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The Crucible: The Evilness And Selfishness Of Abigail Williams
<view this essay>.... John back to her own self.
Since she was overcome, she had no concern with morals, and starts to sin
heavily by starting the witch trials, which causes the deaths of many people in
the town. Abigail doesn't want anyone to find out that she was in the forest so
she harshly threatens Betty Paris and Mary Warren not to say anything. Let
either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and
I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy
reckoning that will shudder you... And you know I can do it... I can make you
wish you had never seen the sun go down.
She fell in love with John Proctor after thei .....
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The Crucible: The Witchcraft Hysteria
<view this essay>.... automatically found guilty. I believe, in
many ways the people of Salem were responsible for the witch hysteria.
The person with the most influence was the character, Abigail. Abigail
had an affair with a man by the name of John Proctor. Proctor broke contact
with Abigail and spent time and interest in his wife, Elizabeth. Abigail gets
jealous because of this and Abigail, a few other girls, and a servant from the
Caribbean named Tituba dance around in a order that they believe it will kill
Proctor's wife. Rev. Parris, Abigail's uncle, sees this and reports it. When
Abigail is questioned about this, she denies everything and doesn't tell the
truth about what re .....
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A Character Analysis Of Macbeth In Shakespeare's Macbeth
<view this essay>.... bloody execution.
(I,ii,16-18)
From this we can tell that Macbeth fought bravely and through unbeatable
odds against Macdonwald's army. It also tells us that Macbeth can handle a
sword like it was an extension of his own body. The sergeant also tells
us:
As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks;
So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the
foe:
(I,ii,37-39)
From this we can tell that he was a relentless and courageous fighter and
would not stop until he had won. He is such a fearless fighter that the
day would be remembered for centuries to come the sergeant says: "Or
memorize anothe .....
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Ophelia: The Tragedy Of Love
<view this essay>.... tragedy of the Prince of Denmark' is a misrepresentation of Shakespeare's true intention.
To capture our sympathy, Ophelia goes through a transformation unlike any other character in Hamlet. She is abandoned by everyone she holds dear; her father Polonius, her brother Laertes, and Hamlet, her lover. And yet Ophelia becomes tangled in a web of madness when her loyalty is torn between Polonius and Hamlet. Most horrible of all is Ophelia's suicide-death. The emotion is evokes, coupled with the above points shows that Shakespeare's intentions was to make Ophelia, a minor character in terms of the number of lines assigned to her, into a memorable character .....
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Dorine, Her Voice Of Reason And How She Is Able To Save The Family From Their Demise
<view this essay>.... uses Dorine as a voice of reason who is able to voice her opinion and eventually free the other characters from such a manipulative man.
It is in the first scene of the play that we see Dorine's character traits developing. The quote from Madame Parnelle in scene one states "Girl, you talk too much, and I'm afraid you're far too saucy for a lady's maid. You push in everywhere"(21). From the start it is apparent that Dorine is an outspoken character, and by doing this she is clearly putting herself out on a limb because she is dissimilar to the other women of her time. I believe that it is here that Moliere foreshadows the importance of Dorine's a character. La .....
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Summary Of Oedipus
<view this essay>.... those close to him. In doing so, he will be forced to learn of his
unimagined shame.
Bearing his burden to the end, Laius' murderer will eventually see
the truth. Oedipus delivers a proclamation to pursue the truth. Tiresias,
the blind prophet, comes to convict Oedipus: I charge you to obey the
decree that you yourself have made. You are the differ of this land. He
tells of the plague not leaving until the murderer is found. Tiresias,
being a great prophet, knows all but will not tell: I will speak no
further. Rage if you have a mind to. Only after Oedipus persists does
the prophet say Oedipus is the murderer: I say that you are the murderer
that .....
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Othello And King Lear: A Comparison
<view this essay>.... his love life
and his taste in clothes splashed across the glossy magazines. His views about
everything under the sun, from the government to kitchen furniture, would
probably appear regularly in the colour supplements. His face would be familiar
on television talk shows, his voice well-known from radio broadcasts. There
would be so much recorded evidence about his life and his opinions that it would
not be hard to write about him.
Shakespeare, however, lived some four hundred years ago in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth I, when there was no tele-vision or radio, nor even any
newspapers as we know them today. Although he was respected as an important
person .....
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The Silence Of The Lambs
<view this essay>.... the lambs in
her nightmares to cease. When she was younger, she witnessed the slaughtering
of a herd of lambs and to this day she awakens horrified some nights to escape
the nightmares that she so longs to end. She believes deep down that if she
catches Buffalo Bill herself she will sleep soundly in the silence of the lambs.
My first interpretation of Clarice was that she was very bright and
observant. She reads people very well and is quick to make an accurate
judgement, as in with Frederick Chilton, the prison warden. I believed that she
was a very strong woman and was very careful to appear that way to others.
Clarice Starling did have a large chang .....
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