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Papers on Arts, Movies, and Plays
Compare And Contrast: Oedipus And Othello
Number of words: 1018 | Number of pages: 4.... suggested by a few props. Abstract
settings place more emphasis on the language and the performer, which
causes the spectator to use their imagination. It also places more
emphasis on costuming. This type of setting helped set up the style of
representational theater, which places high emphasis on the realistic. The
style used in classical Greece was presentational which, because of the use
of the mask, gave no illusion that this story is happening before their
eyes. The audience is reminded that they are watching a play, and not
merely observing life. Thus, the use of the thrust stage is the only
similarity of the two types .....
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Third Story Flat
Number of words: 290 | Number of pages: 2.... the "", the action takes place all in one night. However in "A Cornish Mystery", The action takes place over the coarse several days. Also, in the story, the action took place in the big city, while the movie mainly took place in a small town. I think the movie was much easier to follow than the story.
Within the first twenty minutes of the movie, I noticed at least five differences, and I wasn’t really looking that hard for the differences. I found some similarities, but not as many as differences. One difference is that In the movie, the detective had an assistant. In the story, The detective was a solitary man. Also, the .....
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The Epilogue Of The Tempest By William Shakespeare
Number of words: 551 | Number of pages: 3.... are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own" means, now my plays are over, and it's no longer my characters speaking. The "Island" or stage Shakespeare is on is now "bare" and it is time for "you" the audience to release Shakespeare and his actors from this play with the "help of [y]our good hands." Shakespeare was not only being released for the performance of the play, he was being release from his career as a playwright. But there are more reasons to clap besides the obvious reason that the play is over, Shakespeare could not allow his final play to be bad, his project "was to please." He reiterates this point by s .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Willy's Life Is An Illusion
Number of words: 679 | Number of pages: 3.... up a crazy idea
of putting on a sporting goods exhibition. The problem with Willy is that he
never grows up and deals with his obstacles.
Willy is also a very stubborn man. He is like a little child that wants
to do something their way even though they know that another option would be the
wiser choice. Charley practically sets a potential job into Willy's lap and he
refuses it. Willy just was fired and needed a job. He refuses one. Willy is
too stubborn to let go of his old job and take a new one. He still believes
that he is at the top of his profession. When Willy does not get his way he
acts just as a child would. He h .....
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The Crucible: John Proctor Is A Tragic Hero
Number of words: 1446 | Number of pages: 6.... to. He is described as a "farmer in
his middle thirties" with a " powerful body" and a "steady manner", and is
already being established as the protagonist in which we sympathize
with.(p.19) Miller's choice to describe him in such a fashion is very
significant. By describing the tragic hero as a "strong, steady, farmer"
the dramatic effect is even greater. Who else better to fall victim to his
own personal freedom and the fear of others but the strong, stern
character? John Proctor's description also provides another outlet to
convey the dynamic nature of his character. While the physical side of
Proctor deteriorated towards .....
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Film And Book Review Of I Know What You Did Last Summer
Number of words: 1347 | Number of pages: 5.... Another man killed David and his body was thrown over the edge of the cliff. It just so happened that the four teenagers, Julie, Ray, Helen, and Barry, where driving by at the time. David’s body hit the hood of the car while Barry was distracting everyone in the car. They all believed that they hit David as he was walking across the road and decided to through his body into the sea. As they were moving to body to the car so they could take it down to the docks, Max, a kid they knew drove by and stopped to see what was going on. But Julie and Ray lied to Max saying that they stopped because Barry had too much to drink was puki .....
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Rhetorical Genders: Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise
Number of words: 1305 | Number of pages: 5.... narrative and image works to interrogate and problematize both feminist and antifeminist assumptions about gender, power, and subjectivity.
In Alice Doesn’t Teresa de Lauretis claims that
Feminist film theory has gone well beyond the simple opposition of positive and negative images, and has indeed displaced the very terms of that opposition to a sustained critical attention to the hidden work of the apparatus. It has shown, for instance, how narrativity works to anchor images to noncontradictory points of identification, so that “sexual difference” is ultimately reconfirmed and any ambiguity reconciled through narrativ .....
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Romeo And Juliet: The Capulet Family
Number of words: 636 | Number of pages: 3.... For instance, when Lady Capulet brought up the idea
of Juliet marrying Paris, Juliet just went along with the concept , even
though that was possibly not what she wanted.
An even more significant instance of such a thing occurring is the
fact that Juliet feared to tell her parents that she had fallen in love
with Romeo, a Montague. She knew that if she informed them of how she felt,
they would get angry and maybe disown her, just because of their hate for
all Montagues.
That is another of the Capulet family's flaws. They are rather
narrow-minded because of their continuing, senseless conflict with the
Montagues. Both househ .....
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Hamlet: Hamlet Defeated By His Own Flaws
Number of words: 474 | Number of pages: 2.... resulted in Hamlet's death.
Just as the killing of Polonious was a tragic flaw of Hamlets, so was
the killing of Claudius. This flaw of Hamlets which was to be the solo revenge
of Claudius brought upon the death of Gertrude, Polonius, and Laertes. The
madness in Hamlet was to be unleashed only on Claudius. Yet Hamlet's path of
destruction killed his mother, she was killed by the poison meant for Hamlet by
Claudius. Laertes death was brought on by the killing of Polonius. The duel
between Hamlet and Laertes, which was the arranged revenge on Hamlet, was the
final stand of each.
Although the killings Hamlet carried out were .....
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Seinfeld
Number of words: 1323 | Number of pages: 5.... name on the program, is the
central figure of the sitcom and the catalyst for almost everything that happens.
He is involved in the antics revolving around Kramer, George and Elaine. On one
episode George, Kramer and Jerry are spying on the naked lady across the street
all day to see who can win a bet. The twist at the end of the show is when we
see George and Jerry peering through the window and gasping, " Is that Kramer in
her apartment? Wow he is naked!" Another episode involves Jerry who is mistaken
for a Nazi leader arriving in town to speak at a meeting. He continues the
charade in order to secure a limousine ride home af .....
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