Papers on Plays and Movies
"Goin’ To Chicago."
Words: 569 - Pages: 3.... they owed the landlord money. They would falling deeper into debt, and they had to pledge the next year’s crop as payment.
Sharecropping soon became a thing of the past. Mechanical cotton pickers were invented, which worried sharecroppers. These machines could greatly do more work than by hand, and would be cheaper than to pay field hands to work for them. So the sharecropping was obsolete, and African Americans were driven out of their jobs and even homes.
This lead to the migration of African Americans. It was hard for them, because they did not want to leave their families and communities. Chicago seemed to be the most common .....
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The Symbol Of Black In "The Crucible"
Words: 423 - Pages: 2.... play. What I mean by black is that Elizabeth
probably felt like dying instead of going through all this. Since black
symbolizes death I figured that Elizabeth maybe felt black, like putting herself
out of the misery of all this charging rather than go along with it. She gets
blamed for many things that she did not do. For example she is accused of
poking Abby with a needle by a poppet.
Mary must also feel black because she meant no harm by putting a needle
inside of the poppet and yet she gets in trouble also. The black signifies
Elizabeth's anger hate for Abby. It is clearly shown when she says that Abby
should be ripped out .....
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Much Ado About Nothing: Pretense
Words: 1233 - Pages: 5.... and everything is just as he sees it - a façade. Shakespeare captures this theme in "Much Ado About nothing" because pretending is something people often do whether it is positive or negative. The idea of acting and the illusion it creates is rarely far from the surface. Do we ever undeniably know the truth about someone, a situation or ourselves?
In "Much Ado About Nothing", everyone is pretentious. Don Pedro deceives Hero by acting the part of an honest friend, concerned for his brother and Claudio's honour. Leonato and his family act as if Hero were dead, encouraged to this deception by, of all people, the Friar who feels th .....
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Romeo And Juliet: Theme Paper
Words: 2368 - Pages: 9.... (I, i, l 54, 55), urging Sampson to state that they serve a better man than Abraham and Balthasar. Abraham accuses Sampson of lying and Sampson causes the fight by saying "Draw, if you be men." (I, i, l 68).
Benvolio, the peace-maker, arrives, he attempts to stop the fight. Future violence is foreshadowed when Benvolio says "Part, fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do." (I, i, l60, 61). Benvolio draws his sword to beat down the weapons of the servants. This in turn causes more violence as Tybalt thinks Benvolio was involved in the fighting. Tybalt challenges Benvolio saying "What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate .....
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Role Of Fate And Free Will In Oedipus Rex
Words: 761 - Pages: 3.... would eventually have to submit to the law of the universe, regardless of his choices, and in turn the universe would have to submit to man, grafting his choices into the linear sequence of events that culminated in the realization of his fate. Each choice would predetermine the next one, and although man could strike off in a new direction at any time by making a choice, his actions would still inevitably lead to his fate. In short, one’s choices affected little more than the where and when of one’s predetermined destiny, but due to the fact that the individual possessed the freedom of choice, the Greeks believed that he bore all resp .....
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Camelot: Merlin
Words: 1209 - Pages: 5.... such as Santa Clause or the Easter bunny. Like the real King Arthur
who was (really a 6th century ruler) transported through time to better fit the
needs of the populas. The "transporting" begins in and around the 15th century.
A man by the name of Thomas Malory felt the extreme need to give France, his
country, a hero(s) in a time of great disappear. He felt it necessary to do this
because the feudalist time in which he was living in, was slowly dying. He
thought that if he could show people how many great hero(s) came out of this
time period it would revive and flourish once more. He then turned to history
to find such a hero. As n .....
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Hamlet's Madness
Words: 743 - Pages: 3.... murder.
Most would say that the fact that he saw the ghost of his dead father would
be enough to warrant that he is insane. The only fact that hinders this
observation is the fact that others saw the ghost as well and were even the ones
who told young Hamlet of his appearance.
Many may see Hamlet being insane only by the worldly view of him being
different. Though towards the end of the play in Act III, Gertrude calls her son
to her chambers to discuss the reasoning of his putting on a play so closely
related to the death of his father. She tells him how upset Claudius is and is
weary of Hamlet's recent actions. At this Hamlet .....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Humor
Words: 591 - Pages: 3.... of the sentence. This humor is obvious to everybody watching that
Bottom had made a mistake. This type of humor, while obvious, sometimes doesn't
portray the meaning correctly. Inferred humor is sometimes more suited for this.
Shakespeare used something like inferred humor to get across some other
meanings that added to the play. One good example is the character of Puck.
Puck is a hyperactive child that gets into a lot of mischief. His attitude
toward his tasks is sort of a light and airy one. He does not take life
seriously, he only does what is fun. This type of character is totally
different than everyone else in the .....
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Mask Theme In Hamlet
Words: 1310 - Pages: 5.... be it real or pretend, a person who is indecisive and spiteful. Masks in this play are not just a theme; they are the whole basis of it.
The mask theme develops throughout the play as various characters try to cover their secret intentions with a veneer of a whole other person. One of the most obvious, of course is Claudius. Claudius murdered his brother, the former king Hamlet, in order to become king himself. This murder, which was done in secret, with no one but Cladius knowing that the act was committed by him. Not only is he the King of Denmark, but he is also married to Queen Gertrude, his brothers former wife. These hideous and awfu .....
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Dicks' Androids And Scotts' Replicants
Words: 1892 - Pages: 7.... The movie was Screamers, starring Peter
Weller. He has also had two of his novels, We Can Remember It for You
Wholesale (Total Recall), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner),
made into movies. Of the two, Blade Runner (B.R.) has had the greatest impact.
B.R., however, differs greatly from Dicks' original novel, Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep? (D.A.D.O.E.S.)
Blade Runner was released in 1982 under the direction of Ridley Scott,
who also made another sci-fi classic, Alien.
The film begins in the city of Los Angeles. The year is 2019. The city of
Los Angeles is overpopulated, teeming with all sorts of humans. Jap .....
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