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- 471: The Role Of Women In Utopia An
- ... from feminist critics who have challenged its position at the bottom of Bradley's hierarchy of major tragedies. Women appear to be regarded as slightly less important in "Othello". To quote Alan Sinfield's book "Hamlet's special providence", the play has been called a "domestic tragedy", which in "masculinist criticism" implies a downgraded species of tragedy. To downgrade this is slightly inappropriate for a story about a murder of a ...
- 472: The Role Of Women In Shakspear
- ... they do have different circumstances regarding their behavior. The reason for Katherine s shrewish demeanor is never given in the play, though many directors have interpreted it as an act to discourage suitors, much like Hamlet s feigned madness. Others have attributed it to sibling rivalry between Katherine and her sister Bianca. In any case, no clear rationale is given to the audience as to the reason for Katherine s behavior ...
- 473: Intolerance Within the Novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... along the banks of the Mississippi. In one instance the king and the duke fail miserably in trying to act more studiously when they perform a "Shakespearean Revival." The duke totally slaughters the lines of Hamlet saying, "To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin. That it makes clamity of so long life. For who fardel bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunshire, but that fear of ...
- 474: Catcher In The Rye - Holden An
- ... tolerate the imposed false image brought on by D.B.’s career choice as a screen-play writer. For example, this sense of respect is shown when D.B. takes Holden and Phoebe to see Hamlet: "He treated us to lunch first, and then he took us. He’d already seen it, and the way he talked about it at lunch, I was anxious as hell to see it, too" (Salinger ...
- 475: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- ... Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is a classic that will continue to be enjoyed for decades to come because of its greatness. Great works of art will never wither nor die. Following the footsteps of “Hamlet” and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, “Ferris Bueller” will be one of the greatest portrayals of human society to ever exist.
- 476: Examination Of The Reasons For
- ... learn German` although `the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam`. Esther associates the language with her `German-speaking father`, who `cane from some manic-depressive hamlet in the black heart of Prussia'. I think that Esther`s stunt in progress is directly linked to the death of her father, and the little that she knows about him, and that a major ...
- 477: J.D. Salinger
- ... is neither comical or misanthrope. He is an observer. Unlike Huck, he makes judgements by the dozen, but these are not to be taken seriously; they are concepts (Lomazoff, 7). Holden is also compared to Hamlet but to a lesser degree; they are both not totally in the minds. The majority of Salinger’s characters learn from being alienated. Through learning this one aspect, they gain strength from it to move ...
- 478: A Prose Analysis on Milton's "Sonnet XIX"
- ... has diminished, then is man doomed to wasting the rest of his remaining days. In other words, has Milton's handicap made him into an obsolete machine? The quote "To be or not to be,…", (Hamlet, Act 3, Scene1) runs through Milton's mind. Shall he struggle and fight in the webs of darkness, or shall he accept defeat. A sense of "dark clarity" - a sinister paradox occupies Milton's mind ...
- 479: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: The Pitiful Prufrock
- ... this is fine with him, because he and his world are once again at a comfortable place. Finally and permanently, Prufrock accepts that he will never be a prophet like Lazarus or a prince like Hamlet, and he slips into the safety of a fantasy world.
- 480: A Prose Analysis on Milton's "Sonnet XIX"
- ... has diminished, then is man doomed to wasting the rest of his remaining days. In other words, has Milton's handicap made him into an obsolete machine? The quote "To be or not to be,…", (Hamlet, Act 3, Scene1) runs through Milton's mind. Shall he struggle and fight in the webs of darkness, or shall he accept defeat. A sense of "dark clarity" - a sinister paradox occupies Milton's mind ...
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