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- 12401: Hamlet - Plot Summary
- ... queen has. Polonius then enters and announces the arrival of Cornelius and Voltimand from Norway. They report that the king has calmed his nephew but would like to travel through Denmark's land to make war with the Poles. Polonius then tells the king and the queen of the behavior of Hamlet. He gives the reason for the behavior as being a infatuation with his daughter. When Hamlet enters everybody leaves ... shocked. Horatio then speaks of what has happened. Hamlet has declared Fortibras the king of Denmark. Fortibras then orders four captains to see that Hamlet is accorded full honors, including "soldiers" music and rites of war.
- 12402: Creating the Melancholic Tone in “The Raven”
- ... other realm must be explored if he is to ascertain something about his lost love and the noise which is driving him insane. The narrator then opens the shutter, opening his soul to the outside world. To his surprise, he discovers a raven, a “beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door” (53). The raven directs all further action in the poem, it ridicules and patronizes the narrator throughout the composition and its evil force permeates the air and induces suffering and anguish within the character. Emotions culminate with the attainment of a climax as the narrator faces his confused and disordered world. The narrator, in his madness, shrieks, “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!” (98). Poe’s calculated use of symbolism was influential in establishing the literary reputation of “The Raven ...
- 12403: Hamlet - Hamlet, Laertes And Fortinbras
- ... Denmark. Though son of the late King of Norway, the crown of Norway had gone to his uncle, just as the crown of Denmark had gone to Hamlet's uncle. This shows that in the world of the play it was not unusual for brothers to late kings to be elected to the throne over the pretensions of their younger nephews. But Fortinbras was not prepared to accept his constitutional dispossession ... all observers." With the death of his father and the hasty, incestuous remarriage of his mother to his uncle, however, Hamlet is thrown into a suicidal frame of mind in which "the uses of this world" seem to him "weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable." Though his faith in the value of life has been destroyed by this double confrontation with death and human infidelity, he feels impotent to effect any change ...
- 12404: Macbeth: Characteristics of Macbeth That Led to His Downfall
- ... is honor. Moreover, I believe that Macbeth caused his own downfall. There were people like the witches and his wife who influenced him, but it was his choice to choose over salvation of the next world and material gain of this one. Ambition is always good...to an extent. An overambitious person, Macbeth is too intrigued by the witches' prediction that he ignores all of the years of loyalty and ethics ... could cause us to do desperate things. And while doing those desperate things, we could possibly become paranoid and then do some more desperate things. {When I say ‘we', I mean the people of the world.} This is a fatal circle that I believe that Macbeth got spun into by the witches and partly by Lady Macbeth. It was his choice to follow through. No one put a, in this case ...
- 12405: The Great Gatsby: Eastern Desires
- ... to the west. Gatsby came east looking for another type of money - Daisy. Gatsby and Daisy had last seen each other about five years before, when they were dating. Then Gatsby had to go to war. While he was away in war, Daisy met Tom and then married Tom. Daisy had always been rich and thought that in order to get Daisy back, he need to have money and be able to give Daisy anything she wanted ...
- 12406: Gender Stereotypes
- ... of his leisure time watching TV, listening to the radio or reading newspapers and magazines. The shows on the TV and the articles in the newspapers influence our decision process, shaping our perceptions for the world. Besides the positive fact that we are better informed and in touch with the latest news, we should be aware that accepting this enormous flow of information and allowing it to make our mind can ... comics figures much more than the elder generation does. It is the role of the parents to teach them that not everythink that glitters is gold and to give them a better perception of the world. That of course does not mean that parents are affected less by the TV. On the contrary, they are often more affected than their kids, of course not by cartoons, but by shows that contain ...
- 12407: Social Control
- ... how seemingly benign or even reformist institutions such as the modern prison system (versus the stocks, and scaffolds) are technologies that are typical of the modern, painless, friendly, and impersonal coercive tools of the modern world. In fact the success of these technologies stems from their ability to appear unobtrusive and humane. These prisons Foucault goes on to explain like many institutions in post 1700th century society isolate those that society ... sees power as emanating from these fixed points; Foucault sees "power" and "control" and flowing through all the vessels of the body of society. In Truffaut's disciplinary society their is escape from such a world on the streets of Paris, in interacts with friends, and by running away to the sea or the movie theater. Truffaut sees escape from power as possible in anarchist like state free of adults and ...
- 12408: A Futuristic Interview With Romeo
- ... this sudden interruption of your day. Perhaps you would like me to explain? ROMEO: (Steps onto stage out of light beam. Beam dies) What has happened to me? Have I died? Is this the other world? What do you want of me? ANN: No, you are not dead, rather transported to another time... ROMEO: You talk no sense! Your head must be full of bugs and insects! And, if you do ... is now solved! (Happily) ‘Twas a simple misunderstanding, you see... Thank you for your wonderful technology and everything else... I must return to my home city of Verona, now. ANN: I understand. And the whole world (Gestures to TV camera) is with you. Farewell again, Romeo! ROMEO: Farewell, my friends. (Steps through light, which has changed again to Verona street scene, original scene. Slowly, the light dies.) ANN: Well, there you ...
- 12409: Emily Dickinson: Individuality
- ... the years thereafter. I believe that although they were never romantically involved their relationship was apparently very profound. Emily’s feelings for him grew to such great extents that she sealed herself from the outside world. She felt that she had no one left to talk to on a philosophical level and it is in my opinion that this is what led her into seclusion. Her life became filled with gloom ... much, how little, Is within our power! (Kirby 63) However non-religious she may appear and however insignificant she believes life to be, she does however show some signs in accepting life after death. This world is not Conclusion; A Species stands beyond, Invisible, as Music, But positive as Sound. (Johnson 123) To Emily the most important things in her life were religion, individuality, nature, and death. She may not have ...
- 12410: Hemingway's "In Our Time": Lost Generation
- ... twist showing how easy it was to find attention from someone or somewhere else. This story depicted the deterioration of marriage in Western society and how two people can easily grow apart in a big world. Another lost generation. The phrase "lost generation" can be highly speculated on and can be interpreted in many ways. For instance, in chapter 13, the short story "My Old Man," seems to bring about much ... his father was like. He exhibits a great amount of pride and compassion towards his father and their lifestyle. His father is basically a representation of all that is good and solid in Joe's world. Joe is a part of his father's generation more than he is a part of his own, and knows no other way to be. This story represented the "lost generation" because it focused on ...
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