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Abstract Expressionism
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1205.... The paintings are usually rather large; they are an expression of thought through the use of gestural or "action" painting; they are commonly painted with strange objects; they are usually filled with vibrant, shocking colours and many other things not normally! associated with other "classical" forms of art - these artists are trying to paint raw emotion, not pretty pictures.
The painters who came to be known as "Abstract Expressionists" shared a similar outlook rather than a style - an outlook of revolt and a belief in the freedom of expression. The main thing these .....
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Romeo And Juliet: They Did It To Themselves
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 736.... together they speak of their impending marriage. What? It
seems that they are obsessed, not in love. How could they love each other when
in fact they have just met hours earlier? They are children who have crushes and
plenty of melodrama to enhance it.
Romeo demonstrates his immaturity again when he slays the Capulet, Tybalt.
Being an idealist, he does not think about the consequences of his actions. He
knows that Tybalt is Juliet's cousin, and that injuring him would wreck any
chance of them getting together legitimately, yet he does it anyway. Instead of
pausing a momen .....
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Similarities Of Two Famous Tales Of Love
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 695.... of their love because she
just wanted to see Maria happy like the Nurse. Overwhelmed by all the fighting,
Baby John was much like Tybalt's peace keeping foil character, Mercutio. Lastly,
Doc tried to help Tony and stop all the insanity around him like Friar Laurence.
In both stories, comic relief occurred to keep the audience interested,
but the two plays usually differed in their approaches to comedy. In Romeo And
Juliet, Mercutio amused the audience with his actions and soliloquies. Westside
Story didn't have a character like Mercutio, so it used a combination of their .....
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Hamlet: Death
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 901.... Act III, scene iv, when Hamlet stabs him while he is hiding behind the arras in Gertude’s room. This shows how Polonius, a man unaware of the true nature of the situation he is in, is killed by a member of the royalty during the execution of one of their schemes. This makes Polonius’ death a tragedy.
The next member of Polonius’ family to die is his daughter Ophelia. Ophelia’s death is tragic because of her complete innocence in the situation. Some may argue that Polonius deserves his fate because of his deceitfulness in dealing with Hamlet while he is mad, but Ophelia is enti .....
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Insanity In Macbeth
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 417.... to insanity. MacBeth talks to a figment of his
imagination which his mind has made. These means that his mind is not
healthy. He is unable to separate reality from a hallucination. His reality
is that he is still sane even though he has the ability to see ghost. His
mind has already gone mad and he cannot control it .He is not able to
separate what is real from
what is reality.
One final instance is ability to kill anyone he feels as a threat
to him. When someone is able to make such a decision without remorse has
gone insane. The ability to make a decision of whether to t .....
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Aaron And Brutus: The Irony Of Violence
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1864.... that their violence breeds.
“Titus Andronicus” basically is a story of cyclical revenge, of how a father avenges the death of his two sons, and of how a mother avenges the death of her son. It begins with Titus returning to Rome after victoriously battling against the Goths. With him he brings Tamora and her three sons as political prisoners. He kills Tamora’s eldest son, offering him as a sacrifice to calm the spirits of his sons that were killed in battle. Even though Titus is originally encouraged to become emperor, he reserves this privilege for Saturninus, eldest son .....
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Andy Warhol And Pop Art
Number of pages: 7 | Number of words: 1723.... culture. The art form developed rapidly once
reaching the U.S. New York City, often viewed as the epicenter of American
popular culture, fostered the growth of many of the most highly regarded
pop artists, including Warhol, Rosenquist, Segal and Lichtenstein.
California, namely San Fransisco was recognized as the Pop Art capital of
the west coast (Bourdon, 1989, 12)
Subject
The subject of Warhol's work revolved around various American
social issues of the mid-century. As America exited from World War II and
entered the Baby Boom era, the culture had become decidedly san .....
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Movie: Anna And The King
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 507.... they frowned on many of the Siamese practices. The king of the palace, King Mongkut was very controlling and was also a religious man who practiced Buddhism. Buddhism is a complex set of beliefs built around teaching of a single man. The king had told the Siamese people that he had a vision, and this vision was of a white elephant. Supposedly, Buddha showed this white elephant to him threw a vision to modernize Siam. Some of the people of Siam did not the idea of the king trying to of a modern Siam, which was influenced by the British. At that time, the British had forme .....
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