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- 2701: Death of a Salesman: Symbols in the Play
- ... and the seeds are some of these symbols. The hose in Miller's drama directly relates to the theme of d eath. The hose is a line attached to the gas main in Willy's house which allows him to sniff the gas. This action can be seen as Willy's suicide wish, and escape from the realities of life. As seen in the loss of his job and his failure ... planting the seeds at night, but at night there is no sun shining and this seems very od d as seeds require light to grow. What else is strange is the fact that Willy's house is boxed in between large apartment buildings and is covered by the shadows cast by them. It is evident that no light will fall on Willy's garden. Willy's attempt to plant and grow ...
- 2702: Movie: Casper - Death and Growth of Characters
- ... life, loss of innocence is shown when Cat looses her father after her mother is already dead. Throughout the story evils get in Cats way of helping Casper. Ms. Carrigan the owner of the house finds out about the treasure and wants to steal it for herself. Fatso, Stretch, and Stinkie are always causing trouble for Cats dad and eventually they take it to far and end up getting him killed. Dibs is always helping Ms. Carrigan and one day he gets everyone out of the house and this gives Ms. Carrigan the opportunity to find the treasure. Regeneration is all through the story and it could be called the theme. Regeneration is first shown when Cats father gets killed at ...
- 2703: Twelfth Night: Olivia
- ... 5, Lines 276-277). Olivia also explains how she is in love with Cesario by telling him that she loves him in front of him in his face when he is over at Olivia's house. "I love thee so that, maugre all thy pride" (Act 3, Scene 1, Line 149). Cessario also knows that Olivia's in love with him, because he realizes that after Malvolio had given the ring to Cessario apon returning from Olivia's house. This is prooven to us when Cessario is on the stage him self reading a soliloquy, which read: "She loves me sure; the sunning of her passion invites me in this churlish messenger" (Act 2 ...
- 2704: Civil War - Gettysburg
- ... now West Virginia but wanted the Indian and Arizona territories. Robert E.Lee had been appointed commander of all the Confederate Forces and given a free hand in appointments and troop dispositions. Lincoln was under house arrest in Niagara, not because the British had anything against him but for his own safety as his popularity was zero and the British government didnt want any untoward incident for which they could ... to avoid looting and destruction but to occupy Washington post-haste. Thousands of southern troops lined the streets as Lieutenant- General Thomas ""Stonewall Jackson proceeded down Pennsylvania Avenue to set up headquarters in the White House. By the 15th of July 1865 the Civil War was effectively over. The South was, to all intent and purpose, now an independent country free to make its own way in the brotherhood of nations ...
- 2705: The Fate of King Oedipus
- ... shoulder pins from her dress and gouges his eyes out with them blinding himself. From this misfortune Creon becomes King, and after allowing Oedipus to say good-bye to his daughters, orders him into the house, to await disposal at the god's pleasure. As Oedipus enter the house he is continually saying that he should be left to die on Mt. Cithaeron just as the gods intended for him to. As one can see, the god's played with the lives and emotions ...
- 2706: Macbeth The Witches Role
- ... as he s a good King. He makes up many reasons against slaying the innocent King, the fact that he is honourable and decent, that the King would actually be a guest at Macbeth s house, because of Macbeth s worries of the afterlife, and that he is one of Duncan s kinsman. He feels that if the actual murder could get rid of the consequences of the murder and bring ... did, seemed silly to say the least. He feels secure and invincible as he leaves the witches. However, just as a precaution, he sends his men to kill Macduff. However, Macduff wasn t in the house, so the murderers kill Macduff s wife and son. When Macduff hears of this, he swears revenge. Meanwhile, we see Lady Macbeth going slowly mad. She begins to sleep walk, and is not able to ...
- 2707: Moore's "Roger and Me"
- ... in Davison, Michigan, just outside of Flint, in the shadow of the GM plant. His home was an apartment over a dry cleaner's shop. His family moved from a small, three-room bedroom ranch house on a dirt road when he was very young. After his two sisters were born, his family moved again, this time to a small house on a paved street. He left his home at age fourteen to go to the seminary. At age fifteen, he decided that he no longer wanted to be a Catholic priest, and he quit. Later ...
- 2708: "Fire From Heaven", "Much Ado About Nothing", and "The Flea": Sinful Acts
- ... debt, by sleeping with his wife(p.67)." Some other accounts of his misbehavior are in the passage, "In May 1634 the constables found him in a upstairs room at Christopher Jenkin's notoriously disorderly house with an unmarried woman named Sarah Harris, and in the following August he was accused of having raped Mary Jefferies(p.67)." There was a lot of shame in being involved in such acts even ... made by Basil Cooke, daughter of a respectable alehousekeeper, William Cooke. Even then the girl's parents waited five days before going to the magistrates, during which time Parkins's friends the Hasselburys (in whose house the incident occurred) offered Basil's mother five pounds to hush it up(p.68)." There were many other incidents like these written in detail throughout Fire from Heaven. Through all these documentations Underdown draws ...
- 2709: Macbeth A Story Of Our Time
- ... Macbeth responds to the announcement of King Duncan's murder. First she enters in mock confusion questioning, Lady Macbeth: "What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley The sleepers of the house? speak, speak!" (II,iii,84-86) One can imagine the actor portraying Lady Macbeth embellishing her performance almost to be point at which it might be called over-acting. Then with Macduff's reply refusing ... laugh at the irony of his choice of words. The lady then plays her innocence more by replying in alarm to Macduff's telling Banquo of the murder, Lady Macbeth: "Woe, alas! What in our house?" (II,iii,92) Possibly the most enjoyed form of irony in the play is verbal. For example, the exit of Macbeth at his final visit to the weird sisters where the first witch wryly comments ...
- 2710: Ben Franklin
- ... made grand tours of the continent, and received honorary doctor's degrees from the universities of St. Andrews (1759) and Oxford (1762) (#5). He created a pleasant family-style life at his Craven Street boarding house in London, and began a long friendship and scientific-humorous correspondence with his landlady's daughter, Mary Stevenson. Their letters reveal his gifts for lively friendship, for brilliant letter writing, and for humane understanding. At ... made grand tours of the continent, and received honorary doctor's degrees from the universities of St. Andrews (1759) and Oxford (1762) (#5). He created a pleasant family-style life at his Craven Street boarding house in London, and began a long friendship and scientific-humorous correspondence with his landlady's daughter, Mary Stevenson. Their letters reveal his gifts for lively friendship, for brilliant letter writing, and for humane understanding. At ...
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