... to be their usual daily activities. Neither is employed, and it is apparent that their only occupation is the pursuit of leisure activities and social matters, subjects of major importance to them. When Algernon inquires as to the purpose of Ernest's visit to town, Ernest replies, "Oh pleasure, pleasure! What else should bring anyone anywhere? Eating as usual, I see Algy!". Algeron and Ernest are characterized by their extravagance, a luxury affordable only because of the money accrued from family inheritance. Neither displays any notion of an appreciation for money. In fact, when Algernon's butler hands him bills that have just arrived in the mail, Algerno ...
... hypocrisy and hysteria played a major role in causing the instability in the people. This instability gave certain people uncontrollable amounts of power. In Salem, many people turned on one another to save themselves from being victims of the witch hunts. These people were rather hypocritical and deceitful to their friends because they would often turn them in under false pretenses of practicing witchcraft even if they themselves were actually guilty. This hypocrisy caused hysteria in Salem because of the race to turn one after another in. No one knew who to trust anymore. This hypocrisy and hysteria gave the girls who were involved an uncontrollable amo ...
... a person aware of her conscience. Here she is deciding what she is going to say to her father when he has asked his daughters to profess their love for him and in return receive his land. Just shortly after Cordelia is heard again, “I am sure my love’s / More ponderous than my tongue,” asking herself again what she is going to say. This helps prove the first point of her self-conscience, by Cordelia wondering what she is going to say to her father. This quote also points out her real love for her father, unlike her two other sisters that exaggerate their love for the reason of receiving more land from their father. Cordelia proves that she is a very kin ...
... in Pretty Woman pretty much resembles those in Cinderella. Vivian Ward, the poor hooker, who untilnow, have lived a life as a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard,where she earned just enough money to pay her bills if itwasn't for her roommate Kit. Kit is also a prostitute. She usually buys dope for the rent money, which leaves Vivian towork extra. To draw parralels to Cinderella, Vivian would (off course) be Cinderella, and Kit would be the exploiting stepsister. They have lived like this for a long time, andcontinues living like that, until one day, when Vivian is picked up by Mr. Edward Levis, a businessman from New York,trying to find his way back to Beverly Hills ...
... effect of the play, and makes the events seem more real and believable. Also by having the characters of the play watch a play, it makes them seem more real with characteristics like actual people instead of just actors. This however is not the only time that Shakespeare uses such a smart and original technique, although the second one is a little different than the first. At the end of the play one of the main characters, Horatio, begins to tell the story of to a group of soldiers. The audience can also be considered part of the group who he is talking to. This raises the question of whether the whole play was just Horatio telling the story and we were jus ...
... states that the King must not challenge the position that God has given him. This undermining of God's authority results in chaos that tears apart Lear's world. (Williams) Leaving him, in the end, with nothing. Following this Lear begins to banish those around him that genuinely care for him as at this stage he cannot see beyond the mask that the evil wear. He banishes Kent, a loyal servant to Lear, and his youngest and previously most loved daughter Cordelia. (Nixon) This results in Lear surrounding himself with people who only wish to use him which leaves him very vulnerable attack. This is precisely what happens and it is through this that he discovers his wr ...
... After Creon tells her the story about her brother’s bodies, she takes the stance that she must bury her brother for herself. That all but erases the thought of her, as a hero because all of her actions that were thought to have been done for Polynices were only done to satisfy her own needs. The one characteristic of Antigone that seems to be constant throughout the play is her stubbornness. From the beginning of the play when she sneaks out to bury her brother after Creon had specifically told her not to, all the way to the end when she is given the opportunity to marry Haemon and go on living but forces her own death. She always seemed to fight eve ...
... be caught by the Afrikaaners police and probably be tortured and killed ; same thing with the boxer friend. Than it would not an american movie anymore, it would be too realistic, something the american public, and too a lesser extent the general public does not appreciate. I believe this ending is not realistic as Pk loses his greatest love(or so they make us believe in the movie) dies and he does not care and continues to fight the “bad guys”, not thinking about her ever again in the movie. Same thing with his boxer friend, who just continues to live on like nothing ever happened. I already stated above what should have been done to make th ...
... are riding in will be safely returned and Prospero can be "relieved by prayer" of the audience. All of what Prospero has said is very nice cute, but the most interesting part of this monologue is what Shakespeare himself is saying. "Now that my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own" means, now my plays are over, and it's no longer my characters speaking. The "Island" or stage Shakespeare is on is now "bare" and it is time for "you" the audience to release Shakespeare and his actors from this play with the "help of [y]our good hands." Shakespeare was not only being released for the performance of the play, he was being release from his career ...
... he comments on the speed of her remarriage Within a month, Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good. (Hoy, 11) It is understandable Hamlet is upset with his mother for forgetting about his father and marrying his uncle, Claudius. In Hamlet's eyes, his father deserves more than one month of mourning and by remarrying so quickly, the queen has sullied King Hamlet's memory. This remarriage is a sin and illegal, however special dispensation was made because she is queen. Hamlet's op ...
