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- 3301: Julius Caesar
- ... according to Brutus. Caesar is contemplating on whether he should remain home during the Ides of March (which is March 15th). Calphurinia, Caesar's wife, tells Caesar of the horrible dream she had about his death and that the strange occurrences the night before are a prelude of his death. He agrees to stay until Decius, a conspirator, tells him her dreams were not of his death, but of him saving Rome. Thus Caesar leaves for the Senate despite his wife's pleas. Meanwhile, Artemidorus waits in the streets of Rome for Caesar to pass so he can give him a ...
- 3302: Motifs of Birds In Macbeth
- ... her and her evil thoughts. The raven is an appropriate bird for Lady Macbeth to mention. It is not a bird of spring, 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 falcon, towering in her pride of place,/was by amousing owl hawked at and killed." ...
- 3303: All My Sons: Summary
- ... pilots crashed in Australia. Ann's father was convicted. He was sent to prison and Joe was exonerated. Ann thinks that her father is a murderer, and that he might be responsible for Larry's death. Mother thinks that Larry isn't dead anyway, what Ann's father did has nothing to do with Larry. Joe tries to explain what he did. He says that military production was a mad house ... criminal father. Larry also wrote that Ann shouldn't wait for him. Finally Joe shoots himself. Chris tells her mother that all of them are responsible. Characters: Joe Keller: He is responsible for Larry's death. He can't live with the truth that his son killed himself because he couldn't live with the shame of a criminal father. So he commits suicide. He is also responsible for Ann's ... person. He knows that Larry is dead and he tries to make mother realize that Larry isn't alive. He is very hard to his father after he knows that Joe is responsible for the death of 21 pilots. Maybe Joe killed himself because Chris doesn't like and love him anymore and because Larry commited suicide after he had heard of the pilots. Chris sees more than the money. ...
- 3304: Interplay Between Fantasy And Reality In The Gothic
- ... we see the setting for what it really is… Now you could see how tawdry it all was, how thin and cheap the satin, the catafalque not ebony at all but black painted paper. …In death, she looked far older, less beautiful and so, for the first time, fully human ( p 106 - 107 ) Carter also uses allusion as part of her style. Indeed since the stories are retellings of old fairy ... purpose, he gets his scares by being as realistic as possible in his writing style. So when he wants to create fantasy he utilises allusions, in this instance to Poe's "Masque of the Red Death". Central to Jacks visions is a masked ball and King alludes to Poe's masked ball to create the dreamlike yet sexually debauched quality of his own. He often quotes directly from the story. An ornate clock - much like Poe's - in the hotel dining room makes Danny think "As the clock struck midnight there was a terrible silence and the Red Death held sway over all". Cries of "Unmask, unmask" in Jacks vision of the ball are used as a metaphor for the hotel showing it's true face. So to anyone who has read the ...
- 3305: Communism - From Marx To Zemin
- ... for financial help. Mao went on to create the Great Cultural Revolution: an effort to get China up to the status a major world power. This was a major motivating force for Mao until his death in 1976 (Long March, 22-165). Deng Xiaoping eventually emerged as the paramount leader in 1978, and promptly launched his economic reform program. One of the most significant developments in recent history was the death of Deng, on February 19, 1997. While he has not been active in politics for some time and has not appeared in public for more than three years, the deaths of senior leaders has always ... Frankenstein, Paul. "The Birth of Modern China." 1997. http://asterius.com/china/china4.html This web site was able to give me excellent information on the change of power within the Chinese government and the death of Deng Xiaoping. McGeary, Johanna. "The Big Handover." 1997. http://www.pathfinder.com/time/hongkong/politics/particle12/12particle1.html From this site, I gained valuable information as to the current viewpoints and public opinion ...
- 3306: Brief Insight Ira Terrorist Or
- ... is to be included as voters? The Catholics say that the whole island should be included, while the Protestants, on the other hand, naturally disagrees. «British soldiers and British administrators have never brought anything but death, suffering, starvation, and untold misery to this country. They will never bring anything else until they get out». This ethos from Sinn Fein in the 70s sums up how they feel that Britain has no ... of British soldiers are killed and that's what going to happen». Another reason for using terrorism is that today terrorism's public impact has been magnified by the use of modern means of communications. Death, blood, violence and destruction sell, not only as a news report, but today people are attracted to such as mentioned. So any act of terrorism is guaranteed to attract media coverage , which brings the event ... by most of the English speaking part of the world. Consequently this leads many to have a Pro-British sympathic view in this conflict. To illustrate this one-sided view one can look at the death rates the respectively side are responsible for. The republican groups are responsible for about 50 % of the killings in Northern Ireland, but, the loyalists and the British Army, even though responsible for less killings ...
