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- 3791: Romeo And Juliet - Comparisson To West Side Story
- ... works, in essence, have the same plot. The source of violence in Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story is the ever-present hatred between families and between gangs, although, because of the "star-cross’d lovers" motif in Romeo and Juliet, the hatred plays a larger role in producing the ending of West Side Story than it does the ending of Romeo and Juliet. The tension and hatred between gangs ... needed to feel love, which they recieved from their fellow gang members. As Riff says, When you’re a Jet, You’re a Jet all the way From your first cigarette To your last dyin’ day. When you’re a Jet, If the spit hits the fan, You’ve got brothers around, You’re a family man! You’re never alone, You’re never disconnected! (Sondheim 143) This illustrates his devotion ...
- 3792: Othello
- ... money as well as helping his evil plans, " Roderigo: I am changed: I’ll go sell all my land. Exit. Iago: Thus do I ever make my fool my purse; For I mine own gain’d knowledge should profane, If I would time expend with such a snipe, But for my sport and profit. " (Pg. 665) Simply put Iago explains that if it wasn’t for his plans and his desire ... passed for rank by Cassio is evident from the beginning of the play " Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city, In personal suit to make me his lieutenant, Off-capp’d to him: and, by the faith of man, I know my price, I am worth no worse a place: But he, as loving his own pride and purposes, Evades them, with a bombast circumstance horribly stuff’d with epithets of war; And in conclusion , Nonsuits my mediators; for ‘Certes’ says he, ‘I have already chose my officer.’ And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,. " (pg. ...
- 3793: Macbeth - Responsibility
- ... to kill good, innocent people. He killed Lady Macduff and her son. This shows his deterioration, also associated with Scotland's disorder. 'Sighs and groans and shrieks That rend the air, are made, not mark'd.' Lady Macbeth can be seen as partly responsible for the deeds her husband committed. She had the main involvement in the murder of Duncan. In Act I, Scene V Lady Macbeth seems to be a ... Fair is foul, Foul is Fair.' Shakespeare's graphic and vulgar use of language for lady Macbeth would have made the audience appalled and sickened. 'I would, while it was a smiling face, Have pluck'd my nipple out, from his boneless gums And dash'd the brains out, had I sworn As you have done to this.' This clearly indicates Lady Macbeth's motive for the crime. She would rather kill her own child than break a promise to ...
- 3794: Macbeth - Lady Macbeth: Feeble-minded?
- ... make a positive contribution to Macbeth or to herself. However, Macbeth soon becomes more independent and shows more of his own self-ambition. Eventually, Lady Macbeth begins to show her true, stripped away and "wither’d" nature. Lady Macbeth’s vulnerability increases as time passes, and her enthusiasm wanes. Lady Macbeth is mainly responsible for aggravating the struggle between Macbeth’s morality, devotion and "vaulting ambition." This duality in Lady Macbeth ... than Macbeth was. She scolds him for even having such thoughts, accusing him of being cowardly. Lady Macbeth decides to allude to herself as the mother of a baby. She would have the "nipple pluck’d from his boneless gums/And dashed the brains out" (I-vii, 57-58) if she had promised to do the deed. Her shocking and persuasive effect on Macbeth convinces him that he is "settled," (I ... demise. They both failed to utilize the point of view of the doer that considered the consequences more realistically. Macbeth started to succumb to the belief that deeds "must be acted ere they be scann’d,"(III, iv 140). She has far too many weaknesses herself to be playing the ‘iron fist’ which she started out as. As we could notice, from the very beginning, she knew deep down that ...
- 3795: Hamlet Vs. Laertes
- ... rot in hell. "Hamlet: No might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I’ll do’t: and so he goes to heaven: And so am I revenged. That would be scann’d: A villain kills my father; and, for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven. O, this is hire and salary, not revenge. He took my father grossly, full of bread ... decided not to capitalize on that opportunity and waited for the end of the play after his mother died after drinking a poisoned drink that was intended for Hamlet from Claudius. "Hamlet: The point envenom’d too! Then, venom, to thy work. [Stabs the King] All: Treason! treason! King: O, yet defend me, friends: I am but hurt. Hamlet: Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink off this poison. Is thy ... here, Hamlet: Hamlet, thou art slain: No medicine in the world can do thee good, In thee there is not half an hour of life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenom’d:" (Shakespeare, Hamlet, V, ii, 306-310) They both succeeded in restoring honour back to their family, it might not of been the right thing to do murdering to restore the honour, but you got ...
