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Is There Evil In Lady Macbeth And Edmund?
Number of Words: 1057 / Number of Pages: 4
... on Duncan. This crime was planned by both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth just talked about committing the crime, but she never actually went through with it nor would she ever. Her talk and persuasion put the ideas in Macbeth's head and made him think it was the right thing to do. She urged him into doing it which makes her part of this crime, but she is not as guilty as Macbeth. The talk of murder and the planning Lady Macbeth did for her husband makes her evil.
The idea of killing Duncan first came from Macbeth. Macbeth listened to the witches' prophecies that said he would become King. ...
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Death Of A Salesman: An Overview
Number of Words: 2004 / Number of Pages: 8
... in his early sixties. Throughout the story we are told the hard life,
emotions and triumphs of Willy the salesman. Early in the play we learn that
he has recently been demoted to working for commission, which later in the
play,(on par with his luck) translates into Willy getting fired. As the plot
unfolds we discover that Willy had a rich brother who recently died named Ben,
whom Willy looked upon with great admiration for becoming extremely wealthy and
the ripe old age of 21. However Willy also becomes very depressed when Ben
leaves, the fact being that he re-realizes the meagerness of ...
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Tragic Knowledge, Comedic Idiocy
Number of Words: 1315 / Number of Pages: 5
... to act. Shakespeare utilized this power and showed the lower classes what would result due to their actions.
The commoners in A Midsummer Night's Dream are horrible actors that don't have a clue. The only commoner that shows any sense is Quince, who directs the whole bunch (which is probably Shakespeare blowing his own horn, as all directors believe they are intelligent). Bottom is a prima donna who hams everything up without realizing. Flute worships the ground that Bottom walks upon and so he pathetically attempts to emulate Bottom. Snug is extremely obtuse, as he needs help to play the part of the ...
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The Witches Are Responsible For What Happens To Macbeth
Number of Words: 388 / Number of Pages: 2
... again, the witches put ideas in his head.
Although the witches can be held responsible for the murder of King Duncan, Lady Macduff and her son, they cannot be held responsible for the murder of Banquo. The witches only speak of Banquo when Macbeth meets with them for the second time and Act 4, Scene 1, after Banquo has already been killed. This murder is the complete responsibility of Macbeth, because the witches had absolutely nothing to do with it and it was only Macbeth's own suspicions that brought him to have Banquo killed.
If Macbeth had not taken action to fulfill the witch's prophecies, he w ...
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Blindness In Oedipus
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 re ...
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Ophelia As A Reason For Hamlet's Madness
Number of Words: 534 / Number of Pages: 2
... have taken place.
With Ophelia aware of the murderer, she takes matters into her own hands due to her love for Hamlet. Secretly she kills Claudius, but the cause for his death is unknown. Hamlet is the only person besides Ophelia who knows who the culprit is. This is kept a secret between the two and their love is what keeps the secret from getting out.
All the little tragedies within the original tragedy are what make it such a great tragedy, but if I were to make this into a love story these wouldn’t be necessary. By eliminating Claudius secretly. Hamlet’s revenge is no longer necessary. Hamle ...
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Arts And Ceramics In History
Number of Words: 421 / Number of Pages: 2
... was virtually replaced by the new comer around 480 BC. The key to Athens’s success was due in part to the variety of shapes and the countless range of pictorial and geometric designs on the exterior of the pieces.
The ancient Greek pottery has even inspired poetry. An author named John Keats wrote a poem called Ode on a Grecian Earn. The poem speaks of the beauty of Greek pottery.
“O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When ol ...
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Misinformation In The Media
Number of Words: 1268 / Number of Pages: 5
... of dollars involved in trade with Cuba however, the rebels had rallied support, due to the fact that Americans knew they were being put in concentration camps. Americans anger over Cuba flowed in to the newspapers. Randolf Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer printed articles and comic strips about Spain oppressing Cuba. This was so he could survive the deadly competition for the readers. On February 15, 1898, the Maine , a U.S. battleship exploded killing 266 American crewmen in Havana harbor. On the front page of Joseph Pulitzer’s Thursday, February 17, 1981 edition of World, the headline read “Main Explosio ...
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Shawshank Redemption
Number of Words: 475 / Number of Pages: 2
... Filmed on location in a disused Ohio prison, The is set in a place of perpetual dreariness. What little color there is, is drab and lifeless (lots of grays and muted greens and blues), and there are times when the film is a shade away from black-and-white (give credit to cinematographer Roger Deakins, a longtime Cohen brothers collaborator). It's ironic, therefore, that the central messages are of hope, redemption, and salvation.
Tim Robbins, as Andrew Dufresne, plays the wrongly convicted man with quiet dignity. Andy's ire is internal; he doesn't rant about his situation or the corruptness of t ...
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Poppy Field And The Ravine
Number of Words: 961 / Number of Pages: 4
... aware that the images of are illusions. Both paintings are about impression and color sensation. However, the approaches behind these paintings are quite distinctive. As a result, the contexts of the impressions portrayed are different also.
Compositionally, Monet and Van Gogh spread their landscape onto the entire page and centralized the page with a linear perspective. Their landscapes are surpassing the canvas and surpassing us, the viewers. We are in the image and are participating what the artist wanted us to be doing: looking forward, visually capturing this moment of seeing. In fact, ...
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