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Othello: Iago As Satan
<view this essay>.... been quick to point out. Coincidentally enough, those are also traits which we as a class were quick to point out for Iago. One of the most blatantly deceiving things Iago said was that "Desdemona is directly in love with him"2; him being Michael Cassio. As readers, we know that this is completely untrue even from the beginning. In Act 1 Scene 3 Line 292, Desdemona says "I love him," and goes on demanding, "Let me go with him"3 ; she was talking about Othello and traveling with him to Cyprus.
"The Long Spoon" is an Irish folk tale that because of its Catholic roots has the devil included in it. "The Long Spoon" depicts the Devil as no less deceiving, but ins .....
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Movie: All Quiet On The Western Front
<view this essay>.... in the hospital, another friend asks
for the boots he has. This shows that the boys are already changing.
When the boys go to the training camp they are still innocent. They meet
Corporal Himmelstoss. Corporal Himmelstoss is very mean to the boys and is very
strict. After completing the Training camp the boys go to war. When the boys
get to the battlefield they are told by Kat their leader, that what they
learned in training camp they do not need to know because, you don't need to
know how to march in war. The first day they are there, Paul sees a horse
getting killed. He is very mad about this because the horses are innocent and
they are not involved with .....
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Character Analysis: Athena
<view this essay>.... aboard, go and find out about your father
and why he is so long away. Perhaps some one may tell you, or you may hear
some rumour that god will send, which is often the best way for people to
get news." (Homer 17) If not for Athena, Telemachos might have taken his
father for dead and encouraged his mother to marry one of her suitors. But
Athena, under the disguise of Mentes advises Telemachos to go on a journey
to try to find out what happenened to Odysseus. This is important because
the journey of Telemachos played an important part of his becoming a man.
Athena also rescued Odysseus from certain death at the hands of
Poseidon Earthshaker and brough .....
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Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire: Tragic And Comic Elements
<view this essay>.... comical circumstances encountered in the play contradict the sole role of tragedy and leaves the reader pondering the true nature of the work, that being whether it is a tragedy with accidental comic incidences or a comedy with weak melodramatic occurrences. It has been said that the “double mask of tragicomedy reveals the polarity of the human condition.” The contrariety of forces in the work serves to enforce a sense of both reality and drama that are present in everyday human life. The comic elements in the play serve as a form of determined self-preservation just as the tragic elements add to the notion of self-destruction. This is the true nature of a .....
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Role Of Puck
<view this essay>.... his innocent, little pranks. He is also known by the name
Robin Goodfellow. The audience can only see this ‘Robin Goodfellow' side of
Puck when he is trying to fix something he disrupted, hence the name Goodfellow
When compared to Oberon, King of the Fairies and Titania, Queen of the
Fairies and the remaining fairies of the play, Puck does not seem to fit in as
well. While Oberon and Titania belong to the forest and the world of dainty
fairies, a small village setting seems more appropriate for Puck. He is the
type of fairy that likes to be around mortals and cause them trouble, as opposed
to other fairies. This is why Puck's little job with a love po .....
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The Holy Trinity And The Isenheim Altarpiece
<view this essay>.... the painted composition) is a
tomb. Inside the tomb is a skeleton, which may represent Adam. The
vanishing point is at the center of the masonry altar, because this is the
eye level of the spectator, who looks up at the Trinity and down at the
tomb. The vanishing point, five feet above the floor level, pulls both
views together. By doing this, an illusion of an actual structure is
created. The interior volume of this 'structure' is an tension of the
space that the person looking at the work is standing in. The adjustment
of the spectator to the pictured space is one of the first steps in the
development of illusionistic painting. Illusionistic painting .....
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Art Making And European Influence
<view this essay>.... differences from what I have learned in class as well as from the readings in Women Artists Multi-Cultural Visions and In Her Own Image.
In the year 1920 that the first Native American basket, "eyes on cattle" was collected and displayed in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. To European Americans they were honoring the Native American culture. According to the book In Her Own Image, "women artists have been silenced, lost hidden, or neglected through the centuries, that is in large part because they have lacked an audience aware of their existence or willing to consider their work". (page xxv) Although that statement is true, I don't think it ever occurred to the .....
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Oedipus' Destiny
<view this essay>.... His every intention only brings him closer to his downfall.
Oedipus’ tragic destiny started when he was born. From the day he was born, Oedipus could not choose how he wants to live. He can only live the life that was set up for him. An oracle told his real parents – Laius and Jocasta that Laius would die at the hands of his own child. Out of fear, they pinned Oedipus’ ankles and handed him to a shepherd to abandon him to death. “ Jocasta: … An oracle came to Laius ” (p. 17) to “…to cast upon a deserted mountain path – die.”(p. 17). But instead of killing the infant, the shepherd gave him to another shepherd who then gave Oedipus to the King Polybus of Cor .....
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