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Soap Opera Love Triangle
1,109 wordsGuilt, Duty, and Unrequited Love: Deconstructing the Love Triangles in James Joyce's The Dead and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure Its no problem of mine but its a problem I fight, living a life that I cant leave behind. But theres no sense in telling me, the wisdom of the cruel words that you speak. But thats the way that it goes and nobody knows, while everyday my confusion grows. -- New Order, Bizarre Love Triangle, from Substance, 1987 Most people who have watched a soap opera can recognize t...
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Falls In Love Fall In Love
983 wordsEnglish Study: Discussing Winter Dreams as a Love Story Winter Dreams, by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a classic love story. It includes all of the stereotypical parts and moments weve come to expect from years of watching movies and from television. Every love story has a hero, the one person we route for and believe is the good guy. The hero will usually come from a poor family or has a set back of some sort keeping him from the heroine. In Winter Dreams, our hero is Dexter Green, son of the owner o...
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Scene 3 Scene 2
1,412 wordsTartuffe, an odious hypocrite posing as a member of the clergy has ingratiated himself with the credulous Orgon and his mother Mme. Pernelle. He is taken into Orgon's home. Both Orgon and his mother believe that Tartuffe's pious example will be good for the other members of the family. But everyone else in the family, including even the outspoken servant Dorine, is perceptive enough to see through the impostor. Despite the protestations of his sensible brother-in-law Cleante and his son Damis, O...
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Secret Sharer Billy Budd
934 wordsIn the many critical articles that we have read in class on Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer" many of the authors believed that a secret that was being shared with the reader. They also believed that the secret is Leggett and the captain are sexually attracted to each other. They go on to say that since Conrad wrote the story and this relationship is in the story than Conrad must have had these feelings himself. I do not believe that these authors are correct. They seem to be bringing aspects ...
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Act Iv Scene Act I Scene
1,642 wordsAlthough Moliere's Don Juan was written in 1665, its central themes can be carried over through the ages up to today. Moliere creates many fascinating characters limited not only to Don Juan, but his servant, wife, father, and others he encounters throughout the play. In Don Juan, Moliere creates a character who shapes the world to fit his own personal illusions by an egotistical abuse of power. Even greater, is Moliere's ability to create characters who can interact with such a main character, ...
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Love For Rosaline Romeo And Juliet
1,444 words"A dream is a wish your heart makes, " according to Cinderella. Are dreams and fairytales an idealistic notion, or are they actually conceivable? In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo's best companion, Mercutio makes a speech reflecting upon the essence of dreams and fantasy. Basically, it provides a brief comic relief through its mocking tone towards Romeo's latest infatuation. Romeo is obsessed with Rosaline who barely knows of his existence. Mercutio gibes Romeo through his famous monologue, w...
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Mark Twain And Olivia Langdon
1,408 wordsHave you ever wondered what makes a successful relationship and marriage? Samuel Clemens and Olivia Langdon had a successful, long-lasting relationship. The couples success accounts for their love and completion in marriage. The long-lasting relationship that existed between Mark Twain and Olivia Langdon is due to the fact that they were both truly in love with each other. Olivia Langdon was born in 1835 and died in 1904. She had four children. Her and Samuel Clemens were married for thirty year...
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Shell Hole Words Words
1,478 words... in the world of it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 151) But Baumer continues to wait and the sign does not come; quiet rapture does not occur. The room itself, and the pre-enlistment world it represents, become alien to him. "A sudden feeling foreignness suddenly rises in me. I cannot find my way back" (Remarque, All Quiet VII. 152). Baumer understands that he irredeemably lost to the primitive, military, non-academic the war. Ultimately...
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Midsummer Night Dream Hard To Follow
665 wordsAnything written by William Shakespeare is very confusing, but always an interesting read. Particularly confusing is his famous comedic play: A Midsummer Night's Dream. This story is very confusing (Almost to the point of being soporific, and vapid. ); starting with the title, and going to the last word! After reading this play, the reader is more confused about what happened within its unwieldy covers than before he started! This book receives a red light due to these characteristics. A Midsumm...
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Cyrano Play Audience
350 wordsThe character Cyrano De Began, portrayed by Jose Ferrer is a brave and boastful man. His confidence is refreshing, and his words are profound, in addition, he is a gentleman. He has such an unique personality people either love him or hate him, but never would they want to cross him. The Cyrano character is a great character because he has so many layers, but the common man can still relate to him. Whereas in Hamlet, few guys can experience being a handsome and strong man with royal parents. How...
