.... and Realism were incapable of exposing human nature and so had no educational value. He conjectured that his form of theatre was capable of provoking a change in society. Brecht's intention was to encourage the audience to ponder, with critical detachment, the moral dilemmas presented before them. In order to analyse and evaluate the action occurring on stage, Brecht believed that the audience must not allow itself to become emotionally involved in the story. Rather they should, through a series of anti-illusive devices, feel alienated from it. The effect of this deliberate exclusion makes it difficult for the audience to empathise with the cha .....

.... a proper burial for the slain Polyneices, brother of Ismene and Antigone. Infuriated by this injustice, Antigone shares the tragic news with Ismene. From her first response, "No, I have heard nothing"(344). Ismene reveals her passivity and helplessness in the light of Creon's decree. Thus, from the start, Ismene is characterized as traditionally "feminine", a helpless woman that pays no mind to political affairs. Doubting the wisdom of her sisters plan to break the law and bury Polyneices, Ismene argues: We who are women should not contend with men; we who are weak are ruled by the stronger, so that we must obey....(346) Once again Ismene's words .....

.... plays a psychotic baseball fan who was an appalling father and a die-hard for the game. This crazy man just wants credit for giving a Barry Bonds-like player ( Wesley Snipes ) his number back. Unfortunately, the ‘fan' gives Wesley his number back by killing the player who occupied the number before him. When the baseball player's son is kidnapped by the disillusioned man, the police held the man at gun point in the stadium. When the deranged man made a move to open fire, the police gunned him down right on the ball field. My attitude toward this hostile man was that he was very baneful and my heart was lifted of many worries when he was killed. Hecto .....

.... truthful. The three uses of the word honest are used largely in the subtext of the act, they are used by Iago to force Othello to question his wife’s integrity, and honesty. Shakespeare uses the word by Iago to plant tremendous doubt in Othello’s mind. The word is also used by Iago in the action line. His objective is constantly to make Othello think things without actually being told them, and Iago’s parroting of the word and constant useage do this quite nicely. Iago initially uses the word honest to mean honourable, in reference to Cassio. Othello has asked him if “he [Cassio] is not honest?” To which Iago parrots back “Honest my lord?” This usa .....

.... are being destroyed. When Tybalt and Romeo are fighting and Tybalt dies, the onlookers see that his life is being taken with his final words of hatred towards Romeo (654). While Tybalt is alive he directs to us the audience that he will keep up the fight until the end. His vitality is destroyed when he losses the fight and is slayed by Romeo. Furthermore, it is brought to our attention in how a persons innoncence is demolished. “O, I am fortunes fool” (654) as Romeo states. By this he means that he feels that the stars did this purposly. The people see the loss of his purity when he is sentenced to exile by the Prince, for the murder of Tybalt. As R .....

.... Jocasta was blind to the true identity of Oedipus, her son and husband. She refused to accept the truth when it was ultimately revealed. In this case, those who are blind at length do have a higher vision – the truth. Oedipus was born into the prophecy that he would murder his father and wed his mother. In an attempt to avoid this fate, his parents, Laius and Jocasta, sent him into the mountains to die. However, a shepherd saved and gave him to Polybus and Merope. When he learned of his prophecy, he fled, under the assumption that they were his real parents. While fleeing, he encountered Laius and killed him. He correctly answered the riddle of the Sphi .....

.... an undeserved dignity. Macbeth is never comfortable with his clothes because of his conscious also because the clothes or stature aren’t belonging to him. In the play, Macbeth is named the Thane of Cawdor, these clothes were well and fit but because of his greed Macbeth had to look upon other peoples clothing, since in his way of thinking others had better clothing. From that point on his greed took over. Therefore he was driven to kill the king so he can take his clothes. “The thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?” (Macbeth,1.3,108, p.12) “This means that Macbeth is always dressed in tittles that are not his.” New honours come upon .....

.... in his wife. This power that Lady Macbeth had over her husband commanded Macbeth to kill the king and obtain what was rightfully his. This is a weak excuse for Macbeth’s downfall though, because she believed in her heart that her husband deserved to be king and nothing should get in the way of that. It was wrong for her to persuade Macbeth to kill the king, and she knew this, which is why she felt so horrible for her wrong doing that she killed herself. The second reason for Macbeth’s downfall is because of the three witches. This is a better reason for his downfall than that of his wife because these witches knew exactly what to say to spark the fire in .....