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- 951: Shakespeare and his Theater
- ... corrupting the youth and promoting prostitution. A playwright had to please all members of the audience. This explains the wide range of topics in Elizabethan plays. Many plays included passages of subtle poetry, of deep philosophy, and scenes of terrible violence. Shakespeare was an actor as well as a playwright, so he new well what his audience wanted to see. The company's offered as many as thirty plays a season ...
- 952: King Lear: Themes
- ... his daughters and their husbands to rule the kingdom, the natural order of things was disturbed. His notion that he can still be in control after dividing the kingdom is a delusion. According to Elizabethan philosophy, it would seem that this is the beginning of his mistakes and is also the cause of much of the misfortune that occurs later on in the play. Chaos rules the unnatural. As well, King ...
- 953: Hamlet: Horatio - A Man of Thought, Fortinbras - A Man of Action
- ... with the eyes of a scholar and views things in a logical manner. Horatio sees the ghost and Hamlet says " There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy" (1.5.166-168). This reveals Horatio's attitude to the audience. It shows that Horatio only believes in what scholars say. Study is his only purpose I life. He is admired and used by ...
- 954: Taoism In Star Trek: Action Versus Inaction
- ... ancient trap that uses the starships own power supply to destroy its occupants. The answer to the trap is to shut down the engines; by generating no power the trap is overcome. Taoism is a philosophy based on inaction: "Therefore the Master acts without doing anything and teaches without saying anything."(Tao Te Ching pg. 2) When the true nature of the trap is revealed, Ryker states "If we resist we ...
- 955: Movie Review: Sense and Sensibility
- ... cascading photography that sets a romantic "I wish I was there" setting. The purpose of the Sense and Sensibility is to bring out the romance in all of us and show us that Austen's philosophy of love exists today as much as it did two centuries ago. Sense and Sensibility could rightly be classified as a love story, but that would just scratch the surface of what this movie has ...
- 956: Art
- ... burial scene to commemorate the dead. As we proceed through the times and move to the fifth century, you can see that this era was dominated by the city of Athens when Athenian drama, poetry, philosophy and politics ruled. In times of the Persian wars, naturalness of action in narrative painting and relief carving came together. This emphasized human dignity in free standing sculptures. Life size statues were created for the ...
- 957: The Crucible: John Proctor and John Hale - Good Citizen vs. Good Person
- ... a good person was his honesty. In every scene in the play that John Proctor is in, his commendable honesty stands out. It didn't matter how much trouble he would bring himself into, his philosophy was I may speak my heart (Miller, p.30). Proctor's honesty eventually lead to his downfall and death. The first incident in the play where we see Proctor's honesty is after the affair ...
- 958: A Comparison of Tragedy in English Works
- ... In Death of a Salesman, Willy Lowman's tragic flaw is that he is a dreamer who is unable to face the realities of a modern day society. Willy builds his whole life around the philosophy that if a person is well liked and good looking then he will be successful. Willy says to Biff , "I thank Almighty God that you are both are built like Adonises."(Act I page 33 ...
- 959: Julius Caesar: Brutus
- ... and told Cassius to never speak of his wife again. Lucius a bowl of wine! I did not think you could have been so angry, O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs. Of your philosophy you make no use If you give place to accidental evils. No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead. Ha! Portia! She is dead. How scaped I killing when I crossed you so? Oh, insupportable ...
- 960: A Streetcar Named Desire
- ... men are took in by this Hollywood glamour stuff and some men are not" (Williams 114). Stanley never believes Stella's act (i.e. her "Hollywood glamour") he only likes the truth. This difference of philosophy creates much tension between the two. The climax of the tension between them is in the seventh scene. While Stanley is revealing to Stella Blanche's promiscuous life, Blanche is singing the following song: "Say ...
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