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The Crucible: The Evilness And Selfishness Of Abigail Williams
948 Words - 4 Pages.... heavily by starting the witch trials, which causes the deaths
of many people in the town. Abigail doesn't want anyone to find out that
she was in the forest so she harshly threatens Betty Paris and Mary Warren
not to say anything. “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a
word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some
terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you...
And you know I can do it... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun
go down.”
She fell in love with John Proctor after their affair, her morals
and her whole life began to fall apart. She started to be overcome with her
feelings of lov ....
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Macbeth: Macbeth The Tragic Hero
928 Words - 4 Pages.... in aiding his decision, Macbeth would
have never had the strength to lie, scheme, and destroy to such extremes. The
last, and most devastating to Macbeth, was his cripled conscious which made him
act out of selfeshness and lust. The sequence of these factors were most
defenitely provoked by the evilness and twisted nature of the witches, for if it
weren't for their influence, then Macbeth would have never turned his desires
into reality.
At the very beginning of the play Macbeth is nothing but a general
fighting for his country. His fellow fighter's admire Macbeth, for in their
eyes, and even in the eyes of the highest of authority, his nobility and
couragousness is looked ....
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Krapp's Last Tape: Imagery In Color
835 Words - 4 Pages.... about life in the 20th century. The playwrights indiscreetly utilize
metaphoric and symbolic details to support their message. In "Krapp's Last
Tape," Samuel Beckett exploits such techniques in expressing his own bleak and
pessimistic view of the world.
In his middle years of his life, Krapp retained this rigid and anal
retentive nature. He kept these tapes in which he would constantly reevaluate
his own life and try to always improve it, using these tapes as "help before
embarking on a new retrospect" (1629). He had also stored these various tapes
organized in boxes with their location written in a ledger. Yet in his latter
years, there is an appare ....
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"Rage"
1018 Words - 4 Pages.... But I can't reflect the pain back because it is on myself. I
force it on my surroundings which include other people and other objects.
My rage sometimes forces the vain in my forehead to give me a headache. To
me that's what rage is, that sensation in your mind that let's you know
that you are frustrated.
Beginning my search I looked up the definition in the dictionary my
computer. When I looked up the meaning of the word rage in the dictionary
it was exactly what I thought it would be. The real definition is violent
explosive anger. Also to be furious intensity, as of a storm or disease.
Brenda Gillespie (39) stated that rage to her meant to be upset, to ....
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King Lear: Rejection
1090 Words - 4 Pages.... always been far
behind Cordelia in the king's eyes. As a result of this second-hand treatment,
Goneril and Regan carried with them an immense amount of hatred and when Lear
divided his kingdom between them, they both openly rejected his presence in
their lives. " Some other time for that. - Beloved Regan, she hath tied sharp-
tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture here, - I can speak scarce to thee ; thou'lt
not believe with how depraved quality - O Regan ( King Lear II.iii )!
Goneril's response further clarifies this rejection. " Good sir, no more ;
these are unsightly tricks : return you to my sister ( King Lear II.iii ).
Lear's reaction is pure rage. He understands that h ....
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Has Hamlet Gone Mad?
675 Words - 3 Pages.... eyes, she married. O, most wicked speed, to post with suck
dexterity to incestuous sheets!" He then heard from his good friend Horatio
that they had seen a ghost during the night watch. Hamlet was shocked at the
description of the ghost and he said to him-self "My father's spirit-in arms?
All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!" Hamlet's
per-sonality underwent severe stresses due to the situations en-countered and
consequently, he had to find a way to solve the apparent problems.
In Act 1, Scene 5, Hamlet while talking to his father's ghost was urged
to avenge the foul murder, but to leave his mother out of it as her guilt would
be punishm ....
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"A Man For All Seasons" By Robert Bolt: More's Moral Dilemma
1214 Words - 5 Pages.... a cardinal, was told by
the king to try to persuade him to support the king's divorce by appointing him
to a political office, so if More does not support the king, he could be
executed for treason. Similarly, the king orders Cromwell, his assistant, to
apply pressure by finding a reason to kill More, to force him out of the way.
All of these pressures from the king lead to a moral dilemma that More has to
face, but he chooses to stick to his morals.
King Henry applies pressure on More to support the divorce through Meg.
While More is in jail for failing to take an oath supporting the divorce, Meg
tries to convince him to take the oath, and she says, "Say the words of ....
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MacBeth - Tragic Hero
495 Words - 2 Pages.... Glamis, and King of Scotland, Macbeth would still be his ordinary self. As a result of the prophecies, this aroused Macbeth's curiosity of how he could be King of Scotland. As the play progresses, Macbeth slowly relies on the witches prophecies. Shakespeare uses the witches as a remedy for Macbeth's curiosity which corrupts his character.
The influence of Macbeth's wife, Lady Macbeth also contributed to his degeneration of character. Lady Macbeth's character in the beginning reveals that she is a lovable person. When Lady Macbeth was ready to kill King Duncan herself, it showed that Lady Macbeth could not murder King Duncan because he reminded her of her father. Th ....
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