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- 17711: Macbeth - Scenes 1 To 3
- ... Duncan. The play also explores the issue of kingship and loyalty, which was of great importance to James.The opening scenes of the play in Macbeth are important, as they have to capture the audience s attention. Shakespeare achieves this by introducing them to the main characters of the play, the main aspects of the plot and also by including effective sound effects, which create a captivating atmosphere.The play opens ... that they are truly evil by going against gods natural order and this suggests to the audience that, through out the play, the way things may not seem the way they really are.In Shakespeare s day there was widespread belief in the supernatural world and the existence of witches, so this opening scene would have shocked and even frightened the audience.In the following scene we switch from the shadowy ... world of the witches to the contrasting world of battle and action. Once again the audience is thrown into the middle of the action, a primitive and bloody battle, which is very common in Shakespeare s plays. King Duncan s first words in the play are: what bloody man is that? The image of spilled blood appears a lot in the play and it is ironic that Duncan should mention ...
- 17712: Cry, the Beloved Country: Stimulating a Change
- ... content of character, rather than the general assumptions of a society. This is a requirement in his plan to restore a land that is slowly falling apart. The next character that is introduced is Kumalo's sister, Gertrude. As soon as she sees her brother, she becomes engulfed by fear. She proclaims she wishes to return to Ndotsheni, but feels unworthy because of what she has become. She agrees to go back to her homeland, but in the end, abandons Kumalo and her child. Kumalo's brother, John, is the next of his family to be confronted. "[John] is corrupt and deceitful, and betrays his brother and nephew at the first opportunity" (Hogan, 206). Msimangu, though, feels that if John were ... plunge this country into bloodshed" (Paton, 187). As a charismatic speaker, John has the ability to raise the blacks against the whites, but is too frightened to, fearing the possible retaliation of the whites. Paton's description of these characters, denote their immoral natures and the fear that exists within their lives, which he feels may be due to their corrupt surroundings and the oppression that they must endure. As ...
- 17713: The Scarlet Letter 9
- ... new character being introduced. The hidden relationship between Hester and Chillingworth will lead to many events and turn the story in a different direction that is not just about the scarlet letter, but about Hester¹s past. The second ³scaffold scene² is also a very big turning point. This is where Hester, Pearl (who has matured over the amount of time), and Dimmesdale (the village¹s minister) are holding each other¹s hands on the town¹s scaffold at night with no one seeing them. Dimmesdale is the man who has had the affair with Hester. No one in the story knows this yet. As the ...
- 17714: Buddhism
- ... must follow the "Four Noble Truths" and the "Eightfold Path" There are many aspects of this religion that can be explored but the one that is most interesting seems to be it origination and it's beliefs. In about 565 B.C. Siddhartha Gautama was born, a young Indian prince born to the ruler of a small kingdom that is now known as Nepal. Gautama's birth is described as a miraculous event, his birth being the result of his mother's impregnation by a sacred white elephant that touched her left side with a lotus flower. The scriptures claim that when Gautama was born ¹"immeasurable light spread through ten thousand worlds; the blind recovering their ...
- 17715: Wright's The Man Who Loved Underground: Summary
- Wright's The Man Who Loved Underground: Summary Richard Wright's, The Man Who Lived Underground, is a surrealistic story about a man who comes to a new consciousness of his own and the actual condition of society as a result of his retreat underground after ...
- 17716: International Business - Coca~
- ... all did Pepsi enter again, facing a country with such strongly adverse feelings towards foreign companies which is rooted in Indians history of colonialistic times when the British, French and Portuguese were extracting the country s recources its wealth without returning noticeable benefits to its economy. Moreover they feared that national companies would not be able to compete with foreign investors and as a result of this high artificially prices and profit margins reduced incentives for national companies to enter. This almost irrepairable bad approach towards foreigner went even that far that journalist widely reported that PepsiCo had a CIA connection aimed at undermining India s independence. However returning to the argument of PepsiCo having too many concessions or not, first as should have become clear now, the company was confronted with a govvernmental volatility and unwillingness to negotiate. It was ... decision to make all those concessions. The Indian market for soft-drink had been growing rapidly (by 1990 a whole of 3 billion bottles a year consumption expecting to quadrupple during the 1990s. Furthermore India s population was expected to grow even surpass China and researchers have even estimated India to become an economic giant in the future as the worlds most poplated country which of course enhanced foreign investments ...
- 17717: Sir Lancelot
- ... of King Ban of Benwick. King Ban became involved in a war with the neighboring kingdom of King Claudus. Claudus defeated Ban and forced the king and queen to flee. As they fled, Elaine, Lancelot's mother, puts baby Lancelot beside a lake and the Lady of the Lake steals the child away from her. Lancelot is raised in the underwater palace where he is known as Lancelot of the Lake. While growing up around women and mermen of the Lady of the Lake's palace, Lancelot quickly developed his great strength and skill in arms. At the age of eighteen, Lancelot set out for Camelot. Arthur saw that Lancelot was a great man so he dubbed him a knight ... custom of a castle called Dolorous Gard, which afterwards became his own home and renamed it Joyous Gard. Soon after, Lancelot returned to Camelot and become a full Knight of the Round Table and Arthur's closest companion and champion. After joining the ranks of Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot helped Arthur put down the rebellion o f Galehaut the Haut Prince, who surrendered to Arthur after observing Lancelot' ...
- 17718: Burr, Aaron
- ... In 1789 Burr was appointed attorney general of New York by Gov. George Clinton. Two years later the state assembly, which was controlled by partisans of Clinton and Robert Livingston, elected Burr to the U.S. Senate. His career in the Senate was not particularly memorable. Hamilton hated him, Clinton soon learned to distrust him, and George Washington refused his request to be appointed minister to France. But in and out ... to withhold patronage from Burr and his followers. Although still a Republican, Burr began to cultivate Federalists; his strategy was to unite dissidents against the Virginia party of Jefferson and James Madison. Frustrated by Jefferson's national popularity, and dropped from the Republican ticket for 1804, Burr entered the 1804 gubernatorial race in New York. Some northern Federalists who were plotting secession called on Burr to support them, but his response was masterfully enigmatic. An old enemy, Alexander Hamilton, did everything he could to defeat Burr. Some of Hamilton's derogatory comments, personal in nature, appeared in print, and Burr, who lost the election, demanded a retraction, which Hamilton refused to make. The duel that followed at Weehawken, N.J., on July 11, 1804, ...
- 17719: Macbeth 13
- Madness may be mental incapacity caused by an unmentionable injury. Such wounds often are not easily perceived but may be revealed in time of stress. Hamlet s question, have you a daughter? (Act II. Sc2 182) Polonius about the Prince s emotional state. What is hidden will surely be told to Cloudius by his adviser. Laertes search for revenge is sharper proof that madness in degrees of publicity causes harm to the observers. Claudius promise no ... IV, Sc.7,66) once Laertes kills Hamlet; perhaps this is what the uncle has sought all along for himself. Ophelia has a unique, very powerful form of madness; she seems caught as a baker s daughter,"(Act IV, Sc. 5, 42) between memories of her father and Hamlet who ought have spokedn to her of events on Valentine s day."(Act IV, Sc 5, 48) She is doubly hexed ...
- 17720: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells": Analysis
- Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells": Analysis “The Bells” is one of Poe's famous poems, in which Poe tries to make the bells sound real. He tries to make the sounds by using words instead of sound, which is really annoying when you read it, because he repeats ...
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