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Term Papers on Arts and Movies
Elements Of Masque In The Tempest
Number of words: 1036 - Number of pages: 4.... for the goddesses and, ideally, machinery for Juno to descend as deus ex machina with. It also involves great amounts of song and dance. The entire play makes extensive use of music, with Ariel's songs and Prospero's charms as well as the "sweet airs" of the island itself. Being non-human, Caliban, Ariel and the spirits require elaborate costume to make them appear so, and the court party members are decked in their finest court apparel, having just been at Claribel's wedding, so that Miranda is taken aback by the "brave new world / That hath such creatures .....
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Macbeth: Aristotelian Tragedy
Number of words: 1832 - Number of pages: 7.... Parodos and Stasimon.
The prologos is that entire part of a tragedy which precedes the Parodos of the
Chorus. The Episode is that entire part of a tragedy which is between complete
choric songs. The Exodos is that entire part of a tragedy which has no choric
song after it. Of the Choric part the Parodos is the first undivided utterance
of the Chorus." Shakespeare follows this precise arrangement of parts to tell
his story of Macbeth. Macbeth is divided into five acts. It contains a
Prologue, Episode, Exodus, Parodos and Stasimon, but is the only one of
Shak .....
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Trifles: Summary
Number of words: 653 - Number of pages: 3.... dead, with a rope around his neck. Mr. Hale didn’t know how to react to her statement, so he just asked her who had killed him. Mrs. Wright said she didn’t know. Thinking that he may need help, Mr. Hale called in Harry from outside and they both went upstairs. After seeing Mr. Wight dead, Harry went down the road and called the sheriff. Mrs. Wright just kept rocking in her chair.
So, the attorney’s murder investigation continued, with Mr. Hale and the sheriff following. They first snooped around the kitchen for evidence, criticizing the sloppiness. Ne .....
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“What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?”
Number of words: 576 - Number of pages: 3.... theory comes into play when his mother dies, and he goes into the basement and destroys it since it is where his father killed himself.
Gilbert’s sister Amy really feels like she is the mother. She has so much responsibility that she has no life, or any friends. His other sister Ellen give the impression that she is ashamed of her mother as well as the rest of the family. Ellen really tries hard to fit in with everyone else. She may also feel lonely, or like she has no real parents. Ellen feels like her brother Arnie get all the attention, but above all I t .....
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Hamlet: Scene Summaries
Number of words: 1133 - Number of pages: 5.... Laertes tells her sister, Ophelia, to be cautious of marrying Hamlet.
Polonious then enters and demands Ophelia to stop the relationship with
Hamlet.
Scene ]V
Hamlet, Heratio, and Marcellus are talking when the ghost of King
Hamlet appears. Hamlet follows, but his friends warn him that he may be in
danger. Regardless, Hamlet follows the ghost.
Scene V
In this scene, King Hamlet's ghost appears once again, but this time in
front of Hamlet. Hamlet questions the ghost and finds that King Hamlet was
killed by Claudius. The ghost then asks Hamlet to s .....
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The Crucible: The Deterioration Of Salem During The Witch Trials
Number of words: 824 - Number of pages: 3.... important to the members of the community. When the girls were caught
dancing in the woods, they lied to protect not just themselves but the
reputation of their families. They claimed that the devil took them over and
influenced them to dance. The girls also said that they saw members of the town
standing with the devil. A community living in a puritan society like Salem
could easily go into a chaotic state and have a difficult time dealing with
what they consider to be the largest form of evil.
Salem's hysteria made the community lose faith in the spiritual .....
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Macbeth: A Man Of Established Character
Number of words: 1827 - 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 be r .....
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Hamlet: Tragedy In Hamlet
Number of words: 1953 - Number of pages: 8.... (Aristotle 38 -
9)
Shakespeare uses character, plot and setting to create a mood of disgust
and a theme of proper revenge, as opposed to fear and pity, hence Aristotle
would have disapproved of Hamlet. It is the above mentioned elements;
character, plot and setting, used in a non-Aristotelian way, that makes
Hamlet work as a one of the English language's most renown tragedies.
By proper revenge we refer to the Elizabethan view that revenge must
be sought in certain cases, for the world to continue properly. This is the
main plot of Hamlet. In Po .....
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