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Star Wars
<view this essay>.... his Aunt Beru and his Uncle Owen. Lukes desire to leave is instigated by Obi Wan Kenobi a old friend of his father he never knew. Luke is given a lightsabre which once belonged to his father. When Luke receives this and learns of his Jedi potential he desires to leave and learn to be a Jedi. This is not unlike Nick Solchuk who also wants to leave his small town of Three Bear Hills, Alberta. He is raised by his father in an old fashion way, much like Luke. Nicks desire to leave is first aroused by a teacher, Joan McKenzie. She taught him of how the earth is round not flat like his father believes. This starts the conflict between father and son.
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Role Of The Common Man In A Ma
<view this essay>.... story. The common Mans roles however minor still contribute greatly to the development of the story and, prove the importance of this character.
As the audience discovers in the beginning of the play, the Common Man can change roles at will. The characters he takes on usually have very short parts. The characters are used to foreshadow future events and help in plot development. In the introduction of the play, the audience meets the Common Man. He is dressed from head to toe in black tights, which shows off his pot-bellied figure. The black clothes he wears suggest darkness and death. Next, the audience meets Steward, Thomas Mores butler. He is a humbl .....
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Its The Earps Vs. The Clantons
<view this essay>.... film. While the Clanton’s role seems to be that of easily-blamable scoff-laws from the very beginning, Holliday displays character traits that show that he could be or might have once been a cleaner, straighter, and more-distinguished man. Through an exploration of the Earps (mostly Wyatt), the Clanton family (mostly Old Man), and eventually Doc Holliday we will be able to better understand the building tension that occurs in Ford’s “My Darling Clementine”.
From the very beginning, it is easy to see that the Earp brothers, especially Wyatt, are pure, brave, and good-natured boys that fit the law-abiding ideal. This is important, becau .....
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Othello
<view this essay>.... and ’s jealosy led him to plot Cassio’s murder, and kill his own wife. The conflicting values of and Iago were a major cause of Iago’s lies. Iago had valued a job that was not given to him, but rather to . This led Iago to conspire a way to get revenge on . Iago knew that valued honesty in Desdemona, and he tried to make him think that she was just the opposite, unfaithful.
The play was very much about jealosy. Jealosy played a big role in the play, and was the motive for Iago to conjure up a plan to ruin . Iago was resentful because of the fact the had gotten the job he wanted, and because of this Iago seeks revenge on by ruining his life and career. I .....
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The Role Of Women In Sir Gaiwa
<view this essay>.... traditional female archetypes of courtly love, disobedience, lust and death) the Gawain poet points out the conflict between courtly love and spiritual love which he, and other critics of the time, felt had drastically weakened the religious values behind chivalry. As such, the poem is a warning to its Aristocratic readers that the traditional religious values underlying the feudal system must be upheld in order to avert destruction of their way of life.
It is easy to read _Sir Gawain and the Green Knight_ as a romantic celebration of chivalry, but Ruth Hamilton believes that "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight contains a more wide-ranging, more serious criticis .....
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Romeo And Juliet, Human Action
<view this essay>.... he tells to her. "Hold then, go home, be merry" (Act 4, sc i, ll 89), he tells her, while he gives her the poison and plans to give Romeo a message describing the plan. He doesn’t however, make sure Romeo gets the message which is probably the most crucial human action in the play.
The other example of human actions controlling the plot is Juliet. In those scenes she acts in ways which seriously affect her life and the rest of the play. First, she comes to the Friar looking for help. "I long to die, if what thou speak’st speak not of remedy" (Act 4, sc i, ll 66-67) is her attitude towards her situation. She then accepts the friar’s solution a .....
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The Mariner's Letter To Victor
<view this essay>.... blow, the sea became unkind and the men and I were stuck. We just sat there for what seemed like weeks, near death. One day a ship appeared, moving closer though there was no wind. As each of my men stood and moved toward the boat, they looked at me, their eyes as evil as death itself. The boat took them all, but I remained, I was left to die. How I survived to write you this letter is a mystery even to me.
I am only writing you this letter because I heard of your success in creating the monster, when I left you it was only a dream of yours. I have heard of all that has happen, from Justine to the De Lacey’s. I do seem to sympathize with you my friend, .....
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Ceremony 2
<view this essay>.... blood.” (pg. 137) The myth says that the white people will cause chaos, killing their people and taking their land. That is exactly what they ended up doing. The Indians are hopeless because there is nothing they could have done because according to the myth once the
Indians knew what was coming it was to late to stop it. “It’s already turned loose. It’s already coming. It can’t be called back.” (pg. 138) The White man killed many of the Indians through murder and disease. The few that were left were cramped on tiny reservations.
By reading this book you can see that the Native Americans live in extreme poverty. Thi .....
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