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- 4671: Hamlet's Revenge
- ... the name of action. (125). Hamlet is contemplating whether it is better to continue living or not, and is stating the positive and negative effects of it. He goes on and on about life and death, but never comes to a decision about whether or not he should live or die. Hamlet cannot make a final choice and if he cannot make a choice dealing with himself, then he cannot decide ... kill Claudius because he does not analyze whether or not to kill the king; he decides at that moment to kill him and he does. Hamlet is so caught up in the emotion of the death of his mother and Laertes that he takes his rage and puts it to good use; Hamlet has made peace with everyone and can kill Claudius. Hamlet is able to get his revenge and he ...
- 4672: The Rules of the Game: Andre’s Arrival at La Coliniere
- ... film as we see that the society’s attempts to establish rules for love prove unsuccessful. Because the rainstorm coincides with Andre’s arrival, there is a good possibility that Renoir is foreshadowing Andre’s death. The scene begins as Christine and Madame La Bruyere enter the foyer, talking about children’s sore throats. The two halt as they see the arriving aviator, and Christine’s clenched hands and rigid, immobile ... had said, for his Octave was surely a friend in love. At this point, La Chesnaye declares that a celebration for Andre will be held in the form of a masquerade. This foreshadows his coming death, dressed in another man’s clothes. As he and Christine whisk Andre away to his room, the other guests search for companions to play with them. Some want to play billiards, some Ping-Pong, and ...
- 4673: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- ... than she receives. Instead of only being made to stand on the scaffold and wear the scarlet letter on her bosom, they suggest she have it branded on her forehead or even be put to death (Hawthorne 51). Perhaps the most important influence on the story is Hawthorne's interest in the "dark side" (Hawthorne "Introduction" VIII). Unlike the transcendentalists of the time, Hawthorne "confronted reality, rather than evading it" (Hawthorne ... left the family, and the two younger siblings were extremely close with suggestion of incest. The plot of the novel is based on the curse pronounced by Hawthorne's family by a woman condemned to death by judge Hathorne, Hawthorne's ancestor, during the Salem Witch Trials. The curse is mirrored in the decay of the Pycheon family structure along with the family's seven gabled mansion. Finally a descendent of ...
- 4674: Macbeth’s Downfall Into The horrors of, “What Goes Around Comes Around”
- ... appendage to Macbeth. They work as one, communicate as one, and when that appendage is lost, so is Macbeth’s grip with reality. Lady Macbeth was the only person he could truly confide in. Her death at the end of the play sends Macbeth completely over the edge. As soon as Lady Macbeth learns of the witches' words from Macbeth's letter, she intends to influence him to kill Duncan. When ... of murder. In this play, the witches awaken Macbeth's ambition and Lady Macbeth encourages the crime necessary for his ambition to be achieved. Both these influences help lead to Macbeth's eventual failure and death. His insecurities lead Macbeth to rash actions to get rid of his perceived enemies, actions that he later often regrets. Therefore, he is led to murder Banquo and Macduff's family and others all the ...
- 4675: Macbeth
- ... bone. This doesn't mean that the witches are not fo! ul. In fact I think they are, witches are said to be the lovers of Satan, they carry with them images of darkness and death, how could these supernatural beings not be described as foul? As you can see I haven't identified any fairness in 'Macbeth'. This is because I believe there is none. 'Macbeth' has been described as ... them can be found in Macbeth himself. For example, Macbeth shows us that evil doesn't pay and that ambition is blind. The play 'Macbeth' contains so much imagery of evil, darkness, blood, supernatural, untimely death and murder. I find it inconceivable that so many themes can be well summed up in "Fair is foul and foul is fair". The principle behind 'Macbeth' is a simple human truth, and that is ...
- 4676: Remains Of The Day
- ... The younger Stevens saw as the personification itself of dignity in keeping with his position his father s rather creepy emotionlessness and unquestioning service to a general whose stupid mistakes resulted in a friend s death. The rigid yet arbitrary social order provides Stevens his whole, yet limited sense of self. The American Senator Lewis visit to Darlington Hall includes a speech in which he says that the British needed real ... and old England made way for an American-inspired, efficient professionalism in which knowing one s place rapidly goes out of favor. Farraday, the easygoing American who takes over the hall after Lord Darlington s death, requests of Stevens a give-and-take, bantering relationship. Stevens hopelessly ponders how to banter, and shows how he thinks too much on trivial manners: For one thing, how would one know for sure that ...
- 4677: Red Badge Of Courage 5
- ... will die in battle just for spite. The same time Henry met Jim, he also met a tattered man. In the next charge, Henry and the tattered man see Jim die a slow and painful death. After Jim's death, and a little talking, Henry, though not realizing it, leaves the tattered man alone on the battlefield, hurting inside, and dangerous to himself. In the charge ahead, Henry starts asking the soldiers why they are ...
- 4678: Rebecka
- ... probably loved her most of them all. She devoted all her life to raise and help and make her the woman she knew she would never become herself. She and Rebecka were very close. Rebeckas death was an extremly hard crush to Mrs Danvers. Like a mother who loses her one and only child who was her everything. But she always feels Rebeckas presence and therefore keeps the house as it ... everything so perfect and then this? But there was something else. She had a deadly disease wich would take her life in six months with pain. That changed things. She was no longer afraid of death. Her smile was a sign of her gain, the aftermaths was a token that showed who won the game. Rebecka X) Who set the fire? I think that that Mrs Danvers set the fire but ...
- 4679: How Effective is Act Three, Scene Four of Shakespeare's Macbeth
- ... the English citizens of this period are quite familiar with and nothing could represent the gravity of this situation more so than the requirement for assassination. The instrumental prerequisite to this scene is the untimely death of Banquo, perpetrated by a consortium of assassins employed by the newly Coronated Monarch King Macbeth. Prior to this scene he was graphically executed by a group of assassins working on behalf of Macbeth, his ... remain patient then ‘We'll drink a measure.' This choice of words are used to ease the tension that the normally informal Macbeth is obviously feeling at the moment, with the prospect of Banquo's death and his lack of experience as a leader away from the battlefield. He cunningly slips towards the door, we know this because the other people in attendance don't notice what he is doing or ...
- 4680: Hamlet: Significance
- ... that slowly turned Denmark into a wheel-of-destruction. He brought upon all the conflicts in the story: the murder of Old Hamlet, the incestuous marriage to Gertrude, the Ghost of Old Hamlet, and the death of countless innocent individuals (Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, Guildernstern, Gertrude, Gertrude and Laertes) Because all the conflicts somehow revolved around Hamlet, Claudius inadvertently drove him into a downward spiral of depression and rage. Hamlet was supposed ... If it be so, Leartes,/ As how should it be so? how otherwise?/ Will you be ruled by me?” (4.7. 57-59) This time his plot failed so awfully that it involved the accidental death of his beloved wife and his own final end. The motivation that he depended upon ended up destroying him.
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