The attack of "conscience" that King Richard suffers in Act 5‚ Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Richard III (133-157) can be seen as the psychological climax of the drama‚ one that is critical to both Richard’s development as a character and the play’s ultimate success. Richard’s struggle to reconcile the many different roles he attempts to play into one unified self‚ reflected in the tone and composition of his speech‚ adds depth and humanity to his character; at the same time‚ his ultimate failure to maintain
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To what extent would you agree with the view that the world of the play is not entirely evil? At the climax of Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” the antihero of the play has been so consumed by his hamartia‚ “vaulting ambition”‚ that he has become a character who’s life “signi(fies) nothing” and who’s soldiers “Move only in command/ Nothing in love” . This reflects the descent into chaos of the play itself as the world appears to be completely treacherous and has lost all order by the last act of the play
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Charlotte Brontë-Jane Eyre (1847)-Chapter 14 He had been looking two minutes at the fire‚ and I had been looking the same length of time at him‚ when‚ turning suddenly‚ he caught my gaze fastened on his physiognomy. "You examine me‚ Miss Eyre‚" said he: "do you think me handsome?" I should‚ if I had deliberated‚ have replied to this question by something conventionally vague and polite; but the answer somehow slipped from my tongue before I was aware—"No‚ sir." "Ah! By my word! there is something
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The youngest of four children born to Percy (an accountant and aspiring jazz saxophonist) and Kathleen‚ Jim Carrey was an incurable extrovert from day one. As a child he performed constantly‚ for anyone who would watch‚ and even mailed his résumé to "The Carol Burnett Show" (1967) at age 10. In junior high he was granted a few precious minutes at the end of each school day to do stand-up routines for his classmates (provided‚ of course‚ that he kept a lid on it the rest of the day). Carrey ’s early
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The full-length play involves four principal actors‚ with three male actors and one female actor. The story focuses on university student Michael Moorehead‚ a poetry student obsessed with the character Heathcliff from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Michael is mentored by his professor‚ Evan Beckman‚ who secretly fancies him. Micheal himself‚ however‚ becomes enamored with a young art student‚ Sharon Glass. Sharon Glass’s mentor‚ George Brandon‚ is Evan
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In the movie Enemy of the State directed by Tony Scott‚ there is a political bias against having a powerful government. From the year 1998‚ which was when the movie was produced‚ technological development has exponentially increased at a rapid rate. The government has become more sophisticated within many administrations including the NSA or National Security Agency creating an elite system of gathering information‚ as well as upping security standards through surveillance. This has aroused fear
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For Jay Gatsby idealism and truth play important roles in how he chooses to live his life as well as how others view his life. Every individual holds different ideals and matters of what they believe to be the truth. For individuals existence and truth pertains to only what the person knows and believes in; therefore‚ how one perceives things to be is how they exist. For Gatsby the only Daisy that exists is perfect and the embodiment of everything he desires. For the narrator‚ Nick Carraway‚ the
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In The Catcher in the Rye‚ author J.D. Salinger creates a timeless antihero who embodies flawed adolescent confusion and brash teenage skepticism. Holden Caulfield’s two hundred-page testimony to the reader—littered with his colloquial prose and cynical opinion—helps the audience understand his attitudes and identify his yearnings and tendencies. One of the best ways to capture Holden’s imagination—to really understand why he does what he does—is to examine the several daydreams and fantasies that
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Context: The "film noir" as we know it is a world of hard-boiled crime drama with conventions that are‚ for a genre itself outside convention‚ rather consistent‚ especially in the realm of its major players: the sleazy smooth-talking criminal and the femme fatale. The ever-present sexual dynamic between these two provides the basis for much of the criminal action and‚ therefore‚ the ultimate ignominious downfall of the man (and the woman herself might get dragged down in the scheme as well). Often
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The novel of Harris stands as a signpost of current horror fiction in the development of the serial killer as an antihero. With the creation of arguably the best fictional criminals ever‚ Harris makes reference to his habit of making use of real-life serial murderers and forensics to establish a practical subgenre of the crime thriller. The tones of the chapters vary here‚ which resulted in a diverse and uneven read. The conversation of Lecter discloses his penchant for psychology and the coaching
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