.... these two elements the movie was made attractive to both educationally oriented people and entertainment oriented people. The film version is largely a similar version to the novel. The novel was written by Lew Wallace. Both works, because of the obvious similarities with one another will be discussed in this essay. From these two works, many parallels can be drawn with actual historic events. The object of this paper is to illustrate the successful joining of fact with fiction. Ben-Hur successfully told an intriguing story of a Jew falsely accused of a crime with the backdrop of the rise of Christ and the tyrannical ruling of the Roman empi .....

.... main reason of his downfall. Othello deals with love lost because of gullibility and jealousy. Aristotle's theory of tragedy, found in the Poetics, deals with the characteristics of plays that make them a true tragedy. Those characteristics are essential in giving a play its true definition. According to Aristotle, the life and soul of tragedy is plot. Incidents in the plot have the best effect if they occur unexpectedly, and in consequence of one another. A great tragedy grips the audience with the plot. Aristotle also states that the sense of the inevitable must be present in tragedy. The tragic hero is also another important factor in an Aristotelian .....

.... to realize the error in his ways. And it is this, the realization of downfall, which distinguishes these two characters from one another and makes Creon the ultimate tragic figure. Although Antigone starts off in the story with the right intentions by wanting to bury the body of Polyneices, her arrogance rapidly builds, after committing the crime, to a point where she finds it a privilege to die. Antigone even begins to enjoy the fact that she went against Creon’s decree and wants all the glory to herself. She demonstrates her indulgence in glory best in the scene where she and Ismene are sentenced to death but Antigone will not let her sister die. We ca .....

.... or janitorial work, things in that area. For example, the lead character Will Hunting is a lower class white male. He lives in a run down house, and works at Harvard University as a janitor. He wears ragged clothes and does not seem to have very much money. But he seems content with his station in life, he does not whine and complain about working as a janitor, and later as a construction worker, he feels at home and comfortable with what he does. It is as if, that is what he was meant to do. The other type of work that is shown in the movie is the educated type of work. In this paragraph, I will show how the movie portrays educated work. Educated .....

.... identified with death and bloodshed and shows his guilt in different forms. The first reference of blood is one of honour, and occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant and says "What bloody man is that?". This is symbolic of the brave fighter who been injured in a valiant battle for his country. In the next passage, in which the sergeant says "Which smok'd with bloody execution", he is referring to Macbeth's braveness in which his sword is covered in the hot blood of the enemy. After these few references to honour, the symbol of blood now changes to show a theme of treachery and treason. Lady Macbeth starts this off when she asks the spirits to "make thi .....

.... Brutus also understands that he is putting it all on the line for his romans, therefore Brutus is an honorable man. Brutus is a scrupulous man, whose virtues endure. "No not an oath, If not by the face of men, the sufferance of our souls, the time's abuse-If these motives be weak, break off betimes, and every men hence to his idle bed; So let high sighted tyranny rage on, till each man drop by lottery" (Shakespeare 399). Brutus said that if the conspirators do not join for a common cause, then there is no need for an oath because the conspirators are self-righteous, and they are serving the romans. If the conspirators don't bind together, then each man will g .....

.... The depth of this trust is measured by Juliets horror when it is betrayed. When Juliet is abandoned by both angry parents, and turning to the Nurse for comfort, is told to forget Romeo and marry Paris. She couldn*t believe her ears. Her bewildered "Speak*st thou from thy heart?" (III.v.134) This is answered almost casually by the Nurse "And from my soul too, or else beshrew them both". By now, Juliet is slowly forced into maturity by the series of disasters which have occured. She is now showing determination and courage to enable her to hide her anguish, and talk calmly with Paris at the Friar*s cell. Juliet is forced by a series of crises to grow up .....

.... laxity of parents with regards to ethics through the relationship of Willy Loman and his two sons, Biff and Happy. Rather than having played a positive role model for his sons Willy Loman, established a poor standard of morality. For example, when Biff was in high school he was the star of the football team. One afternoon he stole a football from the locker room. When Willy became cognizant of Biff's actions, Wily did not punish Biff. Instead, he told Biff that the coach was likely to congratulate Biff for his show of initiative (29, 30). Similarly, at another point in the play Biff and Happy stole lumber from a nearby construction site. Instead of t .....