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- 11401: Ambiguity and Equivocation in Macbeth
- ... MacDuff. It is the equivocation of the ghosts that lead him to this course of actions; the ghosts deliberately equivocate in their messages to him. "Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnham Wood to High Dunsinane Hill shall come against him," (IV.i.104-106) speaks one. In his apathetic, power-hungry state, Macbeth chooses to hear only the surface message and not the deeper warning. Nevertheless, the ghost made ...
- 11402: The Deplorable Life of Willy Loman
- ... to, "shut up." This unfaithfulness and disrespect to his mother is what proves to drive Biff away from his dream of football and his father whom he so dearly loved. Consequently, Biff dropped out of school and ruined his sparkling future in football. So, as time past on, the boy that everyone just new was going to be something special seemed to be casting it all away. This realization was to ...
- 11403: Julius Caesar: Brutus
- ... win the noble Brutus to our party ( I, iii, 140-141) The people respected Brutus. They thought he was a very wise and noble man. They believed anything he would tell them. Oh, he sits high in all the people's hearts, And that which would appear offense in us His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. ( I, iii, 157-160) Brutus was a very deep ...
- 11404: Othello the "Mad" Moor
- ... Othello's strong love for his wife and the love that Desdemona shows him by betraying her father shows the bond between the two of them. As a man Othello was honorable and noted with high regard around Venice, also a strong and great leader. Every great leader has much stress on him no matter how great the leader. The stress of battle, the jealousy, and the loss of honor are ...
- 11405: Madness in Shakespeare's Hamlet
- ... you a daughter."(Act II, Sc.2, 182) In this discussion Hamlet shows antic behavior towards Polonius by mocking him when Hamlet would usually show great respect for him because of he age and heis high position in the court. This sudden question to Polonius has caused Polonius to believe that Hamlet has a form of love-sickness and that Polonius is sure to tell Claudius of his condition. Hamlet also ...
- 11406: Hamlet: A Revenge Tragedy
- ... a mad character for the rest of the play. He now wonders around the court with his clothes in black disarray; he acts brutally toward the girl he once loved; and he sends his old school friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to their deaths. Later, Horatio becomes the only person aware of Hamlet's pretending of being mad. Together, Hamlet and Horatio plan a play to be performed. A troop of players ...
- 11407: The Crucible: The Tragedy at Salem
- ... time, the witch hunts may not have taken place. There is a modern example of the hysteria and injustice that took place in Salem. It involves the wave of emotional accusations of child abuse against school teachers and caregivers. Regardless of guilt or innocence, once a person has been accused of abuse, they are automatically assumed to be guilty, and the accuser is never second guessed. As well, even if they ...
- 11408: Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire: A Reaction, Assessment of Literary Value, Biography of the
- ... to St. Louis, Missouri. His father taunted him for his reclusion and effeminacy, nicknaming him "Miss Nancy." As Williams grew up, he took refuge from his intense shyness in his creativity. He wrote for his school newspaper, and became a published writer in 1927 at age sixteen with the essay "Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport?" in Smart Set, for which he received third prize. In September of 1928 ...
- 11409: Compare and Contrast: Oedipus and Othello
- ... on the language and the performer, which causes the spectator to use their imagination. It also places more emphasis on costuming. This type of setting helped set up the style of representational theater, which places high emphasis on the realistic. The style used in classical Greece was presentational which, because of the use of the mask, gave no illusion that this story is happening before their eyes. The audience is reminded ...
- 11410: Antigone: Changing Views of The Chorus
- ... was placed upon the city regarding the body of Polynices: When he weaves in the laws of the land, and the justice of the gods that binds his oaths together, he and his city rise high--but the city casts out that man who weds himself to inhumanity thanks to reckless daring. Never share my hearth never think my thoughts, whoever does such things. (Lines 409-416) In my opinion the ...
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