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Review Of Oedipus
Number of Words: 827 / Number of Pages: 4
... We have to remember though that this play was only a day long so he faces all of these challenges in just one day. It seems like every time King Liaos death is brought up, Oedipus always blames it on someone. Oedipus then tells everyone that the person who killed King Liaos will be put to death when found. When he says this, it tells the people that he didn’t kill him. As the play goes on he blames the death on Kreon. After that he blames Teiresias for the death. The play continues like this for a long time until it reaches the Exodus. During the Exodus, Oedipus starts noticing what he is doing wron ...
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Is Hamlet Mad?
Number of Words: 2011 / Number of Pages: 8
... the afterlife. This is one of the
reasons that the ghost of his father has such an effect on him, which is a
trigger for all the subsequent events in the play.
Moving on to the fourth scene, the next interesting speech is on l. 23. It is a
long and complicated speech, but its general gist is that if a person has one
fault, no matter how virtuous they may be in other ways, they are soiled by "the
stamp of one defect". This speech is quite ironic, because it is Hamlet's "one
defect" (his hesitancy and inability to take action), regardless of his other
qualities (such as honour and integrity), will ...
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Oedipus: Classical Example Of A Tragic Hero
Number of Words: 1062 / Number of Pages: 4
... son Creon, Jocasta’s brother, to Apollo, to his Pythian temple, so that he might learn there by what act or word [Oedipus] could save [his] city.” (60-73) Upon returning, Creon brings with him encouraging news that saving Thebes is a simple task of finding and driving out Laius’ murderer or murderers. At once Oedipus begins this task with these words to his people: “I forbid any to welcome him or cry him greeting or make him a sharer in sacrifice or offering to the Cods, or give him water for his hands to wash. I command all to drive him from their homes, since he is our pollution...” (239-243) ...
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Elements Of A Shakespeariean Tragedy
Number of Words: 593 / Number of Pages: 3
... an honorable Senator. Julius Caesar had two tragic
flaws. Caesar was said by Brutus to be ambitious, which led directly to his
downfall - “ But as he was ambitious, I slew him.” (Act 3. Scene 2. Line 28)
Caesar was also arrogant, he believed that he was too great to be harmed, Caesar
said “ Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death
but once.” (Act 2. Scene 2. Lines 34-35) Brutus too, had a tragic flaw.
Brutus was an idealist, not a realist. Brutus was an optimist, he always wanted
the best for Rome. Although sometimes, Brutus couldn't see things for what they
reall ...
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Franco Zeffirelli And Baz Luhrmann's Romeo And Juliet
Number of Words: 998 / Number of Pages: 4
... on television. This sets the scene of the play by illustrating
the violence occurring between the two wealthy families, the Montagues and the
Capulets. In Zeffirelli's film of "Romeo and Juliet," the prologue takes the
form of a dry narrator relating the story of the Montagues and Capulets over a
backdrop of an Italian city. For most modern viewers (especially teenagers),
the Luhrmann picture is fast-paced, keeping the spectator intrigued, while the
Zeffirelli picture is dreary and dull, an endless maze of long and boring
conversations, foreshadowed by the prologue. In Luhrmann's film, the actors, ...
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Summary Of Oedipus
Number of Words: 931 / Number of Pages: 4
... “I will speak no
further. Rage if you have a mind to.” Only after Oedipus persists does
the prophet say Oedipus is the murderer: “I say that you are the murderer
that you seek.” Tiresias further states that Oedipus is married to his
mother: “You are living with your next of kin in unimagined shame.”
Oedipus, unwilling to turn the mirror on himself, resorts to insulting
Tiresias: “Was it Creon that planned this or you yourself...the riddle
about man is about himself.” A man's fate is his character; at this moment
Oedipus has no character. Oedipus presumes there is a conspiracy plotted
against him. ...
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Oedipus The King: Existence Of Man
Number of Words: 1115 / Number of Pages: 5
... to the reader three main commentaries about the nature of man: man
cannot escape his past, pride is the sin which leads man to greater evils, and
although the life of man is in itself a positive good, there will always be a
shadow of terrible tragedy that falls across it.
All throughout literature, many works have portrayed characters who
carry with them a dark and gloomy past, and try to tear this shameful history of
their lives from the books of their life. Unfortunately, this is impossible due
to the fact that the past is a precursor to the present which, in turn,
determines one's future. It ...
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Massurrealism
Number of Words: 1907 / Number of Pages: 7
... both lacked. (Carrillo, Massurealism: A Visual and Conceptual Hybrid)
takes the surrealism aspect of its dream like psychic imagery and interprets it into amore mass popular, usually appealing entity. Pop arts influence on is more form a creative standpoint, which is extremely vital in today’s age of overflowed media influence. (Carrillo, Massurealism: A Visual and Conceptual Hybrid) By definition Massurealism is "the combination of largely unrelated concepts and visions that portray the popular perception of modern imagery, thus procuring its momentum from the disinterested play of tho ...
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A Review Of The Movie: The Usual Suspects
Number of Words: 1881 / Number of Pages: 7
... figure, cloaked in black, and speaking in
muffled tones. Keaton addresses the man as "Keyser" and then asks what
time it is. After a quick check of his gold watch and the light of his
cigarette, the dark one lifts up his gun and fires. Dropping his cigarette
in a line of gas, the boat explodes seconds later as the camera focuses in
on a stack of barrels and ropes.
What this first scene does is provide the viewer with one big
question: what just happened? As the movie progresses the set-up of the
scene slowly plays out in front of us in logical order. But there remains
one major detail left out, w ...
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Creative Writing Of Hamlet
Number of Words: 539 / Number of Pages: 2
... for a
while. I want you to watch mommy, and guard our fortress from invaders.
Take this. It will help you be strong." He gave me a small gold dagger.
He left that afternoon and I knew he wouldn't be back for a long time.
Things carried on as usual. I ran around the castle playing and
shirking any responsibility that I had. One day I was playing hide-and-go-
seek with Laertes and the other kids. I accidentally strayed from the
other kids. I just wandered around for a while. I was roaming through the
maze of hedges in the courtyard, when I heard voices. I peaked through a
bush and saw mom and ...
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