... Torvald talks down to her. Nora is “regarded as property rather than a partner” (Drama for Students 112). He isn’t treating her like a real person. In Torvald eyes, she isn’t an equal. “Nora is viewed as an object, a toy, a child, but never an equal” (Drama for Students 109). Nora and Torvald seem to be in love with each other though. However, Torvald is very controlling of Nora. Torvald makes little rules for Nora to follow. During the time period when the play was written, a husband controlling his wife and making rules for her was not uncommon. One incident of control is when Nora comes home from Christmas shopping. Torvald knows how much Nora loves mac ...
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... the lack of profit involved. In his play "All My Sons," Miller makes it apparent that society in general values money and profit more than human life. He shows this by his portrayal of Keller. Keller ships out cracked cylinder heads, aware that in flight they will cause planes to crash, to save his business from being shut down. Furthermore, he goes on to allow the blame to fall on Steve, in order to save himself from going to jail, even though Steve was not the only one guilty. Keller tries to rationalize his actions by saying that he committed this heinous act for the benefit of his family- so that they will have money and everything else they need and ca ...
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... all those lands Through the late King actions of law and rebellion during his time. 5. We are made aware of the uncertain foundation of human knowledge in the way we learn that the ghost may be a dream, or could just be around for some unfinished business. We also learn that Horatio is a scholar and trusted by Marcellus and Bernardo. He serves as a reliable witness and conveyor for Hamlet. Even scholars don't understand the unknown (ghost). Scene 2 6. This scene introduces us to the King Claudius, the antagonise. We know this because Hamlet has bad feelings towards him. 7. The impression that I get of the c ...
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... the poor cat I ‘th' adage” (1, vii., 49). That means “ the cat who eats fish but will not get his feet wet ” (Folgers, p 40). Lady Macbeth is telling Macbeth that he is like the cat because he wants to become king but he won't get his hands bloody. However Lady Macbeth would find someone else to get their feet wet, someone to do her dirty work. In act 2 scene 4 line 15, the old man and Ross talk about the recent murder. The old man says that the killer, an owl made sure no one was looking and attacked the falcon and killed it. The owl, lower then the falcon on the chain of being usually eats mice, which is low on the hierarchy. But this time the owl eats th ...
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... might know he killed his father. Later in the play a troop of actors come to act out a play, and Hamlet has them reenact the murder of is father in front of his uncle Claudius. The actors murder scene also make Hamlet question himself about the fact that he has done nothing yet to avenge his father. Hamlet says " But am I Pigeon-livered and lack gall / To make oppression bitter, or ere this / I should ha' fatted all the region kites / With this slave's offal. Bloody, bawdy villain! ( Act II scene 2 page 84 line 577- 580 ). During the play Hamlet watches is uncle Claudius to see his reaction when the actors perform the murder scene. Hamlet plan works his uncle ...
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... to put on his gown to caver his nakedness. The he appeals to Bravantio love for his doughtier,"Even now,now very now, and old black ram, Is tupping your white eve".Iago was looking Othello similar to black animal. When brabantio heard that he also seems Othello a black animal, but the couldn't believe that desdemona gets married to O:thello because they are opposite of union. Then he starts thinking if that should be true it wouldn't be my daughyer's fault. Other controls he mind that's the only way desdemona may get married to him. On the other hand brabantio find out that Othello go married to his daughter. Brabantio thinks Othello Avuse her delicat youth with ...
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... called him a coward. From then on, after the murder of Duncan, Macbeth entered into a life of evil. Since he overcomed his good nature, he no longer needed to be with his friend Banquo. He wanted to protect his ambition, by killing the king, and now he killed Banquo, due to the prediction of what the witches said about Banquo's son becoming the king. Macbeth wanted to ensure that he would reach his ambition without problems. Macbeth, who now no longer needed any encouragement from Lady Macbeth, started to leave her in ignorance of his plans. Near the end of the play, Lady Macbeth sleepwalked and had a dream about the killing of Duncan and Banquo. She died bec ...
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... better than they actually are to the surroundings in the news room on the six o'clock news. The real question is 'Where dose this leave the traditional methods of rendering images and type?' I feel that in the next 10 years there will be a flood of traditional style and people will be crying out for the personal touch of a photographer using chemicals in a darkroom. The images produced will not necessarily look traditional but they will use the methods traditionally used to produce effects which can't be produced by a computer. There are many different looks that can be produced by a camera e.g. pin hole cameras, old style cameras and Polaroid (Fig 1+2) which ...
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... When Tybalt hears him, he becomes enraged. This is not so for the film. Romeo takes off his masque at the fountain and forgets it there. He returns to the masque and that is when Tybalt recognizes his face. However, the result is the same, Tybalt becomes enraged and vows to extract his revenge on Romeo since Old Capulet said for him to leave Romeo alone. Secondly, I will illustrate you some changed to the time-frame of the plot. This is one of the easier comparisons since you can tell if parts of the plot have been rearranged. An example of a change to the plot is when (in the book) Romeo first meets Juliet. Romeo says about fifty words to Juliet and k ...
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... deaths. The play begins outside, on a very cold, foggy, dark night. The guards are watching the castle for fear that it may be attacked. This is to set the perfect mood for the tragedy that is about to unfold later in the story. Also, with lines like “Who’s there?” and “I am sick at heart”, the audience is already, in the first scene, given an indication that something is wrong. The balance in Hamlet occurs when Hamlet shows grievance for his father’s death and Claudius and Gertrude talk to him about it and about their marriage. Hamlet cannot believe that less than two months after his father’s death, his mother is already has plans to marry his uncle. It i ...
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