... first brief encounter of the witches, to the last nightmarish visions that Macbeth has, many close friends and relatives have died because of his visions with the supernatural. The death of his wife in Act V, Scene IV is the death that sends him over the abyss and into mental instability. Lady Macbeth 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 s ...

... their busts and hips and unbinding their waists, which resulted in a long, slim line known as "garçonne," meaning 'boyish' in French. Dress waistlines gradually fell to around the hips, as hemlines steadily began to rise. In 1925, the hemlines rose to an unprecedented high -- the bottom of the knee. They stayed there until almost 1929 when they finally plummeted back down to the lower calf. It may surprise you to learn that in the 1920's, a lot of clothing was still made at home or by tailors and dressmakers. The brand-name, ready-to-wear industry didn't really exist until the 1930's. Therefore, many ...

... and spoofed. The roots of the film western are found in folk music of the colonial period, James Fenimore Cooper's novels such as The Last of the Mohicans (1826) (re-made as a feature film at least three times - 1920, 1936, and most recently as a popular film starring Daniel Day Lewis as a white scout named Hawkeye raised as a Mohican in The Last of the Mohicans (1992)), Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail (1849), Samuel Clemens' (Mark Twain) Roughing It (1872), Bret Harte's short stories, and other mythologies (tales of Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Jim Bowie, Gen. George A Custer, Calamity Jane, and outlaws such a ...

... He mentions about King Liaos’ death. Oedipus already starts blaming it on people. The first person he blames the death on is a highwayman. Oedipus is very proud of himself in the beginning of the play. He thinks that he can’t get in trouble or nothing could possibly happen because he was the King of Thebes. The people of Thebes looked up to King Oedipus, everyone wanted to be like him. As the play moves into scene one, already you can see Oedipus changing. We have to remember though that this play was only a day long so he faces all of these challenges in just one day. It seems like every time King Liaos death is ...

... His relationships with the other patients in the ward develops into a society where thoughts and opinions grow and interfere with the flow of the institution's rules and regulations, and friction is made between the authorities and the patients. McMurphy strives to overcome the head nurse, Nurse Ratchet, and finds himself understanding the mentalities of the others in the ward. This movie's theme is about insanity and how people on "the other side" of the wall view the term "insanity". In chapter two of out text, the term "society" is defined as a group of people that share a culture and common identity. This ...

... was, of course, Auguste Lumiere's daughter. The movie was quite simple with three characters, the mom, the dad, and the baby. The Dad would feed the baby and the mom would wipe her chin. After the baby takes a few spoonfuls of her cereal, the movie ends. This first movie was received with an enthusiastic round of applause. This pioneered the movie business. From this humble beginning came movies with actual plots. Of course, they got a bit longer than this first minute and half. The movie business flourished in the twenties, but when the Great Depression came along the it suffered greatly. As the economy began ...

... of Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, in which the tragic hero spends too much time acting, and not enough time thinking. Hamlet dwells too much on whether or not to act on something, and by the time he decides to act, it is too late. When Hamlet finally decides to kill Claudius, he sees him praying and decides to wait longer. The next time he gets a chance to kill Claudius he takes it, but by then it was too late. Hamlet was killed as well. He could have prevented his downfall if it wasn't for his tragic flaw. Another reason Hamlet is a classic example of Shakespearean tragedy is because it incorporates the idea o ...

... about his wicked plans by saying; “Disproved this villain, if thou be’st a man. He say thou toldst him that his wife was false. I know thou’rt not such a villain. Speak for my heart is full.� Iago replied; “ I told him what I thought and told no more than what he found himself was apt and true.� (Act V, sc.ii, lines179-184) Although Iago was solely responsible for the tragedy, he could not have succeeded if it was not for the gullible characters as targets for him to hit. In Richard’s case, he did not use his sources wisely. Richard underestimated the powers of women in the play, which consequ ...

... is the one who did everything. He was the one who killed Duncan. His conscience caught up with him because he didn’t seem to let His worry go or calm down after he had done it. He seemed to have imagined a voice cry, “Sleep no More! Macbeth does murder sleep� and “Macbeth shall sleep no more�!The only reson he killed Duncan was because the witches told him that he would be Thane of Cawdor and then king. Greediness seemed to have stepped in and he wanted so much to be king, that he would do anything he had to do to become it, even it it meant to kill the king. If the witches had not told him about b ...

... that they are doing well financially. The family continues with its frivolous ways until there is no money left (the final night they have in the house before it is auctioned, they throw an extravagant party, laughing in the face of impending financial ruin) Even when Lopakhin attempts to rescue the family with ideas that could lead to some of the estate being retained, they dismiss his ideas under the illusion that the situation is not so desperate that they need to compromise any of their dignity. Lopakhin: As you know, your cherry orchard's being sold to pay your debts. The aucti ...