Hamlet - Ophelia Character Analysis
.... used Ophelia as bait so he and the king could listen to Hamlet’s words. Ophelia willingly obliged to her father’s desires. By not thinking for herself and only doing as her father wished, she ruined her chances of love with Hamlet.
Hamlet put pressure on Ophelia by expecting her to surpass his mother’s shortcomings and be an epitome of womankind. He searched her innocent face for some sign of loving truth that might restore his faith in her. He took her mute terror for a sign of her guilt and found her .....
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Hamlet's Inability To Decipher Right From Wrong
.... stockings fouled,
Ungartered, and down-gyvèd to his ankle,
Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other,
And with a look so piteous and purport
As if he had been loosèd out of hell
To speak of horrors, he comes before me.”
According to Ophelia, his apparent condition was one of distress. I thought this section interesting because although Hamlet supposedly loves Ophelia, and his act of going through her closet was out of his “love-madness” for her, it truly scares Ophelia and has the oppos .....
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Romeo And Juliet: The New Age Vs The Old Age
.... that thier actors can still speak in the same dialect that Shakespeare wrote. Differences are also introduced into the movie because nothing can compare to what Shakespeare has written back the old English days. The biggest difference would be that the film was made to fit modern times. No matter the what year each production was made, the same plot of Romeo and Juliet still remain in the both stories.
The main similarity between the1996 version of Romeo and Juliet and the original play is that mos .....
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Macbeth: Macbeth's Personality
.... and the euphoria which follows. He also rejoices no doubt in the success which crowns his efforts in battle - and so on. He may even conceived of the proper motive which should energize back of his great deed:
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself.
But while he destroys the king's enemies, such motives work but dimly at best and are obscured in his consciousness by more vigorous urges. In the main, as we have said, his nature violently demands rewards: he fights valiantly in order .....
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Romeo And Juliet: Who Is Responsible For The Tragedy? Does Fate Play A Role?
.... starts everything, and sometimes people don’t even realize that they are playing this part. In Romeo and Juliet, one of the causes is the ancient feud between the families. Tybalt says “What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee.” (1.1.61-62)
The second is the instigator, who is usually very mean, and something that they do or say, is usually the cause of conflict. What this person does or says is meant to provoke someone. Tybalt says to Romeo “Romeo, th .....
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The Godfather: Gangster Genre
.... materialistic, street-smart, immoral, and self-destructive.They rise to power with a tough cruel facade while showing an ambitious desire for success and recognition, but underneath they can express sensitivity and gentleness. The Public Enemy (1931) is one of the earliest gangster films - the second one from Warner Bros. in the thirties. Director William Wellman's. The Public Enemy is toughe, violent and realistic (released before the censorship codes were strictly enforced), although most of the violen .....
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Julius Caesar: Brutus’ Character Flaw
.... he uses that in his plans. Cassius gains Brutus’ trusts as soon as he mentions the danger Rome is in if Caesar becomes king. In all actuality, the main reason Cassius uses Brutus in his plans is for an “insurance policy.” The people know Brutus’ nobility to Caesar and they will think that there was a good reason for Caesar’s assassination since Brutus was the one that committed it. Cassius declares, “Brutus shall lead the way, and we will grace his heels with the most boldest and best hearts of Rome .....
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Review Of Oedipus
.... everyone wanted to be like him.
As the play moves into scene one, already you can see Oedipus changing. We have to remember though that this play was only a day long so he faces all of these challenges in just one day. It seems like every time King Liaos death is brought up, Oedipus always blames it on someone. Oedipus then tells everyone that the person who killed King Liaos will be put to death when found. When he says this, it tells the people that he didn’t kill him. As the play goes on he blames .....
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Movie Review: Into The West
.... theme is that of personal loss, and then prejudice & fantasy v. reality, respectively.
Personal loss is something we all will deal with at some point, and probably several points, throughout our lives. Some may be “luckier” than others when it comes to the severity of such a loss, but the key to surviving it, is how we chose to deal with it. In losing his wife Mary, John Riley lost himself. He was obviously a great man in the time she was with him; “King of all Travellers”, the youngest one ever, seem .....
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The Crucible
.... they did in the woods.
Jealousy was one of he emotions that played an important factor in this play. For example, When Abigail stated, "now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnum’s dead sisters. And that is all. Let either of you breathe a word. About the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you". (1044) This quote shows how Abigail would make the girls jealous by the way she is taking .....
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Sankofa: A Movie Review
.... As time goes on, in the film, she follows the tour group into the cave and in trying to find her way out of the cave she is transported in to another time. She goes back to slave times. It is here that she finds her roots. She remembers what her ancestors went through and how she was disgracing them, now. She experienced what her ancestors went through, from the branding with a hot iron to the whippings across the back. During her journey she received a little bird from the man she loved. .....
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Rhetorical Genders: Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise
.... and negative images of women, reinscription and subversion of patriarchal ideologies. The tension between the film’s uses of 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 .....
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Titanic: The Rich And The Poor
.... the poor stayed in were very small rooms with no pictures on the gray wall and no furniture except a bunk bed, of which whomever slept on top had to be careful to not bump his head on the ceiling. The poor weren’t even sure who their roommate would be until they boarded the boat and found their room.
The director did show us that we shouldn’t classify people as “rich” or “poor”. Rose, one of the main characters in the story, was from a very wealthy family. She was engaged to marry a man from an equal .....
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Macbeth: The Supernatural And The Theme Of Death
.... work as one, communicate as one, and when that appendage is lost, so is MB's grip with reality. Lady Macbeth was the only person he could truly confide in. 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 passag .....
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Braveheart
.... lived for a long term of his
life. He was educated and learned to speak Latin with his uncle who he
also took him on a pilgrimage to Rome. He returned home to Scotland while
in his late twenties to raise crops and a family. He soon was married to a
girl he knew as a kid in secret so that none of the guards could enforce
the law of Primal Nuctar, which is to bless the marriage by sleeping with
the bride. He tried to dodge the law but failed. He fought off the
soldiers of the king for what he knew was right. .....
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