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- 8851: Motifs of Birds In Macbeth
- ... nor does it have a beautiful song. It is an omen of death and evil. Ravens are frequent fixtures 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 ...
- 8852: The Glass Menagerie: Play Review
- ... find her a gentlemen caller. Meanwhile Tom is getting more and more feed up with his life at home, he goes to the “movies” every night and arrives home at 2 in the morning. Each day he drifts further away. Then he decides maybe his mother is right, maybe and gentlemen caller can replace him. So he asks a friend his only friend from work over for dinner. When he arrives ...
- 8853: "The Fate Of Oedipus"
- ... than anyone's free will. In conclusion, fate is the only true evil. Everything that happens is somehow meant to be. Lastly, a little advice, "Let every man in mankind's frailty/Consider his last day; and let none/Presume on his good fortune until he find pain/Life, at his death, a memory without pain" (Sophocles 78).
- 8854: Rhetorical Genders: Performances of a Lifetime in Thelma and Louise
- ... two women driving through landscapes filled with machinery to the close ups of the women’s faces and the images of mesas and buttes at night and sunrise, in the short time I have, I’d like to discuss perhaps the oddest scene of the film. This scene is one which makes very little sense in any narrative reading of the film. About two thirds of the way through the film ...
- 8855: Romeo and Juliet: The New Age vs The Old Age
- ... Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge, to break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean: from forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross'd lovers take thier life." Romeo and Juliet, one of Shakespeare's best plays, is one of the best love/tragedy stories he has written. It is a story a two "star-crossed lovers", or two ...
- 8856: “Agamemnon”: Clytaemnestra
- ... Clytaemnestra is constructed, Aeschulus starts to complicate her character in an address to the chorus. She says of Agamemnon, “and for his wife, may his return and find her true at hall, just as the day he left her, faithful to the last.” (Lines 601-603) The irony of this statement is that she has a lover, Aegisthus, which the chorus knows about, so her statement is interpreted as a lie ...
- 8857: Romeo and Juliet: Love and Their Ends
- ... other with a burning passion that survives even this blow. After the party, Romeo meets up with Juliet at the balcony outside of her room. They exchange vows and soon get married. That very same day, Romeo witnesses the slaying of his best friend Mercutio by his new kinsman Tybalt. In a blind rage Romeo kills Tybalt in revenge of Mercutio’s death. When the Prince of Verona arrives on the ...
- 8858: Jon Woo
- ... times, he gets away with it. Possibly because the sequences are so breathtakingly choreographed that the amount of the slaughter is overshadowed by the scene. In an interview Woo explained: "I choreograph action like you d design a dancing sequence in a musical. I have a sense of the beauty and the rhythm of the action, the atmosphere and the action s emotional arc. Everything is clear in my mind before ...
- 8859: Analysis of the Character Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s play, "Death of a Salesman"
- ... to work hard and to be a member of the firm; and if he could not succeed in this respect, that he should at least be well-liked and be able to sell until the day of his death: When his friends would flock from all over the country to pay their respects. Willy’s main flaw is his foolish pride, this it what makes him a tragic hero. Yet there ...
- 8860: Fashion in the 60's
- ... fashion reversal. Some pop groups in particular, the Rolling Stones, cultivated a rebellious attitude that was reflected in their unconventional, scruffy clothing. Strict rules dictated what was worn and when. Casuals for wearing during the day were very distinct from formal evening wear. The 60's saw the abandonment of these traditions and it became perfectly reasonable to wear the same outfit to work as for and evening out. For evening ...
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