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Lear And Gloucester King Lear
950 wordsThe misjudgment of their offspring leaves King Lear and Gloucester favoring the wrong children. Because they favored the evil, disloyal children, King Lear and Gloucester both undergo great personal suffering caused by Regan, Goneril, and Edmund. Cordelia and Edgar, the children whom they reject as worthless and disloyal, are really the representatives of all that is good and loyal in the world. At a public ceremony before dividing his kingdom among his three daughters, King Lear asks his childr...
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Bridge On The River Kwai Theme Of Madness
1,221 wordsThe Theme of Madness in The Bridge On The River Kwai The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) was the most successful war film of the 1950 's. The film focuses on several battles, both an internal and external. It examines the question of where does duty and courage end and madness begin? The character of the British Colonel Nicholson, played by Alec Guiness, is, from the very start of the movie, in a battle of ethics with Colonel Saito, played by Sense Hayakawa, the commandant of the Japanese prison...
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Voltaire A History That Never Moved
1,645 words... Voltaire does not labour the point of a progressive essence behind history, other than to realise that the age he lives in is a remarkable age that must have derived from progression. This is the seminal paradox. Yet his history remains a chronology, not a progression. By no means could one assert that there are no forces that move history in Voltaire's eyes. They might lie in masses, though he does not trust revolution since revolution done in the name of reason is often executed by those l...
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Ancient Olympics In Greek
1,071 wordsOne difference between the ancient and modern Olympic Games is that the ancient games were played within the context of a religious festival. One of the more intriguing true stories about ancient Greece and the Olympics of ancient Greece would have to be that during the Olympic Games, all fighting stopped. No matter how long or how fierce a battle had raged, every soldier in the battlefield put down his weapons and travelled to Olympia, there they would compete in athletic games designed to hono...
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Comic Relief Modern Audience
1,579 wordster> As an actor, select one character from The Tempest and discuss how you would create the role, bearing in mind its function in the plot and its relationship to other characters. I have chosen Caliban to discuss, since, as an actor, I find him the most interesting character and thus the most enjoyable to discuss. Caliban's function in the plot is one that is difficult to define. He is not the key protagonist, since this title belongs to the treacherous Alonso in his usurpation of Pr...
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Man Of Action Vaulting Ambition
689 wordsMac Beths villainy is shown when he kills his king, friend, and innocent people and usurps the throne but he is not totally evil. His bravery loyalty and honour are qualities to be admired. Hes a man of action and remorse not just an evil villain. Mac Beths villainy is shown when he kills Duncan and the kings guards. MacBeth isnt a traitor just because he done all this, he is loyal to the king and once he kills Duncan he has a guilty concise Hes here in double trust: / First Im his kings man and...
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Much Ado About Nothing The Importance Of Noting
1,169 wordster> Discuss The Importance Of Noting In Much Ado About Nothing Noting, or observing, is central to many of the ideas in Much Ado About Nothing. The word nothing was pronounced as noting in Elizabethan times, and it seems reasonable to presume that the pun was intended by Shakespeare to signal the importance of observation, spying and eavesdropping in the play. As a plot device, these occurrences propel the action and create humour and tension. The perils of noting incorrectly are port...
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Fell In Love Greek Mythology
1,249 wordsMythology is filled with endless stories about warriors and gods, which tell tales of quarrels and battles that went on a long time ago. Greek Mythology is very interesting in that it is filled with tales of ironies and adultery, and many conflicts between the gods. But one god popped up in a lot of myths about adultery or murder or disputes with humans. His name was Poseidon. Poseidon stands tall as one of the most infamous gods in Greek mythology. He was a very bold god with quite a temper and...
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Strict Code Of Honour Code Of Honour Othello
747 wordsShakespeare's tragic hero, Othello, is a strong, powerful, and dignified Moor. He has come to Venice, hired by the State to help the country win their war against the Turks. He spent nine months in Venice, where his leadership and kindness have made him a popular general. Yet, how can such a strong character become so blinded from the truth and can only hear the destructive voice of honest Iago? This can be explained by an in-depth analysis of Othello's many character flaws. These include his tr...
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Shakespeare Othello William Shakespeare
1,296 wordsOften in our society people are labelled as, or fit into a, certain character mould and their behaviour and actions remain consistent. However, in William Shakespeare's Othello, Emilia's character portrays three completely different archetypes and they all come through in strategical places throughout the course of the play. When introduced to Emilia, the reader sees her as a whore because of her worldly demeanour. While later on her husband, Iago, tricks her, thereby becoming a dupe. However as...
