Papers on Plays and Movies
Movie: The Grapes Of Wrath - The People And The Depression
Words: 760 - Pages: 3.... example, the great depression
was a major economical event, and it greatly effected more then just people like
the Joads, but programs like the public works administration which employed
people for government construction projects. Another program, the Works
Progress Administration, later called the Works Projects Administration was
created to develop relief programs, and to keep a person's skills. From 1935-
1943, it employed 8 million people, and spent 11 billion dollars. But in 1939,
there were still 9.5 million still unemployed. Another program was the Civilian
Conservation Corps. Unemployed, unmarried young men were enlisted to wo .....
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The Pit And The Pendulum: Movie Vs. Book
Words: 586 - Pages: 3.... trashed her room.
Dom Madena, also called Nicholas, heard his wife calling him. He went
through a secret passageway until he entered the room of all the torturing
devices. He goes to his wife grave, which they dug up to prove she was dead,
and she popped out of her grave. She chased him through the dungeon until they
met with the doctor. Then Nicholas fainted, and his wife, who never really died,
told him that it was all scheme. She and the doctor were having an affair. He
chased the doctor and he fell into a pit and died. He stuck his wife in a
torture machine out of sight and gagged her.
Then her brother came down. Nicholas .....
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The First Movie
Words: 439 - Pages: 2.... 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 to pick up, so did the movie business.
New genres like horror came on the scene in the early thirties. The first horror movies were Dracula directed by Todd Browning and Frankenstein directed by James Whale. One of the mos .....
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Romeo And Juliet: The Capulet Family
Words: 636 - Pages: 3.... intimidated by the “superior.” This intimidation that
some of the characters produce on each other shows that there is not a
great deal of communication in the family. Throughout Act I, there were
several more examples of characters yielding to others and not standing up
for what they believe. For instance, when Lady Capulet brought up the idea
of Juliet marrying Paris, Juliet just went along with the concept , even
though that was possibly not what she wanted.
An even more significant instance of such a thing occurring is the
fact that Juliet feared to tell her parents that she had fallen in love
with Romeo, a Montague. She knew t .....
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Hamlet: Finding Courage To Die
Words: 520 - Pages: 2.... end his pain. Hamlet is
questioning whether it is better to live in a world where he cannot see any
goodness or take his own life. Hamlet has a very intense, philosophical
personality. For this reason, he cannot take his life because he does not know
what happens after one dies. He is not positive of an afterlife, therefore he
doesn't have the courage to end his life.
"Now might I do it prat," (Beaty, 1363) is a soliloquy in which we see a
shift in Hamlet's rationalization. Hamlet, as his fathers only son, is seeking
revenge for his fathers death, but is afraid that a quick death for Claudius
would not be enough. Hamlet feels that .....
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Hamlet: Contrast Between Laertes And Hamlet
Words: 811 - Pages: 3.... to kill Claudius, but instead strikes
Polonius. Hamlet's and Laertes's imprudent actions are incited by fury and
frustration. Sudden anger prompts both Hamlet and Laertes to act
spontaneously, giving little thought to the consequences of their actions.
Hamlet and Laertes share a different but deep love and concern for
Ophelia. Before his departure for France Laertes provides lengthy advice
to Ophelia pertaining to her relationship with Hamlet. Laertes voices his
concern of Hamlet's true intentions towards Ophelia and advices her to be
wary of Hamlet's love. Laertes impresses upon Ophelia, Hamlet is a prince
who most likely .....
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The Debut Of Television In America
Words: 765 - Pages: 3.... As time passed, people became more accepting of the new innovation; television sets were being found in more homes throughout America. This is when television began to take the nation by storm.
Television slowly started to take over the lives of many. Families became less “family oriented”; family time, for the most part, was now spent in front of the TV. Dinner time, which used to be an important part of the day when many families came together, was now being spent apart, in front of the television. I suppose it could be concluded that from this, TV dinners came about; a quick and easy way to make a half way decent meal so t .....
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Images Of Light And Darkness In Romeo And Juliet
Words: 432 - Pages: 2.... Too like the lightening, which doth cease to be/ Ere one can say 'It lightens.' "
Friar Lawrence in KK, iii also expressed concern that the relationship berween the two lovers is moving too quickly; after all, Romeo was pining away because Rosaline rejected him just one day before. However, he too sees the difference in Romeo's depth of emotion and in light of that, and the possible political benefits (namely peace between the feuding families) he encourages the match.
Shadespeare's The Winter's Talw is , as most critics will agree, a difficult play to read, but the work possesses intriguing characters and symbols that make the effort wor .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy's Life
Words: 1095 - Pages: 4.... or not, but I believe the author was trying to show that he
wasn’t in a right state of mind. The author explains this as too many years
on the road and too much pressure to succeed.
His family and friends keep referring to him as a good man, but I
don’t see that. As they flashback to the past and show him with his sons he
is still the obsessive man that he is in the present, it’s just in the past
his sons are successful in school. The Qualities Willy tries to instill in
his kids are to be well liked, and have a strong mind for business. In the
past he was a great dad, but that’s because his sons were turning out OK by
his standa .....
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King Lear: Lear The Tragic Hero
Words: 1626 - Pages: 6.... would contrast his happier times. The suffering and calamity
instantaneously caused chaos in his life and eventually leads to his death.
Finally, the sense of fear and pity to the tragic hero must appear in the play
as well. This makes men scared of blindness to truths which prevents them from
knowing when fortune or something else would happen on them.
Lear, the king of England would be the tragic hero because he held the
highest position in the social chain at the very beginning of the play. His
social position gave him pride as he remarked himself as "Jupiter" and "Apollo".
Lear out of pride and anger has banished Cordelia .....
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