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Term Papers on Arts and Movies
Macbeth: Macbeth's Character
Number of words: 1824 - Number of pages: 7.... expenditure of prodigious physical energy and the euphoria which follows. He also rejoices no doubt in the success which crowns his efforts in battle - and so on. He may even conceived of the proper motive which should energize back of his great deed:
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself.
But while he destroys the king's enemies, such motives work but dimly at best and are obscured in his consciousness by more vigorous urges. In the main, as we have said, his nature violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in order that he may b .....
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The Merchant Of Venice: Theme Of The Nature Of True Love
Number of words: 1075 - Number of pages: 4.... through even more clearly when it comes time to choose the casket.
He does not want to risk anything, and therefore; he does not choose the
lead casket whose inscription tells the suitor he must give up everything.
The Prince, after looking at the inscription of the gold casket, which read
"'who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire'" (2.7, 37), decides that
what he desires most is the Portia's hand so the gold must be the correct
casket. He insists that the gold casket is the one holding Portia's
picture because she is so much worthier than the lead cas .....
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Macbeth: The Use Of The Classical Tragic Mold In Character Development
Number of words: 674 - Number of pages: 3.... host. These reasons dissuade
Macbeth at first, but later Lady Macbeth convinces him, by questioning his
manhood, to commit the dastardly crime. When he finally murders Duncan, the
problem comes to closure. But, even long before then, the next step in the
mold had begun: the descent into the abyss.
The "decent into the abyss" is the second step in the Classical
Tragic Mold. It is started with Macbeth's second soliloquy. This is after
Macbeth hears from Duncan that Malcolm was to be named the Prince of
Cumberland. "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on whic .....
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Weakness Of Women In Hamlet
Number of words: 1102 - Number of pages: 5.... King’s brother, Claudius. Gertrude’s marriage to Claudius was a deplorable and sordid disappointment to Hamlet who was appalled by the speed with which his mother recovered from her widowhood. “Within a month, ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes, she married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” (Act1.scene2.158-162). The absence of a mourning period for the Queen suggests that she needed a husband so badly that she brazenly betrayed Hamlet and her late husband, and involved he .....
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Comparison Of Book And Movie "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"
Number of words: 682 - Number of pages: 3.... to his childhood, lighting
on significant points in his childhood. His background is never even brushed
upon in the movie. Of course it would have been nearly impossible to tell of
Bromdens life in a movie, much less show the world from his point of view as in
the book. Bromden is still a very interesting character but the real puzzle to
his problems is lost.
McMurphy is a very sly, cunning man. He knows how to play his game and
does it well. In the book as McMurphy progresses, he goes through many stages
where he is rebellious, then docile, then rebellio .....
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The Crucible: The Evilness And Selfishness Of Abigail Williams
Number of words: 949 - Number of pages: 4.... you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and
I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy
reckoning that will shudder you... And you know I can do it... I can make you
wish you had never seen the sun go down.”
She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals and
her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her feelings
of love, and her passion for John was enormous. After she was denied these
things she could no longer control herself, and her whole reason for .....
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The Chorus Of Antigone
Number of words: 466 - Number of pages: 2.... the most powerful of elements, and tame the wildest beast, yet death
still comes. He also learns through them some important things about love,
especially that it is unconquerable.
Through the chorus Creon begins to see that he is wrong and God is
superior to himself, but it takes a lot to shake his belief that a perfect
society is run by an unrelenting rule. This play also told me a lot about
humans in general, that the they aren't interested in anything but the
fulfillment of their own needs, and that they refuse to see that something may
be more powe .....
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My Favorite Character In Death Of A Salesman
Number of words: 427 - Number of pages: 2.... Wagner, "Howard,
all I need is fifty dollars a week to set my table." (page 80) He is a
very confused man that has had many let~downs in his older years.
Willy was an interesting person. He worked for the same company
for 34 years, and was fired when he asked for a raise. He was there when
the recent owner, Howard Wagner, was born. He lays a guilt trip on Howard,
talking about his father, and still Howard doesn't feel bad for him.
Willy has traveled around the world for his company and was loved by
everyone he met. He feels alone because everyone has for .....
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