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Claudius And Gertrude Pain And Suffering
1,790 wordsIn Shakespeare's tragedy, Hamlet, the protean characters mask their true identity with misrepresentations, appearing to be one person on the outside, but on the inside we see an entirely different person. It is as almost the characters walk around with masks on to hide who they really are. Claudius appears to be a somewhat kind and caring person who is well liked throughout the kingdom. The audience knows his true face of being a murderous brother, brought to the throne by lust and envy. Both wo...
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Act I Scene Goneril And Regan
1,186 wordsIn order to understand the theme of Shakespeare's great tragedy, "King Lear", we must explore what is meant by 'eyesight or lack of it'. Eyesight is a recurring theme throughout the play, which refers to the metaphorical and physical blindness of the characters. From the beginning, Shakespeare lets the audience see King Lear as himself. Lear isn't given any pre misconceptions and the audience is left to explore Lear's character on their own. In the first scene the audience sees Lear proclaiming ...
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Film Technique Harsh Reality
2,212 wordsFilm technique plays a vital role in the way an audience looks at a character or society in a whole. Lee Tamahori's film "Once were warriors" uses film technique in the crafting of the characters, the roles they adopt and the society they live in. Film Technique helps to exhibit the Here family as trapped in society, with a vicious cycle of alcohol, violence, male domination, unemployment and pointless parties. In order to try and free themselves from the vicious cycle or to just find peace and ...
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Macbeth Is A Statement Of Evil
1,001 wordsDiscuss "Macbeth is a statement of evil" (L. C Knights) Do you consider this a fair summary of the play? The character Macbeth is portrayed by Shakespeare as the larger view of evils operation in the world. Shakespeare accomplishes this by using a powerful and unsuspecting character such as Macbeth. The audience sees how evil, tempts Macbeth. Furthermore the use of messages addressing to or addressed by, how evil Macbeth is. The Evil inside Macbeth is quite evident; for he commits several murder...
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Pity And Fear Hail To Thee Thane
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According to the classical view, tragedy should arouse feelings of pity and fear in the audience. Does Macbeth do this? Tragedy has most definitely influenced the viewers thoughts on Macbeth within this play. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the audience sees a gradual breakdown in the character of Macbeth himself, due to the tragic events that unfold during the play. This has a direct effect on the audiences views and thoughts of Macbeth, thus creating pity and fear within the audien...
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Consequences Of His Actions Death Of His Father
1,513 wordsWilliam Shakespeare's tragedies are often gripping plays with bloody endings that leave the audiences and readers breathless. Set in places like Rome, Venice, and even Denmark; these tragedies tend to end with all the cards lying on the table, or in other words, all the main characters are dead. Not all tragedies however, have to necessarily be self-contained tragic plays; in fact, many plays on Romance and Fantasy also have tragic characters, as we shall see in the upcoming examples. William Sh...
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Act Ii Scene Ii Act V Scene
1,405 words2. How does Shakespeare's use of imagery and recurring symbols add depth and meaning to the plot and characters in the play? In all of Shakespeare's plays he uses many forms of imagery. Imagery is the art of making images, the products of imagination. In the play 'Macbeth's shakespeare applies the imagery of clothing, darkness and blood. Each detail is his imagery, seems to contain an important symbol of the play, symbols that the audience must understand if they are to interpret either a passag...
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Quentin Tarantino Pulp Fiction
11,095 wordsPulp Fiction, a film directed by Quentin Tarantino was released in 1994. The film won the Academy award for Best Original Screenplay and the Palme dOr at Cannes. The film is three days in the lives of two Los Angeles gangsters, Vincent Vega played by John Travolta and Jules Winfield played by Samuel L. Jackson, their stories and some of the stories of the people that they deal with during those two days. Some critics denounced Pulp Fiction for its violence, yet the film is not about the killings...
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Tragic Hero Audience Sees
1,174 wordsCreon as Antigone's Tragic Figure In Sophocles Antigone, Creon clearly fills the role of the tragic figure. He fits all seven of the traits of a tragic hero as defined by Northrop Frye. Two of these traits stand out especially; Creon s sense of commitment to his decision and his transfiguration after suffering the consequences of his actions. Creon s decision to outlaw Polyneices s burial sets the stage for the tragedy that ensues. He regards Polyneices as an enemy of Thebes and sees no reason t...
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Six Inches High Gulliver
1,387 wordsSatire on a Nation Jonathan Swift? s, Gulliver? s Travels satirically relates bodily functions and physical attributes to social issues during England? s powerful rule of Europe. Through out the story we find many relations between bodily features and British and European society. Swift uses this tone of mockery to explain to his reader the importance of many different topics during this time of European rule. Swift feels that the body and their functions relate to political as well as the ratio...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Close Up Shot
4,012 wordsMaking A Movie Imagine a young child, eye level with a floor full of miniature toys, concentrating intently on building a make-believe world. To the child, the toys are not miniature figures made of plastic or wood. They are real characters with real adventures. The child frames the action, crafting scenes that unfold in a world of imagination. Looking through the lens of a camera as actors bring to life a writers story, the filmmaker is also peering into a world of imagination. The director, pr...
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Six Inches High Gulliver Finds
1,499 wordsSatire on a Nation Jonathan Swift s, Gulliver s Travels satirically relates bodily functions and physical attributes to social issues during England s powerful rule of Europe. Through out the story we find many relations between bodily features and British and European society. Swift uses this tone of mockery to explain to his reader the importance of many different topics during this time of European rule. Swift feels that the body and their functions relate to political as well as the ration o...
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Suez Canal Audience Sees
5,078 wordsLawrence of Arabia Arabia set a new standard for movie epics. David Leans sweeping, magisterial direction, the gnomic complexity of the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson, and the awe-inspiring cinematography by Freddie Young combined to make this a thinking persons spectacular. Peter OTooles intense, charismatic performance in the title role vaulted him to stardom; he has never been better than as the British army officer who becomes a leader of Arab warriors. The films searching anal...
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Importance Of Being Earnest Lady Bracknell
1,521 wordsThe Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde pairs characters and he also splits his characters into two contrasting groups. Explain how he does this and why. The Importance of Being Earnest is a play of childlike innocence and nonsense. In order to present this to the audience Wilde had to be simple, and therefore, he uses seven main characters in the play, which he simply pairs and contrasts. Wilde pairs characters through their values, ideals...
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Film Technique Harsh Reality
4,467 wordsFilm technique plays a vital role in the way an audience looks at a character or society in a whole. Lee Tamahoris film Once were warriors uses film technique in the crafting of the characters, the roles they adopt and the society they live in. Film Technique helps to exhibit the Here family as trapped in society, with a vicious cycle of alcohol, violence, male domination, unemployment and pointless parties. In order to try and free themselves from the vicious cycle or to just find peace and hap...
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Time And Space Make The Audience
845 wordsOur Town: An Anti-Realistic View In his play, Our Town, the three time Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist, Thornton Wilder, uses techniques somewhat unconventional and anti-realistic compared to the works of other dramatists. Being more like a statement, the plays theme is about enjoying the simple pleasures of life and daily routines. Wilder employs many unconventional or anti-realistic ideas and techniques to further advance the plays universal theme and to incorporate audience participation. Th...
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