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Macbeth: Shakespeare's Comparisons And Contrasts
Words: 433 - Pages: 2.... that he can contrast it later on with the
terror and panic of Macbeth's psychological anguish.
Lady Macbeth will stop at nothing -not even murder- to satisfy her driving
ambition. She worries that Macbeth is "too full of the milk of human kindness"
to go after the throne. She wants to be tough and begs the spirits to "unsex me
here." Macbeth, on the other hand, hesitates to murder Duncan for several
reasons. Among these reasons the earthly consequences frighten him the most.
How would his new subjects react? Would the kingdom disrupt in chaos?
Furthermore Macbeth cannot escape present punishment if he fails. We see Lady
Macbeth's .....
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Saving Private Ryan
Words: 701 - Pages: 3.... were people my age fighting and dying for their country. If I was around for this war, I doubt I would have made it off the beach in the first scene.
The movie also tells about many different types of attitudes that the American boys had about the war and how they reacted to it. An example of this would be when the company took over a machine gun and one of their friends died from enemy fire. Several American soldiers were going to execute the Nazi until another soldier stopped them. Personally, I would have killed the Nazi soldier because he was involved in killing my friend. Even if the man killed were a complete stranger, but sti .....
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Macbeth: Appearance Vs Reality
Words: 958 - Pages: 4.... of darkness tells us
truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence". (Act I,
Scene 3) A thoughtful yet skeptical Banquo speaks his words here very carefully
to MacBeth in order to remain honorable. He doesn't want to come right out and
tell MacBeth to be cautious in his actions, so he tries to soften his words so
that MacBeth might contemplate his future movements. However, MacBeth does not
take heed of Banquo's warnings. Because of the witch's predictions and his
impatience, MacBeth kills in order to get what he expects is coming to him.
When Banquo takes time to contemplate what has been going on, he turns his
t .....
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Dead Poets Society
Words: 1144 - Pages: 5.... and hand holding
the phone to his ear. When Knox hears the news that he has been invited to go
to a party with the girl of his dreams, his face lights up and he cant help but
smile. Still with the same angle, the camera swings around to show the faces of
his friends as he tells them his news. Their facial expressions as showed by
the camera are delightful and happy ones. This makes Knox even more happy.
The scene ends with a close up of Knox hanging up the phone and then a
high level shot of him running up the stairs.
Scene where Mr Keating tell the class to come up and stand on the desk.
To start this scene camera view as seen t .....
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To Be Shakespeare, Or Not To Be Shakespeare, That Is The Question
Words: 1928 - Pages: 8.... Hamlet's world. Branaugh's
world is full of lavish affairs, freezing winters, and halls of mirrors. The
use of the camera has some definite advantages and disadvantages. First, since
the characters are no longer limited by a defined space, they are able to
deliver their long speeches while being in a constant state of motion. This
occurs in the scene with the guards, and most noticeably in the scene with
Laertes and Ophelia, before he leaves for France. This same scene demonstrates
how the camera enables the characters to switch from one setting to the next, as
when Laertes, Ophelia, and Polonius are taken from outside to the church. .....
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Revenge In Hamlet
Words: 1059 - Pages: 4.... Throughout the play, Hamlet is alone in making these very hard decisions. Most of the people in his country did not believe that his uncle killed his father. This made Hamlet very upset inside. He needed a release to help himself relieve the pain.
Hamlet is first told of the ghost by his friend Horatio. He tells Hamlet and Hamlet asks if he can see him? Later, Hamlet sees the ghost and communicates with it for the first time. The ghost tells him “so art thou to revenge”(I.IV.ll.8) because he is in purgatory and suffering. He was asking Hamlet to murder his uncle. Hamlet cannot believe that he is seeing his father, and even more .....
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Are Traditional Methods Of Rendering Obsolete Or Not
Words: 462 - Pages: 2.... see in magazines where people have been made to look better than they actually are to the surroundings in the news room on the six o'clock news.
The real question is 'Where dose this leave the traditional methods of rendering images and type?' I feel that in the next 10 years there will be a flood of traditional style and people will be crying out for the personal touch of a photographer using chemicals in a darkroom. The images produced will not necessarily look traditional but they will use the methods traditionally used to produce effects which can't be produced by a computer. There are many different looks that can be produced by a ca .....
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The Need For Horror And Thrill And The Movies
Words: 995 - Pages: 4.... to protect us from having to deal with the shock of death and recognizing it. In Psycho, Hitchcock revealed out “shock of recognition” by not letting us see the cutting and death in the shower scene. Films made after Psycho usually refer back to this scene, either working with or against the unseen cuts of the knife.
An example of a film that works with the shower scene in Psycho is obviously displayed in de Palma’s Dressed to Kill. The scene that correlates is when Peter’s mother is killed the elevator by Liz. This scene is similar to Psycho because as in Psycho when Kate has her revelation and decides to return the money, .....
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"Rage"
Words: 1018 - Pages: 4.... rage sometimes forces the vain in my forehead to give me a headache. To
me that's what rage is, that sensation in your mind that let's you know
that you are frustrated.
Beginning my search I looked up the definition in the dictionary my
computer. When I looked up the meaning of the word rage in the dictionary
it was exactly what I thought it would be. The real definition is violent
explosive anger. Also to be furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
Brenda Gillespie (39) stated that rage to her meant to be upset, to die
hard with a vengeance, or when you act stupid. Julie Manning (40) stated
that her personal definitions for ra .....
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Death Of A Salesman - Willy
Words: 1289 - Pages: 5.... Petre. Most of
Pope's efforts here were written with time. Now, Keats has romantically
serenaded his reader with descriptive lust and desire, which can be
compared with popes' efforts by the difference in eighteenth century
literature and romantic poems, their descriptive natures and ideas they
portray to the reader through their writing.
Pope has written an eighteenth-century poem which he calls, "An
Hero-Comical Poem." This poem has exalted an over all sense of
worthlessness for common rules. The mentioning of Achilles and the ever-
popular Aeneas, are symbols of Pope's Gothic style. Pope speaks (almost)
G-D like througho .....
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