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- 6621: The play "Amadeus" is Mainly Concerned With the Destructive Nature of Jealousy
- ... He is envious of the vessel of God's laughter at the patron saint of mediocrity' as he had dubbed himself. Not only did God double-cross Salieri, but he did it using this obscene child. It was this jealousy and the rage it inspired that caused Salieri to attempt to kill Mozart by starving him of work and students, and thus, money and food. If Salieri had not restricted the ...
- 6622: Antigone: Changing Views of The Chorus
- ... no remorse for his actions. They say that he went too far and even hint that Antigone may ahve been the victim of her father's actions many years prior: Your life's in ruins, child -- I wonder do you pay for your father's terrible ordeal? (Lines 945-946) The small choral passage following this, however, states that it was Antigone's own fault for her tragic downfall: Reverence asks ...
- 6623: A Marxist Criticism on "The Importance of Being Earnest"
- ... this character Wilde show's the reader that all nobles aren't perfect and can be more flawed than the average person, and portrayed was the fact that the rich and noble sometimes seem to abuse that position and end up in a deeper hole than most others. Then there is his Aunt Augusta, who is a very powerful character. Aunt Augusta in her own rights is the dominant persona in ...
- 6624: Differences Between Laurence's West Side Story and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- ... is the modern character of Romeo and Maria is the modern character of Juliet. In the two tragedies the major conflict is two opposing families, or gangs, do not agree of the relationship of their child. This conflict was resolved in a very tragic manner, one of the two couples killed themselves the other couple just one got killed. When the death of the persons happened is brought the two foes ...
- 6625: Macbeth: Not All Men Are Heroic
- ... er Strange things I have to head, that will to hand, Which must be acted ere they may be scanned. (Act 3:Scene 4:Ln.162) Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse Is the initiate fear that wants hard use. We are yet but young indeed. (Act 3:Scene 4:Ln.174) These two verses all reflected the suspense that Macbeth had forhis noblemen and the suggestion ...
- 6626: The Character of Macbeth
- ... scruples. However, his language becomes more and more to do with evil as is shown by a large part of his soliloquy - Now o'er the one half-world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates pale Hecate's off'rings, and withered murderer alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, with Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards ...
- 6627: Suffering In Shakespeare's Plays
- ... evil Iago, making her husband think that she has been disloyal. Othello represents how jealousy, particularly sexual jealousy, can bring on corruption, suffering through ones emotions. Brabantio, a Venetion Senator, is terrified that his only child has been kidnapped by Othello and has been seduced with drugs and potions. " It is to' tree an evil, Gone she is,...O, unhappy girl!-... O, she deceives me,...O, treason of the blood!... is ...
- 6628: Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare's Metaphor Of Comparing Man To Plants
- ... And if the evil is stronger and more prevalent, It is certain the plant will be destroyed. In the first line, Shakespeare speaks of a new plant, which alludes to a human baby or a child. This is the beginning of his extended metaphor evaluating plants to man. Just like a plant can have malevolent poison or beneficial medicine, man also has an ill and humane side to him. Depending on ...
- 6629: Re-educating A King: King Lear's Self-Awareness
- ... admire and obey him as Gloucester does, simply due to the authority that is prevalent in Lear himself, and not his crown. Cordelia serves as a reminder to Lear of true love. She takes the abuse of her shallow father, who banishes her for not being able to flatter him as her sisters do. It is quite obvious that Lear is most fond of Cordelia, yet he seems shocked when she ...
- 6630: Romeo and Juliet: Night - Rejoice or Rebel?
- ... during the wickedness of night. The Germans killed uncountable numbers of Jewish people during the darkening skies, nights coming, through hangings. An example that stands out particularly well transpires in night's darkness when a child is being hanged with two adults for destroying an electric power station. "For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony before our eyes." (Wiesel 62 ...
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