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As You Like It: Rosalind As Ganymede
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2367.... in Rosalind’s character that makes her the only balanced person in the play, and it will also show how she balances the other characters out.
The first action taken by Rosalind that indicates her balanced state is when Duke Frederick has banished her from his court, and she decides to leave disguised as a man. This action shows that even though she is female, she doesn’t feel the need to act feminine all of the time in order to be self-assured as a woman. She doesn’t fully throw herself into her new role though, because she knows that she will still think like a woman, .....
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Hamlet - The "Real" Tragedy
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 901.... beginning of 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 .....
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Macbeth: Themes
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2173.... fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
(Act 1:Scene 4:ln.55)
When Lady Macbeth heard of her husband's success and read the letter, we
almost immediately feel that a new source of power had appared in the drama.
Her words reflected a great knowledge of her husband and her practical
approach to problems as seen in the following two verses.
Glacis thou art, and Cowdor, and shalt be
What thou are promised. Yet do I fear .....
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Pygmalion: Higgins' Philosophy
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 715.... good times with Pickering is well
mannered. This apparent discrepancy between Higgins' actions and his word,
may not exist, depending on the interpretation of this theory.
There are two possible translations of Higgins' philosophy. It can
be viewed as treating everyone the same all of the time or treating
everyone equally at a particular time.
It is obvious that Higgins does not treat everyone equally all of
the time, as witnessed by his actions when he is in "one of his states" (as
Mrs. Higgins' parlor maid calls it). The Higgins that we see in Mrs.
Higgi .....
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Macbeth's Blind Ambition
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 744.... fiercest fighter in Scotland. The idea of being the next king of Scotland played on Lady Macbeth's ambition. She unsexes herself and becomes evil. They come up with a plan to kill the present king of Scotland, King Duncan. Macbeth had just killed a traitor who rebelled against the king and now he is planning to kill the king! The death of the king is blamed on the king's guards so Macbeth kills them to save his own behind. What a traitor, he deserves to be slained and he should be beheaded!
Secondly Macbeth's hamartea of ambition blinds him from seeing where he lye as the new K .....
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Hamlet: Laertes And Horatio
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 887.... King Claudius to a "vile king" , takes out his sword and points it threateningly at the King, demanding of him where his father's corpse is. Also he immediately declares that nothing can stop his "will, not all the world" and will "husband them so well" . He is ready to take revenge at any cost.
I dare damnation: to this point I stand,
That both the worlds I give to negligence,
Let come what comes; only I'll be revenged
Most thoroughly for my father.
In the scene of Ophelia's grave, Laertes' love to Ophelia is expressed when Laertes leaps into the grave and says
Ho .....
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Ben-Hur
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1526.... events. The object of this
paper is to illustrate the successful joining of fact with fiction.
Ben-Hur successfully told an intriguing story of a Jew falsely
accused of a crime with the backdrop of the rise of Christ and the
tyrannical ruling of the Roman empire in the first century of the common
era. The main character, Judah Ben-Hur had many highs and lows during the
story. Religion was his backbone and strength throughout the story. Ben-
Hur was able to continue through hardships because he had a desire to
continue on. This inner strength is what made the charac .....
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Hamlet: Antiheroism
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 834.... a special emphasis on Hamlet's intelligence. In scene two,
Hamlet is very insolent and rude towards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with such
phrases as,
That I can keep your counsel and not, mine
own. Beside, to be demanded of a sponge, what
replication should be made by the son of a
king? (IV, ii, 12-14)
The reference to the sponge reflects the fact that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are easily ordered by the king and do not have minds of their own. Hamlet does
not like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern since they are servants of the Claudius,
Hamlet's mortal ene .....
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