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- 2861: Macbeth: A Shakespearean Tragic Hero
- ... people that encircled him. Thus Macbeth’s character displays all attributes of a good person corrupted into a villain and than a tragic death. Works Cited Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Adventures of English Literature. Keach, William, John Richetti, and BruceRobbins, eds. Orlando: Harcourt, 1989. 179-249.
- 2862: Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will: A Work of Art
- ... be extending Shahn original notion of enthusiasm. In 1997, Riefenstahl was honored with a film award from Cinecon, a Hollywood-based group of movie fans, allegedly resulting in the resignation of the then President, Kevin John Charbeneau. Enthusiasm, positive or not, permeates any sort of discussion of Triumph of the Will. Contradiction loudly echoes across the decades as a beautiful, smiling nation in Triumph of the Will hides the hideous, murderous ...
- 2863: Arts and Ceramics In History
- ... was due in part to the variety of shapes and the countless range of pictorial and geometric designs on the exterior of the pieces. The ancient Greek pottery has even inspired poetry. An author named John Keats wrote a poem called Ode on a Grecian Earn. The poem speaks of the beauty of Greek pottery. “O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches ...
- 2864: The Broadcast of "War of the World" in 1938
- ... 1938, a nationwide radio station broadcast a radio show that was based on the best seller, War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells. The play was performed by many people, namely Orsen Wells and John Houseman. It was during a time when the radio was the primary source of entertainment. People throughout America tuned in to listen to their favorite radio show or for some music to dance to, but ...
- 2865: How the 60's Changed Our Lives
- ... at Arlington Street Church, where William Sloane Coffin spoke. There, 87 men burned their cards over an altar, and 200 others turned theirs in. Other similar demonstrations happened in Cincinnati, and Philadelphia's Independence Hall. John Chancellor of NBC-TV remarked "If men like this are beginning to say things like this, I guess we had all better start paying attention.(DeBenedetti 195-6)" In a much larger protest, fifty thousand ...
- 2866: Dramatic Irony In Romeo and Juliet
- ... but this time he is the one that is unaware of something. He is unaware that Juliet has faked her death to join him in Mantua because she is to marry the County Paris. Friar John was supposed to deliver a message to Romeo, but he is stopped because he is thought to have the plague. Dramatic irony comes into play because the audience knows that Juliet is not really dead ...
- 2867: Ophelia: The Forgotten Character
- ... Love’s Argument; Gender Relations in Shakespeare. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Shakespeare, William. “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, an Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 1999. 1523-1634. Webster, Margaret. Shakespeare Without Tears. Putam Books,1955.
- 2868: Sonnet 64
- ... of the form is changed creating a clear thought division between the twelfth and thirteenth line. Shakespeare's style unique sonnet style became, in his time, the predominate English form. However, some poems such as John Keats' On First Looking into Chapman's Homer retained the classic Italian form.(Crowell pg 945) Shakespeare's Sonnet Sixty-Fourhold's true to the classic Shakespearean sonnet form, having three quatrains and a finalizing ...
- 2869: The Vietnam War and Hollywood Movies
- ... tortured and killed the Americans. However, by the late 80’s more movies started to portray Americans killing the Vietnamese civilians. In one of the first movies called The Green Berets made in 1968 with John Wayne the U.S. hero, represents a medic that takes care of a Vietnamese child. This symbolizes that Americans are kind to the Vietnamese but the Vietcong are mean and heartless. They don’t care ...
- 2870: Hamlet: Feigned Madness
- ... the state of Denmark” (1.4.91). Works Cited Shakespeare, William. “Hamlet.” The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. Vol. 1. Ed. Mack, Maynard. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co. Inc. 1995. 2727-2818. Hankins, John. The Character of Hamlet. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1941.
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