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Papers on Arts, Movies, and Plays
Poppy Field And The Ravine
Number of words: 961 | Number of pages: 4.... Both paintings are about impression and color sensation. However, the approaches behind these paintings are quite distinctive. As a result, the contexts of the impressions portrayed are different also.
Compositionally, Monet and Van Gogh spread their landscape onto the entire page and centralized the page with a linear perspective. Their landscapes are surpassing the canvas and surpassing us, the viewers. We are in the image and are participating what the artist wanted us to be doing: looking forward, visually capturing this moment of seeing. In fact, this moment is so short-lived that it is passing by in front of our eyes. M .....
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Hamlet's Puzzling, Duplicitous Nature
Number of words: 2154 | Number of pages: 8.... Hamlet makes a clear statement about his state when he commits himself to revenge. In this statement the play makes an easy to follow shift. This shift consists of Hamlet giving up the role of a student and mourning son. Hamlet says, "I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain" (1.5.99-103).
Hamlet is declaring that he will be committed to nothing else but the revenge of his father's death. There is no confusion about Hamlet's character. He has said earlier that h .....
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Fate In Oedipus The King
Number of words: 1134 | Number of pages: 5.... that he was “doomed to sleep with [his] my mother, doomed to murder [his] my father (1080).” For most of his life he was forewarned of this horrible fate. One could argue that it was this inescapable fate that led him to marry the Queen of Thebes and kill the King, unknowingly fulfilling his prophecy. Also, fate could have brought Oedipus to Thebes. Once he was notified of his prophecy he left Corinth to escape fate; however he ran towards it by ending up in Thebes. It was very unlikely that on his travels he would meet and kill his own father, and coincidentally solve the riddle that brought him to the throne in Thebes .....
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A Scene From Martin Scorcese's "Mean Streets"
Number of words: 491 | Number of pages: 2.... with the criminal life.
Parts of Goodfellas and Mean Streets were in this style as was, to a more
obvious degree, the first half hour of Casino. Usually the narration plays
a large part in this style of filmmaking. The use of narration, in general,
is another one of Scorsese's styles.
In Mean Streets, there is a wonderfully lit and choreographed scene
that involves Harvey Keitel's character Charlie after he becomes
intoxicated at a party. He accomplished this using a wide angle lens and
unnatural bar room-style lighting with an overwhelmingly red tone to it. It
also has a smokey look to it. Also, Keitel's acting is excellent as h .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Symbols
Number of words: 722 | Number of pages: 3.... than any of the other characters:
Tom's habit of going to the movies shows us his longing to leave the apartment
and head out into the world of reality. A place where one can find adventure.
And Tom, being a poet, can understand the needs of man to long for adventure and
romance. But he is kept from entering reality by Amanda, who criticizes him as
being a "selfish dreamer." But, Tom has made steps to escape into reality by
transferring the payment of a light bill to pay for his dues in the Merchant
Seaman's Union.
Another symbol, which deals with both Amanda and Laura, is Jim O'Connor. To
Laura, Jim represents the one thing she f .....
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King Lear: The Use Of Letters
Number of words: 452 | Number of pages: 2.... the letter. Edmund decided to tell Cornwall
about Gloucester ‘s action. Edmund told Cornwall that his father was traitor
who wanted to help France. Edmund did this to receive more power and get the
credit from Duke of Cornwall. The action of Edmund displayed that he would do
anything to get higher rank. He even betrayed his father who is horribly
punished. Edmund becomes the Earl of Gloucester. Edmund had no loyalty to his
father. In Act III, the letter was in Albany's hand. Albany chose to fight the
French army and that showed his loyalty to England.
The last letter on the stage talked about the plan of murder Alba .....
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Oedipus: Sometimes Things Are Better Left Unknown
Number of words: 380 | Number of pages: 2.... he finds out
his fate, and tries to avoid his destiny by doing things to decrease his
chances of the prophecy being fulfilled. In the end, however, the prophecy
is ultimately fulfilled, and Oedipus must live with the harsh reality of
the knowledge he had discovered.
If people knew what was going to happen in their futures, what
point would there be for living? To me, not knowing what is going to
happen tomorrow, is an incentive to keep living. It makes life interesting.
I wake up in the morning just waiting to find out what is in store for me
that day. Oedipus found out his fate, and in doing so lived a much
different life- a .....
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The Dead: Summary
Number of words: 1345 | Number of pages: 5.... guest after another arrive James Joyce’s prose is eloquently translated into dialogue by director, Hutson and thus, Actresses Cathleen Delany (Aunt Julia) and Helena Carroll (Aunt Kate) create an element of suspense more so than in the words of Joyce. Upon his long awaited arrival, Gabriel’s greeting and idle chitchat is identical to that of the text.
Joyce describes in depth the thoughts and feelings of Gabriel throughout the story, only it is more difficult to do so in film. In attempt to compensate for this loss, Huston added text to his script. For example, Gabriel pulls a small piece of paper from his pocket and begins .....
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Hamlet’s Hamartia
Number of words: 735 | Number of pages: 3.... excessive thinking, all combined, to almost literally become his fatal flaw. It is his indecisiveness that almost kills him.
Although from the very opening of the play, Hamlet recognizes that it is his filial duty to avenge the murder of his father by killing the murderer, his uncle, he does not perform this duty until he is actually pressed to it by circumstance, and until it is at the point of death himself. “Now might I do it pat, now he is paying; And now I’ll do’t. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged. That would be scanned: A villain kills my father; and for that, I sole son, do the same villain send to .....
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Media Vs. Masses...Who Controls Who?
Number of words: 901 | Number of pages: 4.... approach to increasing
ratings. After a while, interviewers would attempt to provoke debate, mud
throwing and even emotion out of it's political guests. Politicians who be
allowed air-time to address questions presented by viewers and interviewers.
One major complaint however, was that the media was more interested in
evoking a response in the interviewed rather than probing issues th at
really mattered to the audiences. They would infact be more interested in
impressing their peers with the questions they asked, rather than being
interested in the answers. They ask questions like "Do you think Mr.
Clinton will be re-elected .....
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