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King Lear's Mistake
... make
mistakes that will eventually result in his downfall. The very first words
that he speaks in the play are:
Give me the map there.
Know that we have divided
In three our kingdom; and 'tis our fast intent
To shake all cares and business from our age,
Conferring them on younger strengths while we
Unburdened crawl toward death.(Act I, Sc i, Ln 37-41)
This gives the reader the first indication of Lear's intent to relinquish
his throne. He is growing old and wants to "shake all cares and business"
from his age. In a since he wants to retire from a job that you canno ...
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The Last Wave
... the movie the
lawyer, David, represents the dominant culture to the Aborigines because he
represents the law that is controlling their fate in the white culture.
The director is also giving us many symbols or visual communication such
as the consistency of water in the film as well as, the overbearing control of
darkness. The film is shot in shadows and overall is very dark , almost forcing
us to look beyond the obvious plot and storyline and into the meaning or what
the film/director is trying to tell us. The darkness in the film can be seen as
unconsciousness. It can also be seen as a prediction of the darknes ...
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Who Is The Villian In Macbeth?
... is a force to be reckoned with. She pushes Macbeth into something he does not want to be involved in, the murder of Duncan. Lady Macbeth's insults slowly drive Macbeth to the point of no control. Macbeth grows weaker from her constant put downs, and the fact he can not disobey his own wife. He is weakened by the words of Lady Macbeth, when she questions the fact of if he is a man. "Was the hope drunk/ Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?" (1.7. 38-39) Lady Macbeth wants to know if he is a true man under his clothes. She questions him because of his unwillingness to kill Duncan. Lady Macbet ...
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A Marxist Criticism On "The Importance Of Being Earnest"
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huge part of the world order, and moreover it seems that there will always be
the rich and poor, the owner and the worker. This is even demonstrated by the
literature of our time and that of other era's, such as the play "The Importance
of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde. In this play Wilde display's the class
structure with a different and interesting twist. He makes a reflection on the
society with his own sense of humor, but however it still leaves a very good
opportunity to make a Marxist critique about the way the class structure
influences the play. He leaves room for these critiques when he writes about
t ...
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Macbeth: Macbeth's Conduct And Personality
... buying golden opinions from all sorts of people. But we must not, therefore, deny him an entirely human complexity of motives. For example, his fighting in Duncan's service is magnificent and courageous, and his evident joy in it is traceable in art to the natural pleasure which accompanies the explosive 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.
Bu ...
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Les Miserables
... ID number. Then in the time when
he couldn't be more down a priest invites Valjean to stay with him.
Despite the kind priest taking him in and feeding him, Valjean decides to
take the silver from the table. In the run he gets captured be the police.
But instead of telling the truth about Valjeans thievery, he gives the
criminal more silver and sends the police away. He makes Jean Valjean
promise that he will become an honest man with this silver.
The next scene in 10 years later set in a factory where we meat the
other main character, Fantine. As she is reading a letter her perverted
boss snatches it up wit ...
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Movie Review: A Time To Kill
... The two men are captured and while ascending a staircase
for their preliminary trial, the girl's father, Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L.
Jackson), runs out of a closet with a gun and shoots the two men and a cop. The
two men die and the cop has his leg amputated.
This sets off the main plot of the story. Hailey gets Brigance to defend him for
virtually nothing. During a courtroom scene, Eileen Roarke (Sandra Bullock, in a
surprisingly small role for having top billing) helps Brigance to get the trial
moved to another town. Unfortunately, the judge (Patrick McGoohan) decides
against moving the trial. Brigance needs to get ...
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The Renaissance
... from the East, which brought wealth and new kinds of goods to Europe. Slavery became re-introduced into society during and many Muslims worked as slaves in Italy. Money lending and trade contributed to the excessive wealth of city-states in Italy.
City-states possessed enough money for people to explore new kinds of art, philosophy, and government. People explored new areas and the use of maps increased. Access to literature increased due to the invention of the printing press. Books became widespread and affordable to the general public. Education and literacy increased as literature became available in a varie ...
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Mask Theme In Hamlet
... both use a type of mask to cover what is obvious in their lives, masking it so that they can continue living as if their existence was without and cruelty. And finally Hamlet hides behind his madness, be it real or pretend, a person who is indecisive and spiteful. Masks in this play are not just a theme; they are the whole basis of it.
The mask theme develops throughout the play as various characters try to cover their secret intentions with a veneer of a whole other person. One of the most obvious, of course is Claudius. Claudius murdered his brother, the former king Hamlet, in order to become king himself. This mu ...
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Movie: Delta Force - Suicide In Chinatown
... some parts of the movie or even stop playing it.
During the 8:00pm movie session, one fact worked to decide quickly the
situation...
There were many couples in the movie theater and during one of the most
violent part of the film, a couple stood up and pulled out two gun machines that
were in a suitcase.
They were, apparently, a normal couple. The blond man using beard was
wearing sport clothes. He was carrying a medium black and white suitcase, from
where they pulled the gun. The woman was also young, may be working to 20 or 22
years old. She was wearing shorts and a red shirt.
She was the most nervous and she ...
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