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- 2741: An Introspective Look On Fate Concerning The Tragedies Of An
- ... and Medea. Life is seen as a fate determined by the person and their choices rather than by the gods. This path the character takes, is often directed by the character's flaws or the great error he makes, often leading to his downfall. Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, starts off describing the famine, disease and poverty stricken Thebes. The town is in ruins because of a great error made by Oedipus. He had followed the specific prediction of the oracle he had originally tried so hard to change. This error being he killed his father and married his mother. Due to his ... who defended Thebes and in return, disregard those who were against his city. Yet this unwillingness to bury Polyneices, obeyed Creon's law rather than the law of the gods, thus soon to become a great mistake on Creon's behalf. Later, finding out that Antigone was behind the forbidden burial of her brother, Creon ordered her captivity and slow death. Tiresias, the blind prophet, once again enters to tell ...
- 2742: Amadeus Anaylisis
- ... himself was the worst idea. It is almost as if he sold his soul, and could never get it back. Because once he made that decision he could never change it back. Amadeus is a great film. The way the director brought this story together was absolutely incredible. The film also gave a great look at the way we act and treat each other. The way we look at people when they are on top, and how we look at them when they are nothing. The acting was excellent ... most memorable parts of the film. This movie is a superb example of a well made movie. The acting, the music, everything helped to make this movie an unforgettable experience. F. Murray Abraham did a great job as Salieri, he made the character really come to life. But, Tom Hulce as Mozart was the greatest. He did such a great job at playing a little child in a grown mans ...
- 2743: Awakenings-awakenings Within Movie
- ... carefully monitored Leonard's progress, and Leonard began to regress, he insisted that Dr. Sayer continue recording and observing him for scientific research. Leonard's first words were, "I'm awake." He said this with great emotion. He knew he'd been sleeping, but not for as long as it actually was. Before his total awakening, Dr. Sayer spent many hours tending to Leonard, observing that he was like a live ... when she regularly came to visit her father who was a patient. They talked about life and became good friends. The whole 'awakening' experience was an extremely emotional one. When he first awoke, he felt great confusion. How did he get there? Why was he there? What had happened to him? Once these questions were answered, he experienced extreme joy - "I'm back!" He showed great courage by sleeping with the fear of never waking again. He had trust in his mother, Dr. Sayer, as well as the hospital staff. Love and friendship, both shown by Leonard's towards Paula, ...
- 2744: Art Essay
- ... is to convey this beauty and power to the people of Ancient Greece. Ancient Egypt is also another place in which the body was used as a symbol or sign. Colossal monuments such as The Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel was a symbol of great power and wealth, as only pharaohs were able to create these monuments. Size was everything to the Egyptian pharaohs, it was the primary key to emphasise and increase their power and worshipers. The wonderful inscriptions and hieroglyphs found on temple walls were of great importance. The use of the body in the relief work on the temple walls were used to convey a perfect image of the deceased to the God of the After life. The detail and ...
- 2745: Events Leading To The French R
- ... in French life was the nobility. They enjoyedextensive rights and privileges. They made up less than 2 percent of thepopulation. They, like the First Estate, paid hardly any taxes.Economically, the nobility was characterized by great land wealth. Nobleswere generally the richest members of the society. Typical sources ofincome were rents and dues for the use of their farms or estates. The First and Second Estates were grouped together because they ... brought troops to Versailles, many citizens feared that hewanted to get rid of the National Assembly. As a result, they stormed theBastille. Other disturbances also broke out. People were caught up inwhat was called the "Great Fear". Rumors passed from village to villagethat robbers were destroying homes all over France. When no robbers showedup, the peasants turned to their landlords. They destroyed grain towers,and destroyed tax records, showing that they ... death. News of his death spread all throughout Europe. Monarchs of Europeannations feared that the Revolution would spread. By 1793, the Frencharmies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia.But, in 1793, Great Britain, the Dutch Netherlands, and Spain went alongwith Prussia and Austria in a war against France. With these five powerfulnations fighting against France, the French were outnumbered and outmatched. This one war was very ...
