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- 491: Agatha Christie
- ... stories have always been greatly undervalued by the literary establishment, and those who write them seldom run off with the Pulitzer Prize. And yet most of the fines works of fiction from the "Orestia" to "Hamlet" have been concerned with murder (Mortimer, p.52). Poet and critic W.H. Auden confessed: "For me, as for many others, the reading of a detective story is an addiction like tobacco or alcohol" (Shenker ...
- 492: The Life of William Shakespeare
- ... About Nothing,” and “As You Like It” were a few of them. Two major tragedies were also written. “Romeo and Juliet” and “Julius Caesar.” Shakespeare’s third period included his greatest tragedies and mean comedies. “Hamlet,” “Othello,” “Antony and Cleopatra,” and “Macbeth” were a few of the tragedies. Three other writings suggested bitter tragedies. They were “Trolius and Cressida,” “Coriolanus,” and “Timon of Athens.” The dark comedies included “All’s Well ...
- 493: Comparing "Waiting for Godot" To "Hollow Men"
- ... his life. His flaws are many, though. He realizes he is getting balder and more wrinkled. His prowess with women is deteriorating and this disturbs him. Life is going away and he is no Prince Hamlet. So he does nothing, and that is the major flaw. He just lets life suck everything from him and take away everything he could have done. Like in Godot, there is so much that can ...
- 494: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Jesus Christ and McMurphy
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Jesus Christ and McMurphy Many protagonists are considered heroes, ranging from Hamlet to Hercules. All of these heroes also did something to earn the honoured title. In today's society modern heroes have been found, one of which is the traditional Western hero. We also have a ...
- 495: Catcher in the Rye: Holden and His "Phony" Family
- ... 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 ...
- 496: Charachter Analysis Banquo
- ... contrast and balance the play. The character foils in Macbeth are an example of Shakespeare's predilection for powerfully presenting two sides of an argument (the famous, "to be or not to be" speech from Hamlet, for example).
- 497: T.S. Eliot
- ... correspondence with men would have changed his life. He wonders if he would have been happier, or if in the end he would have still been miserable. He then states "No! I am not prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be:" and goes on to state all the things he is not.(111) He says he is not a politician, an advisor, or a lord, but a fool. He talks of ...
- 498: Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney
- ... reject him it would bring him back to life and he could say "I am Lazarus, come from the dead." Prufrock decides that he lacks the will to make his declaration. "I am not Prince Hamlet," he says; he will not, like Shakespeare's character, attempt to shake off his doubts and "force the moment to crisis." He feels more like an aging Fool. He is able only to dream of ...
- 499: Eliot's Views of Sexuality as Revealed in the Behavior of Prufrock and Sweeney
- ... reject him it would bring him back to life and he could say "I am Lazarus, come from the dead." Prufrock decides that he lacks the will to make his declaration. "I am not Prince Hamlet," he says; he will not, like Shakespeare's character, attempt to shake off his doubts and "force the moment to crisis." He feels more like an aging Fool. He is able only to dream of ...
- 500: Redemtion And Salvation In A T
- ... Darnay that no matter how many times someone seems to be at an end, salvation is always possible. "It is said that Sydney Carton holds a position in literature no less illustrious than Shakespeare's Hamlet in his appeal as a tragic hero" (Coles p 41). Carton is throwing away his life but by his one distinguished act of humanity he achieves complete redemption. Through these three characters, Dickens explains how ...
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