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Hamlet: Holding Back Revenge
Number of words: 507 - Number of pages: 2

.... to explain to himself either his long delay or his depression and insanity. Maybe he’s scared of taking revenge on Claudius, he may think by taking revenge he endangers his own soul. “No matter how right a man might think his motives are, if Claudius is innocent; the act of revenge would inevitably make Hamlet as evil as the accused in the eyes of God” (Becker p.32). “Hamlet decides to test Claudius’ guilt and the authenticity of the ghost; he will stage a performance of a play, which will reproduce Claudius’ crime and observe his reaction to it”(Durband p.304). This plan w .....

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Hamlet: Power Vs Happiness
Number of words: 1047 - Number of pages: 4

.... is his true motivation here is he trying to get hamlet as a backer for his new rain, so he is just lying and manipulating hamlet, or dose he have true and deep feelings for Hamlet and is just trying to help hamlet and was no self-interest in it. I feel right now that it a bit of both I think he cares about hamlet but would also like him to support his rise to power. Next we come to act II, ii, hamlet has made many strange comments and actions lately, many people think he is going, or has gone insane. Claudius finds two of Hamlets good friends to spy on him and try to find out what wro .....

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Oedipus The King: Oedipus' Downfall Is Because Of King Laius
Number of words: 880 - Number of pages: 4

.... was afraid of dreadful prophecies...The child would kill its parents, that was the story. Oedipus - Then why did you give it to this old man here? Shepherd - In pity master. I thought he would take it away to a foreign country--to the place he came from. If you are the man he says you are, you were born the most unfortunate of men.” (86-89) When King Laius heard this prophecy and returned to Thebes to tell of this prophecy to his wife, they planned to kill their child, but neither had the guts to do it. They had a servant shepherd bring their child to Mt. Cithaeron to kill .....

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Hamlet: Betrayed By His Mother And His Helplessness
Number of words: 506 - Number of pages: 2

.... that he criticizes his mother’s marriage as being low class, saying "Ay, Madam, it is common." (I ii 76) He loses his trust in his mother, claiming "frailty, thy name is woman!" (I ii 150) Hamlet’s mother had been married for a long period of time and after her husband’s death she just married her brother-in-law without even waiting for the mourning period to be finished. Hamlet is particularly heartbroken over the behavior of his mother, but there is nothing Hamlet can do about it. He believes that "It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break my heart, for I must hold my .....

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Motifs Of Birds In Macbeth
Number of words: 469 - Number of pages: 2

.... talks to Ross the day after Duncan was killed. The death of Duncan is a perverted act, just as the death of the falcon is considered unnatural. "'Tis unatural/Even like the deed that's done. On Tuesday last a falcon, towering in her pride of place,/was by amousing owl hawked at and killed." The owl is a bird that typically symbolizes wisdom but in this case the mousing owl has killed a larger predator--a falcon. The mousing owl has usurped it's natural place in the order of the animal kingdom, just as Macbeth has killed Duncan. The old man, who we assume is wise is discussing these st .....

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Julius Caesar: Jealousy
Number of words: 483 - Number of pages: 2

.... alone" (Act I, sc. II, 128-131). Casca also is jealous of Caesar. He is disgusted by Caesar's manipulation of the commoners. He describes it as "mere foolery" (Act I, sc. II, 235). Casca agrees with Cassius that Brutus is an essential part the conspiracy. He says, "O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; / And that which would appear offense in us, / His countenance, like richest alchemy, / Will change to virtue and to worthiness" (Act I, sc. III, 157-160). Brutus is the only conspirator who does not act out of jealousy and envy. He is Caesar's friend, and holds a .....

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El Norte
Number of words: 519 - Number of pages: 2

.... or go through a 2 mile dark tunnel and crawl on there hands and knees taking there chances. They went for the tunnel and even the coyote said, "it is living hell". During there tunnel journey, they encountered rats and they were getting eaten alive. Finally they were gone and they were able to continue and they found their coyote at the end. He got them hooked up at a motel to stay. Day 1 they try to find work, and people pick them up to put them to work and give them two dollars a week and they think it is a whole a lot, but it really isn't. Enqrue and Rosa said "that everyone said how .....

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Movie: The Fan
Number of words: 196 - Number of pages: 1

.... father and a die-hard for the game. This crazy man just wants credit for giving a Barry Bonds-like player ( Wesley Snipes ) his number back. Unfortunately, the ‘fan' gives Wesley his number back by killing the player who occupied the number before him. When the baseball player's son is kidnapped by the disillusioned man, the police held the man at gun point in the stadium. When the deranged man made a move to open fire, the police gunned him down right on the ball field. My attitude toward this hostile man was that he was very baneful and my heart was lifted of many worries when he was .....

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Death Of A Salesman: The Tragedy Of One Man
Number of words: 3541 - Number of pages: 13

.... system which drives it's men into frantic, all consuming dreams of success, doomed not only by their grandiosity but also their inherent contradictoriness. Willy's dreams of success are rooted in the concept of the "American Dream", which is the idea that this is a land of unlimited opportunity in which any ragamuffin can attain riches and any mother's son can become president (Hadomi 159). This concept of success is personified by two characters in the play: David Singleman and Ben Loman. The first an old sales man, David Singleman, who could travel anywhere and place many order by phon .....

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Macbeth
Number of words: 715 - Number of pages: 3

.... 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 being swayed by the woman he loves, as a matter of fact this action could be perceived as quite the opposite. Second, the witches have to be dispelled as a source of 's misfortune before the latter theory can be considered. It is admittedly strange that the weird sisters first address with,"All hail, ! hail to thee Thane of Cawdor!"(I.iii.49), a title which not even is aware he h .....

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