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Macbeth: A Good Man
511 Words - 2 Pages.... in act I, scene 2.
"For brave Macbeth_well he deserves that name_ Disdaining fortune, with his
brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion
carved out his passage Till he faced the slave;_"
Macbeth defended his king's honor as well as his own, as Shakespeare showed
a good man never backed down from a foe. In the later acts of the play,
Shakespeare furthered the definition of a good man by portraying what a bad
one was not. In Macbeth's darkest hours, he showed no sign of prudence and
logic as he slayed king Duncan, and hired assassins to murder his friend
Banquo. Macbeth displayed his temerity in act IV scene 1 saying, "_from
this moment The ....
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From Noble Macbeth To This Dead Butcher
1224 Words - 5 Pages.... leads to his demise.
The first impression we get of Macbeth in the play is from the “Captain” in Act1, scene2. He is brave Macbeth who has ripped Macdonwald open from navel to jaw. From this early indication we can see that Macbeth is a fierce and bloody man at this point his speech gives the impression of Macbeth as a hero but it foretells of decent of Macbeth from hero to butcher.
Macbeth can only be brave when he knows what he is doing and feels justified in doing it. He feels like this at the beginning of the play when he is prey to doubts and fears. We first see Macbeth afraid when he thinks of murdering Duncan it makes his hair stand on end and his heart poun ....
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Hamlet And Oedipus Rex: The Birth Of Kings
830 Words - 4 Pages.... of his parents, he believes that his
father died of natural causes. Or, in Oedipus' case, the main character
thinks that he has escaped Apollo's prophecy that decreed that he would
grow up and murder his father, the king, and marry his mother, the queen.
This eventually leads to the point at which both have their "eyes" opened
to the reality surrounding their "illusionary" worlds. Hamlet is
approached by the ghost of his dead father who reveals that his own brother,
Hamlet's uncle, murdered him. Oedipus Rex discovers the truth when the
blind prophet, Teiresias accuses him of being the one who murdered King
Laios therefore fulfilling his destiny in which he had sought to ....
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Sir John Falstaff's Influence On Prince Hal In I Henry IV
1067 Words - 4 Pages.... royalty, or in this case
the king, who strives to uphold law and order. Rhetorically, the moon,
symbolizes instability, not only because it does not remain the same size to
one's eyes as time passes, but because it reigns the ebb and flow of the tides.
Therefore, as a knight guided by moonlight, Falstaff is a dissenter against law
and order. This conclusion finds support in his witty tautologies and epithets.
Falstaff is invariably aware that Hal will one day become king, and when that
happens, robbers will be honored in England by “Let[ting] us be indulgence
Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, monions of the moon; and let[ting]
men say we be men of good ....
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Macbeth: Macbeth A Tragic Hero - His Strengths, His Weaknesses, His Tragic Flaw And The Effect Of Outside Influences On His Nature
700 Words - 3 Pages.... he deserves that name.
Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody
execution, Like valour's minion carv'd out his passage, Till he fac'd the
slave." (Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 16-20). However, after the murder of Banquo, his
ambition and superstitious nature clouded his morals and common sense. Pride and
ambition were a main contributor to his faltering public image of a brave hero.
Macbeth's own nature and "metaphysical" influences is a lethal cocktail
which propels him to his fate. The witches' ambiguous prophesies affected
Macbeth by making him curious to why they greated him as Thane of Cawdor and
why he would soon become king. A ....
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Hope Floats Video Review
860 Words - 4 Pages.... to try to help her daughter. She didn’t always do so well. Then she was also pressured by her mother and an interested suitor to get on with her life. She had a big job to do to overcome her feelings and work to get a new life.
Her husband name was Bill. Sorry I did not get the name of the actor. He did do a good job of portraying a very selfish person. He had an affair with her best friend on their living room floor! He was no knight in shining armor. He was more like a Don Juan with only his self in mind. He was mostly out of the picture which showed what kind of person he was. He never even came to see his own daughter until the little girl’s grandmother ....
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Hamlet
888 Words - 4 Pages.... Hamlet
decides to take a passive approach to avenge his father. Hamlet first
decides to act abnormal which does not accomplish much besides warning his
uncle that he might know he killed his father. Later in the play a troop
of actors come to act out a play, and Hamlet has them reenact the murder
of is father in front of his uncle Claudius. The actors murder scene also
make Hamlet question himself about the fact that he has done nothing yet
to avenge his father. Hamlet says " But am I Pigeon-livered and lack gall
/ To make oppression bitter, or ere this / I should ha' fatted all the
region kites / With this slave's offal. Bloody, bawdy villain! ( Act II
scene 2 pa ....
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Gothic
1178 Words - 5 Pages.... had become the universal style of building in
the Western world, its creative heartland was in northern France in an area
stretching from the royal domain around Paris, including Saint-Denis and
Chartres, to the region of the Champagne in the east and southward to Bourges.
Within this restricted area, in the series of cathedrals built in the course of
the 12th and 13th centuries, the major innovations of Gothic architecture took
place.2
The supernatural character of medieval religious architecture was given
a special form in the Gothic church. "Medieval man considered himself but an
imperfect refraction of Divine Light of God, Whose Temple stood on earth,
according to th ....
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