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- 1071: A Summary of the Plot of the Iliad
- ... Odysseus and Ajax go on this mission, they are accompanied by Phoenix, Achilles' old friend. Achilles rejects their proposals but keeps old Phoenix back in his hut after a show of moving, mutual affection. Book X: Agamemnon, deeply perturbed by Achilles' refusal, passes the night rousing the chieftains and devising plans for the security of the army. A council of war is called, and it is decided to send scouts into ...
- 1072: Macbeth: Themes
- ... with the conclusion and theme of the play which yet has to be understood. The first signs that tell us of Macbeth's thoughts of becoming King were found when the King proclaimed his son, Malcolm, the heir to the Scottish throne, and Macbeth considered murder to overcome this obstacle that would prevent him from becoming the King. The prince of Cumberland! That is a step On which I must fall ...
- 1073: Macbeth: Tragic Hero
- ... mind rejects it and said, "Why, if fate will have me king, why, chance may crown me," - Act I, Sc 3, p.44-45. Yet increasingly his ambition defeated his good nature. When Duncan named Malcolm the Prince of Cumberland, Macbeth decided on the murder of Duncan. When Duncan arrived at Inverness, Macbeth controled his ambition for the time being and did not kill Duncan. The failing of his decision was ...
- 1074: Brave New World
- ... control of Brave New World. Reproduction takes place in a "Hatchery". Stolen ova are inspected for abnormalities, fertilised, put into incubators and then undergo the "Bokanovsky Process". Each embryo is bombarded for 8 minutes with X-rays until rather than the cells dividing normally, they "bud". Each bud has the potential of becoming a separate but identical embryo. These buds are then subjected to various chemicals such as alcohol, until they ...
- 1075: Sir Gawain And The Wife Of Bath
- ... made the choice for himself, he would have got exactly what he chose, which is to say, only half (and in either case the lesser half) of what he desired. Now the crime in Book X of Wolfram's Parzival is also that of rape. It is similar to and different from the same crime in Chaucer. Prince Urians is the rapist, and the maiden complains to Arthur. Gawain captures Urians ...
- 1076: Why The Unicorn Must Lose its Horn
- ... unicorn must someday lose its horn to be able to lose its mythical world, and instead live in reality. Works Cited Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 1999. 1710-1759.
- 1077: Macbeth: The Use of the Classical Tragic Mold in Character Development
- ... the descent into the abyss. The "decent into the abyss" is the second step in the Classical Tragic Mold. It is started with Macbeth's second soliloquy. This is after Macbeth hears from Duncan that Malcolm was to be named the Prince of Cumberland. "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies ... Let not light ...
- 1078: "The Other" and "Taxi Driver": A Comparison
- ... appears more frequently in the first part of the movie. She is the one that Travis desires, the one that he would like to go to bed with. He even takes her out to an X-rated movie. this, of course, is way of saying let's get laid. He might have done it unconsciously, but it is obvious that he desired her. Although we are introduced to "the good girl ...
- 1079: Pop Art
- ... I Opened Fire, by Roy Lichenstein. It was made in 1964 and is the the third of three panels in a narrative arrangement. As I Opened Fire is magna on a canvas which is 68 X 56. Its composition reminds of a comic book. It shows 2 guns firing of the side of a ship, with letters on the top saying "That my ship was below them..." The color scheme was ...
- 1080: Gustave Courbet's Reclining Nude
- ... in such a position; this, too, would have been found scandalous in the 1860's. Now, however, compared to such displays of sexuality and nudity as found in magazines such as Penthouse and Playgirl or X-rated movies, the picture is perceived as a modest, proper display of sexuality. Today there is nothing offensive about the woman's display of sexuality. One other reason that the critics and public would have ...
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