- 3796: Hamlet - Revenge A Chain Reaction
- ... revenge theme, Shakespeare creates an interior conflict between Hamlet and himself. In Hamlet's first soliloquy, Hamlet displays his melancholy state of being and his unwillingness to live. " Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!" Hamlet states that if God was not against suicide then he would take his own life. In Hamlet's second soliloquy, after the meeting with his father's ghost, he beats himself up by saying,"Am I a coward...?",and,"I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall". Hamlet wants revenge at this time but he is questioning his willingness to kill Claudius, so he is calling himself a coward. Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave, That I, the son of a dear father murder'd, Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell, Must like a whore unpack my heart with words,(2.2.584-588) The greatest interior conflict between Hamlet and himself occurs when Hamlet delays the ...
- 3797: Hamlet - Claudius Vs. Lady Macbeth
- ... is planning a murder Lady Macbeth manages to still act as a smiling, gracious hostess. Lady Macbeth's house guests and King Duncan, whom she intends to kill, even refer to her as their ³honour¹d hostess,² in Act I, scene six. Her husband is also fooled by her charade and is unable to see her evil intent as she cons him into killing the king. Lady Macbeth keeps this facade ... the actual murder, when it was her original idea. She used many deceitful arguments such as in Act I, scene seven when she says, ³I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck¹d my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash¹d the brains out, had I sworn so as you have done this.² Here Lady Macbeth argues that she would do basically anything for Macbeth if she had promised to do it. By saying this ...
- 3798: Wuthering Heights
- ... once told her, "[N]ay Cathy, I cannot love thee; thou’rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue the day we ever reared thee!" Relating to Lockwood, Nelly noted that young Catherine was such a "wild, wicked slip" (37) that she never seemed as content as when she was being scolded. She was born into ... of her mother’s death and she represented Catherine’s betrayal of their love. Cathy inspired many feelings of rage from Heathcliff. For instance, when she accused him of stealing her property he burst out, "[D]amnable witch! Off with her! Do you hear? Fling her into the kitchen! I’ll kill her, Ellen Dean, if you let her come into my sight again" (292). The mother and her daughter had ...
- 3799: With Malice Toward None
- ... 3) support of federally sponsored internal improvements, a protective tariff, a railroad to the Far West, and free land for Western settlers. This stand was obviously very attractive to Northern and Western voters. When election day finally came, Lincoln simply waited, first in his office at the statehouse and later in the telegraph office. When the final results came in at about two o'clock in the morning, Abraham Lincoln had ... of his victory, Lincoln replied, "I went home, but not to get much sleep, for I then felt as I never had before, the responsibility that was upon me." (p 231) By Lincoln's inauguration day in March of 1861, seven states had already seceded from the Union, electing Jefferson Davis as President of their Confederacy. In his inaugural address Lincoln attempted to avoid aggravating the slave states that had not ... Ulysses S. Grant and General Sherman. By the time of the election in November, Lincoln won overwhelmingly with 212 of the 233 possible electoral." (p 402) The very weary President addressed the Nation the next day with less than victorious words. He stressed that the South should be dealt with mildly in order to bring the entire Nation back together as soon as possible. "Let us all join in doing ...
- 3800: Welcome To The Monkey House
- ... affect on others. "Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech that denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life f the people, and entombs the hope of the race" This quote had an excellent point in the case against censorship. To discover new ideas and the truth of ... home is rather dull, dirty, and everything is falling apart. Grace falls sick and while she is in the hospital her husband inherits enough money that he can do all of her decorating that she'd been dreaming about over the years. When she came home from the hospital however the only thing that she notices is the bouquet of roses that her husband bought her. She seems to think that ...
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