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Papers on Arts, Movies, and Plays
Romeo And Juliet: Tybalt's Misinterpretation Of Romeo's Cowardice
Number of words: 870 | Number of pages: 4.... Mercutio end up fighting. When Romeo stepped in
between the fighting Mercutio believed that the dual had ended. And as
Mercutio was taken off guard Tybalt attacked and Mercutio was killed.
Romeo wanted to get Tybalt back for what he had done and make Mercutio's
death of some worth. Romeo used his rage and grief to slay Tybalt. All of
this had happened because of Tybalt's and Mercutio's little
misinterpretation of Romeo. Both acted without thinking or waiting for a
little sense of the matter or any kind of explanation. Two lives were
taken as
a result and one banished from his true love.
Romeo's banishment from Veron .....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Egeus
Number of words: 870 | Number of pages: 4.... gladly agrees and they decide to meet the following night in a wood a couple miles from Athens. At this moment Helen, Hermia's good friend appears, so they tell her about their plan and she promises to help the lovers. Helena, who is hopelessly in love with Demetrius, rushing to try to win his favor by telling him of Hermia's plan to elope. Demetrius got very upset and he hurries away to stop the elopement, but Helena follows him. Peter Quince a carpenter and a group of common laboring men are preparing a short comic play, to be performed before Theseus and Hippolyta in the evening after their marriage and the star of the play is .....
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Andy Warhol And Pop Art
Number of words: 1723 | Number of pages: 7.... growth of many of the most highly regarded
pop artists, including Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal and Lichtenstein.
California, namely San Fransisco was recognized as the Pop Art capital of
the west coast (Bourdon, 1989, 12)
Subject
The subject of Warhol's work revolved around various American
social issues of the mid-century. As America exited from World War II and
entered the Baby Boom era, the culture had become decidedly sanitized.
Some of this could be attributed to the Cold War and fear of the "enemy".
The flight to suburbia, mass production, conservative family values, and
development of new social standards also played .....
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Movie: The Last Supper
Number of words: 1582 | Number of pages: 6.... an ex-marine. Immediately
after the trucker sits down at the table to eat he starts pointing out to the
five students that he hates Jews and that they always try to bargain down
anything that they buy. All five of the students are stunned by the remarks
that the trucker is making, especially one of the students that is Jewish. They
all get into a heated argument and the trucker goes out of control; in addition,
he grabs the Jewish student and puts a knife to his throat. They are all
shocked by this and they immediately attempt to calm the trucker down. He
releases the Jewish student and then breaks an arm of another student w .....
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Critical Article On MacBeth
Number of words: 536 | Number of pages: 2.... times, when we are traitors And do not know
ourselves, when we hold rumour From what we fear, yet know not what we
fear, Each way and move."
Robertson, after contemplating this passage, remarked that this is
"certainly not Shakespeare's" because of the earlier point based above.
Empson believe's that Robertson's flaw comes within his translation of the
lines, "hold rumour could be like 'hold parley with'" and goes through a
retranslation of this short passage. "No one who had experienced civil war
could say it had no sense." is a line which briefly sums up Robertson's
reasons for his earlier claim on this passage, his l .....
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Movie: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Number of words: 1038 | Number of pages: 4.... the other
guests, acting like a silly animal, chasing a young woman. However, as soon as
he heard his music starting without him, he changed into a serious musician,
rushing to take his place as conductor. Salieri noticed that Mozart conducted
without notes. Although he recognized that Mozart was a ‘giggling, dirty-minded
creature', he was also able to see the genius in him. He couldn't understand why
God had chosen a ‘obscene child to be his instrument'. At another time, Mozart's
wife presents to Salieri some of his work in an attempt to get him a job as a
teacher. Salieri sees that the music sheets have no corrections and no .....
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The Foils Of Hamlet
Number of words: 761 | Number of pages: 3.... that it is the king who is spying behind the curtain, and without knowing who it really is he stabs Polonius and kills him. Polonius also has the same problem, but with much tamer results. Polonius usually ends up just making himself sound like a babbling fool by not thinking things out first. He never really hurt anyone and his slaying by Hamlet’s sword makes Hamlet seem more the fool. This foil gives Hamlet the image of a violent person that doesn’t know how to control his emotions, and in this instance he almost becomes the antagonist.
Hamlet also has foils that aren’t as close to him. Like the young Fortinbras, the n .....
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Review Of Shaw Shank Redemption
Number of words: 1135 | Number of pages: 5.... with bullet
wounds. All of the evidence pointed to Andy and he went on trial. The
judge asked him what he had done with the gun that he had bought. Andy
said that he had thrown it over the bridge after he had left the house, but
he hadn't been the one that shot them. He told the judge that he just left
before he did anything stupid and just threw the gun away. Andy was still
found guilty because all of the evidence pointed to him and he had no real
alibi. He then went to prison and this is where he would live his life for
quite awhile. How a mans life can change with a blink of his eyes.
Andy then went off to prison to sta .....
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Hamlet Criticism
Number of words: 2283 | Number of pages: 9.... Uncle, thanks the assembled courtiers for their helping him take the throne of his brother. He then quickly marries Gertrude, the widowed Queen. Hamlet is very angry at this situation. Claudius sends emissaries to the aged uncle of Fortinbras, asking him to restrain his nephew. The King and Queen then reprimand Hamlet; he has been unduly melancholy since the death of his father about two months before. Left alone, the Hamlet continues to grieve and rage over his mother’s ‘incestuous’ remarriage. When Horatio tells him about the Ghost, Hamlet arranges to stand watch himself.
Meanwhile, hotheaded Laertes, about to ret .....
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Julius Caesar: Background Knowledge Is Needed To Understand Play
Number of words: 467 | Number of pages: 2.... monarch, and it was formally enacted into
law that if any man wish that the monarchy should be restored, he was to be
declared a public enemy and be put to death.
Brutus and the rest of the conspirators had killed Caesar, but they made
an error, which was letting Mark Antony, one of Caesar's friends live. Antony
later united with Bepidus and Octavius, to go against Brutus, Cassius, and the
other conspirators. At the battle of Philippi, in Thrace, Brutus and Cassius
took their own lives when their army was destroyed. Just as Caesar and Pompey
had struggled for the world when Cassus died, so now when Bepidus died, Antony
and Octaviu .....
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