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Hamlet: Tragedy Of Failure
Words: 505 - Pages: 2.... is verified when the guards inform him of a ghostly figure with
close resemblance to the late king. The ghost reveals to Hamlet that while
in the garden, Claudius poured poison in his ear. Claudius prays to be
forgiven but his prayers are not sincere. Claudius, overcome with guilt,
would prefer to keep his status then reveal what he did to King Hamlet.
The play within the play is useful because it allows Hamlet to
verify the validity of the ghost. Usually plays are intended for
entertainment purposes. The play is not real and the actors are playing a
role. In reality Hamlet makes it so that it is similar to what really
happened .....
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Othello: Othello A Tragic Hero
Words: 1450 - Pages: 6.... 3, 47) . This is an example of
the many comments which shows Othello's character and personality as a person
and an officer. They say he is one of the great leaders.
Not only does he posses great character and courage, but also dignity.
He keeps his control even when he is being accused of witchcraft during the
first encounter with the senators when Desdemona's father confronts him about
see his daughter.
"Most potent, grave, and reverend signors,
My very noble and approved good masters;
That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,
It is most true; true I have married her.
The very head and front of my offending
Hath the .....
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Macbeth: Macbeth A Murderer?
Words: 825 - Pages: 3.... Duncan horrifies him, and in Act II he tries to tell Lady
Macbeth that he will not go through with the murder. The character of Lady
Macbeth is therefore required to provide Macbeth with the extra will-power to
fulfil his royal ambitions. Macbeth is almost 'forced' by Lady Macbeth to murder
Duncan. After committing the murder, Macbeth seems almost delirious and he says
that "...all great Neptune's ocean....hand". We can already see that he is sorry
for what he has done.
When Macbeth orders Banquo's murder, he is still in torment, but the cause of
his anguish seems to have been changed. He is afraid of Banquo, because Banquo
knows about the .....
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Twilight's Last Gleaming & Wag The Dog: Politics In Films
Words: 2061 - Pages: 8.... 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 “Wag The Dog” it was only an imaginary war and creating a fake conflict in order to distract people and to make political change legitimate.
I found in both movies a strong present of forces that pulls into some real de .....
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The Different Kinds Of Advertisements
Words: 1058 - Pages: 4.... to use all of
the different races, to show cultural diversity, and that the company
isn't racist or other wise they are open to everyone and every race. They
also show that they make make-up for all skin tones where as other
companies just have make-up for a few skin tones.
There are many questions you can ask about this advertisement by
just looking at it because they don't show a lot of things in it. For
example, how do we know that the girls are wearing this kind of make-up?
Just because it said what kind of make-up and the names of each girl in the
corner, doesn't mean that they are actually wearing it. Although since it
does say the .....
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Hamlet: Scene Summaries
Words: 1133 - Pages: 5.... night. Hamlet is shocked
and suspects something peculiar is amongst the king- dom.
Scene ]I[
Laertes tells her sister, Ophelia, to be cautious of marrying Hamlet.
Polonious then enters and demands Ophelia to stop the relationship with
Hamlet.
Scene ]V
Hamlet, Heratio, and Marcellus are talking when the ghost of King
Hamlet appears. Hamlet follows, but his friends warn him that he may be in
danger. Regardless, Hamlet follows the ghost.
Scene V
In this scene, King Hamlet's ghost appears once again, but this time in
front of Hamlet. Hamlet questions the ghost and finds that King Hamlet was
killed by Claudius. The ghost t .....
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Oedipus Rex: Figurative Blindness
Words: 964 - Pages: 4.... that he would murder his father and wed his mother. In an attempt to avoid this fate, his parents, Laius and Jocasta, sent him into the mountains to die. However, a shepherd saved and gave him to Polybus and Merope. When he learned of his prophecy, he fled, under the assumption that they were his real parents. While fleeing, he encountered Laius and killed him. He correctly answered the riddle of the Sphinx, finally became the king of Thebes, and later married Jocasta. Oedipus fulfilled the prophecy without even knowing it. Thebes now had to endure a plague, and a prophet put the blame on a polluter of the land of Thebes. Oed .....
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The Role Of Duty In William Shakespeare's Hamlet
Words: 826 - Pages: 4.... all forms, all pressures past, that youth and observation
copied there; and thy commandment all alone shall live.
(A1, S5,L99-103)
This statement makes it perfectly clear that Hamlet views what he has to do
as a job that he has to do for his father.
In act 2, scene 2 Hamlet meets an actor who easily displays intense emotion
and passion on matters that have just come to his head. Hamlet asks
himself in the soliloquy that followed if he was a coward for not
completing his task yet. This makes it obvious that killing Claudius isn't
something that Hamlet wants to do. Hamlet is so weary of killing his uncle
that he questions .....
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The Changes In The Movie Industry
Words: 901 - Pages: 4.... the silver screen. During this time films changed it’s traditional film making ideas. Things started to get graphic, more violent, sexual and more expressive. Movies had found a new look and with the production codes now gone and the blacklisting ending, there was an explosion of ideas that would be presented to the United States.
The change in the U.S. can be said to be a social revolution. People were growing sick of the same old movies, they wanted a change and Hollywood needed to deliver or else they would lose their audience to the TV. In the early 60’s, the studios were still afraid of the blacklisting so the films were still .....
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The Crucible: The Puritans
Words: 774 - Pages: 3.... court was thrown out, and there were no more
hangings. In less than a year, a total of nineteen men and women we re
hung because of the paranoia and fear during the Salem witch trials.
The Puritans were a very proper and dignified society. Dancing was
considered evil and was something only the savages did. It was punishable
by whipping. In Act One, the girls were deciding whether to tell the truth
about what happened in the woods. Mary Warren said to Abigail, “Abby,
we've got to tell. Witchery's a hangin' error, a hangin' like they done in
Boston two year ago! We must tell the truth, Abby! You'll only be whipped
for dancin' and th .....
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