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Papers on Arts, Movies, and Plays
A Man For All Seasons: Value, What Would I Die For?
Number of words: 477 | Number of pages: 2.... the forever friend, will I die for, but how could I tell the future. One does not know the future, and for that reason is my value towards my friends questionable.
As for my country I refuse to risk my life for dictator who is on a power trip. Almost all wars are useless as the war of Vietnam. Did the American solider fight for his family or did he risk his life because the president said so. World War 2 was a war to stop a dictator from killing innocent families. It was a war, but not entirely useless. It was a time in which people risked their lives for families so they would be better off in the long run.
For an individua .....
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A Clockwork Orange: Good Riddance To Bad Rubbish
Number of words: 962 | Number of pages: 4.... ten minutes into the movie. It was when
the boys, led by Alex, beat a helpless wino that asked them for some change. The
gang then strode away as if nothing occurred. They struck him repeatedly with
canes and they kicked him a few times to the job. Next, the boys went to see a
rival gang. This other group was in the middle of raping a woman when Alex and
Company came in and intervened. They proceeded to beat the other gang members
to a pulp. Then, they went to the house of a writer, to burglarize it. While
there, they brutalized the writer and his wife. Alex raped the wife in front of
the writer and then started to sing .....
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Macbeth And Beowulf: Evil Defined By Human Preoccupation
Number of words: 502 | Number of pages: 2.... one thing on his mind,
the throne. When he became the king, he envied Banquo's having heirs who would
be rivals for the throne. The Christian also developed the theory of the great
chain of being. It basically stated that a person could not and was not allowed
to change his social status. Thus in the play, everyone eventually turned
against Macbeth, who had broken the great chain of being by taking the throne
from the rightful king. At the end, Macbeth died as an evil being who had
broken all the Christian rules.
The nature of evil also became unclear as it got more complex. In Macbeth,
the play began with the three .....
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Romeo And Juliet: Overview
Number of words: 553 | Number of pages: 3.... major role in the lives of Romeo and Juliet because of all
the things that could have happened differently, the events that transpired just
didn't flow in their direction. A few of the malignant fate situations were the
servant asking Romeo to read the invitation list and inviting them to the party
where the star-crossed lovers meet and fall in love, they are discovered by
Tybalt and he is furious, he consults Lord Capulet, but he says let them stay.
Later, Tybalt decides to take matters into his own hands and picks a fight with
Romeo, but Romeo backs down and Mercutio steps up to fight Tybalt. They fight
and Tybalt kills Mercutio, .....
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Religion Is The Opiate Of The Masses
Number of words: 259 | Number of pages: 1.... stimulus?
hell no. TV is designed to be brain candy for the weak-minded and ignorant.
The internet is more useful and I might add, stimulating. This is a medium in
which you can interact and communicate with others instead of sitting on your
ass drooling watching itchy and scratchy. There are honestly interesting sites
available on this medium.
I have heard people call television the "one-eyed monster", this simply
suggests to me that this person is obviously poor-bred or simply ignorant.
Television can be used to convey pornography, religion, drug use, love, or any
other possible subject to be dealt with. The actual machi .....
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Arts And Ceramics In History
Number of words: 421 | Number of pages: 2.... BC. The key to Athens’s success was due in part to the variety of shapes and the countless range of pictorial and geometric designs on the exterior of the pieces.
The ancient Greek pottery has even inspired poetry. An author named John Keats wrote a poem called Ode on a Grecian Earn. The poem speaks of the beauty of Greek pottery.
“O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede
Of marble men and maidens overwrought,
With forest branches and trodden weed;
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought
As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!
When old age shall this generation waste,
Thou shalt remain, in midst of other .....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Love
Number of words: 782 | Number of pages: 3.... so, Yours would I catch, Fair Hermia, ere I go, My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye, My tongue should catch your tongue’s sweet melody.” (Act I, Scene I, Line 184-6). When the fairy juice is applied to Lysander and Demetrius and they begin to love Helena, Hermia becomes jealous of Helena because her love, Lysander, does not love her. The jealousy in these characters lead to anger.
Anger is shown in the characters above as they battle for the one they love. Demetrius and Lysander are in a struggle to see who can love the most. At first, they are fighting over Hermia, and then they are at it again over Helena. .....
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The Crucible: Although Abigail And The Girls Initiate The Tragedy, Responsibility Lies With The Whole Salem Community
Number of words: 911 | Number of pages: 4.... was a pretense,
Abigail continues manipulating the court room and the people within it with
antics of ‘a wind, a cold wind' and ‘Oh Heavenly Father, take away this shadow'.
In the end she is adamant to convince the court that they were only involved
with witchcraft because of Mary Warren, hoping profusely to save her own name.
Denial in Salem is considered a terrible sin. The narrow mindedness of the
court possesses an unwritten law that if your name is brought out within the
court, without any questioning, you are presumed guily. Innocence is not taken
into consideration, and only until the victim confesses,, is the court c .....
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The Merchant Of Venice: A Tragic Play
Number of words: 793 | Number of pages: 3.... that he did. The Merchant of Venice is excellent in it's way
of describing the characters. The emotion is spread out thoroughly like warm
butter on hot toast. The tragedy in The Merchant of Venice is believable and
almost true in a sense of my opinion in relating to greed, human desire, and
most important let not forget, anguish.
Throughout The Merchant of Venice there are many strong feelings
displayed through powerful lines of contemporary nature, to be truthful.
William Shakespeare most likely wrote this play The Merchant of Venice to
display how human greed could be so consuming to the soul of a person, which he
did v .....
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Changes Of Macbeth And His Wife
Number of words: 536 | Number of pages: 2.... angry when he hears of how one of Banquo's descendants will indeed be on the throne.
At the end when Malcolm and his army confront Macbeth he is very sure that he can withstand this battle. He kills young Siward then when Macduff meets him Macbeth tells him he doesn't want to fight since he feels he already has enough of his blood upon him, meaning his family's deaths. Macduff then tells him that he was a child born of a c-section and Macbeth becomes fearful because that was a thing to be cautious about. Macbeth then is killed in battle.
Lady Macbeth
Lady Macbeth when she was first introduced in the play she was content with .....
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