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- 1561: Macbeth - Blood Imagery In Macbeth
- ... shows the beginning of Macbeth’s character transformation from a personage of nobility, honesty, and bravery to that of treachery, deceit, and evil. After Macbeth murders Duncan, he begins to realize the severity of his crime as he tries to wash Duncan’s blood off his hands, "Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No; this hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the ... of hell from which no one can return. Macbeth laments that not even all the water in the ocean will wash the blood off his hands, he is beginning to realize the magnitude of his crime, and that he has done something truly evil. This same blood symbolism continues when Macbeth, shortly after he sees the ghost of the murdered Banquo at his feast, goes into a state of shock and ... has now witnessed the complete transformation of Macbeth. He begins as a noble, just and brave person, to becoming evil, ambitious, and treacherous during Duncan’s murder, to his final feelings of remorse for his crime and finally, to the realization that he will be punished for his sins.
- 1562: Hamlet - Enstragement In Hamlet
- ... having his former friends turn against him similarly as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Also, According to Mark Scott, "Hamlet's friends and colleagues do not know why Claudius deserves execution; they have no knowledge of his crime, and Hamlet either lacks the proof or the nerve to inform them of the crime." Thus, in trying to kill Claudius, Hamlet faces an estranging sense of unease from engaging in an endeavor of which his friends and colleagues feel is gravely immoral and unacceptable (Knight 44). One of the ... a source of psychological estrangement. (Sterks, "Estrangement"). Just as Hamlet's countrymen and colleagues might turn against him as a result of "palace intrigue", so could his lover, Ophelia. In realizing the fact of Claudius' crime, which he must do in order to avenge his father's murder, he realizes some "facts" about women that disturb him. "God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. You jig, ...
- 1563: The Client Book Review
- ... all of the credit. He seems like a typical man of politics. I feel that I didn't really learn too much from this book. But what I did learn is how much witnessing a crime or knowing about a crime can affect your life. I never knew what kind of power that the mob can have over people's lives. It was interesting to learn this, and it makes me feel lucky that nothing like ... in the book. This also made the novel really dry and boring. It was not particularly eventful or even interesting. It was a typical story about how the mob threatens people because they committed a crime. If you want to read a book that is interesting, and keeps you wanting to read more and more, do not read this book.
- 1564: The Client
- ... all of the credit. He seems like a typical man of politics. I feel that I didn't really learn too much from this book. But what I did learn is how much witnessing a crime or knowing about a crime can affect your life. I never knew what kind of power that the mob can have over people's lives. It was interesting to learn this, and it makes me feel lucky that nothing like ... in the book. This also made the novel really dry and boring. It was not particularly eventful or even interesting. It was a typical story about how the mob threatens people because they committed a crime. If you want to read a book that is interesting, and keeps you wanting to read more and more, do not read this book. Summary of "The Client" Eleven-year-old Mark, and his ...
- 1565: The Cask Of Amatillado
- ... our high point of emotional involvement. We are like Fortunato in that we cannot bring ourselves to believe what is about to happen. The denouement lets us know indeed, Montresor was never punished for this crime. Fifty years has passed and he is an old man telling the story on his deathbed. The true horror is that Fortunato died a terrible death, utterly alone, and his killer was never brought to justice. Perhaps the theme in the story is the least important feature. After all, it is about a senseless crime, and what sense can be made of such horror? Perhaps the idea behind the story is that no one can find refuge from a deranged mind, or that terrible crimes can be committed when an ... his hacking cough, and his laughter of despair as he is buried alive. We feel the dampness of the catacombs. Poe uses irony throughout the story. There is situational irony in the fact that the crime takes place during a celebration, that Fortunato’s name means good luck, and that Fortunato is dressed like a jester. What is about to happen is just the opposite of what you would expect. ...
- 1566: Smerdyakov
- ... his passionate wrath is not explosively exhibited to anyone. On the contrary, he cunningly plots and schemes, manipulates and tortures, with a mask of apathy and innocence. He tempts Dmitri to the scene of the crime like a child to candy. Smerdyakov sets-up an easy chance for Dmitri to commit the crime that he has been threatening for some time. Knowing his character, Smerdyakov is aware of Dmitri's cowardly inability to carry out his threats. However, impassioned by the chance, Dmitri, Smerdyakov knows, will certainly present ... Smerdyakov commits his crimes out of passion. He does not wait for the jury to consider his case. Like the "mysterious visitor," he has convicted himself of murder and sentences himself death. Smerdyakov's vicious crime and brutal punishment complete a full life of violence starting at his conception. His passionately violent nature erupts implosively beneath a mask of implacable calm.
- 1567: Only Yesterday
- ... Communist party. Illegal searches and seizures of property were used to convict and deport undesirable aliens. One man killed an alien for saying "To Hell with the U.S." and he was acquitted of the crime after two minutes of deliberation. This and other acts kept occurring until the American public realized that the Bolshevic threat was not that serious. America soon turned its attention to topics of leisure as opposed ... one that was thrown after the signing of the armistice greeted him. America had found a new hero to take their thought and worries away from the change and uncertainty that was sweeping the nation. Crime was also sweeping the nation. Prohibition had opened the doors to organized crime. Consumers wanted alcohol but it was not available on the open market. Since it was illegal people began to go to underground clubs called "speakeasies". The gang led by Al Capone primarily supplied the ...
- 1568: Les Miserables
- ... he is released by prison. Although, he has served a sentence of nineteen years, he is still chased and wanted. In that period of time when a person commited theft it was viewed as a crime against the community and that person should be punished to the most extremes. That theme can be seen in modern America. When a person commits a federal crime he\she cannot hold a public job or teach for the rest of his\her life. Also, when a person commits a crime, that person and that person's career is scarred for life. The theme -doing what is morally right- can be seen in many instances in the novel. One instance is Valjean gives money to ...
- 1569: Jurassic Park
- ... humans controlling this obviously didn't consider that there could be problems in the system. The park was thought be designed perfectly. The land was set up to control and maintain these animals while the computer system that ran the entire park was the "best" one ever. The designers were so cocky about the perfection of the computer system and the park layout that they completely overlooked the technical flaws that seemed to be completely obvious and on the surface. The motion sensors that were supposed to track all the animals in the ... and of life itself. Arnold tries to explain that Malcolm's chaos theory and the Malcolm effect wouldn't apply to the park because it was a life system and not a model on a computer. The very thing he was arguing to contradict the chaos theory is evidence to support it. The fact that Jurassic Park was a life system would automatically apply the chaos theory. The breeding of ...
- 1570: Inexcusable Acts In Literature
- ... right way to deal with another's infidelity. The most inexcusable of all the wrongdoing of these characters was that of Medea. This main character in Euripides great tragic play, "Medea", commits the most unspeakable crime that could ever be committed by a human being. Medea is the protagonist in the play, the tragic hero. As an outcast, Medea draws sympathy from her audience, the Chorus of Corinthian women, even though ... only makes the actions taken, worse. After considering for a long period of time, she decides the best thing to do is to take the lives of her own children, the! most unthinkable, immoral, inexcusable crime. Medea goes on to murder the princess and her father than commits the ultimate crime, "As quickly as I may kill my children and start away from this land, and not by wasting time, to suffer my children, to be slain by another hand is less kindly to them... ...
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