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Essays on Arts and Plays
Title: Ben-Hur
Details: Words: 1526, Pages: 6... be discussed in this essay. From these two works, many
parallels can be drawn with actual historic events. The object of this
paper is to illustrate the successful joining of fact with fiction.
Ben-Hur successfully told an intriguing story of a Jew falsely
accused of a crime with the backdrop of the rise of Christ and the
tyrannical ruling of the Roman empire in the first century of the common
era. The main character, Judah Ben-Hur had many highs and lows during the
story. Religion was his backbone and strength throughout the story. Ben-
Hur was able to continue through hardships because he had a desire to
continue on. This inner strength is what made ...
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Title: King Lear: A Shakespearean Tragedy
Details: Words: 1189, Pages: 5... makes men
see how blind they are not knowing when fortune or something else would be
on them. The hero must be of a high status on the chain and the hero also
possesses a tragic flaw that initiates the tragedy. The fall of the hero
is not felt by him alone but creates a chain reaction which affects
everything below him. There must also be the element of chance or accident
that influences some point in the play.
King Lear meets all of these requirements that has been laid out by
Bradley which is the most logical for a definition of a tragedy as compared
to the definition of a comedy by G. Wilson Knight.
The main character of the play would be King Lear ...
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Title: Shawshank Redemption
Details: Words: 475, Pages: 2... to survive beyond the barbed wire and iron bars. As one of the characters puts it: "These [prison] walls are funny. First you hate them, then you get used to them, then you start to depend on them."
Filmed on location in a disused Ohio prison, The is set in a place of perpetual dreariness. What little color there is, is drab and lifeless (lots of grays and muted greens and blues), and there are times when the film is a shade away from black-and-white (give credit to cinematographer Roger Deakins, a longtime Cohen brothers collaborator). It's ironic, therefore, that the central messages are of hope, redemption, and salvation.
Tim Robbins, as Andrew Dufresne, ...
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Title: Death Of A Salesman - Willy
Details: Words: 1289, Pages: 5... with time. Now, Keats has romantically
serenaded his reader with descriptive lust and desire, which can be
compared with popes' efforts by the difference in eighteenth century
literature and romantic poems, their descriptive natures and ideas they
portray to the reader through their writing.
Pope has written an eighteenth-century poem which he calls, "An
Hero-Comical Poem." This poem has exalted an over all sense of
worthlessness for common rules. The mentioning of Achilles and the ever-
popular Aeneas, are symbols of Pope's Gothic style. Pope speaks (almost)
G-D like throughout, "The Rape of Lock." Contrary to Keats, who is more
down-to-earth with ...
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Title: Jean-Claude Van Damme - Double Impact
Details: Words: 730, Pages: 3... Zhang, played by Philip Chan Yan Kin, and Nigel Griffith, played by Alan Scarfe. Frank and Chad go to Hong Kong and meet his brother. Interesting events take place when they arrive since Alex's girlfriend Danielle Wilde, played by Alonna Shaw, thinks that Chad is Alex. Alex arrives and head butts Chad. When Chad revives from being knock unconscious, Frank convinces the two brothers to help avenge the deaths of their parents.
The setting for this movie is very appropriate. They are in Hong Kong where the laws are not up to par with the American Style. This allows the corrupt trades of Zhang, Griffith, and Alex to go on hardly disturbed by the Hong Kong police.
The ...
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Title: An Analysis Of Much Ado About Nothing
Details: Words: 2142, Pages: 8... antagonist Don John, bears much resemblance to Don John of Austria, the illegitimate son of Charles V, half-brother to the King of Aragon who defeated the Turks at Lepanto and returned to Messina after his victory in October of 1571 (Richmond 51). Don John of Austria had many of the qualities that Shakespeare's Don John did, he was not on good terms with his brother, and although he tried with much effort to gain status, he was frequently humiliated in attempts to bring himself fame. Shakespeare was known to draw parallels between his characters and actual historical figures, in an attempt to produce a sort abstract history of the times (Richmond 49).
Upon ...
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Title: Othello: Summary
Details: Words: 939, Pages: 4... confront Othello with this situation.
*At the beginning of Scene Two of Act One, Iago gives advice to Othello and lets
him know what is about to happen. Shortly after their talk Brabantio confronts
Othello about stealing his daughter. Then they all went and saw the Duke.
Othello defends himself and asks if Desdemona can testify on the behalf of him.
Othello tells how that the only "witchcraft" he used were his stories, and how
Brabantio used to invite him up to tell them. Finally, Brabantio disowns
Desdemona and she goes to be with Othello.
*Near the end of the first scene of the second act, Iago convinces Roderigo, who
was observing Cassio's enthusiastic gree ...
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Title: Movie - Dead Man Walking: Capital Punishment
Details: Words: 872, Pages: 4... Sister Jean tries to talk the parents out of going through with the
execution, they do not agree with the view that Sister Jean, and they go
through with the execution. And since Sister stuck behind the killer, the
parents of the murdered would not allow Sister to talk to them, or accept
Sister in their home at any time.
At the beginning of the movie, Sister Jean feels completely
different than she does at the end of the movie. Early in the movie,
Sister feels somewhat afraid, and does not feel like she wants to help out
with his case. But after Sister agreed to have a private session with the
killer, she changes her mind, and agrees to help him out. Si ...
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Title: Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid"
Details: Words: 1774, Pages: 7... love,
and death versus life.
Two of the major changes from the text to the play are Argan's degree of
illness and his death. In the text, there are very few elaborate descriptions of
Dr. Purgon's treatment. However in the play by Panych, there is no shortage of
enemas and other "bathroom" related scenes. I originally thought this change was
for comical purposes, but after some additional thought I questioned whether
Argan was imagining his illness or if he really was ill. In the text, by not
having too many bathroom scenes, Argan seems to be imagining his illness (thus,
he is the imaginary invalid). In Panych's stage version, Argan shows several
symptoms of be ...
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Title: Antigone: Creon
Details: Words: 458, Pages: 2... much to learn without the loss of dignity…” (p.222). Creon doesn’t listen and Haemon says, “A one man state is no state at all.” (p.224). Once Creon hears this he lashed out in frustration and runs out into the palace. Later, while talking to Tiresias about how Polyneices’ punishment had no purpose because he was already punished since he was dead. Creon strongly disagreed with Tiresias and got angry when Tiresias said, “…He is a fool, a proved and stubborn fool…” (p.237). The comments concerning Creon all prove that he is a foolish leader.
During Creon’s life his views on things change and his conscience finally comes into place in the en ...
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