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Othello 5
<view this essay>.... Iago's evil in many ways throughout Othello, and shows the methods that Iago uses in order to make Othello trust him. These methods obviously work, shown by the fact that he is repeatedly called honest; I will be commenting on these throughout my essay. He is much like the character 'Vice' from 'miracle plays' of the 16 and 17th Century that tell the audience what their plan is, and so they all become fellow conspirators in a way. This was done well in the production I saw in Manchester, as the actor playing Iago was good and convincing at talking to the crowd and making us realise that it is the enemy within we should fear most.
Some people could argue .....
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J Alfred Prufrock
<view this essay>.... I believe Eliot uses this message to infer that only a reader who
understands the loneliness and desperation of Prufrock can truly understand the poem. However,
in my research, I have found as many different interpretations of the poem as I have found
readers. Most agree; however, that Prufrock is speaking to the reader when he says “you and
I”(Line 1). Many readers also agree that Prufrock is a lonely man, but what type of company he
desires seems to vary greatly. Interpretations include sex, social company, long term love, and
even death. I believe Prufrock yearns for the sense of belonging, both with a female and with his
society. He struggles wit .....
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Pigeon Feather
<view this essay>.... shine to a familiar situation. He speaks, for example, of an encounter with a very junior doctor, "not much older than myself but venerable with competence and witnessed pain."
He skips the bits about the smell of hay and harnesses to tell us, with Thoreauvian precision, that: "A barn, in day, is a small night."
In his own words about words he reminds us of the "curious and potent, inexplicable and irrefutable magical life language leads within itself" -- not entirely unaided, of course, by wide margins, Devonshire-cream paper, and clear type.
Speaking of which, I am happy to report that his publisher felicitously chimes Mr. Updike's Pennsylvania-Dutch tones .....
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Words And Their Implied Meanings
<view this essay>.... of society by forcing a break-down in government. In the mind
of a terrorist he/she must alter an aspect of society he deplores in society by
bombings, hijackings, and assassinations. The United States' history makes us
sympathetic to revolutionaries because the war between America and the British.
No books refer to it as the American Terrorism because terrorism connotes
anarchy and a lack of social structure. The actual difference in strategy
between the two groups may appear more gentle, however, they both kill.
Regarding the words "gang" and "club" only one denotes violence. The
dictionary defines gang as, "A group of persons working together; a grou .....
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King Lear
<view this essay>.... would never disrespect him, this is a lie. Next, is the daughter Reagan, she does the same as her sister and lies to the king saying that she loves him with all of her heart. Finally, Cordelia tells her father that she could not tell him how much she loves him, because she had no words. The king was very upset with Cordelia and because of his madness towards Cordelia thinking that she did not love him as much as her other sisters, he divided the land in two and gave Reagan and Goneril each half. Cordelia on the other hand received nothing as her dowry and in turn no none would marry her except the King of France. Giving the land to the two daughters was the f .....
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Macbeth Remains A Shakespeare
<view this essay>.... loyalty is demonstrated from his inspirational speech after his appointment as the Thane Of Cawdor:
“Macbeth: The service and the loyalty l owe,
In doing it, pays itself. Your Highness' part
Is to receive our duties, and our duties
Are to your throne and state, children and servants,
Which do but what they should, by doing everything
Safe toward your love and honor.”
He doesn’t want to kill King Duncan because he isn’t willing to lose the respect that he has painfully earned: “he hath honoured me of late”. This respect Macbeth has for King Duncan is mentioned by Lady Macbeth: “Lady Macbeth: Yet do I fear thy nature/I .....
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Perseus The God Helped
<view this essay>.... receiving help from the gods.
The first aspect of Perseus' self that makes him an epic hero is his valor. It does so in Perseus' fight with the freak Callibus. Callibus, the recently deformed man, is bigger and stronger than any normal man. The theater master tells the protagonist that "no man has fought with him and lived!" Callibus has Andromeda and the rest of the city under a spell and Perseus makes it his business to release them from it. He defeats the monster and takes his hand. Doing so, Perseus makes clear his courage. Truly, it is a scary and risky thing to fight a monster such as the one in the story. Any normal man would cringe at the though and pro .....
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Character Study Of Claudius Fr
<view this essay>.... death (King Hamlet). “Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother death the memory be green, and that it us benefitted to bear our hearts in grief.” This is not what he really feels, because he desired power over the country and wanted to marry Gertrude (King Hamlet’s wife), so he was glad he poisoned his brother.
Later, after he watches the play Prince Hamlet planned (in order to avenge his father) which involved showing the same actions Claudius took when he killed King Hamlet, Cladius then regretted he killed Hamlet’s father, as he realised how evil his actions were. However, he expressed these feelings in solitude in III, iii, ll. 36-7 .....
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