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Macbeth: Macbeth A Tragic Hero - His Strengths, His Weaknesses, His Tragic Flaw And The Effect Of Outside Influences On His Nature
Number of words: 700 | Number of pages: 3.... "metaphysical" influences is a lethal cocktail
which propels him to his fate. The witches' ambiguous prophesies affected
Macbeth by making him curious to why they greated him as Thane of Cawdor and
why he would soon become king. Ambition seemed to be Macbeth's forte but after
the murder of King Duncan, which led to the murder of others, including
Macduff's family, it became his frailty.
In general, the witches and Lady Macbeth were responsible for causing
Macbeth ambition to become tragic flaw. Lady Macbeth, although not having any
direct influences on Macbeth's fate, affected his character deterioration by
testing his courage .....
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Hamlet: Brutal Truth
Number of words: 923 | Number of pages: 4.... perfectly: "And thus
do we of wisdom and of reach / By indirections find directions out" Act 2,
Scene 2, Lines 71-3 The many falsehoods and deceptions uttered in Hamlet
are expressed through eloquent, formal, poetic language (iambic
pentameter), tantamount to an art form. If deceit is a painted, ornate
subject then, its foil of truth is simple and unvarnished. Accordingly,
when the pretenses of illusion are discarded in Act 2, Scene 2, the
language is written in direct prose.
Addressing Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, Hamlet pleads with them to
deliver up honest speech about the intent of their arrival: "[offer up]
Anything but t .....
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The Godfather: Gangster Genre
Number of words: 1833 | Number of pages: 7.... recognition, but underneath they can express sensitivity and gentleness. The Public Enemy (1931) is one of the earliest gangster films - the second one from Warner Bros. in the thirties. Director William Wellman's. The Public Enemy is toughe, violent and realistic (released before the censorship codes were strictly enforced), although most of the violence is off-screen. The lead character is portrayed as a sexually magnetic, cocky, completely amoral, emotionally brutal, ruthless, and terribly lethal individual. However, the cold-blooded, tough-as-nails racketeer and "public enemy" begins his life, not as a hardened criminal, bu .....
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Difference Betwen Iago And Othello
Number of words: 290 | Number of pages: 2.... this villain, if thou be’st a man. He say thou toldst him that his wife was false. I know thou’rt not such a villain. Speak for my heart is full.” Iago replied; “ I told him what I thought and told no more than what he found himself was apt and true.” (Act V, sc.ii, lines179-184) Although Iago was solely responsible for the tragedy, he could not have succeeded if it was not for the gullible characters as targets for him to hit.
In Richard’s case, he did not use his sources wisely. Richard underestimated the powers of women in the play, which consequently lead him to his downfall. He had the choice of killin .....
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Analytic Play Review Of The Taming Of The Shrew
Number of words: 1037 | Number of pages: 4.... to act in the society of the late sixteenth century and
of how one must obey the unwritten rules of a society to be accepted in it.
Although the play ends with her conforming to the society, this is in
action only, not in mind, as she assumes the role of the obedient wife.
Most of the play's humour comes from the way in which characters
create false realities by disguising themselves as other people, a device
first introduced in the induction. Initially this is accomplished by
having Christopher Sly believe he is someone he is not and then by having
the main play performed for him. By putting The Taming Of The Shrew in a .....
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Macbeth: Uncontrolled Ambition Brings About The Downfall Of Macbeth And Lady
Number of words: 779 | Number of pages: 3.... the king. Macbeth has a few doubts but Lady Macbeth brings him over them
and pushes him to go through with it.
Macbeth's ambition was always there but now with the witches prophecies and his
wife's support, he has decided to do it. Lady was more evil than Macbeth,
Macbeth had doubts which made him weak, but Lady Macbeth didn't, she had no
remorse. She shut out her feminine side, this is shown when Macbeth says:
"We will proceed no further in this business".
And is responded to by Lady Macbeth's:
"And live a coward in thine own esteem".
Macbeth's ambition is also shown when he has his best friend Banquo kille .....
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Analysis Of The Final Scene Of Braveheart
Number of words: 414 | Number of pages: 2.... to his country of Scotland. He holds his wife’s marriage cloth to him in his hands at all times to show it to her. He shows his devotion to his country by standing up taking the worst punishment and the scream of FREEDOM…
The Queen in this scene, in the king’s chambers, is imagining the pain William is going through. The king on his deathbed is watching her emotions the whole time, probably dreading what his country of England might go through.
The final shot, the shot of his hand before and after the ax chops of William Wallace’s head, shows a great deal of emotion with the music in the background, and the slow motion .....
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Hamlet Did Not Procrastinate Needlessly
Number of words: 823 | Number of pages: 3.... was the king who killed his father, and he must avenge his fathers death. When this does happen he is going to kill the king, but he is praying and he doesn't want the king to go to heaven for killing his father. Just before the Hamlet is about to kill the king he says, "No. Up, sword, and know a more horrid hent (III, iii. 88)." He is going to wait and pick a more horrible place to kill his uncle. It's because of the beliefs that makes Hamlet hold back from running the king through.
In the play Hamlet, because of the beliefs of society around him. Some of societies beliefs on ghost appearances where they were sent from purg .....
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Macbeth And His Lady
Number of words: 866 | Number of pages: 4.... and passage to remorse” (I: v: 41-45) to give her the courage to commit the act and not feel guilty afterwards. Lady Macbeth is further characterized and begins to make her thoughts known to Macbeth when she greets him with, “Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter! /and I feel now the future in the instant.” (I: v: 55).
Lady Macbeth’s depravity and lack of morality begins to have an affect on Macbeth as he progresses from a ethical man to one willing to commit murder. Lady Macbeth is deeply loved by Macbeth as evinced by Macbeth calling his wife, “My dearest love,” (I: v: 57). L .....
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Movie: Life, Like The Great Gatsby
Number of words: 1807 | Number of pages: 7.... story writer and novelist
famous for his depictions of the Jazz Age(the 1920's), his most brilliant novel
work being The Great Gatsby(1925). He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on sept.
24, 1896 and died in Hollywood, California on December 21, 1940. His private
life, with his wife, Zelda, in both America and France, became almost as
celebrated as his novels. Fitsgerald was the only son of an aristocrat father,
who was the author of the star spangle banner. Fitzgerald spent most of time
with his wife, latter in their relationship they moved to france where he began
to write his most brilliant novel, The Great Gatsby. All of h .....
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