- 2746: Beethoven 3
- ... complete shape. Beethoven adopted the habit of sketching in innumerable notebooks. He always carried one with him, made of rough greyish paper, more like wrapping paper than for writing, crudely sewn, presumably by himself. A great many of these notebooks with their priceless contents have been lost, but a good number remain and are, thanks to the efforts of Gustav Nottebohm (1817-1882) in deciphering them, valuable evidence of Beethoven's method of working. The sketches are often either nearly illegible or in a personal shorthand, and their elucidation was a work of great patience and, often, insight. Because Beethoven habitually adopted this method of sketching, it has often been assumed that he was a very laborious composer, and it tends to be forgotten that he was naturally as ... of finished work, much of it consisting of masterpieces of the kind he must have felt were already too numerous in the world. Beethoven was not, it is important stress, an iconoclastic revolutionary, and a great deal of the music he did write was successful in fulfilling purposes similar to those of Haydn in many of his finest works. He saw nothing wrong in this, being fundamentally a man of ...
- 2747: Engineering
- ... can be defined as “the putting together of things.”(Internet source, “What is engineering?”) This definition has summarized a profession that dates back to ancient times. Many things have been accomplished by early engineers. The great pyramids in Egypt for example are an engineering marvel still today. The massive structures look simple but they took great skill to construct. The complex ventilation systems and rooms took brilliant engineers to design. The people in that era had very few tools to help them build the pyramids so engineers had to devise a ... way to lift the ponderous stones and place them where they were needed. Engineering has many applications, and is one of the most widely used and needed professions in the world. The building of the great pyramids is just one small facet of engineering. Engineering is not one broad profession but is a profession consisting of several specialized branches. Historically, engineering can be divided into four primary disciplines. These are ...
- 2748: Beauty And The Beast
- ... of all ages. They both involve two characters that are thrusted into lifestyles that they are not used to. The beast and E.T were both unique creatures, had close relationships with humans, and were great works of fiction. In both stories, "Beauty and the Beast" and "E.T.", the main characters are unique creatures are forced into a human society, which does not always accept them for who they are ... human friend. Other than those two humans, nobody else attempts to understand where either creature comes from, and as a result, no one befriends them. In addition, both E.T. and the Beast come from great works of fiction, having no fact behind their stories but both being created for no purpose other than pure entertainment. "E.T." was created out of the mind of the great filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and was based on his lonely childhood in which he was the product of a divorced family. The character Elliot was based loosely on the young Spielberg, but unlike Spielberg, who ...
- 2749: Chinese Music
- ... ancient Chinese belief that music is meant not to amuse but to purify one's thoughts finds particular expression in the cult of the qin (ch'in), a long zither possessing a repertory calling for great subtlety and refinement in performance and still popular among a small circle of scholar-musicians. A famous qin scholar once said, “Though the qin player's body be in a gallery or in a hall ... until quite recently the Chinese theoretically opposed music performed solely for entertainment; accordingly, musical entertainers were relegated to an extremely low social status. Melody and tone color are prominent expressive features of Chinese music, and great emphasis is given to the proper articulation and inflection of each musical tone. Most Chinese music is based on the five-tone, or pentatonic, scale, but the seven-tone, or heptatonic, scale, is also used ... a form of music drama often called Chinese opera. Formerly these operas were based on old tales of heroes and the supernatural. Today the stories often deal with heroes of the Communist revolution or with great historical events of the recent past. The first fully developed form of Chinese opera, called northern drama, or beiqu (pei ch'ü), emerged during the Yüan dynasty (1279-1368). During the Ming (1368-1644) ...
- 2750: Comparison Of Perugino And Caravaggio
- ... classical, passive figures. These are strong, vibrant, and emotional figures. Perhaps the emotional aspect of the figures is created by Caravaggio’s introduction of dramatic light and dark effects, termed tenebrism. This technique was a great breakthrough in art, which added great emotional effects and mystery to the art. Caravaggio doesn’t light Paul with a clear even light like Perugino would have, he gives Paul a dramatic light radiating out of his body for a conversion ... of St. Paul is not a static, symmetrical triangle, but a dynamic oval. This oval is not really there, but is implied by dynamic lines on the outer edges of figures. The oval shape implies great movement and gives the painting dynamic balance. The implied movement forces the eye to move and comprehend all of the figures in the painting as a whole, unlike Perugino’s figures that exist in ...
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