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Term Papers on Arts and Movies
Compare And Contrast: Oedipus And Othello
Number of words: 1019 - Number of pages: 4.... Shakespeare's plays, had what is
called an abstract setting. That is a setting in which the locale may change
rapidly, it may not be indicated by the script that it has changed, and was most
likely suggested by a few props. Abstract settings place more emphasis on the
language and the performer, which causes the spectator to use their imagination.
It also places more emphasis on costuming. This type of setting helped set up
the style of representational theater, which places high emphasis on the
realistic. The style used in classical Greece was presentation .....
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LADY MACBETH IS WORSE THAN MACBETH
Number of words: 478 - Number of pages: 2.... evil spirits, to (ironically) give her the strength to kill
the king. In Act 1, Scene 7, Macbeth is doubtfull of Lady Macbeth's plot
to kill the king. He doesn't think that he will be able to live with the
guilt of killing his king while he is staying under his very roof, and then
decides that he will not kill the king. This shows that Macbeth is thinking
about what he is going to do, and shows that he does feel guilt and is
weighing up the situation, unlike Lady Macbeth who never thinks twice about
killing the king. When Lady Macbeth notices that Macbeth has l .....
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Hamlet: Character Traits
Number of words: 948 - Number of pages: 4.... "...How stand I then,/That
have father killed, a mother stained,...2". He is asking himself what kind
of a person he is if he can allow his father to be murdered and his mother
to be married so soon after his father's death to his uncle. This shows us
that he is pitying himself and is putting himself down. Yet another example
of his emotions running wild are seen in his first soliloquy:
...She married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such
dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to
good. But break my h .....
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Racism In Apocalypse Now
Number of words: 745 - Number of pages: 3.... was unearthly, and the men were--- No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--- this suspicion of their not being inhuman.”(Heart of Darkness, pg.59) Marlow had his doubts on whether the natives were as savage as everyone thought, but the outlooks of others did not change.
The native’s lifestyles are dramatically changed when the overpowering of white man dominate their land. The whites expected the natives to follow and comply with their demands once the natives’ homelands were invaded. This is because the whites considere .....
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MacBeth: Everyone Who Is Moral Has At Least One Flaw
Number of words: 815 - Number of pages: 3.... deserved his fate. He
was leading a battle, in which many lost their lives, for the sake of greed,
and deserved to die because of his flaw. Duncan was the King of England,
and was murdered by MacBeth. He was murdered, because in order for MacBeth
to fulfill his plan and become king, Duncan would have to die. Duncan's
fatal flaw was that he was too trusting. For example, he thought that none
of his friends could really be enemies. If Duncan was more careful about
his safety at MacBeth's castle, he may have had a chance to survive. But
Duncan's flaw, wasn't .....
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A Review Of The Movie: The Usual Suspects
Number of words: 1881 - Number of pages: 7.... opens on a burning boat in a harbor. The
first character we see is the slumped over Dean Keaton, waiting to die.
Then down comes this mysterious 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 .....
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Othello: Iago As Satan
Number of words: 1005 - Number of pages: 4.... Line 292, Desdemona says "I love him," and goes on demanding, "Let me go with him"3 ; she was talking about Othello and traveling with him to Cyprus.
"The Long Spoon" is an Irish folk tale that because of its Catholic roots has the devil included in it. "The Long Spoon" depicts the Devil as no less deceiving, but instead of leading a jilted lover to believe that two others are in love, he convinces a hearth-money collector that the two of them were going out for nothing more than to see, "which would have the best load at sunset."4 The Devil lead this hearth-mon .....
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Comparison Of Macbeth And Jack (of Lord Of The Flies)
Number of words: 528 - Number of pages: 2.... formed his own group and set up a camp on Castle Rock, he became more
cruel than before. For Macbeth, he hesitated six times before killing
Duncan. But when he planned to kill Banquo and Macduff's family, he didn't
hesitated and killed them without regret. Lastly, they were both
superstitious. Jack was superstitious, he worshipped the Lord of the Flies
and held a ritual dance around the camp fire after sacrificing the pig. For
Macbeth, he believed in the fortune telling of the three witches. (Quote:
All hail Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis. .....
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