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Hamlet: A Man Of Many Qualities
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1156.... in Act 1, Scene 2, Lines
131© 161. Hamlet is angry at his mother for marrying a new husband, his uncle,
Claudius, so quickly after his father's death. This anger shines through in
such phrases such as "Frailty, thy name is woman!"(Act 1,Sc 2, L148) and "Like
Niobe, all tears."(Act 1, Sc 2, L151). At the end of his soliloquy, Hamlet
switches qualities from one of anger to one of fear. This is evident when
Hamlet states, "With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!", and "It is not, nor
it cannot come to good", and finally "But break my heart, for I must hold my
tongue"(Act .....
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The Silence Of The Lambs
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 698.... She reads people very well and is quick to make an accurate
judgement, as in with Frederick Chilton, the prison warden. I believed that she
was a very strong woman and was very careful to appear that way to others.
Clarice Starling did have a large change in herself. She began the
story with a careful mentality; a risk would have been unheard of. She was
always making sure she was doing something to the best expectations of someone
else. As the story moves on, she becomes more daring and risk-taking than ever
before. From disobeying direct orders to pursuing .....
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I Didn't Do It: How The Simpsons Affects Kids
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2513.... to do so in fear of loosing royalties from papers that printed the
strip. Groening presented Brooks with an overweight, balding father, a mother
with a blue beehive hairdo, and three obnoxious spiky haired children. Groening
intended for them to represent the typical American family "who love each other
and drive each other crazy". Groening named the characters after his own family.
His parents were named Homer and Margaret and he had two younger sisters named
Lisa and Maggie. Bart was an anagram for "brat". Groening chose the last name
"Simpson" to sound like the typi .....
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Oedipus' Destiny
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 901.... a shepherd to abandon him to death. “ Jocasta: … An oracle came to Laius ” (p. 17) to “…to cast upon a deserted mountain path – die.”(p. 17). But instead of killing the infant, the shepherd gave him to another shepherd who then gave Oedipus to the King Polybus of Corinth. So this poor child survived to continue his tragic destiny.
As Oedipus grows up, he becomes a self-confident, intelligent, and strong willed person. That is the kind of role that is cost for him by destiny. A drunken stranger tells him that he is not the son of King Polybus. His strong will drives him to .....
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Weakness Of Women In Hamlet
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1102.... Claudius was a deplorable and sordid disappointment to Hamlet who was appalled by the speed with which his mother recovered from her widowhood. “Within a month, ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her gallèd eyes, she married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” (Act1.scene2.158-162). The absence of a mourning period for the Queen suggests that she needed a husband so badly that she brazenly betrayed Hamlet and her late husband, and involved herself in an immoral marriage simply for the sake of pacifying her .....
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The Merchant Of Venice: Shylock - Victim Or Villain
Number of pages: 10 | Number of words: 2695.... occurred in 1594, The Merchant of
Venice was written only two years later. Anti-Semitism was prevalent during
Shakespeares' time, and therefore we must understand that it was as easy for him
to make a Jewish man the villain as it would be for us to make a Nazi the
villain. According to Sylvan Barnet "The Merchant of Venice [shows] the
broad outline of a comedy (not merely a play with jests, but a play that ends
happily). . . the villain in the comedy must be entirely villainous, or, rather,
comically villainous; he cannot for a moment gain the audience's sympathy" (1) .....
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Shakespeare And His Theater
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 562.... meanings for the audience such as a rich
aristocrat wearing silk clothes with many ruffles. Many times there were
musical accompaniments and sound effects such as gunpowder explosions andthe
beating of a pan to simulate thunder.
The stage itself was also remarkably versatile. Behind it were doors
for exits and entrances and a curtained booth or alcove useful for actors to
hide inside. Above the stage was a higher acting area which symbolized a porch
or balcony. This was useful in the story of Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo stood
below Juliet and told her how he loved he .....
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Iago And Honesty In Othello
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1114.... and Iago’s parroting of the word and constant useage do this quite nicely.
Iago initially uses the word honest to mean honourable, in reference to Cassio. Othello has asked him if “he [Cassio] is not honest?” To which Iago parrots back “Honest my lord?” This usage is constant with what Othello means, whether Cassio is honourable or not. However, Iago uses the word to cast doubt on Othello. By parroting it back, he is making it seem to Othello that he does not want to answer the question, that he doesn’t want to tell Othello something. This is seen in the subtext that .....
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