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- 13161: King Lear
- ... her father, but she can't express it the way in which Lear wants her to. Because of this, she is disowned and sent away to France. The King even refers to her as, "Unfriended, new adopted to our hate, dow'red with our curse, and strangered with our oath."(I,i, ln 203-204). Cordelia's love for her father was shown further when she received the letters concerning Lear ... he wishes that he had never given away his power or disowned Cordelia. This can be seen when he states, "No, you unnatural hags! I will have such revenges on you both that all the world shall-I will do such things-What they are, yet I know not; but they shall be the terrors of the earth.(II,iv, ln 273-277). It would take an entire book to explain ...
- 13162: Dante's Peak
- Dante's Peak After seeing the movie, I have to say that its presentation and delivery was more than satisfactory. Its story, however, is nothing new specially here in the volcano-infested Philippine archipelago. Dante's Peak is a good adventure/"natural catastrophe" movie that can make the viewers get a feel for how geologists work. . . The Movie is set in ... an active magma chamber there are no Cascade (or any other active or dormant volcanoes) in Idaho. There is, however, plenty of evidence of past volcanic activity, as there is in most parts of the world including here in the Philippines. But before we talk about volcanoes, what is a volcano? Here are some things I learned in my spine-tingling, exciting and fun-filled class of Nat Sci II! What ...
- 13163: Tragedy and the Common Man
- ... of his incessant need to be successful as a salesman is, that he misses many opportunities which life affords him. He could have gone to Africa and become a rich man, but he stayed in New York simply because he is a salesman. This merely another example of his identity being associated with his vocation. “Be well liked” he often tells his sons Biff and Happy. How others perceive Willy is ... quality in such plays that does shake us... derives from the underlying fear of being displaced, the disaster inherent in being torn away from our chosen image of what and who we are in the world.” Based upon Miller’s statement Willy’s “underlying fear of being displaced” is the real tragedy. He wants to do things right, but the fact is he has many incidences( like Boston ) that haunt him ...
- 13164: Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... case that a woman can only live up to so much. Works Cited Adler, Thomas P. A Streetcar Named Desire, The Moth and the Lantern. Boston; Twayne Publishers. 1990. The Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, third ed. New York; Columbia University Press. 1994. p951. Falk, Signi. Tennessee Williams, sec. ed. NYC; Twayne Publishers. 1978. 53-62. Stanton, Stephen S. Tennessee Williams. Englewood Cliffs, NJ; Prentice Hall Inc. 1977. Williams, Tennessee. “A Streetcar Named Desire”. NYC; Nal Penguin Inc. 1947. _______________. Three by Tennesse. New York; The New American Printing Library. 1976.
- 13165: Hamlet: Laertes and Horatio
- ... vile king" , takes out his sword and points it threateningly at the King, demanding of him where his father's corpse is. Also he immediately declares that nothing can stop his "will, not all the world" and will "husband them so well" . He is ready to take revenge at any cost. I dare damnation: to this point I stand, That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes ... although rude and impetuous, nevertheless shows that Laertes is courageous. This is a contrast with Hamlet whom has repeatedly delayed his revenge for his father's murder. There is no question that Hamlet is also brave, but throughout the play in contrast to Laertes, Hamlet procrastinates, considers, reconsiders and waits. Perhaps Hamlet has achieved moral grandeur in overcoming evil and righting the wrongs, but the reader is left to consider the ...
- 13166: Tlevision: Behavior, Moral Values and Social Standards
- ... viewers are the junkies. We feed of the rush of the action, and because each time we get high, we want in more intense qualities than before. This forces the pusher to come up with new ways of stimulating us. The unfortunate part is that we are never informed of the dangers of this drug. The statistical majority of Americans keep consuming this drug called T.V as their values deteriorate ... an environment of depressed self-disgusted embarrassment. While television remains to be the number one source of education for so many, we must realize that it’s sole inventive purpose is to entertain. In a world so entirely caught up in fantasy, we must strive to remove the blinders that television has placed on our perception. We must remember that the thirty-second commercial of the Coors Lite walking into the ...
- 13167: A Street Car Named Desire: Blanche
- ... lust for men and in some instances boys. The reader finds out that Blanche lost a job earlier in life as a school teacher because she had an affair with a teenager. Her coming to New Orleans to live with Stella and Stanley was supposed to be a “new start” for her to better her life. It is not long before she is back to her old ways. When a young boy comes by to collect on a payment, Blanche tells the boy “ I ... shows interest in delivery boys, but also makes several passes at Stanley. Once after a shower she speaks to Stanley, “ Hello, Stanley! Here I am, all freshly bathed and scented, and feeling like a brand new human being!” She is obviously throwing herself at her sisters husband. There goes any sympathy that Blanche might have gained to this point. One might even think her sick or mental which later turns ...
- 13168: Hamlet: Claudius' Conscience
- ... crime. The only problem that Claudius must deal with now is his conscience. After Claudius commits the deed of killing King Hamlet, he almost immediately marries Hamlet's wife, Queen Gertrude. Claudius also gains a new son, his former nephew Hamlet, the son of King Hamlet. Young Hamlet is very displeased with his mother's hasty marriage of Claudius and is angered by this incest. Hamlet has a deep attraction for ... very angered by this because it confirms that Claudius did kill his father. Later that night, Claudius prays to god to forgive him for his sins, but he is not ready to give up his new crown and his new wife. Guilt has begun to cloud over Claudius' thoughts, and it will indeed drive him to the brink of insanity and beyond. Hamlet spies Claudius, praying with his back turned and on his knees, ...
- 13169: Hammurabi
- ... had belonged to his accuser." How about that law? If you were a good swimmer, you could do anything you wanted and every time you were accused go jump in the river and gain a new house. It sounds like a good deal to me, how about it Potter? A lot of my information came to the University of Chicago, and it sounds like I am going to go there. Hammurabi was more than just a man. He was a man with a plan. And his plan was to construct a tablet of laws for all the world to know. The people of his empire could learn these laws, and the whole civilization would be a better place. So he did construct this table of 8 foot high black stone (it now can ...
- 13170: Ophelia: The Forgotten Character
- ... mind she comes to believe that her family tried so hard to protect her from her seduction which she has now encountered. Therefore, this explains Hamlets rejection of her. These feeling she has toward the world are abused by the vision of death and burial, she reaches out to “sweet flowers” and in her careless attempt to hang them upon a tree, she somehow drowns (4.5.38). Hamlet recognizes that ... Shakespeare. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Shakespeare, William. “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, an Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 1999. 1523-1634. Webster, Margaret. Shakespeare Without Tears. Putam Books,1955.
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