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- 22881: How Is Evil Expred In The Play
- ... appropriate setting for the witches because caves tend to represent the under-world and hell, creating a feeling of evil. The witches appearance, secret, black, and midnight hags also indicate their evil nature. The witch s dark meeting place and dark appearance all emphasize their destructive nature. Macbeth in Act 4 consulted with the witches, murdered Macduff's family, and continued to create evil in Scotland. Macbeth in Act 4 is described as an agent of disorder, "untitled tyrant bloody-sceptered". The language in Act 1 that described Macbeth has changed from "noble ... cruelty; make thick my blood, stop up th access and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visitings of nature shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between th effect and it. Come to my woman s breasts and take my milk for gall, you murd ing ministers. This speech by Lady Macbeth is taken from Act 1 scene 5. Lady Macbeth actually wants to be made evil. She is breaking ...
- 22882: Frederick Douglass
- ... Douglass Frederick Douglass was an emancipated slave who passed from one master to another until he finally found the satisfaction of being his own; he went through almost as many names as masters. His mother's family name, traceable at least as far back as 1701 (FD, 5) was Bailey, the name he bore until his flight to freedom in 1838. His father may or may not have been a white ... rejected this possibility. During transit to New York (where he became a freedman) his name became Stanley, and upon arrival he changed it again to Johnson. In New Bedford, where there were too many Johnson's, he found it necessary to change it once more, and his final choice was Douglass, taken, as suggested to him by a white friend and benefactor, from a story by Sir Walter Scott (although the character in that story bore only a single 's' in his name). All throughout, he clung to Frederick, to 'preserve a sense of my identity' (Norton, 1988). This succession of names is illustrative of the transformation undergone by one returning from the world ...
- 22883: Fifth Business
- ... the New Testament and states "Arabian Nights and the Bible were getting pretty close", referring to both magic and religion. After servicing in the war, Dunstable is renamed Dunstan by Diana after Saint Dunstan. Dunstan’s study of saints becomes his passion and he later travels around the world in search of information about several living saints. During his search for saints, Dunstan coincidentally comes across Le grande Cirque forain de ... parson of Deptford and is considered to be religious. After leaving home, Paul joins a travelling circus, becomes a magician, and is later renamed Magnus Eisengrim by Lisel. Along with the idea of magic, Eisengrim’s show Soiree of Illusions incorporated themes of myth including Dream of Midas, Vision of Dr. Faust and the Brazen Head of Friar Bacon and wants himself and his illusions "to be marveled at". Eisengrim is ... through the novel, but still plays an important element in the theme of magic and religion. The theme of religion is demonstrated when she asks Dunstan "…do you know what my name really means?" Lisel’s last name is the demons name in the play The Vision of Dr. Fautus where Faust was a magician who sold his soul to the devil. During a fight between Lisel and Dunstan, Dustan ...
- 22884: Transcendentalism
- ... Henry David Thoreau. Emerson and Thoreau sought permanent spiritual reality that lay beyond physical appearances. They also believed that man could be perfected. The time period in which Transcendentalism took place was the mid-1800's. Some important ideas of Transcendentalism are self-reliance and individualism. Self-reliance means that man is responsible for his own course in life, and he is responsible for whatever happens. Emerson states, “Nothing can bring ... Thoreau also believed that by rejecting technology and material items, man gets to know is true self. They also thought that society focused too much on possessing material items and put less emphasis on man’s individuality. Thoreau simplified his life, and he did this by going to Walden Pond. Man usually does what is popular, and that means accepting technology and material items as a part of his life. By ... also states that man should get back to nature to find his true self. Rejection of technology and the material world for the spiritual world is also another component of Transcendentalism. It applies to today’s life in the sense that man is too focused on obtaining material items and conforming to society. Today’s man relies too much on technology mostly because he believes that it will simplify his ...
- 22885: Foreshadowing
- ... uses will give hints to the reader on who the characters will meet, what is going to happen to them, and where the climax will take place. Foreshadowing is ether small or large descriptive hint’s to the reader on what might happen latter in a story. An example of this is in the first paragraph, when the grandmother tells Bailey, her only son she lives with, to read a part of the news paper that say’s, “Here this fellow that calls himself the misfit is a loose from the federal pen” (pg. 354). Now, the first time a reader is reading this they night assume that the family will meet up with the Misfit. This is a writing technique that some writer’s use to give the reader small clues of who they might meet up with in the later part of there stories. Another thing forshadowing can add to a story can clue the reader in ...
