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Macbeth
<view this essay>.... the text of the play seems to imply that is indeed responsible for his own actions which are provoked by an unwillingness to listen to his own conscience, the witches, and his ambition. First, ignores the voice of his own psyche. He knows what he is doing is wrong even before he murders Duncan, but he allows Lady and greed to cloud his judgement. In referring to the idea of the murder of Duncan, first states,"We will proceed no further in this business"(I.vii.32). Yet, after speaking with Lady he recants and proclaims,"I am settled, and bend up/Each corporal agent to this terrible feat"(I.vii.79-80). There is nothing supernatural to be found in a man bein .....
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Movie Review: The Mirror Has Two Faces
<view this essay>.... to the ad without Roses consent and that
Rose is not a women of great beauty. Greg explains that he is not in search of a
woman with great beauty, just a woman for companship. Greg calls Rose on the
telephone and the two decide to have dinner as friends. They adore each others
companship and start to spend more and more time together as best friends. They
become extremely flexibly enmeshed and are very compatible with each other.
As time passes and they grow closer to each other they decide to get married by
the justice of the peace. Roses mother who is dependent on her objects to the
idea and thinks the marriage is wrong. She uses plenty of guilt try .....
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Attitude Changes In Macbeth
<view this essay>.... signs of having already thought of killing him yet Duncan is to kind and oblivious to notice which in turn becomes his down fall. When the thought of murdering Duncan is kindled by the witches he finds that he has just been named Thane of Cawdor, he is amazed because the witches had just predicted it. In scene 5 of act 1, however, his "vaulting ambition" is starting to take over, but partly because of his wife's persuasion. He agrees that they must "catch the nearest way", and kill Duncan that night. On the other hand, as the time for murder comes nearer, he begins giving himself reasons not to murder Duncan, this is because as lady Macbeth said "he is to .....
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The Winter's Tale: The Tragedy Within A Romance
<view this essay>.... Within these acts a whole tragedy can be
seen and all it's parts defined to show that this Romance was written by
meshing to types of play together.
The first three acts of the Winter's Tale are where the tragedy takes
place. These three acts can be broken down into five acts, as suggested by Bill,
the great comparative literian. The first of these five acts is the exposition.
The story is set up and you are thrust into Leontes internal passion of jealousy.
The second act is where Leontes expresses his passion externally by accusing
Hermione of sleeping with Polixenes. He then has his wife taken off to jail.
The third act is where we see the first .....
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Is Macbeth The Tragic Hero Of The Play?
<view this essay>.... a life to lose. However, if a king or noble were to die, his death
would be a very long fall, since to the Medieval mind, he had a great deal to
lose. Macbeth is a very important person. He is a cousin to the king of
Scotland. He is the highest ranking noble, the thane of Cawdor and Glamis, and a
general of the Scottish army. He also becomes the king of Scotland later in the
play. Despite his status, he has a character defect.
A tragic hero must have a character flaw. This character flaw causes him
to make an error in judgment, "a mistaken act," which leads to his downfall.
Because Macbeth is ambitious, he wants to become king. In order to take over the .....
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Macbeth: The Three Witches
<view this essay>.... at the age of 52. One of these brilliant tragedies was
Macbeth. It is thought to have been written between 1603 and 1606. Macbeth
is considered the shortest of Shakespeare's tragedies, but not less
powerful in its depiction of evil, greed, jealousy, and the madness these
emotions bring to a person. (Shakespeare, pg. v)
In any work of literature or drama there is usually foreshadowing.
Foreshadow can be defined to be, "a sign of something to come: indicate or
suggest beforehand; prefigure; presage." (Compton's Interactive
Encyclopedia) Playwrights use this technique to give the audience a sense
of what is to come or what exactly is going to happen to a c .....
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The Matrix
<view this essay>.... who made them.
In the time when the movie takes place, the humans of the world are being governed by the machines they created. At first the machines, after becoming fed up with working for the humans, attacked the humans through technological warfare. The humans countered by destroying what they thought to be the only source of energy for the machines, the sun. When the machines lost the power of the sun, they had to find a new source of energy. The machines learned that the human body itself can produce the kind of energy necessary to sustain their lives. But humans would never just bow down to their enemies and so the machines had to devise a way to detain .....
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The History Of Greek Theater
<view this essay>.... of the early Greek world was the supernatural. The two worlds were not separate, as the gods lived in the same world as the men, and they interfered in the men's lives as they chose to. It was the gods who sent suffering and evil to men. In the plays of Sophocles, the gods brought about the hero's downfall because of a tragic flaw in the character of the hero.
In Greek tragedy, suffering brought knowledge of worldly matters and of the individual. Aristotle attempted to explain how an audience could observe tragic events and still have a pleasurable experience. Aristotle, by searching the works of writers of Greek tragedy, Aeschulus, Euripides and Sophocle .....
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