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King Lear by William Shakespeare and Precepts of Niccolo Machiavelli

the consequences of these actions. King Lear is an eighty-year-old English monarch who is preparing for retirement. His major di...

Comparison o f William James' Verification and John Dewey's Experience and Inquiry

example, in his Art as Experience (1934) he explained that he understood art as the experience of focusing on the production of ob...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Desdemona's Role

very easy to do so because she has been a kind and loving daughter. In truth, he had hoped that she would have married someone lik...

Character Sketches Featured in William Wycherley's The Country Wife

tale that he is a eunuch, otherwise impotent. With the aid of his friend, Doctor Quack, he manages to land himself in the lap and ...

Richard II and Richard III by William Shakespeare

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

Director Michael Almereyda's Version of Hamlet

as being spoiled and self-centered. Furthermore, the directors decision to turn a number of Hamlets soliloquies into interior mono...

Delayed Reaction of Hamlet to Seek Vengeance for His Father's Slaying

of character. He knows that, for many reasons, his actions have consequences, but his major miscalculation is in what form they w...

Water Symbolism in The Tempest by William Shakespeare

and rainfall again. References to wetness and of being soaked with water seem to refer to the state of the men, that they are abou...

Othello by William Shakespeare and Race Issues

we see Roderigo and Iago discussing the fact that this Moor, Othello, exists and is now in a position of power within the masters ...

William Shakespeare and Love's 3 Levels

of as gold, silver and slate. Gold is the level where there is a situation for a man where the girl loves him wholeheartedly. He...

Eurocentric Global Perspectives of The Tempest by William Shakespeare

coming to the island, as well as the history of the island prior to European intrusion. Before Prospero came, the island was ruled...

The Serious Side of A Comedy of Errors

history itself. "As with many of his plays, Shakespeare drew on classical sources for the plot of The Comedy of Errors. The bare b...

Paternal Loss in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

Birth of a Nation/Cinematic History

history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...

Levy on "The Glass Menagerie"

Levy believes that Laura is solely focused on her vulnerability, which is symbolized by the fragility of the glass (Levy). He writ...

Shakespeare as the Author of His Works

poems "by several well-known theatrical poets. One of these poems (untitled in the volume, but now known as "The Phoenix and the T...

Film Analysis

In order to offer thorough analysis, Boggs and Petrie (2004) recommend seeing a movie at least twice. The first viewing can be dev...

Oedipus Rex (1957)

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

Seven Samurai

and precise technical skill" (Seven Samurai, 2007). He is the true hero in many ways for he is generous, sincere and stands a nobl...

Contemporary Drama/2 New Plays & Aristotle

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

A Son of Africa

thumbscrews" (California Newsreels). This particular film is clearly a film that is aimed at bringing light to the past, to the ...

Born on the Fourth of July

person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...

Girl Interrupted

problems of Susanna. Susanna is diagnosed as having borderline personality disorder. Susanna is suffering from hallucinations. For...

Film Analysis/Kiss Me Deadly

(Ralph Meeker) swerves to avoid her and runs off the road. Angry, he snarls, "You almost wrecked my car. Well? Get in!" (Dirks, 20...

The Titanic

a historical event and also its creation of a fictional love story. In this film there is a woman, Rose, who is very wealthy and...

Crash: Film Analysis

and if they felt justified in their actions. He decided to write a movie from their perspective" (Jet 54). Such information hel...

"The Asphalt Jungle" and "Citizen Kane" as Classics of Film Noir

before. Perhaps the iconic model here is Barbara Stanwyck luring Fred MacMurray to his doom in Double Indemnity. But there is an...

Albee: "The Sandbox"

their waste, an interpretation borne out by Grandmas lines: "they ... fixed a nice place for me under the stove ... gave me an arm...

1956 Film Adaptation/Moby Dick

the injustice that fate as inflicted upon him, as he has pursued the whale for years, coming close numerous times, but never actu...

Rewriting Shakespeare

find a different word. The line "Tell him his pranks have been too broad to bear with" (III.iv.2)is difficult because "broad" does...