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Term Papers on Arts and Movies
To Be Shakespeare, Or Not To Be Shakespeare, That Is The Question
Number of words: 1928 - Number of pages: 8.... The
use of the camera has some definite advantages and disadvantages. First, since
the characters are no longer limited by a defined space, they are able to
deliver their long speeches while being in a constant state of motion. This
occurs in the scene with the guards, and most noticeably in the scene with
Laertes and Ophelia, before he leaves for France. This same scene demonstrates
how the camera enables the characters to switch from one setting to the next, as
when Laertes, Ophelia, and Polonius are taken from outside to the church. This,
in turn, help .....
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Macbeth: The Supernatural And The Theme Of Death
Number of words: 453 - Number of pages: 2.... is like a joined appendage to Macbeth. They work as one, communicate as one, and when that appendage is lost, so is MB's grip with reality. Lady Macbeth was the only person he could truly confide in. The supernatural also had another key factor to her death. In the first act of the play, she calls on the powers of the supernatural to make her strong. The following quote, "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, stop up the access and passage to remors .....
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Support Through The National Endowment For The Arts
Number of words: 375 - Number of pages: 2.... in any artistic form they please. No subject matter is
forbidden. We should support free speech not suppress it. This can
however, be taken to extremes. A selection of art can be deemed as
offensive to the general public. This does not mean that restrictions
should be placed on it preventing people from viewing it. The taxpayers
money should not go towards the presentation of such works. A large
percentage of funding of the arts comes from private giving. If a minority
group wishes to view such art, they should have to support it themselves.
In .....
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Review Of Three Movies: Trainspotting, Ferris Bueller's Day Off And Jurassic Park
Number of words: 900 - Number of pages: 4.... do a thing like that? I chose not to
choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who
needs reasons when you've got heroin?" It is very difficult to resist the film's
great energy.
"Trainspotting's" subject matter is raw and raunchy, including AIDS, overdoses
and violence as well as obscene situations described in unprintable language.
This is a film that makes you laugh of things that can in no way be described as
funny. How is this possible? In the film's signature scene, where Renton, in
search of some lost opium suppositorie .....
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Othello And King Lear: A Comparison
Number of words: 255 - Number of pages: 1.... splashed across the glossy magazines. His views about
everything under the sun, from the government to kitchen furniture, would
probably appear regularly in the colour supplements. His face would be familiar
on television talk shows, his voice well-known from radio broadcasts. There
would be so much recorded evidence about his life and his opinions that it would
not be hard to write about him.
Shakespeare, however, lived some four hundred years ago in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth I, when there was no tele-vision or radio, nor even any
newspapers as we know them today. Although he was respected as an i .....
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Summary Of Oedipus
Number of words: 931 - Number of pages: 4.... differ of this land.” He
tells of the plague not leaving until the murderer is found. Tiresias,
being a great prophet, knows all but will not tell: “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 o .....
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Aristotle’s Theory Of Tragedy As Seen In Euripides’ Electra
Number of words: 1310 - Number of pages: 5.... and they come to regret what they have done. However, Electra lacks a true fall from happiness into misery for either children, a profound sense of tragic suffering, and a strong catharsis of pity and fear.
In Electra, both Orestes and Electra can be viewed as tragic figures, however Orestes is the better choice according to Aristotle. Orestes is the son of a king and is a prince, thus he is of a high birth. He has ethos, or a sense of right and wrong, in that he recognizes the injustices that have been done unto his father Agamemnon, his sister Electra, a .....
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Movie: Good Will Hunting
Number of words: 676 - Number of pages: 3.... we all need a soulmate --
someone who touches us and opens our minds in ways we never thought
possible. Will undoubtedly challenges others day after day, and that is
why so many people were drawn to him out of sheer amazement. But, they
weren't afraid to get to know him, and they all chose to let him into their
lives in hopes that he would do the same. The problem is that he never
knew how to do this. In turn, he couldn't fully enjoy life because he had
no one to share it with.
Like many others, Will needs someone to believe in him and
appreciate who .....
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