The Crucible - Quotations Characters: Abigail Williams • Stage directions: an endless capacity for dissembling • “…and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.” • “I’d almost forgot how strong you are‚ John Proctor!” • Stage directions: Winningly she comes a little closer‚ with a confidential‚ wicked air. • “I want to open myself! I want the light of God… I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the
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Frankenstein and Blade Runner – Practise Essay In what ways is your appreciation of both texts enhanced by a comparative study of ambition in Frankenstein and Blade Runner? Despite the contextual disparity‚ both Mary Shelley’s nineteenth century novel “Frankenstein” and Ridley Scott’s 1982 post-world film “Blade Runner” reflect parallel values associated with the dangers of ambition. Specifically‚ both texts highlight the consequences of man’s lack of morality and humanity due to their blind ambitions
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What are some of the themes that are central to the film? How have they been communicated? Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi‚ noir‚ thriller‚ Blade Runner‚ uses the importance of empathy to capture the flaws of species. The theme is perhaps most evident in the character of Roy Batty. The film develops the character as a “villain‚” as he does devious things‚ appears sinister and delivers dialogue with a British accent. However‚ much to the audience’s confusion‚ the character is anything but a villain. Roy
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RF #1 The name Lucifer has often been understood to be another name for the devil or the satan. This identification has a long history in the church‚ going back to at least the fourth century. Its origin is actually from a passage in the Old Testament from the book of Isaiah that‚ to some‚ speaks of a being cast out of heaven because of pride. Since some people see a reference to the devil being cast out of heaven in the New Testament (Rev 12:9-12; cf. Lk 10:18)‚ they assumed that the Isaiah passage
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History * Sun Myung Moon was born in 1920 in what is now North Korea. At the time‚ Korea was under Japanese rule. Moon was raised in the Presbyterian church‚ one of many faiths persecuted by the Japanese rulers. The political upheavals caused divisions and new movements in Korean Christianity‚ including a group known as "spiritualists" who received new revelations from God and looked for a Korean messiah. * Moon says that on Easter morning at the age of 16‚ he had a vision in which Jesus
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on the people. Our main character John Proctor does not belong to the community‚ as he carries around strong burdens that separate him from feeling as though he belongs to society‚ we see this when Proctor says “fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer‚ I see his filthy face! And it is my face” this is a personal attack on him self and reflects the inability to belong to himself. The fire represents an image of hell and punishment‚ in what he thinks he deserves. Proctor is a bit of an outcast‚ he
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Much of the information in Dr Faustus is derived from a collection of semi-fictitious German stories (the ‘Faustbuch’) in which the life of German scholar and purported necromancer‚ Georgius Faust are narrated. Where the Faustbuch narrates a simple tale of sin and retribution‚ Marlowe creates a tragedy in which a human being makes a clear choice for good or bad‚ with some knowledge of the possible outcome. In order to do this‚ Marlowe has drawn on the conventions of classical Greek tragedy
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wanderer from place to place (e.g.‚ Cain‚ the Wandering Jew‚ the Ancient Mariner). D. The Devil Figure – Evil incarnate‚ this character offers worldly goods‚ fame‚ or knowledge to the protagonist in exchange for possession of his soul (e.g.‚ Lucifer‚ Mephistopheles‚ Satan‚ the Faust legend). E. The Woman Figure 1.The Earthmother – Symbolic of fruition‚ abundance and fertility‚ this character traditionally offers spiritual and emotional nourishment to those
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Ivory Russell April 15‚ 2012 Theo 104 It seems as though in today’s age and time that Satan’s existence is more real and prevalent not only among society‚ but among Christians‚ as well. But‚ it isn’t the talk of Satan that is alarming so much as the type of attention and talk that he is receiving. Our modern day society has transformed him from being the evil‚ factual being that we know him as into a sinister‚ more humors fictional character used to make ‘great’ movies and entertainment. Producers
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List of literary devices chapter 6/7/8 Brave words – Personification‚ the authors way of telling what he’s saying without writing it directly He was surrounded on all sides by chasms of empty air. - Metaphor – Relates to the headline of the chapter “beast from the air”‚ the word empty might refer to the fact that the beast from the air really isn ’t a threat. like the breathing of some stupendous creature – a very picturesquely simile that the reader easily can relate to – gives
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