... of Messina, Leonato. Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon, Don John, his brother, Borachio his servant, Benedick, a young lord, and Claudio his best friend are all returning from war, and have been invited to stay with Leonato for a month. Shakespeare's antagonist Don John, bears much resemblance to Don John of Austria, the illegitimate son of Charles V, half-brother to the King of Aragon who defeated the Turks at Lepanto and returned to Messina after his victory in October of 1571 (Richmond 51). Don John of Austria had many of the qualities that Shakespeare's Don John did, he was not on good terms with his brother ...

... and runs. Edmund’s evil trickery continues to increase in its cruelty until he commits an inconceivable crime. Edmund has reached a point in his pursuit of power that he will stop at nothing to gain more. He writes another letter. This one is similar to the first, except instead of implicating his brother to his father, it implicates his father in a plot with France to kill The Duke of Cornwall. The King decides that Gloucester’s supposed treachery cannot be tolerated and orders that his eyes be torn out. At this point, Edmund seems to be unequivocally evil. This is undoubtedly false. Two of the other chara ...

... speakers, tell me more… I know I am thane of Glamis, but how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor lives… and to be king… speak, I charge you.� (I, ii, 70-78) The witches make Macbeth curious, he wants to know how he is to be named thane of Cawdor and king. The second person to influence Macbeth is his wife, Lady Macbeth. I also think she plays a big role in influencing Macbeth to kill Duncan. I think this because in Act II Scene vii, Lady Macbeth explains to Macbeth the plan of murdering Duncan, and when she is through Macbeth says,� If we should fail?� (I, vii, 58) Lady Macbeth answers by saying,� W ...

... comedy that also very close to some events that are happening at our times. It seems to be too sequential that lot of things are implying and suggested to be happening for real with Clinton administration. On the script the president has to be elected in less then two weeks when a survey shows he is behind. A sex scandal is going to be release to the public. The movie will show what’s the Presidential public relations personals will do to keep the story from publish. Political comparison Within the two movies there is an act of War created. In Aldrieh’s it was the political actions behind entering Vietnam. In ...

... to both educationally oriented people and entertainment oriented people. The film version is largely a similar version to the novel. The novel was written by Lew Wallace. Both works, because of the obvious similarities with one another will be discussed in this essay. From these two works, many parallels can be drawn with actual historic events. The object of this paper is to illustrate the successful joining of fact with fiction. Ben-Hur successfully told an intriguing story of a Jew falsely accused of a crime with the backdrop of the rise of Christ and the tyrannical ruling of the Roman empire in ...

... so attentive readers will automatically know who to root for. He ends each chapter on a scary, cliff- hanging note to make sure that readers will keep reading, regardless of the characters vapidity. He includes many frantic chase scenes or race-against-the- clock scenes that will translate graphically onto the screen. He puts plenty of technical, pseudo-specialist talk into his characters' mouths to give readers the illusion that they're learning something as they quickly flip the pages (Kakutui 3). Michael Crichton has definitely made a boom in the entertainment industry. Whether it is his top grossing mov ...

... granted diminishing man's image, argues with transcendentalism. In the human mind, everything needs to be handed to us on a silver plate. It is stated that man is to basically be good and to place his family before society. Examples of this being, to worship God and to look out for his family. It appears that man, in general, cannot seem to find time to actually do this. A transcendental man would make time to praise God and secure his family, as for America's society today; it seems that he cannot make time. All we think about now is when our needs will be served and when we will receive them, in other words, i ...

... the problems at home and many choose to abandon their pre-war land and values to move abroad and adapt a new culture and morals. The black artists of the post WWI era did not conform to mainstream society or even “regular� black society. Instead they formed their own culture aside the mainstream and the movement was dubbed the Harlem Renaissance. It was truly a coming together of black, and to some extent white, cultural figures. There was little outside influence on the Renaissance. Neither big industry, with their endless promotions to lure customers, nor the anti-prohibition, or speakeasy culture, that charac ...

... eliminating the scourge of Christian religion(sorry...) from our governmental system that we could have avoided another witch hunt, but of course being human we could not. The ultimate message in The Crucible seems missed by the masses, we still blindly accuse others of pseudo-crimes, and follow wholeheartedly and blindly, when others accuse. Is it perhaps simple human nature to fear and hate that which we do not know? Is the human race, as a whole, really this close to the swamps and oceans from which we pulled ourselves? Has evolution really just played some sort of immense prank on us, bestowing upo ...

... 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 important person ...