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- 6841: Macbeth: The Weird Sisters
- ... which meant no man born of a woman could harm him. The third apparition told him there would be a child crowned with a tree in his hand. This meant that Macbeth would live until great Birnam Wood came to Dunsinane Hill. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough. (Act 4, Scene 1, Lines 71-72) Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!... (Act 4, Scene 1, Line 77 ... born Shall harm Macbeth. (Act 4, Scene 1, Lines 79-81) Be lion-mettl'd, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam Wood to Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him. (Act 4, Scene 1, Lines 90-94) With the apparitions telling him this, it showed everybody, besides Macbeth, that his destiny had been destroyed by one ...
- 6842: Macbeth: A Man of Established Character
- ... the euphoria which follows. He also rejoices no doubt in the success which crowns his efforts in battle - and so on. He may even conceived of the proper motive which should energize back of his great deed: The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. But while he destroys the king's enemies, such motives work but dimly at best and are obscured in his consciousness by ... pale, and this is the law of his own natural from whose exactions of devastating penalties he seeks release: Come, seeling night... And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. He conceives that quick escape from the accusations of conscience may possibly be effected by utter extirpation of the precepts of natural law deposited in his nature. And he imagines ...
- 6843: King Lear: Rejection
- ... at this point that Gloucester realizes his love for his other son, Edgar, who he had rejected from birth. O you mighty Gods! This world I do renounce and in your sights shake patiently my great affliction off : If I could bear it longer and not fall to quarrel with your great opposeless wills, my shuff and loathed part of nature should burn itself out. If Edgar live, O Bless him! - Now, fellow, fare thee well ( King Lear IV.vi ). Edgar never did accept the fact that ...
- 6844: Is Hamlet Mad?
- ... and despair right from the beginning of the novel, with the death of his father and his uncle's seizure of the throne and rapid weddign of Hamlet's mother, and we can observe his great grief bordering on irrational suicidal tendencies as early as Act II Sc I, where he gives his first soliloquy. He cries: "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into ... a little, // Was not like madness."). He recognises the danger and orders that Hamlet be despatched to England, safely out of the way. He ends the scene by saying "It shall be so; // Madness in great ones must not unwatched go". Especially if you happened to have killed their fathers and committed adultery with their wives The next scene is the play's performance. Hamlet has asked the players to alter ...
- 6845: Intensional or Accidentall? Similarities between Romeo And Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing!
- ... the courage to court Hero. Instead Don Pedro, who is one of Claudio's very close friends, offers to go and woo Hero for his friend. This point is illustrated by Don Pedro for his great plan to get Claudio and Hero together "Thou wilt be like a lover presently/ And tire the hearer with a book of words. . .. That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? "1 Don ... would not have been a story. The Friars seem to be the smartest people. It seems as they act as god in both plays. How are the friars similar in the ways they present their great plans? In Romeo and Juliet, the friar is the person who sits down and thinks of an idea how the two lovers can be reacquainted with each other. He reveals his idea, they agree with ...
- 6846: Hamlet as a Tragic Hero
- ... arranges a personal viewing of The Murder of Gonzago with a small portion of his own lines inserted. Hamlet then observes one portion of the play in which one of the players put on a great display of emotion. Hamlet, besieged by guilt and self-contempt, remarks in his second soliloquy of Hamlet of the emotion this player showed despite the fact that the player had nothing to be emotional about. Hamlet observed that he himself had all the reason in the world to react with great emotion and sorrow, yet he failed to show any that could compare with the act of the player. Hamlet calls himself a "rogue and peasant slave" and a "dull and muddy-mettled rascal" who, like ...
- 6847: Macbeth and Beowulf: Evil Defined By Human Preoccupation
- ... had only one thing on his mind, the throne. When he became the king, he envied Banquo's having heirs who would be rivals for the throne. The Christian also developed the theory of the great chain of being. It basically stated that a person could not and was not allowed to change his social status. Thus in the play, everyone eventually turned against Macbeth, who had broken the great chain of being by taking the throne from the rightful king. At the end, Macbeth died as an evil being who had broken all the Christian rules. The nature of evil also became unclear as ...
- 6848: The Deception in King Lear
- ... comes back disguised as a madman in order to prevent his father from harm and warns him of the evil plans that Edmund has in store for him. I think that King Lear was a great play and showed the reader that although you are a false person you can fool people who are blind and think that you are incapable of doing harm. This was certainly the case with Goneril and Regan. They showered Lear with such great words of flattery that he reagarded them as his true daughters and left them everything because he really felt that they deserved it. He did not leave Cordelia anything because she did not flatter him ...
- 6849: Hamlet: Act V-Scene 2 - The Climax
- ... to offend Laertes, stating that he sees the image of his own cause in that of Ophelia's brother. Probably no more is intended that Hamlet makes reference to the fact that both have endured great losses, for Hamlet's cause transcends the personal or domestic, involving as it does the welfare of the State. The Prince's determination to win back the goodwill of Laertes make understandable his prompt agreement ... unwillingness to act without much thought, is the measure of his greatness. For most of us, the Prince emerges finally as sacrificial victim, one whose death is inevitable but which makes possible the purging of great evil and the restoration of a moral universe.
- 6850: Gothic
- ... Revelation. The essence of Gothic style was most fully developed in its conquest of space and its creation of a prodigious, visionary scale in the cathedrals of the twelfth century.11 Bibliography Branner, Robert. The Great Ages of World Architecture: Gothic Architecture. New York: George Braziller, 1967. Gimpel, Jean. The Cathedral Builders. New York: Grove Press, 1983. Mitchell, Ann. Great Buildings of the World: Cathedrals of Europe. Feltham: The Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1968. Panofsky, E. Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism. Latrobe: Faber and Faber Limited, 1951. Simson, Otto von. The Gothic Cathedral. New York: Bollingen Foundation ...
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