... in giving away all of his land. Si ughters are the humans in the play, it is the humans who caused the evil and Lear believes that humans were the ones who created evil. Edgar, is another character in the play who believes that evil is caused by humans and not the gods. Edgar said, "The gods are just, and of our peasant vices make instruments to plague us" (ACT V, iii, 169). Edgar clearly says that the gods are right and it is the people who are responsible for promoting evil in the world. It is us who make the instruments necessary for evil to spread and plague the world. In the world of King Lear many characters believe evil was caused by the people ...
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... Masks in this play are not just a theme; they are the whole basis of it. The mask theme develops throughout the play as various characters try to cover their secret intentions with a veneer of a whole other person. One of the most obvious, of course is Claudius. Claudius murdered his brother, the former king Hamlet, in order to become king himself. This murder, which was done in secret, with no one but Cladius knowing that the act was committed by him. Not only is he the King of Denmark, but he is also married to Queen Gertrude, his brothers former wife. These hideous and awful crimes have not been punished, and no one knows that Claudius has done th ...
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... wic te doctors of te 4077 drafted in Dr Oliver arman "Spearcucker" Jones, a former pro football player as a ringer (Spearcucker appeared in te first few episodes of te series but was dropped wen te writers found tat tere were no black surgeons during te Korean war). One of te most memorable scenes in te movie was te "suicide" of Painless Pole (played by Jon Scuck) wic featured te song "Suicide is Painless". Te movie was released in te fall of 1970 wen anti-Vietnam sentiment was ig, and was an instant it. Ring Lardner Jr won te Oscar for Best Screenplay and te film was nominated for Best Movie. Sally Kellerman also received a Best Actress nomination for er role as ot ...
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... aware of this admiration when the soldiers use Horatio the speak with the ghost. Marcellus says "Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio" ( 1.1.42). The soldiers need Horatio because he is an educated man. As a man of thought Horatio has a significant role in helping society. Fortinbras is a man of action. He takes action before he thinks about the consequences of his actions. The king is making use of these characteristics when he says "we have to writ to Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras—Who impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears of his nephew's purpose to suppress his further gait" (1.2.29-32). In this quote the king has stopped Fortinbras' invasion o ...
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... advantage of them. He also had the option of making his claim public, but instead he chose not too. A tragic hero doesn't need to be good. For example, MacBeth was evil, yet he was a tragic hero, because he had free will. He also had only one flaw, and that was pride. He had many good traits such as bravery, but his one bad trait made him evil. Also a tragic hero doesn't have to die. While in all Shakespearean tragedies, the hero dies, in others he may live but suffer "Moral Destruction". In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every ...
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... says: "Run after that come peevish messager, The country's man. He left his ring behind him" (Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 276-277). Olivia also explains how she is in love with Cesario by telling him that she loves him in front of him in his face when he is over at Olivia's house. "I love thee so that, maugre all thy pride" (Act 3, Scene 1, Line 149). Cessario also knows that Olivia's in love with him, because he realizes that after Malvolio had given the ring to Cessario apon returning from Olivia's house. This is prooven to us when Cessario is on the stage him self reading a soliloquy, which read: "She loves me sure; the sunnin ...
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... Exodus, Choric songs, this last being divided into Parodos and Stasimon. The prologos is that entire part of a tragedy which precedes the Parodos of the Chorus. The Episode is that entire part of a tragedy which is between complete choric songs. The Exodos is that entire part of a tragedy which has no choric song after it. Of the Choric part the Parodos is the first undivided utterance of the Chorus." Shakespeare follows this precise arrangement of parts to tell his story of Macbeth. Macbeth is divided into five acts. It contains a Prologue, Episode, Exodus, Parodos and Stasimon, but is the only one of Shakespeares plays that does not include Choric songs. Thi ...
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... rapidly builds, after committing the crime, to a point where she finds it a privilege to die. Antigone even begins to enjoy the fact that she went against Creon’s decree and wants all the glory to herself. She demonstrates her indulgence in glory best in the scene where she and Ismene are sentenced to death but Antigone will not let her sister die. We can see Antigone has hubris but her character is not developed enough to see her display of arrogance steadily throughout the play as we can see in Creon. With Creon, all the characteristics in being a tragic figure become tied into one. First of all, Creon’s motive is he must rule and rebuild a kingdom ...
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... viewers need to pay close attention to what is going on to be able to follow along with the mystery. It tends to "suck you in", so to say, because it causes the viewers to become involved and engrossed in solving the mystery. The assumed target of this series is mainly adults over the age of twenty-five, with the exceptions of those viewers that do not watch it at the time it actually airs, but they tape it to watch later. Because of the time it airs, the viewers are very select: children under the age of ten are presumably in bed, junior and senior high schoolers are out, and anyone out of high school and under the age of twenty-five is either out or working. ...
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... of tragicomedy reveals the polarity of the human condition.” The contrariety of forces in the work serves to enforce a sense of both reality and drama that are present in everyday human life. The comic elements in the play serve as a form of determined self-preservation just as the tragic elements add to the notion of self-destruction. This is the true nature of a tragicomedy. By juxtaposing two irreconcilable positions, ambiguity is produced in the judgement of the main characters, most notably Stanley Kowalski and Blanche Dubois. Ambivalence in the play is largely caused by the relationship between Stanley and Blanche. They concurrently produce both appallin ...
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