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- 8911: Blanche's Psychological Breakdown In A Steercar Named Desire
- ... were dancing, she told him what she had seen and how he disgusted her. Immediately, he ran off the dance floor and shot himself, with the gunshot forever staying in Blanche’s mind. After that day, Blanche believed that she was really at fault for his suicide. She became promiscuous, seeking a substitute men (especially young boys), for her dead husband, thinking that she failed him sexually. Gradually her reputation as ...
- 8912: The Simpsons
- ... Christmas will not happen with his current money supply, he steals a Christmas tree on his way home from work. Homer gets a second job as a mall Santa for the extra money. The next day at the mall, Bart sits on his Dad's lap and pulls his beard. Homer responds by choking Bart. When Christmas Eve rolls by, Homer receives his check, $13.70 for 40 hours of work ...
- 8913: Life Of Fredrick Douglass
- ... Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. He was the son of Baptist Minister and was ordained to the ministry at the age of eighteen (Webb 18). Dr. King received a Ph.D. in systematic philosophy from Boston University in 1954. Unfortunately, King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. In I Have a Dream King hopes that someday in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will ...
- 8914: Analyzing Noir Films The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep
- ... Film noir movies might also keep attracting people because noir films are not regularly shot today for the mainstream movie theatres and the lingering intrigue about black and white, good 7and evil and night and day contained within each movie. The uses of dark areas, deserted places, and quiet talking create a scary or even unsafe atmosphere and make the viewer wonder why there are no other characters in the scene ...
- 8915: The Merchant of Venice
- ... his wealth allowed him to mix in the same circles and afforded him many of the same pleasures. Antonio was a loyal friend and was well liked amongst the young men of Venice. In modern day terms, a combination of, jet setter, city slicker, socialite and party animal. His friends generally only saw the good and generous side to his character but he did have a more ruthless and vicious side ...
- 8916: Madness In Macbeth and Hamlet
- ... took it upon himself to be lost in his control of actions. In Macbeth the witches are the main reason for madness. Here’s one simple reason the witches could foretell the future, if they’d never spoken to Macbeth he still would have become king but it would have come to him in a less violent way. Macbeth creates his own misery when he kills people. This causes him and ...
- 8917: Ophelia: The Forgotten Character
- ... apply to her sexual activity: The intensity of her feeling for Hamlet suggests that something more than a flirtation has gone on between them, and as Evans Smith points out, the lewd "St. Valentine's Day" song that she sings in her madness must have been learned somewhere, though its words should not be taken as literally describing the state of their relations (Smith 138). Northorp Frye writes that some commentators ...
- 8918: Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln was a man who was best known for bolding standing against the difficult problems of his day. Issues such as slavery, negro social and political rights, and saving the Union in a nation based on the Declaration of Independence. Lincoln had many strength as well as flaws. He considered himself a common ...
- 8919: Antigone
- ... arrogant. He also needs to learn how to be wise in many different ways. Ismene seemed to be scared to do things. She didn’t do what she knew was right because she knew she’d be killed. Antigone was by far my favorite character. I think that part of the reason for it was that I am very stubborn, just like she is and I’m not afraid to fight ...
- 8920: Revenge In Hamlet
- ... his chapel to pray. Hamlet follows hoping to kill him, but the king kneels down and begins to pray mumbling the words “Forgive me, my foul murder? That cannot be: since I am still possess’d of those effects for which I did the murder” (III.IV.ll.52-54). The king was asking God for forgiveness, for killing his own brother. When Hamlet sees this, he has second thoughts about ...
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