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- 6291: Shakespeare and his Theater
- ... The company's offered as many as thirty plays a season, customarily changing the programs daily. The actors thus had to hold many parts in their heads, which may account for Elizabethan playwrights' blank verse writing style.
- 6292: Death of a Salesman - "The American Dream: What it Means to Me"
- ... a standard of living that is difficult to maintain. Society had created tremendous grief and hardship for Willy Loman, aggravated by the endless promise. For these reasons, his tragedy was not only due to his personal flaws but also due to the flaws of society. The American Dream was not what Willie Loman had expected. Although I was born in this country, I do not share this "dream" so many people ...
- 6293: Benjamin Franklin 4
- ... to write and by age 16 he had written a series of letters by an imaginary author. The letters were printed in the New England Courant, which was published by his brother. Still pursuing his writing career, he ran away to Philadelphia and continued working in the printing business. He arrived in 1725 with one Dutch dollar and one copper shilling. By 1729, he had bought and published The Pennsylvania Gazette ...
- 6294: Re-educating A King: King Lear's Self-Awareness
- ... king does not listen. He continues to believe he still has the power that he has long since conceded. He does not believe that by deviding the kingdom he has lost both his political and personal power in one fell swoop. It is not until he is thrown out into the storm that Lear comes in touch with reality: he realizes the poetic justice of his words "Nothing will come of ...
- 6295: Othello and King Lear: A comparison
- ... Elizabeth I, when there was no tele-vision or radio, nor even any newspapers as we know them today. Although he was respected as an important person in his own lifetime, nobody ever thought of writing about him until well after his death. And Shakespeare did apparently not believe in keeping a diary either. So it is largely by luck that the little evidence we have, such as the entry of ...
- 6296: Hamlet: Hamlet The Idealist
- Hamlet: Hamlet The Idealist In Hamlet, Elsinore is a society which people are seen acting in a deceitful manner in order to gain personal measures and prestige. These people mask their true in intentions to acquire selfish desires. In doing so they develop a theme of the discrepancy between the way things appear and their true realities. Hamlet, on ...
- 6297: A Date with Kosinski
- ... triumph of the imagination . . .." He is a master of words, always picking the right ones to make the reader experience the book instead of just reading it. An author who shows me the story through writing is much more interesting than a book that doesn't. The novel is filled with both excitement and imagination. Kosinski plays with the words and produces a great novel. In the novel "Blind Date," he ...
- 6298: Fiesta the Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
- ... a great difficulty for Jake, because Bretts presence is both pleasurable and agonizing for him. Brett constantly reminds him of his handicap and thus Jake is challenged as a man in the deepest, most personal sense possible. After the departure of their first meeting, Jake feels miserable: This was Brett, that I had felt like crying about. Then I thought of her walking up the street and of course in ...
- 6299: The Cause of Macbeth's Ruin
- ... son of Duncan. This inability to tell appearance apart from reality ruins Macbeth because his judgments are wrong. Macbeth' s uncontrollable ambition contributes to his self involvement because he thinks only of himself and of personal gain. This in the end of the play makes him become cruel and insensitive. His self involvement is clearly seen as his relationship with his wife grows distant. In the beginning of the play Lady ...
- 6300: Hamlet: Laertes An Important Character In Play
- ... marriage and subsequent ascension to the throne, a wise decision, and an attempt to remain apart and above the world, as the Greek าsupermanำ is seen to gain immortality by doing, though Laertes does have personal feelings in the matter, unlike the true Stoic, thus his attempt is a failure, though a noble one. As Scene Three begins, Laertes is speaking with his sister, Ophelia, about her relationship with Hamlet, and ...
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