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Charles Kathleen Son
333 wordsBorn "no name Maddox" in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 12, 1934, Manson was the illegitimate son of Kathleen Maddox, a 16 -year-old prostitute. His surname was derived from one of Kathleen's many lovers, whom she briefly married, but it signified no blood connection. During 1936, Kathleen filed a paternity suit against one "Colonel Scott, " of Ashland, Kentucky, winning the grand monthly sum of five dollars for the support of "Charles Milles Manson. " Scott instantly defaulted on the judgment, a...
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York Longman 1999 Love And Friendship
1,227 wordsSonnet 130, or My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun, seems to have a lot to do with friendship. Shakespeare could not have said such things like "Coral is far more red than her lips' red. " There must have been a very deep and understanding relationship between these two people. If Shakespeare and this woman were just lovers, Shakespeare probably would not have written such an honest poem. This woman he refers to might very well have been a friend of his mothers or an older lady. "My mistr...
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A Midsummer Nights Dream
821 wordsA Midsummer Nights Dream is a classic fairy tale of lovers and betrayers. This play has been called Shakespeare's happiest comedy and it most definitely is. It is filled with humor and non-stop action. There are many different qualities in a happy play that are clearly noticeable. For example, love that is for the best makes all plays happy and humor causes the audience to laugh and enjoy. Of course, every happy play needs to have some kind of happiness in it. A Midsummer Nights Dream is Shakesp...
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Melita Death House On Windmill Street Rocco
892 wordsThe Jukebox Queen of Malta describes Rocco Raven? s experiences during his eight months at Malta. One day, while walking through the mangled streets of the tiny Mediterranean island, Rocco notices a beautiful woman glancing back at him. He follows her into a house on Windmill Street. When the two finally come face to face in a barren room at the top of a staircase, they fall onto a mattress in a fervid embrace. After acting upon their passions, the woman leaves without even revealing her name. T...
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Romeo And Juliet 1 Sc 5
751 wordsIn the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, fate is the a dominant factor throughout the story, and it is the cause of many hazardous events, but Romeo and Juliet were ultimately the ones responsible for their own deaths. The word fate generates a bit of confusion, and can have many different connotations. Fate is an inevitable and often adverse outcome or condition; destiny. The destinies of these two? star crossed lovers? were not set from the start of the story, but almost all events...
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Lot Of Trouble Movie
892 wordsI did my project on Shakespeare's Much Ado about Nothing I just so happened to see the movie and the play and will be using both for my comparison. Much Ado About Nothing is a postwar love story. Its principal subject is that of romance that may settle over the land after soldiers come home. I noticed that Much Ado is actually two love stories. One concerns sweetly innocent lovers who are driven apart by the plotting of enemies. The other involves very sarcastic lovers who are swept into each ot...
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Romeo And Juliet Beginning Of The Play
527 wordsThe mood illustrated in William Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet changed drastically from the beginning of the play to the end. This is shown throughout the story through the physical, emotional, and philosophical changes that take place. When Romeo and Juliet met each other, they were so ecstatically in love with each other, but their joy was soon crushed. At the beginning of their love they thought nothing could separate them, but Romeo s banishment changed that. The Capulet and Montague familie...
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Eldest Son Second Period
1,190 wordsShakespeare Bio William Shakespeare was a supreme English poet and playwright, universally recognized as the greatest of all the dramatists. A complete, authoritative account of Shakespeare's life is lacking; much supposition surrounds relatively few facts. His day of birth is traditionally held on April 23, and he was baptized on April 24, 1564. He was the third of eight children, and was the eldest son of John Shakespeare. He was probably educated in a local grammar school. As the eldest son, ...
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Revenge On Claudius State Of Mind
1,249 wordsThe Unbelievable Yet Predictable Tragedy Hamlet by William Shakespeare illustrates foreshadowing through its characters to keep the reader interested throughout the play. Several examples of this foreshadowing are Hamlets depressed state of mind which foreshadows his motivation to find out the truth about his fathers death, when Hamlets father comes to him as a ghost and informs him about his murder, this causes rage within Hamlet that foreshadows his revenge and when Hamlet asks the players to ...
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Standards Of Beauty Young Women
756 wordsFor what reason do women alter themselves cosmetically? Why do they alter themselves in any way? Why do they wear high heals, make-up, change their hair, wear push up bras, wax? All of these are done in order and try and achieve the status of today s standards. What s the reason behind women trying to achieve this? The answer is envy. The standards of beauty in America are getting stricter and stricter. American women are constantly bombarded with images of barbie-doll like images through the me...
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