NAVIGATE |
|
|
MEMBERS |
|
|
SUBJECTS |
|
|
|
Term Papers on Arts and Plays |
Is Hamlet Mad?
Number of words: 2011 - Number of pages: 8.... the play,
that of Hamlet's unhealthy obsession with the afterlife. This is one of the
reasons that the ghost of his father has such an effect on him, which is a
trigger for all the subsequent events in the play.
Moving on to the fourth scene, the next interesting speech is on l. 23. It is a
long and complicated speech, but its general gist is that if a person has one
fault, no matter how virtuous they may be in other ways, they are soiled by "the
stamp of one defect". This speech is quite ironic, because it is Hamlet's "one
defect" (his hesitancy and inability to take action), regardless .....
Get This Paper
|
|
Hamlet: Scene Summaries
Number of words: 1133 - Number of pages: 5.... Ophelia to stop the relationship with
Hamlet.
Scene ]V
Hamlet, Heratio, and Marcellus are talking when the ghost of King
Hamlet appears. Hamlet follows, but his friends warn him that he may be in
danger. Regardless, Hamlet follows the ghost.
Scene V
In this scene, King Hamlet's ghost appears once again, but this time in
front of Hamlet. Hamlet questions the ghost and finds that King Hamlet was
killed by Claudius. The ghost then asks Hamlet to seek revenge.
ACT ][ Scene I
In this scene, Ophelia and Hamlet and alone together in a room. Ophelia
tells Hamlet that she ca .....
Get This Paper
|
|
Interpretation Of Romeo And Juliet
Number of words: 497 - Number of pages: 2.... one of fate's many cruel games
and it was too late to get out.
When things are just getting worst, Lord Capulet arranges for Juliet
to marry Paris causing Juliet to panic. She then has to hurry and do
something to stop the wedding and of course fate would just happen to guide
her back to Friar Lawrence. Fate wouldn't just stop there. He just kept on
going. He has it arranged that Friar John, the messenger who was suppose to
deliver the news of Juliet's fake death, quarantined.
Romeo finds out that Juliet is dead from Balthazar and screams out,
"Is it e'en so?--Then I defy you, s .....
Get This Paper
|
|
A Streetcar Named Desire: Is Illusion Necessary To Life
Number of words: 1351 - Number of pages: 5.... a softness and tenderness which wasn't like a man's,
although he wasn't the least bit effeminate" (1368).
However, as we are eventually are shown, this illusion wouldn't
last forever. The young couple got married and, to Blanche, were falling
more and more in love, when one day "coming into a room that I thought was
empty" (1368), this illusion would be shattered. In this room were her
husband, Allan, and a older male friend of his. Allan Grey was gay. Soon,
Blanche realised that all along he had been trying to let her know and get
"the help he needed but couldn't speak of! He was .....
Get This Paper
|
|
Macbeth: Themes
Number of words: 2173 - Number of pages: 8.... desires.
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
(Act 1:Scene 4:ln.55)
When Lady Macbeth heard of her husband's success and read the letter, we
almost immediately feel that a new source of power had appared in the drama.
Her words reflected a great knowledge of her husband and her practical
approach to problems as seen in the following two verses.
Glacis thou art, and Cowdor, and shalt be
What thou are promised. Yet do I fear thy nature.
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness .....
Get This Paper
|
|
Interpretation Of Ibsen's "A Doll's House"
Number of words: 1316 - Number of pages: 5.... extremely important. Ibsen in his "A Doll's House" depicts the role of women as subordinate in order to emphasize the need to reform their role in society.
Definite characteristics of the women's subordinate role in a relationship are emphasized through Nora's contradicting actions. Her infatuation with luxuries such as expensive Christmas gifts contradicts her resourcefulness in scrounging and buying cheap clothing; her defiance of Torvald by eating forbidden Macaroons contradicts the submission of her opinions, including the decision of which dance outfit to wear, to her husband; and Nora .....
Get This Paper
|
|
My Favorite Character In Death Of A Salesman
Number of words: 427 - Number of pages: 2.... man that has had many let~downs in his older years.
Willy was an interesting person. He worked for the same company
for 34 years, and was fired when he asked for a raise. He was there when
the recent owner, Howard Wagner, was born. He lays a guilt trip on Howard,
talking about his father, and still Howard doesn't feel bad for him.
Willy has traveled around the world for his company and was loved by
everyone he met. He feels alone because everyone has forgotten him and
from the lack of attention, he wants to die.
Willy Loman was a man that craved attention and when he didn't get
i .....
Get This Paper
|
|
Saint Joan's Tragic Flaw: The Epilogue
Number of words: 1588 - Number of pages: 6.... has been
burned. King Charles has a dream in which many of the characters of the
play appear. These characters, including Joan, either explain their
behavior that we've seen throughout the play or relate some historical fact
that Shaw must have seen as necessary for the audience to be aware of. The
first character that appears at Charles' bed is Brother Martin Ladvenu, who
in Scene VI participated in the trial of Joan. During the examination,
Ladvenu makes every effort to save Joan from being declared a heretic and
tries to give her the opportunity to be "saved." He praises Joan when she .....
Get This Paper
|
|
The Effects Of Advertising On Society
Number of words: 568 - Number of pages: 3.... they are directly misleading the public. The other
tactic used, however, is a bigger problem, being not only harder to identify but
having more problematic effects. Since society likes to think of the good as a
subjective thing, it would seem to be acceptable for advertisers to qualify
their products as being good. However, Adler shows that some goods (namely
needs dictated by human nature) are universal to all people. Advertisers
commonly exploit this by associating their products not with the apparent good
they are truly associated with, but with one of those real goods. Though the .....
Get This Paper
|
|
The Vietnam War And Hollywood Movies
Number of words: 562 - Number of pages: 3.... Roulette with the prisons of war (Americans), the Vietnamese mentally torture the "good" guys. The satanic enemy is presented in the most evil way. Then when the Americans shoot them there is a rush of happiness that the opponent has been eliminated, "die you commi bustards." However, just a year later a whole view of Vietnam changed in Apocalypse Now, 1979. When a dozen of helicopters surrounded a civilian village, the Americans played Mozart while shooting M60s at the innocent people below. After things got a little out of hand, the choppers sent missiles to annihilate the Vietnamese. T .....
Get This Paper
|
|