- 3307: Atomic Bomb
- The atomic bomb ended a war of massive death and destruction, but began an age exercising the same principles: the Atomic Age. At the time of the disasters in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the bomb appeared as a promise of peace to the entire world ... with the prospect that at the moment Japan saw the great power of the atomic bomb, they would surrender, therefore saving American lives. Other benefits included "the saving of Japanese lives (compared with the staggering death toll that an invasion would have caused) and being relieved of the disadvantages of Soviet participation in the war" (Yamanaka 128). On August 6, 1945, an American bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped the "Little Boy ... pay the price of another world war (Brown 109). The United Nations serves as this tool to prevent the evils of mankind from ever again affecting the spectrum of wolrd affairs with the repercussions of death and the suffering of battle. The aftermath of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki went far beyond the borders of Japan. It afflicted and infected the ideas, beliefs and practices of nations all over ...
- 3308: Romeo And Juliet 3
- ... the scene is set on a street in Verona where members from the two families, the Montagues and the Capulets, have a fight and are warned that the next fight will result in punishment by death by Prince Escalus. Romeo enters the story with his cousin Benvolio and they talk about Romeo being in love with Rosaline. Mean while, at the Capulet home, Paris asks approval to marry Juliet. The Capulets ... him. Romeo is caught by the Prince and is banished from Verona. Juliet later finds our everything that happened and becomes suicidal. Romeo visits her before leaving to Montua and they both had premonitions of death. Juliet is later told by her mother that she will marry Paris later that week on Thursday. Juliet gets so upset she goes to visit the Friar and is given a potion that will make ... and buys some poison which he drank so that he could be with Juliet. Juliet then wakes up from the potion and finds Romeo dead she in turn grabs a dagger and stabs herself to death to accompany Romeo. There laid the two star crossed lovers dead side by side ending the horrible feud between both families. Real life stories like this one have been written in news papers and ...
- 3309: Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
- ... Fanny; the young Jean VIGO, in only two films, brilliantly expressed youthful rebellion and mature love; and director Marcel CARNE teamed with poet Jacques Prevert to produce haunting existential romances of lost love and inevitable death in Quai des brumes (1938) and Le Jour se leve (1939). Hollywood: World War II, Postwar Decline During World War II, films were required to lift the spirits of Americans both at home and overseas ... 1958; Viridiana, 1961; The Milky Way, 1969) and absurdist satires on middle-class foibles (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, 1972).^From Sweden Ingmar BERGMAN emerged in the 1950s as the master of introspective, often death-obsessed studies of complex human relationships. Although capable of comedy, as in Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), Bergman was at his most impressive in more despairing, existentialist dramas such as The Seventh Seal (1957 ... directorial talent: Andrzej WAJDA and Roman POLANSKI in Poland; Jan KADAR, Milos FORMAN, Ivan PASSER, and Jiri Menzel in Czechoslovakia; and, more recently, Wim WENDERS, Werner HERZOG, and Rainer Werner FASSBINDER in West Germany. The death (1982) of Fassbinder ended an extraordinary and prolific career, but his absence has yet to be felt--particularly in the United States, where many of his earlier films are being shown for the first ...
- 3310: Julius Caesar: Brutus’ Character Flaw
- ... blindness, which causes him to trust easily. His noble blindness has its good and bad traits and contributes to his downfall as well. By trusting people easily, his noble blindness ultimately brings Brutus to his death. Easily giving his trust is a good quality because he gains other’s trust just as easily. This is shown throughout the whole play because Caesar never expresses a feeling of mistrust towards Brutus. Cassius ... shall lead the way, and we will grace his heels with the most boldest and best hearts of Rome.”(III, I, 120). Knowing this, the people will believe that since Brutus lead the conspirators, Caesars death may not have been a bad thing. Cassius knows all this and gains Brutus’ trust easily knowing he would be a key figure in the conspiracy. Ultimately, trusting everyone brings Brutus to his downfall. This ... person was the capable evil he saw in Caesar. Ironically, Caesar was also the only character Brutus killed. Brutus’, being the tragic hero, is the most important character because the rise of the conspiracy, the death of Caesar, and the downfall of the conspirators all revolve around his noble blindness to trust people too easily.
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