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- 5071: Oedipus Rex
- ... her riddle correctly that she will kill him. He however does succeed in solving her riddle and she kills herself out of fury. When word gets out the he was the one who caused the death of the Sphinx the people of Thebes ( whose king he just recently killed ) adopt him as their new king, thanking that their real king was killed by bandits, and give him the queen, Queen Jocasta ... his daughter Antigone leave Thebes. He later dies in exile at a shrine of Apollo in Colonus. Before he leaves Thebes however he states that he will do great things before he dies the horrible death he believes is reserved for him. He speaks with great hubris in the end of the play when he tells Creon to care for his daughters and tells of the things he will do before ...
- 5072: Movie: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... the attempted suicide of Antonio Salieri, a court composer of the Austrian Emperor. He is placed in a mental asylum where a priest visits and asks for his confession. Salieri claims to have caused the death of Mozart. The rest of the movie is a narration by the court composer, mostly in flashbacks, of how he caused this death. Salieri recounts that while he was playing games as a boy Mozart was playing music for the King. At the age of four, Mozart composed his first concerto, at seven, his first symphony, and at ...
- 5073: To Be Shakespeare, Or Not To Be Shakespeare, That Is The Question
- ... was an attraction between the two while King Hamlet was still alive. The character of Claudius could almost be viewed as regretful. The part that gives this impression is the silent play during which the death of the king is shown. When the camera focuses on the murderers face, Claudius is watching his brother die, and in that instant a look of regret and horror creeps onto his face, as he ... times, the action and music became a bit overwhelming. Perhaps Branaugh got a little to caught up in the moment, it is hard to say. The silent plays that were shown throughout ( King Hamlet's death, the drowned Ophelia, Hamlet's childhood days with Yurich, Priam's slaughter, Fortinbras) added a lot to the film, because it gave the characters a history and allowed for a non-shakespearean audience to better ...
- 5074: The Silence of The Lambs
- ... kidnaps large women, keeps them alive for a few days, and finally skins them. Clarice works against time as Buffalo Bill takes his newest victim, a U.S. Senator's daughter, and the countdown to death begins. "The Silence of the Lambs" was chosen for the title because it is Clarice Starling's ultimate goal for the bloodcurdling screams of the lambs in her nightmares to cease. When she was younger ... chance to act. A subplot of this book would be the relationship between Jack Crawford, the director of the FBI, and his wife, Bella. Bella is very sick and on the verge of an inevitable death at his home. She has been comatose and has nurses that tend to her when Jack is away. This gives Jack Crawford a sullen disposition and it is easily deduced that Bella is always in ...
- 5075: The Shawshank Redemption
- ... this would be his life. He didn't expect anything out of the ordinary to happen. He seems to be a lost soul not knowing what he wants or what is right for him. His death signified his confusion. The movie gives us a perspective of a prison not really shown before. Though the movie may seem unrealistic in some ways, it is very moving and makes one think deeper about ... your goals. Red said, "Hope is dangerous on the inside." He was saying that having hope could drive a man crazy but in all reality he had hope in himself. This was untrue because Brooks' death signified a lack of hope. He really had no one and the inmates were his family. Leaving the prison was devastating and he just thought nothing of life. Red was contradi ctory to his own ...
- 5076: Movies: A Thematic Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho
- ... After Marion's murder, the audience's role in the film takes a different approach. Hitchcock provokes the audience to utilise the film's other characters in order to solve the mystery of Marion's death yet he still successfully maintains the sympathetic bond between Norman and the audience. Interestingly, Hitchcock plays on the audience's obsession with the stolen money as the audience knows that it had been sunk yet clings to the fact that Marion's death may have been a result of her crime with the introduction of Sam, Lila, and Arbogast. Hitchcock uses Arbogast's character to arouse suspicion within the audience. Arbogast's murder is not as intense as ...
- 5077: Movie: Life, Like The Great Gatsby
- ... T. J. Eckleburg eyes on the billboard that Mr. Wilson (the gas station attendant ) refers to as the eyes of god. There are also other little things that relate to the reason of gatsby's death. The main character's of this novel each have their part to do with the ending, Nick Caraway is probably the main character of this novel, as he comes down from New Jersey to new ... of this novel is the car. this was the murder weapon that killed Myrtle and was recognized by Mr. Wilson as the car that Jay Gatsby was driving that night, which was result of the death of Mr. Jay Gatsby by no other than the man that looked at the “owl eyes “ all day outside his gas station. Well the fact of living in the nineteen twenties and being a millionaire ...
- 5078: The Key To Greatness (great Ga
- ... Fitzgerald 16). Everyone knew about Tom's woman, including Daisy. Daisy would not let he feelings about the situation show through to Tom. Tom and Myrtle's love would soon bring Myrtle to her own death. Myrtle thought she saw Tom and was hit by a car as she ran into the street to flag him down. The car that hit Myrtle was being driven by Daisy Buchanan. Daisy and Tom ... 162). This is the way Gatsby felt after failing to succeed in gaining the one thing he would give his life for, Daisy's love. This great failure brought the great man to his own death. In conclusion, mistress, marriage, and true love are all very common in The Great Gatsby as well as in our world today. Gatsby never considered himself to be great because he never could obtain the ...
- 5079: Dorian Gray
- ... and that even though his body is not aging, his soul is deteriorating fast. Lord Henry is the beginning of his corruption, but he isn t the entire reason for this development. Sibyl Vane s death happened on the verge of his transformation. She is the entire innocence, beauty, and purity that are in him. When she dies, she takes his whole childhood away. He feels empty without his innocence and he filled this emptiness by answering to his corrupted transformation. It is after her death that he recognizes his sins-he realizes how horrible he had treated her on the night she confesses her undying love for him. The most important thing is that it is his choice to go ...
- 5080: Similarities of Two Famous Tales of Love
- ... was mimed by Tony and Maria's fire escape scene. After the loss of their dearest friends, Romeo and Tony both killed someone from their lover's family. After hearing of her brother Bernardo's death, Maria still wanted to stay with Tony like Juliet, even if it meant leaving her whole life behind and fleeing with him. However, the endings differed a bit. First, Chino, the Paris character, murdered Tony to avenge Bernardo's death. Rather than killing herself, Maria wept and gave a lecture much like the Prince's "All are punished !"( ), saying it wasn't Chino who killed Tony it was everyone because everyone was filled with hate ...
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