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- 1941: Macbeth: Abuse Of Power And Appearance Versus Reality
- ... category. Another recurrent theme is the abuse of power. After Macbeth has been crowned king of Scotland, he slowly begins his reign of terror. One of Banquo’s murderers says to Macbeth, “Ay, my good lord: safe in a ditch he bides, / With twenty trenched gashes on his head, / The least a death to nature.” He is saying simply that Banquo is not a threat anymore to Macbeth. Macbeth’s next ...
- 1942: The Villains In Much Ado About Nothing and Othello
- ... the scene just after Cassio leaves, and Iago witfully trys to make it look like Cassio left because he does not want to be seen in the courtship of Desdemona. Iago sarcastically remarks : Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it That he would steal away so guilty-like, Seeing your coming. (Act III, Scene III) When Desdemona leaves, Iago takes the opportunity to strengthen Othello's views of honesty ...
- 1943: Hamlet: Hamlet's Greatest Crime Was His Inherent Goodness
- ... of certain characters. When Hamlet is around Polonius, Claudius, Gertrude, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, and Gildenstern, he behaves irrationally. For example in Act II, scene II, lines 173-174, Polonius asks Hamlet,” Do you know me, my Lord?” Hamlet replies,” Excellent well. You are a fishmonger”. He fools Polonious into believing that Ophelia is the reason for his inexplicable and rash behaviors. Hamlet pretends not to know who Polonius is, even though he ...
- 1944: Who Is The Villian In Macbeth?
- ... the servant. Lady Macbeth says this quotation while she is sleep walking, showing her guilt: Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One-two-why then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our pow'r to accompt? Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in ...
- 1945: The Phantom Menace: I Swear I’ve Seen This Movie Before
- ... the X-Wing fighter into the core of the Death Star, shooting the generator, and causing a chain reaction that blows up the entire battleship. The Phantom Menace has Anakin doing the same thing. Anakin flies a Naboo starship into the main-generator room of the Trade Federation’s giant starship and accidentally fires lasers at the generator. The entire roof of the space station collapses as Anakin makes a quick ...
- 1946: Science Fiction Movies
- ... and she needs to escape before she too is transformed. Though somewhat similar, the selections from "Eve of the Future Eden" by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, tell a slightly different story. Here, Edison keeps Lord Ewald from committing suicide over a woman by creating for him a robot woman who Edison says is "a thousand times more identical to herself than she herself" (text p. 74, reader p. 49). In ...
- 1947: Show How Macbeth And Lady Macbeth Have To Go Against Their Own Natures In Order To Kill Duncan
- ... In her sleepwalking she refers to incidents that happened during the night of the murder: “ Out damned spot! Out, I say! One; two. Why then ‘tis time to do ‘t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him ...
- 1948: King Lear
- ... ln 147-151). Lear ignores this plea and even banishes Kent, who returns later, disguised as a servant. Another person to recognize his mistake is the fool. In one of his rhymes, he says, "That lord that counselled thee to give away thy land, come place him here by me - Do thou for him stand. The sweet and bitter fool will presently appear; the one in motley here, the other found ...
- 1949: Character Comparison in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Dead Poet's Society
- ... run their own lives. Egeus states that he has the right to make his daughter marry whomever he wants: Full of vexation come I, with complaint/Against my daughter Hermia. /Stand forth, Demtrious. My noble lord, /This man hath my consent to marry her…Be it so she will not here before your grace/ Consent to marry with Demetrious, / I beg the ancient privilege of Athens, /As she is mine, I ...
- 1950: Hamlet: Conflict Between Characters
- ... someone that is not to be trusted, constantly going behind the backs of others. We see an example of this when Polonius was spying on his daughter and Hamlet, “You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said; we heard it all”(3.1.174-175). He spies on others in many different ways, this is only an example of how he physically spied on Hamlet and Ophelia, he has many ...
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