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Oedipus Rex
Number of words: 605 | Number of pages: 3.... him away and calls him a liar and blames it all on him:
And I'll tell you what I think:
You planned it, you had it done, you all but
Killed him with your own hands: if you had eyes,
I'd say that the crime was yours, and yours alone.
(1.2.331-334)
Teiresius is a blind prophet, and it is possible that if Oedipus had listened to
him in the first place, his internal suffering may have been much less severe.
He should have accepted what he had to say as fact no matter how unbelievable.
Oedipus
I think that I myself may be accursed
By my own ignorant edict.
Jocasta
You speak strangely. .....
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Does Romeo Behave Rashly While Juliet Shows Superior Judgement?
Number of words: 613 | Number of pages: 3.... "Go, get thee hence, for I will not away." She tries to poison herself
but there is none left. When she hears the watch coming she grabs Romeo's
dagger and fatally stabs herself. Juliet is so upset she doesn't think and
tries to poison herself instead of listening to the Friar, and in
desperation of death, kills herself with the dagger. Romeo is careful and
considerate in some parts of the play. An example of this is when he tries
to convince his friends not to go to the Capulet ball : "'tis no wit to go".
Another example is when Juliet confesses her desire to marry him, he goes
and speaks to Friar Lawrence. He explains the difficu .....
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Julius Caesar: Brutus
Number of words: 730 | Number of pages: 3.... a bowl of wine!
I did not think you could have been so angry,
O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.
Of your philosophy you make no use
If you give place to accidental evils.
No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.
Ha! Portia!
She is dead.
How ‘scaped I killing when I crossed you so?
Oh, insupportable and touching loss!
Upon what sickness?
Impatient of my absence,
And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony
Have made themselves so strong for with her death
That tidings came with this sh .....
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The Destruction Of Macbeth?
Number of words: 556 | Number of pages: 3.... This is a better reason for his downfall than that of his wife because these witches knew exactly what to say to spark the fire in Macbeth. These witches stir up trouble throughout the whole play and aid to . Though, they are also not the main reason for his downfall because they warn Macbeth of his destruction, but he doesn’t listen to the three witches and tries to challenge their prophecies. Do to his stubbornness, he is destroyed like the three witches prophesized.
The main reason for Macbeth’s downfall is his ambition. Macbeth was a very ambitious man, and the other two reasons only added fuel to the fire that was .....
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Macbeth: Not All Men Are Heroic
Number of words: 2173 | Number of pages: 8.... to see.
(Act 1:Scene 4:ln.55)
When Lady Macbeth heard of her husband's success and read the letter, we
almost immediately feel that a new source of power had appared in the drama. Her
words reflected a great knowledge of her husband and her practical approach to
problems as seen in the following two verses.
Glacis thou art, and Cowdor, and shalt be
What thou are promised. Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it. What thoug .....
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Dante's Peak
Number of words: 1154 | Number of pages: 5.... the May 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, and have inundated other valleys around Cascade volcanoes during prehistoric eruptions. Lahars at Nevado del Ruiz volcano, Colombia, in 1985, killed more than 23,000 people." Near a volcano, the falling volcanic ash is quite heavy (high density), and the newspaper used as a proxy for volcanic ash in the movie looked more like snow (low density) as it fell. For geologists who have seen the movie, the hot, runny lava, seen issuing from the volcano, is the most bothersome issue. Generally, runny, fast-flowing lava (basalt) erupts from Hawaiian or "shield" volcanoes; but we understand that .....
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Beware Of Television
Number of words: 869 | Number of pages: 4.... material is easy or less than interesting, and slow
down when it is difficult or enthralling. He can put down the book for a few
moments and cope with his emotions without fear of losing anything.
Unlike reading, the pace of the television experience cannot be
controlled by the viewer; he cannot slow down a delightful program or speed up a
dreary one. The images move too quickly. He cannot use his own imagination to
invest the people and events portrayed on the screen with the personal meanings
that would help him understand and resolve relationships and conflicts in his
own life; he is under the power of the show creators' i .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Play Review
Number of words: 837 | Number of pages: 4.... without realizing she was treating her daughter like she was good for nothing.
Then comes lovely Laura Wingfield the innocent hurt child even though she is grown. The only happiness she has is in her glass menagerie. She is very quiet and never voices her opinion. Laura is always making sure her mother is happy and not distressed. When she was younger she wore a brace on her leg so, throughout her life that made her very insecure.
The story takes place in a small apartment with Tom bringing home any income they have and, Laura is supposedly going to business school because in her mother’s eyes that is the only way Laura .....
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Superstition In The Play The Crucible By Arthur Miller
Number of words: 615 | Number of pages: 3.... of the
minds of nearly all the people, and the dread made the affliction spread widely.
"The afflicted, under the influence of the witchery, "admitted to see the forms
of their tormentors with their inner vision" (Miller 1082). and would
immediately accuse some individual seen with the devil. At times the afflicted
and the accused became so numerous that no one was safe from suspicion and its
consequences. Even those who were active in the prosecutions became objects of
suspicion.
Revenge often impelled persons to accuse others who were innocent and
when some statement of the accused would move the court and audience in favor o .....
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Crime Films
Number of words: 2050 | Number of pages: 8.... of it. The film
genre follows a set of abstract rules that allows the public to informally
categorize films. These rules must be viewed from an flexible point of view in
order to legitimize their future existence. By using this method of
categorizing films the public is able to decide which films they wish to see and
those they do not. Some people love musicals and if they were to go to one and
find there was no music or dance they might not be too pleased. The concept of
genre is one that may provide benefit to the viewers but at the same time may
also present problems for the directors who must compromise their artisti .....
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