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Hamlets Soliloquy Fathers Murderer
500 wordsThe story Hamlet is about man s struggle with revenge, when tragedy enters their life. It deals with true consequences of our choices, when we decide what to do about it. The story demonstrates of that when man is obsessed with revenge it creates a battle in our own minds of right verses wrong, and good verses evil. Having the ability to think amd what we think about creates who we are and what we become. From the beginning of the play, Hamlets intention and obligation is to have revenge on his ...
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Goneril And Regan King Lear
1,392 wordsKing Lear A Man More Sinned Against Than Sinning? A King is supposed to have all that he needs without having to worry about anything in his late years. Yet King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 2, cried out in pitifully: I am a man / More sinned against than sinning. Although Lear has made a huge mistake in the first scene of the play in dividing up his kingdom and banishing his two dearest people, the sins his two other ungrateful daughters have done him is far greater than the extent of Lear s wrongs. A...
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Live Our Lives Iii Ii
1,392 wordsLife Lessons These days, it seems that everything we encounter poses us with a question; however, there is no more important question to be answered than Life what is it? Is it merely the days we spend here on Earth, or is there some larger life that we all aspire to? Though none of us can answer these questions, we continue to plague ourselves with questions such as: What is it to be alive? As humans are we subject to a predetermined fate, or do we have free will, or is there really some combin...
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Macbeth And Lady Macbeth Murder Of Duncan
538 wordsWhat Transforms Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth Into Tragic Figures Is The Fact That They Both Have Consciences. Discuss. At the end of Macbeth, Malcolm refers to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth as, ? a dead butcher and a fiend like queen. ? Malcolm bases this judgement on the tyrannical rule and bloody murders that were a result of the Macbeth's. At the beginning of the play, Macbeth is a brave general who is full of honour as shown in the quote? What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won. ? Macbeth? s c...
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Shows That Macbeth Tomorrow And Tomorrow
2,265 wordsThe Character of Macbeth. The play Macbeth is a portrait of one man, Macbeth, showing how he changes. Although we are presented with his deterioration from good to evil, we can see his human side throughout the play, which makes it a tragedy. It is the shortest of Shakespeare s tragedies, and has a very fast pace. Once Macbeth s ambition has set the ball rolling, events happen quickly in the play as it gathers momentum. The themes of Macbeth are ambition, effects of evil, and violence, shown mai...
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Beatrice And Benedick Appearance And Reality
1,197 wordsDiscuss The Importance Of Noting In Much Ado About Nothing Noting, or observing, is central to many of the ideas in Much Ado About Nothing. The word nothing was pronounced as noting in Elizabethan times, and it seems reasonable to presume that the pun was intended by Shakespeare to signal the importance of observation, spying and eavesdropping in the play. As a plot device, these occurrences propel the action and create humour and tension. The perils of noting incorrectly are portrayed and this ...
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Flew Over The Cuckoo Nest One Flew Over The Cuckoo
1,249 wordsErnest Hemingway once wrote, A man can be destroyed but not defeated. There is indeed much to be said for this statement, as it can be taken to mean many things. Initial impressions are that Hemingway is speaking of personal honour, and how no man can have his honour taken away from him forcefully. No matter how great the suffering, or how undignified the death, the very nature of honour is that it is something that can only be lost through fault of the man. Hence the quote, you can destroy a ma...
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Win The War Greeks Believed
2,110 words&# 65279; Fable is defined as? a tale embodying a moral, using animals, people or inanimate objects as characters. ? In the case of The Iliad, as well as much of ancient Greek myth, poetry and other forms of literature, fable was used to embellish and expand on actual occurrences in Greek history. Fable offered the Greeks a way to explain much of what went on in their lives, as well as what had occurred in the past. Often heros and other characters that had actually existed in Greek history were...
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Doesn T Great Warrior
1,561 wordsIn the middle of Book 9 of Iliad there are six little epic songs, which are the speeches of the three ambassadors, Odysseus, Phoinix, and Aias, and the reply of Achilleus to each one. Trying to persuade Achilleus to rejoin the fighting, all three ambassadors give their speeches. However, it is Phoinix speech that contains the most compelling arguments because his speech is very personal to Achilleus. Odysseus is a spokesman for Agamemnon and therefore speaks first because of his rhetorical skill...
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