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Hamlet: To Be Mad, Or Not To Be Mad?
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 521.... 4 his Mom the Queen says "Alas he is Mad." This shows that his plan is working out so far.
During Hamlet's act of playing crazy and planning to kill Claudius it has helped him find the real value of human life. In Hamlets "To Be or not to Be" speech he ponders the value of his own life and the value of Claudius life in retrospective to his own life. He wonders does one murder really warrant another person to die? Now If Hamlet was truly crazy he would not of spent all on this careful planning and thought. He would have killed his uncle a few hours after seeing the ghost of .....
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Hamlet: Revenge
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 654.... next night hoping to see the ghost. Sure
enough, the ghost appeared and called to Hamlet, wanting to speak with him. The
spirit talked about how Claudius poisoned the King while he was sleeping, "Tis
given out that, sleeping in my orchard,/ a serpent stung meČ (1.5, 36) but it
was not a snake that the ghost is referring to. The spirit wanted the prince to
avenge his murder.
All was quiet in the kingdom until the start of Hamlet's supposed
insanity. The Prince was with his mother talking when the prince noticed
someone in the room. Hamlet thought it was Claudius, .....
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MacBeth: Everyone Has At Least One Flaw
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 815.... battle, in which many lost their lives, for the
sake of greed, and deserved to die because of his flaw.
Duncan was the King of England, and was murdered by MacBeth. He
was murdered, because in order for MacBeth to fulfill his plan and become
king, Duncan would have to die. Duncan's fatal flaw was that he was too
trusting. For example, he thought that none of his friends could really be
enemies. If Duncan was more careful about his safety at MacBeth's castle,
he may have had a chance to survive. But Duncan's flaw, wasn't something
so horrible that he should die. Most peo .....
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Oedipus Rex: Tragedy Of Fate
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 746.... skewed his legs together,
had a servant bring him to the forest and leave him for dead. The servant does
not want to carry out this deed and therefore "saves his life" by handing the
baby to someone else, so that he can be raised in another city. Further, a
drunken man in a tavern tells Oedipus about the prophecy, so he runs home to
question his parents about his fate. Instead of telling him the truth, they
give him the impression that they are in fact his biological parents.
The idea that must be pointed out here, is that once an oracle or a
prophet makes a prediction, it .....
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The Characteristics Of Shakespeare's Comedies
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1134.... that Theseus
has entire control over the people in Athens and he is getting ready to wed
Hyppolita, queen of the amazons. Then quickly the whole situation changes when
Lysander and Hermia flee into the forest and complications start to build up.
The play ends with a joyful ending, when daylight has returned, the duke and
duchess and the four lovers are united in the bonds of marriage and they are
entertaining themselves with dance and music. Their world of love has come to
its proper order.
The language was evidently the main reason why Shakespeare's comedies were
more amu .....
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Macbeth: Fear
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 976.... prophecies. They claimed that Macbeth would be King, but it would
be Banquo's children that would follow after him. This made Macbeth very
angry, he risked everything to become King and after him none of his family
will follow.
Only for them; and mine eternal jewel
Given to the common enemy of man,
To make them kings, the seeds of Banquo kings!
[Act III, S I, L 72-75]
Here Macbeth realizes that if something is not done to Banquo, then his
sons will become King. Macbeth can't have this, he's already wor .....
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The Birth Of A Nation: The Pros And Cons
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2331.... up in saying simply, Birth of a Nation. Although this is regarded as his masterpiece, if it was never made, it is quite possible that his name would have remained as known as Beethoven. The problem is that it is such an amazing movie on a technological and aesthetic level, but looking at Birth of a Nation in a moral sense, it is almost embarrassing to mention it. There are a handful of reasons for this, but first in order to get a proper perception, one must first learn a bit of history.
The Birth of a Nation is the first film to offer 2$ seats. Before then, the best .....
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Stanlislovski's System: Concepts On Acting
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 939.... character.
Such concepts as The Magic If is a clear example of a tool an actor
could use to connect himself the life of the character. The Magic If, simply
guides the actor to ask the simple question: "What would I do if I were in my
character position?" By asking this question of himself the actor can
personalize the given circumstances of the character. The situation of the
character becomes more personal, and the stakes much higher, because the actor
has divulged some particular issues of himself into the character. Due to these
particularities the actor will work out .....
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