive compulsive disorder. The first time in the movie that we see him enter his apartment, he recites "one two three four five" as he locks all of the fine locks on his door. he then proceeds to turn on the fire light switches in his kitchen, again reciting "one, two, three, four, five." He proceeds immediately to the b ...
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Powder: Questions
Number of Words: 1253 / Number of Pages: 5
... rest of society in which he lived in. Although he was
persecuted, beaten, and ridiculed at. He understood his characteristics and
understood why the boys hated him It was fear!
3. I respect Jeremy's caring. Like Christ himself, he wouldn't fight or use any
sort of violence to resolve problems. Jeremy would speak his words of wisdom, or
use his divine powers of mental stability and force to express a point. He would,
without hurting anyone, prove a point. This characteristic made us create a
field of empathy for the boy.
4. Jeremy showed his love and compassion and caring for other people and
creat ...
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King Lear: Suffering
Number of Words: 473 / Number of Pages: 2
... to throw himself off of. His enemies
didn't want to kill him, but they already did, internally.
The internal death is the final stage of mental suffering, but there are
many stages before the one must go through to get to that last stage. Many of
these stages are shown in King Lear, as he breaks down from a powerful man to a
crazy derelict, all because of someone close to him, that he trusted, stabbed
him in the back. The family is part of your environment and so is the weather.
A storm can be a gusting hurricane or a conflict with your sister. Both
conflicts cause damage, and the damage may or ma ...
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy Loman
Number of Words: 765 / Number of Pages: 3
... became a salesman. Willy is the most unqualified salesman ever! He never
sold a thing. Willy stops seeing the truth at one point of his life and he
relies on his own lies to numb his pain. The pain of knowing he cannot and wont
be able to become Dave Singleman. He is Willy Loman, who is good at fixing the
house. He is not cut out for travelling from city to city and selling goods to
people he has never met before. Willy dramatically dies living out his dream,
the dream that never suited Willy Loman.
Willy does not allow people to tell him what to do. He believes that he
cannot be bossed arou ...
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Ophelia: The Forgotten Character
Number of Words: 1395 / Number of Pages: 6
... Nunnery Scene. She of course has no idea of the state he is in, and it is possible that she thinks his condition has indeed been caused by her following her father's instructions and refusing to see him. In the conflict between her love for Hamlet and her duty of obedience to her father's orders, she grants to Polonius' wishes. Hamlet, however, is less obedient to the orders of the ghost, his father.
In essence, "pretty Ophelia," as Claudius calls her, is the most innocent victim of Hamlet's revenge. Attracted by her sweet beauty after the depressing event of his father's death, Hamlet had falle ...
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