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Antigone: Creon A Tragic Hero
Words: 961 - Pages: 4.... and all men’s call to patriotism, Choragus agrees by saying: “If that is your will, … You have the right to enforce it: we are yours” (s. I, ll. 48-49). Clearly, Creon’s people obey his every word and show him all possible respect. Creon serves in the highest position in Thebes and, at first, seems ennobled by his title.
Of course, conflict, both internal and external, are not strangers to men of high rank. Creon is embroiled in a difficult external struggle with his beloved son. When Haemon is first seen talking with his father, King Creon, they are arguing about Haemon’s desire to marry Antigone. The inflexible Creon .....
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The Problem In Macbeth
Words: 3187 - Pages: 12.... we exclusively define the Good as man's selfpreservation,
man's different attempts to achieve this would lead to mutual destruction. If I
- and everyone included - unhampered and in absolute selfishness only seek my
own, the misfortune I could inflict on someone would naturally be limitless. So
there has to be a further addition to the concept of Good.
The Good, we might add, is not only the instantaneous need for
satisfaction - in a matter of time it will often turn out to be an evil - but it
is in fact the absolute purpose for any human being (the highest Good), and it
isn't just common for everyone, but, when you strive for it, you i .....
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A Review Of The Movie: The Usual Suspects
Words: 1881 - Pages: 7.... For
without an introduction, besides the disorienting subtitle that this
happened last night, the movie opens on a burning boat in a harbor. The
first character we see is the slumped over Dean Keaton, waiting to die.
Then down comes this mysterious figure, cloaked in black, and speaking in
muffled tones. Keaton addresses the man as "Keyser" and then asks what
time it is. After a quick check of his gold watch and the light of his
cigarette, the dark one lifts up his gun and fires. Dropping his cigarette
in a line of gas, the boat explodes seconds later as the camera focuses in
on a stack of barrels and ropes.
What this first scene does i .....
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Movie: Pretty Woman
Words: 911 - Pages: 4.... but it's very
close.
The characters in Pretty Woman pretty much resembles those in
Cinderella. Vivian Ward, the poor hooker, who untilnow, have lived a life
as a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard,where she earned just enough money
to pay her bills if itwasn't for her roommate Kit. Kit is also a prostitute.
She usually buys dope for the rent money, which leaves Vivian towork extra.
To draw parralels to Cinderella, Vivian would (off course) be Cinderella,
and Kit would be the exploiting stepsister. They have lived like this for a
long time, andcontinues living like that, until one day, when Vivian is
picked up by Mr. Edward Levi .....
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The Tempest: Magic
Words: 730 - Pages: 3.... witch-hunts and their ringleaders,
and unquestionable the first book in English to actually hypothesize about the
methods of these so-called witches. It contained one chapter of approximately
twenty pages describing what we might view as unsophisticated, old-time magic
tricks.
One would assume that it was this text, and texts succeeding this (The
Art of Juggling, written by Samuel Ridd in 1610 also presented a few how-to's of
magic) were probably not only what suggested the idea of using magic as a them
to Shakespeare, but in addition, provided methods as to how the magic in the
play might be accomplished.
Despite the fact that in .....
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Who Is The Villian In Macbeth?
Words: 1067 - Pages: 4.... 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 Macbeth is a villain because she insults Macbeth by calling him a girl. In the next quotation Macbeth is being directed by Lady Macbeth, to be a person in which he is not. "Look like the innocent flower, / but be the serpent unde .....
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Macbeth: A Tragic Hero
Words: 310 - Pages: 2.... as well as Lady Macbeth’s diatribes in act one influenced Macbeth’s gentle soul to transform into an evil demon. Macbeth’s life was forever changed by the witches’ prophecies. Lady Macbeth and the witches exploited Macbeth’s flaw, his flaw of being easily influenced. A true villain does not let others bring out the evil in them. They bring it out themselves.
Macbeth was a man plagued by his own bad decisions. When Macbeth killed his king, he sealed his own fate. Macbeth knew that that would haunt him for the rest of his life. When Macbeth committed murder, he crossed over a line into a field of unspeakable evil, which he could .....
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Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise
Words: 1298 - Pages: 5.... image, Thelma and Louise problematizes such oppositional readings as well as such familiar oppositions as masculine and feminine, positive and negative images of women, reinscription and subversion of patriarchal ideologies. The tension between the film’s uses of narrative and image works to interrogate and problematize both feminist and antifeminist assumptions about gender, power, and subjectivity.
In Alice Doesn’t Teresa de Lauretis claims that feminist film theory has gone well beyond the simple opposition of positive and negative images, and has indeed displaced the very terms of that opposition to a sustained critical attentio .....
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The Role Of Fate In Antigone
Words: 450 - Pages: 2.... Antigone is doomed from the moment she is born, her acts of civil disobedience are just the strings the gods use to manipulate their puppet.
Next, Creon’s pronouncement that Polyneices must not be buried pits Antigone against earthly law, and it is the will of the gods that she bury her brother because that is the only just action. Antigone, from the moment from the declaration, is destined to die because it is her fate and her duty to bury her brother. This civil disobedience is a tool of the gods to govern earth but heavenly law in the most extreme case. Antigone’s decision to bury her brother is not one of free will but of di .....
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TV Violence
Words: 1641 - Pages: 6.... to this article, the "hemeted lycra covered Rangers" acts as a bad
influence on children. Many parents have come to believe that the childen try
to act like the kids hreo's. A cocerned mother, Kathryn Flannery went so far as
to petition the CRTC. The CRTC responded by saying that "the show is avassively
to violent."(Chrisholm 1994 p.52) As a result of the petiton, many stations
voluntarily refused to air the controversial kids show. This case shows the
power that people can have over the CRTC. Unfortunately, the parents were not
able to entirely shield their children from the Power Rangers TV show. Many US
broadcasters, available .....
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