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- 16131: “Agamemnon”: Clytaemnestra
- ... s absence. It is, therefore, in this first address to Clytaemnestra that it is learned that power is a main component of her character. When Clyteamnestra explains that she is lighting the alters because the war against Troy is over, which she knows because of the torch signals, she say that they are her, “proof, my burning sign…the power my lord passed on from Troy to me!” (Line 318-319 ...
- 16132: Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire: Tragic and Comic Elements
- ... these two characters. The comic aspect of the tragicomedy is displayed through irreconcilability. Through the character Mitch, Williams successfully juxtaposes the comic with tragic elements, which are central to the tragicomic genre. While Blanche’s world is increasingly closing in on her becoming more tragic in implications, hence her wanting a husband, Mitch is almost completely blind to her overtures and sexual advances. For example, while Blanche is virtually dying inside ...
- 16133: Romeo and Juliet: Love and Their Ends
- Romeo and Juliet: Love and Their Ends The love story of Romeo and Juliet is widely read and known throughout the western world. Friar Laurence states one of the major themes in the play: “Therefore, love moderately, long love doth so”(II, vi, Line 14). He sees that the two lovers are so passionately in love that it ...
- 16134: Fashion in the 60's
- ... s gradually gave way to flares, bell bottoms, and loon pants, bright colors, novel materials, chunky rings, and sports cars were all part of the 60's look. In the early 60's, the teenagers world was suddenly hit by the rock- n- roll of phenomenon of the Beatles. Teens idoled rock stars and let their hair grow long and wore bright, wild colored clothes. Leather offered great opportunities for self ...
- 16135: The Madness Of Prince Hamlet
- ... Hamlet is caught in the middle of acting and objectivity. Hamlet finally gets his act together, and decides to act the part his father had given him, after he sees the soldiers going off to war to die. The imminent death of twenty thousand men That, for fantasy and a trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which ...
- 16136: Death of A Salesman: Summary
- ... for a loan of ten thousand dollars so biff can began a business of his own. Biff and his brother tell Willy about there plans. Willy thinks that these two brothers together could rule the world. Willy tells Biff that Mr. Oliver always thought pretty high of him. Willy is very happy, knowing that his sons are going to see Bill Oliver and become successes. The boys have left the house ...
- 16137: A Doll's House: Women Have Come A Long Way
- ... for themselves and looked upon as a decorative member of the household. Women were robbed of their true identity and at the end of the play, Nora leaves everything behind to go out into the world to seek her identity. This behavior can be traced back to the beginning of time when women were to stay home and gather nuts and berries, while the men would go out and do the ...
- 16138: Hamlet's Puzzling, Duplicitous Nature
- ... Hamlet is caught in the middle of acting and objectivity. Hamlet finally gets his act together, and decides to act the part his father had given him, after he sees the soldiers going off to war to die. "The imminent death of twenty thousand men continent To hide the slain. O, from this time forth My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth! That, for fantasy and a trick of fame ...
- 16139: Hamlet and King Lear: Villians
- ... lost a father,/that father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound/in filial obligation ... We pray you throw to earth/this unprevailing woe, and think of us/as of a father, for let the world take note/you are the most immediate to our throne,/and with no less nobility of love/than that which dearest father bears his son/do I impart toward you.(Hamlet, I, ii, 87-112 ...
- 16140: The Temple of Zeus
- ... of the god in whose honor the ancient Olympic games were held, Zeus, was built by the famous sculptor Pheidias. Zeus was the most famous statue of antiquity, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Pheidias was assigned the sculpture as a “Sacred task, reminiscent of Michaelangelo’s paintings at the Sistine Chapel”(Larrinda). Pheidias built the statue of Zeus by erecting a wooden frame on which sheets of metal ...
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