- 22886: Edgar Allan Poe 2
- ... and his literary criticism. He has been given credit for inventing the detective story and his pshycological thrillers have been infuences for many writers worldwide. Edgar and his brother and sister were orphaned before Edgar's third birthday and Edgar was taken in to the home of John and Fanny Allan in Richmond, Va. The Allans lived in England for five years (1815-1820) where Edgar also attended school. In 1826 he entered the University of Virginia. Although a good student he was forced to gambling since John Allan did not provide well enough. Allan refused to pay Edgar's debts and Edgar had to leave the University after only one year. In 1827 Edgar published his first book, "Tamerlane and other poems" anonymously under the signature "A Bostonian". The poems were heavily influenced from ... West Point Edgar published a book entitled "Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and minor poems", this time the book was published, not anonymously, but under the name Edgar A. Poe, where the middle initial acknowledged John Allan's name. Before Edgar left West Point he received financial aid from his fellow cadets to publish a third edition of the book. Edgar called it a second edition though and it was entitled "Poems ...
- 22887: Ban Smoking In Public Places
- ... in cigar form, but mostly in cigarettes. European explores arriving in the western hemisphere observed native American smoking leaves of the tobacco plant in pipes, and the practice was introduced onto England in the 1500’s. The general attitude was that smoking relieved tension and produced no ill effects. Epidemiologists soon noticed that lung cancer was on the increase. The public at large was ignorant to this fact. At first the ... if that smoker is a female and pregnant, what if that smoker sits in a room filled with young children and inflicts her choice on to them. Smoking has become anti social in the 1990,s and the non-smokers voice can now be heard loud and clear. The government has an ongoing campaign to make mothers aware of the damage-smoking can do to the defenceless unborn child. If a ... during pregnancy the she delivers nicotine and carbon monoxide into her babies blood stream. The baby is more likely to be born small and be more prone to illness in the first months of it s life than the child of non-smokers. Doctors have also said that it has been linked to cot deaths. Statistics show that the risk of a stillborn baby or one, who dies in the ...
- 22888: Political Morality
- In Webster's dictionary, morality is defined as "principles of right and wrong in conduct; ethics." The principles of morality have countless times evolved over the ages. In earlier times, death was an easy penalty for many crimes. These crimes today are considered minor and are penalized with a slap on the hand. Is this considered wrong? Who is the correct authority to consult on what is right or wrong? In today's society, two major factors concern how the way members of society act and behave. The first is our national government. Members of our government in positions of authority decide everything in our lives in the ... of this. The need for the expressment of ideas is essential for a growing environment. If no growth is made, then expansion of the community is halted to a standstill. The limit of new idea's must have a point, though. In recent news, the Unabomber has issued a ultimanium with his manuscript. In the past, such a request would have been rediculous. In his manuscript he expresses his view ...
- 22889: A Comparison of the Medieval and Renaissance Eras
- ... seem to be focused almost entirely on religion and are given heavenly attributes, while paintings of the Renaissance consist mainly of secular subjects and contain much more realism, especially noted in human subjects. In Giotto's Madonna With Child, a Medieval painting, any observer will obviously notice that the child and woman are very awkwardly proportioned, indicating the lack of realism. However, in the Mona Lisa, by DaVinci, and The Marriage ... of them were religious oriented or somehow involved the church, whereas religion or the church was seldom involved in Renaissance paintings. Rather, paintings of the Renaissance involved mostly secular subjects, as seen again in DaVinci's Mona Lisa and also Raphael's The School of Athens. In the case of the Mona Lisa, the subject is a typical woman with a very sublime smile, but with no apparent religious association whatsoever. The same applies to The ...
- 22890: Masaccio - Innovator Of Perspe
- ... like personal appearance and worldly materials, and was thus careless with his possessions. As a child, he concentrated more on his art instead of himself and what others thought about him. He moved from Castel S. Giovanni di Altura to Florence in 1417 to become a pupil of Masolino di Panicale. There, he helped upon innovations of art. In 1422 and 1424, he enrolled in the guild of St. Luke of ... nonetheless. His greatest work was done on the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. These frescoes were started by Masolino and ultimately completed by Fillipinno Lippi years after Masaccio’s death. This chapel is now a significant monument in the history of art. These frescoes had a tremendous impact on Florentine art thereof, and were used as a basis to teach new artists like Michelangelo ... Linear perspective is a mathematical system of fixing objects on a plane of a two dimensional surface. This also involves orthogonals, imaginary lines receding into the distance, horizon line, the horizontal line at the viewer’s eye level, and vanishing point, where the orthogonals come together. Atmospheric perspective is slightly different. It creates the illusion of depth through methods like color saturation, brightness angle, and texture angle. The classic color ...
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