... feelings tell him that they are innocent, but his Puritan background prevents him from questioning the authority of the court. As the play progresses, Hale begins to alter his views about the trials. He suggests that John Proctor should have a lawyer, but this request is denied by Danforth. He claims that a lawyer is not necessary because only the demon and the witness are important. Actually, he is conveying that the court alone will decide on the witness' probity based on his own words. Hale realizes that John Proctor is an honest man when he would willingly ruin his own reputation in the hopes of exposing Abigail as a whore. He absolutely cannot beli ...
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... easy personality. Same for I Love Lucy, Lucy is always the leader and Ethel is always the follower. Without coherence Seinfeld would never be where it is today. Seinfeld is very original in the ideas they use for there shows. This is where the show starts to resemble The Honeymooners and there unique ideas. The Honeymooners' ideas were very unique for their time. Like the episode when Ralph had a fight with Alice. It was a ground breaking idea for the time, having a couple arguing and yelling at each other. Seinfeld, whose ideas are unique for its time, had its most famous episode dealing with a Soup Nazi. They called him the Soup Nazi because he ran his s ...
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... 175-178) These lines are utilized by Sophocles as a suspenseful introduction to Creon's orders concerning the body of Polynices. The chorus's next appearance blatantly shows their biased attitudes against Antigone and her exiled father Oedipus. At this point they still sing praise for King Creon and his unwavering decisions concerning the law which was placed upon the city regarding the body of Polynices: “When he weaves in the laws of the land, and the justice of the gods that binds his oaths together, he and his city rise high--but the city casts out that man who weds himself to inhumanity thanks to reckless daring. Never share my hearth never think my t ...
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... Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields" (Quirino 63). Taken literally this does not seam to add much to the story. However, if one investigate Blanche's past one can truly understand what this quotation symbolizes. Blanche left her home to join her sister, because her life was a miserable wreck in her former place of residence. She admits, at one point in the story, that "after the death of Allan (her h usband) intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with" (Williams, 178). She had sexual relations with anyone who would agree to it. This is the first step in her voyage-"Desir ...
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... housework such as cooking and cleaning, and bear children. They could not vote, own property, or choose a husband, and had to be represented by men in all legal proceedings. In some ways, these Greek women were almost like slaves. There is a definite relationship between this subordination of women and what transpires in the play. Jason decides that he wants to divorce Medea and marry the princess of Corinth, casting Medea aside as if they had never been married. This sort of activity was acceptable by Greek standards, and shows the subordinate status of the woman, who had no say in any matter like this. Even though some of Medea's actions were not typ ...
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... Helen while she was gone because she loved her so much. It was a long two weeks for Kate. Annie was afraid that when the two weeks were up, Helen would go back to her selfish ways and the family would start to pity her again. By the end on the play, Helen starts to understand what words mean (ex: water). Everyone is very excited for Helen, but Kate learns that real love also means losing the one you love. Meaning that once Helen learned everything, Kate will no longer have to do everything and be right beside her all the time. It is like when your baby learns to walk and talk, in a way you are “losing the one you love” or you feel like you aren’t going to ...
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... away and fill her with 'direst cruelty' so that she won't feel any remorse for what she is going to do.She wants them to make her evil enough to kill Duncan that night while he is staying in the castle. When Macbeth enters treats him as if he's a god and boost him up.She says:'Great Glamis!Worthy Cawdor.Greater than both by the all hail hereafter!' She tells Macbeth how to act around the king,to be evil but look innocent, 'Look like the innocent flower,but be the serpent under it'. make's the plan and puts the ideas about how to kill the king into feeling good about how to kill the king into Macbeth's head.She treats him kindly to flatter him into feeling good abo ...
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... Networks were growing more interested in attracting their audiences. As the years advanced and technology followed, media began taking different approaches to arouse the public. Conflicts on television where seen as a more interesting and productive approach to increasing ratings. After a while, interviewers would attempt to provoke debate, mud throwing and even emotion out of it's political guests. Politicians who be allowed air-time to address questions presented by viewers and interviewers. One major complaint however, was that the media was more interested in evoking a response in the interviewed rather than probing issues th at really mattered to the audie ...
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... became the crop of choice to Iowa farmers. They found that it was more resistant to disease than the other crops they were growing, such as barley, oats, wheat, and apples. With this newfound “wonder crop”, Iowans found that farming had become the ideal way of life. Working on the farm involved all of the members of the family, which brought them together and made them stronger through hardships and great opportunities. Draft horses used for plowing later became a luxury and farming soon lost its fun and joyful qualities. It was a time of greater hardship than ever before, but the freedom Iowa farmers had to work, worship, live, and play in their own way made i ...
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... incorporated because people thought it would only be fitting that blacks be able to fight for their own freedom. The problem was that the blacks were still thought of as inferior individuals. This is why it took so long for a black regiment to come into existence. A good example of the racism that was still existent in the north is when the 54th met the white regiment coming back and were called "nigger"s and were taunted. Another good example was that Blacks were not allowed to go to military academies, and that is why the regiment was led by white officers. Colonel Shaw (in the beginning) was still prejudiced against blacks. He did not treat them as humans. ...
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