The Crucible: Conflicts Between Individuals And Society
.... example for the rest of the innocent, but in the eyes of God as well. Proctor was an individual who was trying to help for the good of the society. Another person who symbolized individualism would be Abigail Williams. Williams, as an individual twisted the courts into taking the life of the one person who stood in her way, Goody Proctor. Williams was an individual even though she was with her friends because she only thought about what she wanted. She took lead and influenced the girls and the court .....
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"The Fate Of Oedipus"
.... same basic prophecy of Oedipus is proven in many characters. No matter how many times a specific character tried to play off fate and try to get rid of the situation it stayed exactly the same. Teiresias, the oracle, knows the end of all fates. He knows that fate control every minute of an individual's life, "How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be/When there's not help in truth!" (Sophocles 16) Oedipus was told by Teiresias that in his later years he would be the killer of his own father, and would .....
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All My Sons: Summary
.... what Ann's father did has nothing to do with Larry. Joe tries to explain what he did. He says that military production was a mad house. The army needed the equipment badly and Ann's father panicked. Chris and Ann think that Ann's father is a murderer. Joe tries to find explanations and excuses for the mistake. Ann and Chris find out that they had loved each other for a long time, but they were too embarrassed to let the other one know. Ann doesn't want to wait for Larry. Chris tells his father that he is .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Ignoring Problems Of The World
.... fresh and pretty! It’s almost time for our gentlemen callers to be arriving. I don’t believe that we are going to receive any, Mother. What! No one-not one? You must be joking!” (35). Amanda is constantly trying to set up a caller for Laura everywhere that she goes. For Amanda it becomes and obsession. She also is upset that when they finally do get a caller that it has been the first one to the house “It’s a terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentlem .....
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The Glass Menagerie: Play Review
.... Amanda Wingfield she is extremely overwhelming and pushy, as you know to her son. She is also constantly protecting her daughter from reality at the same time 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 .....
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Motifs Of Birds In Macbeth
.... in gothic literature.
The owl is discussed by the old man who talks to Ross the day after Duncan was killed. The death of Duncan is a perverted act, just as the death of the falcon is considered unnatural. "'Tis unatural/Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last a falcon, towering in her pride of place,/was by amousing owl hawked at and killed." The owl is a bird that typically symbolizes wisdom but in this case the mousing owl has killed a larger predator--a falcon. The mousing owl has us .....
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Shaw's Saint Joan And Shakespeare's Henry IV: Honor And Valor
.... be able to hear stories of his valiant efforts when they are told. When a deceased man looks back upon this honor the conveyed the decest will see that their own honor was their downfall. Lastly Falstaff believes a man with honor will not or cannot be remembered forever for distractions will fade the memory of the fallen hero in every man’s mind. Falstaff defies the image of a hero simply because he doesn’t believe in honor and would save himself rather than give own life to save another. Falstaff expo .....
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Inanimated Objects In Death Of A Salesman
.... so generously display for their father. The fact that Willy doesn't know how to work the machine shows that Willy far behind on the technological that is surrounding him. Above all the tape recorder represents the failed American dream. As his name says he will always be a "Loman"
The rubber tubing shows the darker side of Willy Loman. He wanted to die, the rubber tubing is a painful reminder to Willy's family and the reader that suicide was the only way for Willy to get away from his troubles. This is o .....
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"The Glass Managerie"
.... like she enjoys having problems and hecticness in her life. She handles all these problems with pride and confidence, even though she doesn't always hold that confidence. Amanda is always wanting to have a greater impact on others lives and be held responsible for anything good that happens to someone. She has such an amazing amount of endurance that she emotionally supports the entire family. You are able to see that she will never give up on her dreams for Tom and Laura, and although she may be cr .....
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The Painting Of Pygmalion And Galatea: A Sensual Embrace
.... telltale mallet that is lying in the foreground with bits of marble scattered close by indicates that the artist was working on his delicate sculpture when suddenly he felt her flesh tremble. Gérôme's illustration suggests that Pygmalion, after realizing Galatea was no longer a lifeless slab of stone, dropped the mallet and rushed to her side, instantaneously taking her into his arms.
It is evident that Galatea's form is no longer that of a lifeless sculpture. Her plain, ivory skin and sinuous curves are .....
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Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise
.... 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 to the hidden work of the apparatus .....
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Romeo And Juliet
.... that the marriage will end the hostilities between the two houses. When he says "Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall he come; and he and I shall watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee to Mantua." (Act 4, Scene 1), he tells Juliet how everything will be all right. Unfortunately, for all his good intentions the play still ends in tragedy.
Friar Lawrence is a man who is not afraid to take risks when he feels it is neccesary to help someone. For example in Act .....
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MacBeth: Prophecies
.... to be king and to control the future. When the witches told Macbeth all these good things, Macbeth felt as if he could not be beaten. He felt as if every thing was going like he wanted it to. That is until he hears the apparitions.
The influence of Lady Macbeth also contributed to the fall of Macbeth’s character. Lady Macbeth's character in the beginning reveals that she is a lovable person. We find out later that in actuality Lady Macbeth was ready to kill King Duncan herself. But because her husb .....
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Revenge In Hamlet
.... families are all slaughtered within the play. Fortinbras, King of Norway, was killed by King Hamlet; slaughtered by sword during a man to man battle. "…our valiant Hamlet-for so this side ofour known world esteem'd him-did slay this Fortinbras." This entitled King Hamlet to the land that was possessed by Fortinbras because it was written in a seal'd compact. Polonius was an advisor to the King, and father to Laertes and Ophelia. He was nosy and arrogant, and he did not trust hischildren. Young Ham .....
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Talk Shows And Their Social Value
.... In the attempt to obtain a higher status among the television world, Springer fails to incorporate the positive morality in today’s society. The appeal of the public favors violence on television. There are presently many issues questioning the relation between violence on television and the violence that exists today in America.
On Sally Jessy Raphael’s talk show, she uses a similar approach to attract the attention of her television watchers. Her main focus is drawing in delinquent teens an .....
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