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"The Other" And "Taxi Driver": A Comparison
<view this essay>.... love with a woman who works for Palantine as a volunteer. After
going out with each other for a couple of times, the woman decides not to
see Travis again. Travis says that she's just like the others, meaning just
like all the other women. In order to take revenge, he tries to assassinate
Palantine in front of her. "The other" also appears as gangsters in the
movie. Travis, in order to eliminate them, becomes a criminal just like
them. Therefore in "Taxi Driver",we see two good examples of "The Other".
In "Taxi Driver" we see that Travis Bickle still has an identity
forming problem, or I might say that he has unconsciously formed an
identity during his child .....
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Antigone: Changing Views Of The Chorus
<view this essay>.... and Argos. Their last
lines of this opening choral passage, however, introduced king Creon,
making him seem quite noble yet mysterious to his loyal subjects. They
state such questions as: “what new plan will he launch?” and “Why this
sudden call to the old men summoned at one command?” (Lines 175-178)
These lines are utilized by Sophocles as a suspenseful introduction to
Creon's orders concerning the body of Polynices.
The chorus's next appearance blatantly shows their biased attitudes
against Antigone and her exiled father Oedipus. At this point they still
sing praise for King Creon and his unwavering decisions concerning the law
which was placed u .....
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Measure For Measure - Critique
<view this essay>.... Duke and
Friar) and Froth, the pudgy board-house owner. The other characters are
most obviously unassumed by the actors and are carried through with a sense
of distance and unfamiliarity, seldom seem at a a festival as prestigious
as North America's largest and arguably best Shakespearian festival. The
play carries on for almost 3 hours, and is tempered with boredom (e.g.
Isabella's laughably unimpassioned speech to Angelo), and momentary spots
of humour (e.g. the some-times hilarious exchange between Lucio, a servant
to the Duke, and the Duke disguised as a friar. This moment of ironic
comedy is certainly one of the play's highlights, and is a model for many
m .....
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Iowa - An American Portrait
<view this essay>.... the short time span of forty years. They soon began farming the land and found that one family could make a good living on eighty acres. Work was a necessity to Iowans. It gave meaning and pride to life, and farming was a business that could be passed on from generation to generation.
Corn soon became the crop of choice to Iowa farmers. They found that it was more resistant to disease than the other crops they were growing, such as barley, oats, wheat, and apples. With this newfound “wonder crop”, Iowans found that farming had become the ideal way of life. Working on the farm involved all of the members of the family, which brought them together and made .....
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Analyzing Noir Films The Maltese Falcon And The Big Sleep
<view this essay>.... disguise faces, change the mood of the story and alter the appearance of characters. One intriguing scene includes Ms. O'Shaughnessy being taken away by the police from Sam Spade's apartment. The shadows of the elevator cage bars depict those of bars in jail. During The Big Sleep, an extreme amount of shadowing constantly keeps the viewer wondering who's who. Also, translucency used on the windows of the house only allows the viewer to see a silhouette of the unidentified person on the other side of the window. Neither Marlowe nor the viewer know the mysterious person watching Marlowe through the windows. Keeping the viewer on the edge of their seat .....
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Analysis Of The Ending Of "Death Of A Salesman"
<view this essay>.... their father in their youth to despising him in the
present.
On the last few pages of the play, Willy finally decides to take his own life
([1] and [2]). Not only out of desperation because he just lost his job, with
which he was hardly earning enough to pay ordinary expenses at the end. He does
it primarily because he thinks that the life insurance payout [3] will allow
Biff to come to something [4], so that at least one of the Lomans will fulfill
his unrealistic dream of great wealth and success. But even here in one of his
last moments, while having a conversation with a ghost from the past, he
continues to lie to himself by saying that his funeral wi .....
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Shylock Is The Villian In Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice
<view this essay>.... and out of jest he suggests that should
the loan not be repaid in time Shylock may cut off one pound of flesh from
Antonio's body. Soon after Shylock's daughter runs away from home with Lorenzo,
a Christian, and takes her father's ducats with her. When Antonio's ships do
not come in and he is not able to repay the loan Shylock is no longer interested
in getting his money back. Shylock want revenge for the loss of his daughter
through the fulfillment of the bond. In court Shylock is defeated because of
his selfishness.
Shakespeare also shows the human qualities of Shylock throughout the
play. Shakespeare brings out these human qualities by causing us .....
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Witchcraft In The Crucible
<view this essay>.... fun. Abigail on the other hand actually wanted John Proctor’s wife, Goody Proctor, to be killed so that Abigail could be with John Proctor. After this ritual occurred, Abigail and her friends were accused of performing witchcraft. Abigail claimed that no witchcraft had taken place by her, but that Tituba had done a ceremony pertaining to witchcraft. After this event Abigail had accused many people of witchcraft and her friends had followed her in faking the occurrence of witchcraft. In the long run Abigail had lost John Proctor who falsely admitted to witchcraft, so Abigail had fled Salem and it was known that witchcraft had never taken place in Salem. .....
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