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Shakespeare's "Henry IV": Summary
Number of words: 813 - Number of pages: 3.... Hal likes to hang
out with Falstaf because he is funny and outspoken. Hal and Falstaf could
make fun of each other and call each other names and that wont bother them.
For instance when the prince started calling Falstaf, “This bed-presser,
this horse-back-breaker, this huge hill of flesh”. Then Falstaf came back
by saying, “Sblood, you starveling, you eel-skin, you dried neat's- tongue,
you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish,--O for breath to utter what is like
thee!-you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bow-case, you vile standing tuck!”
(Act 2,2,245-251). All this just slipped of .....
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Macbeth’S Changing Fears
Number of words: 741 - Number of pages: 3.... his fate. This transformation is most evident in two passages spoken by Macbeth. The first passage is in Act I and the second is in Act III.
In the first passage Macbeth says:
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,
Why hath it given me earnest of success,
Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor:
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
Against the use of nature? Present fears
Are less than horrible imaginings.
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical .....
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Forbidden Planet Comparison To Shakespeare's The Tempest
Number of words: 1359 - Number of pages: 5.... teach us a lesson about man's control over the elements and
over his own technological creations.
At this point a brief synopsis of the movie would seem to be in order,
with special attention as to how it relates to The Tempest.
In The Tempest, a man named Prospero and his daughter Miranda have been
exiled to a remote island which is completely uninhabited, save for an evil
monster and her son Caliban, and which is in a state of primal chaos. Using the
magical powers he has cultivated all his life, Prospero gradually brings the
forces of nature on the island under his control, and manage .....
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Stuck In The Middle
Number of words: 1469 - Number of pages: 6.... the "on the
edge" gangster started shooting up the place when an employee triggered the
alarm. Mr. White and Mr. Orange (an undercover cop) escaped the scene and
headed for the hideout where all the men were supposed to meet. On the way to
the hideout Mr. Orange was shot, he was bleeding severely but the injury was not
life threatening. Shortly after their arrival, Mr. Pink met with them and they
all anxiousley waited for Mr. Blonde.
Mr. Blonde, acting cool and unaffected by the mornings events, made his
entrance. After being questioned by Mr. White about why he went psycho in the
s .....
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Number of words: 781 - Number of pages: 3.... she lost the ones she loved in the battle. The horror lied not only in the many funerals but also in the silence and the constant mourning after. One cant imagine how it must feel to lose the ones they love and hold dear but to stay afterwards and mourn the loss of the many is unbearable. Blanche has had a streak of horrible luck. Her husband killing himself after she exposed her knowledge about his homosexuality, her advances on young men that led to her exile and finally her alcoholism that drew her life to pieces contemplated this sorrow that we could not help but feel for Blanche thr .....
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Comparison Of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein To Movies And TV Show's Frankenstein
Number of words: 430 - Number of pages: 2.... called Frankenstein.
Victor Frankenstein was the name of the doctor who created the monstrosity.
Before the doctor created the monster he was a work of art.
"I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful!," this is
what Victor said when he saw the monster before it was alive. Afterwards
it was the ugliest thing the doctor had laid his eyes upon. Unlike the
movies, the monster was very nimble and could do anything an actual living
human could. The monster chased after Victor in the wastelands to exact
his revenge for his being. Nobody would love or care for him so he decid .....
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Oedipus The King: Existence Of Man
Number of words: 1115 - Number of pages: 5.... the definition of literature, this tragic plot
reveals to the reader three main commentaries about the nature of man: man
cannot escape his past, pride is the sin which leads man to greater evils, and
although the life of man is in itself a positive good, there will always be a
shadow of terrible tragedy that falls across it.
All throughout literature, many works have portrayed characters who
carry with them a dark and gloomy past, and try to tear this shameful history of
their lives from the books of their life. Unfortunately, this is impossible due
to the fact that the past is a precurso .....
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Oedipus: Classical Example Of A Tragic Hero
Number of words: 1062 - Number of pages: 4.... people.
Long before we come into the story, Oepidus “sent Menoeceus’ son Creon, Jocasta’s brother, to Apollo, to his Pythian temple, so that he might learn there by what act or word [Oedipus] could save [his] city.” (60-73) Upon returning, Creon brings with him encouraging news that saving Thebes is a simple task of finding and driving out Laius’ murderer or murderers. At once Oedipus begins this task with these words to his people: “I forbid any to welcome him or cry him greeting or make him a sharer in sacrifice or offering to the Cods, or give him water for his hands to wa .....
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The Crucible: The Deterioration Of Salem During The Witch Trials
Number of words: 824 - Number of pages: 3.... lied to protect not just themselves but the
reputation of their families. They claimed that the devil took them over and
influenced them to dance. The girls also said that they saw members of the town
standing with the devil. A community living in a puritan society like Salem
could easily go into a chaotic state and have a difficult time dealing with
what they consider to be the largest form of evil.
Salem's hysteria made the community lose faith in the spiritual beliefs
that they were trying to strictly enforce. The church lost many of its
parishioners because the interest of the town was n .....
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Saving Private Ryan
Number of words: 701 - Number of pages: 3.... of attitudes that the American boys had about the war and how they reacted to it. An example of this would be when the company took over a machine gun and one of their friends died from enemy fire. Several American soldiers were going to execute the Nazi until another soldier stopped them. Personally, I would have killed the Nazi soldier because he was involved in killing my friend. Even if the man killed were a complete stranger, but still an American, I would have still killed the Nazi.
The movie “” also makes me respect what my grandfather and many other people’s grandfathers .....
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