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Papers on Arts, Movies, and Plays
A Review On The Prince Of Egypt
Number of words: 1643 | Number of pages: 6.... riding all over the kingdom in chariots. They eventually destroy some of the construction and the Pharaoh reprimanded them both for their behavior. Moses knows that the Pharaoh usually puts dishonor on Rameses when he is troublesome, so Moses takes the blame to protect his brother from the shame. This scene depicts Moses’s closeness with Rameses and the love he has for his brother.
Moses then travels through the town and runs into his biological sister who tells him that he is a Hebrew. At first Moses does not believes her, but then he returns to the palace, finds his mother and she tells him the truth about his heritage. .....
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The Taming Of The Shrew: Kate's Soliloquy
Number of words: 613 | Number of pages: 3.... era, assisted in
contributing to the oppression of females in society for an innumerable amount
of years.
After the conclusion of The Taming of the Shrew, including Kate's
soliloquy, the audience is left with a proud feeling - proud of the fact that
Petruchio tamed such a shrew so well. The men of the audience are about with
feeling of satisfaction and justification. Shakespeare skillfully catered
towards both sexes by using Petruchio much like the stereotypical action figure
of today; a character who does the unbelievable effortlessly and leaves the
audience in awe. In the play Petruchio, short after the inception of his
skil .....
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A Clockwork Orange: Review Of Book And Film Version
Number of words: 1121 | Number of pages: 5.... reveling in the sight of blood or weapons.
Alex's love of hate is not simply a rebellious emotion, but as he explains,
it is his very nature, and he could not change it if he wanted to. Despite
his passion for what most see as ugly and disgusting, Alex does have a
great appreciation for classical music, especially Beethoven.
Alex's main conflicts are both external and internal. His external
conflicts are between him and the members of his gang. Dim and Georgie,
two of the members of Alex's gang, are unwilling to accept Alex's
leadership. They challenge his authority, and Alex reacts rashly by trying
to re- establish hi .....
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Macbeth: Symbolism Of Blood
Number of words: 1065 | Number of pages: 4.... progresses, he matures into a treacherous person who soon becomes identified with death and bloodshed even his own pity and guilt for himself . The first reference of blood is one of honor, and occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant in Act 1 scene 2, and says, "What bloody man is that?". This is symbolic of the brave fighter who been injured in a valiant battle for his country. In the next passage, the sergeant says, "Which smok'd with bloody execution." He is referring to Macbeth's courage in which his sword is covered in the hot blood of the enemy. Duncan uses the word “blood” in this sense as bravery, honor, and in a .....
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Macbeth: The Supernatural And The Theme Of Death
Number of words: 453 | Number of pages: 2.... The supernatural also had another key factor to her death. In the first act of the play, she calls on the powers of the supernatural to make her strong. The following quote, "Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, stop up the access and passage to remorse… Come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall…", is possibly the most important passage that leads to Lady Macbeth's death. She calls on the evil spirits to "unsex" her, and to replace her "milk" with "gall". It seems that she wants to be the most crueles .....
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The Birth Of A Nation: The Pros And Cons
Number of words: 2331 | Number of pages: 9.... would have remained as known as Beethoven. The problem is that it is such an amazing movie on a technological and aesthetic level, but looking at Birth of a Nation in a moral sense, it is almost embarrassing to mention it. There are a handful of reasons for this, but first in order to get a proper perception, one must first learn a bit of history.
The Birth of a Nation is the first film to offer 2$ seats. Before then, the best seats in the house were a mere 50 cents. But the 2$ seat was "…for the more advantageous seat in the rear of the auditorium…" Griffith had reasons for charging so much. He felt that if the p .....
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The Caretaker By Pinter: A Play Can Be Confrontational, Challenging And Disturbing To The Values And Assumptions Of An Audience. Discuss With Close
Number of words: 1946 | Number of pages: 8.... and what they are
going to gain from the theatrical experience. The traditional attitudes towards
theatre and the conventions of realist drama are disrupted by Pinter. This
confronts the assumptions and values of the audience, an experience which would
be disconcerting and frightening to many.
Pinter divorces and exposes society's codes, institutions and human relations.
Throughout the play the audience is rarely comfortable. This disruption is
established from the outset of the play when Mick, a character who at this stage
of the play the audience knows nothing about, sits on the bed and stares at the
audience in silence f .....
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The Merchant Of Venice: Shylock - An In-depth Character Analysis
Number of words: 433 | Number of pages: 2.... take no doit of usance
for my moneys, and you'll not hear me! This is kind I offer.”
-Shylock
Often, this quote from Act 3 Scene 1 line 83,
“Why, there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two thousand
ducats in Frankfurt! The curse never fell upon our nation till now, I
never felt it till now. Two thousand ducats in that and other precious,
precious, jewels! I would my daughter were dead at my foot and the
jewels in her ear;” portraying Shylocks' treatment of his daughter, after she
ran away, is manipulated to make Shylock seem beastly. But, within the Jewish
culture and the time period, his respon .....
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Hamlet: Spying
Number of words: 1227 | Number of pages: 5.... i.
Hamlet: Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a
breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but
yet I could accuse me of such things that it were
better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud,
revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my beck
that I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give
them shape, or time to act time in. What should such
fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?
We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go they
ways to a nunnery. Where's you father?
Ophelia: At home, my lord.
Ophelia told a lie when he asked where Polonius is. She is trying to c .....
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Mindwalk: International Relations
Number of words: 330 | Number of pages: 2.... a very separate, very unique view on the subject he is trying to get
across: people's perception of the world.
As the day draws to a close, the three different viewpoints seem to
slowly diverge into a common thought: People need to view the world as a whole,
everything relying on each other, as nature and life, instead of a huge
mechanical machine. As I mentioned above, I think everyone that watched the
movie will come away from it with a different idea in mind. I believe that idea
that you are left with has a great deal to do with the one that you started with,
the way you saw the world before watching Mindwalk. .....
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