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Papers on Arts, Movies, and Plays
The Crucible: Reverend John Hale - A Dynamic Character
Number of words: 438 | Number of pages: 2.... is in Act III during the
trial of John Proctor. “I am a minister of the lord, and I dare not take a life
without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may
doubt it.” He starts to doubt if the very thing that he searches to rid the
people of might be a lie.
Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own...where I turned the
eye of my great faith, blood flowed up. Beware Goody Proctor-cleave to
no faith when faith brings blood. Reverend Hale realizes his job of finding
and ridding the world of witches is false. “It is mistaken law that leads you
to sacrifice.” He no longer believes in wi .....
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"The Truth About Foolishness" In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Number of words: 953 | Number of pages: 4.... as he considers
himself a gentleman.
His attempts to flirt with Maria by showing how clever he is fail when Sir
Toby advises him to accost, in other words, to woo her. Sir Andrew thinks
"accost" is her name as he addresses her, "Good Mistress Mary Accost-" (I, III,
54). After his embarrassing introduction to Maria, Sir Andrew tries to salvage
his dignity by laughing at himself as he says, "Methinks sometimes I have no
more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has. But I am a great eater of
beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit" (I, III, 83-86). It is clear
that Sir Andrew is easily taken advantage of at .....
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Hamlet: Hamlet Resembles A Real Person
Number of words: 1708 | Number of pages: 7.... Claudius. Hamlet may be obsessed with the idea that all women are evil, yet he really does love Ophelia, because when he finds out Ophelia has died, he cries out, "I lov'd Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum."(Act V, Scene 1) The ghost provides Hamlet with a dilemma.
In Shakespeare's plays, supernatural characters are not always to be trusted; think of the three witches in MacBeth, who are instrumental in his downfall. Hamlet does not know whether the ghost is telling the truth or not. If Hamlet had killed Claudius solely on the ghost's advice, he would certainly have been t .....
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The Deplorable Life Of Willy Loman
Number of words: 819 | Number of pages: 3.... set in him by his
father, which proves to haunt him his entire life. Willy was also a cheat,
whether it was adultery or simple card cheat, his dishonesties certainly
rubbed off on his children, and proved to be the downfall in their lives.
On the other hand, Willy affected more than just his sons life
with his deceit. He greatly altered his own when he was caught in the mist
of an affair with a meaningless prostitute, by his beloved son Biff. This
event proved to be the turning point in these two individuals lives.
Willy's wife Linda, was a great women who certainly didn't deserve the
heartache and disrespect that Willy gave .....
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Macbeth: Imagery
Number of words: 547 | Number of pages: 2.... what the witches said. She taught him and ridiculed him to be evil. He listened to her and that is when the trouble started.
The first ignoble killing by Macbeth was the killing of what was supposed to be his friend Duncan. Macbeth killed Duncan to become king.
"And only thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood
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It is the bloody business which informs" (Act 2, Scene1: lines 46-48)
Macbeth starts to hallucinate; the guilt is starting to build up within him even before he commits regicide.
The guilt inside Macbeth will lead to worse and worse things for him and Lady Macbeth. He will kill his best friend Banquo because he .....
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Braveheart
Number of words: 778 | Number of pages: 3.... to Scotland while
in his late twenties to raise crops and a family. He soon was married to a
girl he knew as a kid in secret so that none of the guards could enforce
the law of Primal Nuctar, which is to bless the marriage by sleeping with
the bride. He tried to dodge the law but failed. He fought off the
soldiers of the king for what he knew was right. But his wife was
captured and killed for assault on a king's guard. This is what made
William know for sure that he would fight for his countries freedom so no
one else would ever have to suffer again do to the laws of King Edward.
From this point on William Wallace never gave u .....
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Movie: Glory
Number of words: 287 | Number of pages: 2.... thought it would only
be fitting that blacks be able to fight for their own freedom. The problem was
that the blacks were still thought of as inferior individuals. This is why it
took so long for a black regiment to come into existence. A good example of
the racism that was still existent in the north is when the 54th met the white
regiment coming back and were called "nigger"s and were taunted. Another good
example was that Blacks were not allowed to go to military academies, and that
is why the regiment was led by white officers.
Colonel Shaw (in the beginning) was still prejudiced against blacks. He
did not treat them .....
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The Crucible: The Transition Of John Proctor's Character
Number of words: 2053 | Number of pages: 8.... her any longer. She said to him,
"I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a
stallion whenever I came near! Or did I dream that? It's she put me out,
you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, and
you loved me then, and you do now." In all of Abigail's persuasion to try
to get him to admit his love for her, Proctor replied, "Abby, I may think
of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I'll
ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby."
Proctor saying to Abigail that they never touched was his way of trying to
get through .....
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Tragedy In Oedipus Rex
Number of words: 575 | Number of pages: 3.... occurs rather
quickly, very close to the end of the play.
The audience sees this coming long before it actually does, however. In one
of the passages of Oedipus speaking with Jocasta, just about everything is
spelled out for us. Jocasta speaks of Laius leaving the castle with just a few
servants and his being killed where three roads meet. Oedipus claims that he
killed somebody where three roads met, who had a few servants with him. As
though this isn't enough, Jocasta describes Laius to Oedipus by saying "his
figure was not much unlike your own" (p. 27). Oedipus, after hearing all this,
says "O, it is plain already!" (p. 27) in .....
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Wilson's Fences
Number of words: 803 | Number of pages: 3.... of the discrimination. “I decided seventeen years ago that boy wasn’t getting involved in no sports. Not after what they did to me in the sports (p.39).” Troy also wants Cory to be a man. He tells Cory to keep with school because he never had an education. He wants Cory to grow up to learn a trade like fixing cars or build houses so they can’t take it away from him unlike an injury in sports. “You go on and learn to put your hands to some good use. Besides hauling people’s garbage (p.35).”
He is a great fighter when it comes to dealing with death, which is closing in. Troy compares Death to baseball because .....
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