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Happy Loman: A Living Disgrace
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 441.... than trying
to settle down with someone, he goes through one girl after another. All
that he cares about is having sex with women, not about having a
relationship. Happy brags to his brother about his conquest of sleeping
with women who are engaged to be married (25). In a conniving attempt to
pick her up, he lies to the girl in the restaurant saying, "I sell
champagne, and I'd like you to try my brand. Bring her a champagne,
Stanley (101)." He eventually deserts his father at the restaurant,
rushing the girls out, eager to make a move on one (115). Happy needs to
grow up .....
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Shakespeare's Sonnets: Time And Decay
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 656.... He compares men to plants and says that they display themselves at the height of their perfection and then are slowly forgotten. In other words life is like a flower that blooms. It bursts out with beauty and then time and decay cause it to slowly wither away to old age and death. In the last couplet of the sonnet, Shakespeare gives his friend a way to win the war with time and decay and implant his beauty again. The way offers this is to be featured in his poetry. What better way to “live on” then to be read about for centuries?
The cycle of the year is used to describ .....
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Death Of A Salesman: Linda
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 488.... a job in New York instead of traveling, the reader knows that this is impossible, yet Linda encourages him and falsely joins in his excitement. Later, Willy becomes discouraged to hear that it wasn’t possible. A build-up of disappointments might be the cause of Willy’s suicide at the end of the play.
Linda not only affects Willy, but also Biff and Happy. Willy repeatedly tells his sons that in order to succeed in the world, they needed to be well-liked. He also taught them that in the business world, a person could start off from the bottom and make it to the top in no time. .....
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King Oedpius: Oedpius A Person Of Great Importance
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1163.... lacking any evidence but his own suspicions?
Would a "good" man wish his own brother-in-law dead when no one could even
testify to his guilt? Would a "good" man threaten a timid shepherd with
pain and death merely because he was hesitant to reveal the harsh realities
of Oedipus' life? Oedipus' tale of meeting Laius is another troubling
point. In Colonus he states in plain terms that King Laius would have
murdered him had he not killed Laius. In his initial speech to Jocasta on
Laius' death he tells a different story. It sounds as though he provoked,
or at least escalated, .....
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King Lear: Journey To Expiate Sin
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 795.... (Act I, Sc i, Ln 38-41)
This gives the reader the first indication of Lear's intent to abdicate his
throne. He goes on further to offer pieces of his kingdom to his daughters
as a form of reward to his test of love. "Great rivals in our youngest
daughter's love, Long in our court have made their amorous
sojourn, And here are to be answered. Tell me, my daughters (Since now
we will divest us both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state),
Which of you shall we say doth love us most? That we our largest bounty may
extend where nature doth with merit challe .....
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Dear Shakespeare: A Critique Of The Tempest
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 815.... and I'll teach thee to get
Young scamels from the rock. Does't though attend me?
Stephano: I do. For all this service what want'st you in return.
Caliban: I ask but one simple service. The death of my tyrant
master.
Stephano: You ask me to murder for you?
Caliban: I ask only that you remove your only opponent in making
me your vassal.
Stephano: Well bargain'd for a monster such as thee. I shall
consider it.
If the scene is run in this .....
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Hamlet And Oedipus Rex: The Birth Of Kings
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 830.... both have their "eyes" opened
to the reality surrounding their "illusionary" worlds. Hamlet is
approached by the ghost of his dead father who reveals that his own brother,
Hamlet's uncle, murdered him. Oedipus Rex discovers the truth when the
blind prophet, Teiresias accuses him of being the one who murdered King
Laios therefore fulfilling his destiny in which he had sought to avoid. In
the end, the actions taken by both lead to their downfalls in different
ways, death for Hamlet and loss of vision for Oedipus Rex.
In the beginning, we see Hamlet living in an illusion bl .....
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Tlevision: Behavior, Moral Values And Social Standards
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 922.... the clock news coverage of Columbine has concluded, there is been well over seven more reported incidents of school shootings that will probably never reach the amount of coverage that Columbine got because school shootings are no longer a novelty. Do you wonder why these kids did what they did? It is because of the amount of violence that is now being shown all across the news.
In one weeks worth of time of watching the ten o’clock news, I have seen blood drenched war victims give A.B.C news anchors their last words before slipping into a coma. Five days ago, a neighborhood .....
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