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Papers on Arts, Movies, and Plays
Hamlet: Fate
Number of words: 424 | Number of pages: 2.... to mislead him in
the quest to find his father's killer. Characters of the play become unsure of
their intentions due to the odd twists of fortune that they are dealt.
Characters in the play that were so sure of their decisions became
uncertain. This uncertainty arises when the plans of characters are somehow
altered. The alterations change the fate of many characters. Polonius was killed
in the wake of Hamlet's plan to find his father's killer. Hamlet had no
intention to kill anyone that did not deserve it. It was by chance that Polonius
was in the chamber of the queen when Hamlet arrived. Polonius hid behind the
curtain an .....
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Cartoons: Land Of Imagination
Number of words: 1130 | Number of pages: 5.... than
our own. One is free to create and manipulate not only the physical actions of
a character, but the mental behavior as well. If my recollection serves me
correct, aside from hypnosis, there is nowhere else that this is possible. In
the cartoon world, "anything goes." There are no boundaries to which one is
confined. With a little ingenuity and imagination one can create a place or
being that has never existed before.
Scribble, scribble, squeak, squeak, the colored pencils glide
effortlessly over the white canvas. A dab of golden yellow, a speck of sky blue.
Within several minutes I have create my ideal woman. .....
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Reflections On Ipi Ntombi
Number of words: 441 | Number of pages: 2.... of the modern city is very different from the open tropical forests of the Zulu tribe.
The start of the their act is in the city’s church. The young man’s father, the tribe leader, has decided that his son is now allowed to have a wedding in the city. In the church, it looks like the modern and traditional cultures are merged together. There is both gospel singing and traditional dancing; modern jazz tunes and native drums; church clothes and suits, and beads, clams, etc. This is the apex of the movie, which when the conflict is resolved.
In Act Four, the Zulu tribe is at war. The tribe leader asks his son to help his .....
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Othello The "Mad" Moor
Number of words: 521 | Number of pages: 2.... times
worse. Othello seemed to be and was mentioned as a good leader with the
respect of the Duke. The stresses of being a black man leading an army of
white soldiers that might respect you as a leader but might not respect you
as a human would affect you also.
Othello seemed to handle the stresses of war just fine but with the
jealousy added into his life by the most evil Iago's plot against him and
Cassio was something that Othello had trouble managing. Othello was new to
the married life and did not want to leave his wife behind so he left her
in the hands of the “honest” Iago. “My life upon her faith! - Ho .....
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Patch Adams: Summary
Number of words: 387 | Number of pages: 2.... and eventually angry at Patch because patch seems to just fool around all the time where as he studies extremely hard yet patch gets higher grades than him.
The real high point in the movie comes when Patch Adams is attanding medical school and when they are at the hospital to look at patients and Patch Adams acts as a clown in a room filled with kids which really cheers them up.
He also makes friends with a man suffering from a very painful disease by using the same clown act though he did not succeed the first time he tried he did not give up, no he kept trying.
As the movie comes to an end Patch makes his dream come true b .....
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The Use Of Symbols In Macbeth
Number of words: 451 | Number of pages: 2.... that blood was a much more powerful symbol than water in this
play.
In Macbeth, light and dark was used in a classic sense. Light
symbolized all that is good, and it is no coincidence that when a scene included
Banquo or another of the innocent victims in this play, the setting was bright.
On the other hand, when a scene involved murder or the supernatural, such as the
scenes involving the witches, a dark setting was used.
The strange acting animals which were spoken of periodically during the
play were used to symbolize chaos. When Duncan was murdered, Shakespeare used
these irate animals to show that something horrible and ir .....
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Shakespeare's Hamlet: Investigating Hamlet's Insanity
Number of words: 1471 | Number of pages: 6.... of forced breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,
Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
That can denote me truly: these indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play:
But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”(1.2)
Here Hamlet shows his unstable mind. He is screaming at his mother telling
her how his actions are honest and he is not pretending to grieve, but that
he is truly saddened by his father's death. He has become offended by his
mother's infe .....
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Macbeth: Deep Imagination
Number of words: 465 | Number of pages: 2.... senses Macbeth's ill-concealed emotions, asking him, "Why do you start, and seem to fear/Things that do sound so fair?" The answer is revealed in this soliloquy when Macbeth tries to reassure himself that "this supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill." Then he confesses that he fears that "horrid image" which "doth unfix my hair." In other words, for the first time, Macbeth sees Duncan's murder as the quickest way to reach his goal. The "horrid image" is that of himself killing Duncan. He has such a horror of this act that, momentarily, he forgets his state of being.
Note also his statement that "present fears are less tha .....
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I Didn't Do It: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
Number of words: 2513 | Number of pages: 10.... a blue beehive hairdo, and three obnoxious spiky haired children. Groening
intended for them to represent the typical American family "who love each other
and drive each other crazy". Groening named the characters after his own family.
His parents were named Homer and Margaret and he had two younger sisters named
Lisa and Maggie. Bart was an anagram for "brat". Groening chose the last name
"Simpson" to sound like the typical American family name. (Varhola, 2)
Brooks decided to put the 30 or 60 second animations on between skits on
The Tracy Ullman Show on the unsuccessful Fox network. Cast members Dan
Castellanet .....
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Hamlet: A Sane Man
Number of words: 933 | Number of pages: 4.... devise such a plan as to act insane to convince others
that he is insane when he actually has complete control over his psyche.
Hamlet only acts mad when he is in the presence of certain characters.
When he is around Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and
Guildenstern he acts completely irrational. When Hamlet is around Horatio,
Bernardo, Fransico, the players, and the gravediggers Hamlet acts completely
sane.
When Hamlet and Polonius meet in II,ii Hamlet calls Polonius a
fishmonger and makes strange conversation with him. In IV,iii Hamlet refuses to
tell Claudius were he has hidden the body of Polonius and goe .....
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