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- 491: Joseph Conrad Heart Of Darknes
- ... blackness of the natives whose lives must be destroyed for its sake. (Gillon-25) Many other authors use the theme of light and dark, especially Shakespeare, whom Conrad admired. In Macbeth, for example, much of the play is filled with the struggle between light and darkness. The darkness symbolizes Macbeth, who asks for darkness to hide his desires in Act I, and then darkness shrouds the night of the murder. The light in the first two acts is King Duncan ...
- 492: Shakespeare and His Plays
- ... that their good offspring. Antony and Cleopatra with a different type of love, namely, the middle-aged passion of the Roman general Mark Antony for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. In Macbeth, Shakespeare depicts the tragedy of a basically good man, who led on by others, succumbs to ambition. In getting and retaining the Scottish throne, Macbeth dulls his humanity to the point where he becomes capable of committing any enormity. Three other plays of this period suggest a bitterness lacking in these tragedies because the protagonists ...
- 493: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... ultimate result. Hermann's overweening desire to rise in the world by acquiring money causes him to lose not only his winnings and his patrimony, but finally his mind. Unlike Macbeth, who also sells his soul out of greedy ambition, Hermann is never able to enjoy his success. (It is interesting to note that Hermann has called the countess "old witch" to her face. In MACBETH, the witches predict not only the protagonist's speedy rise to power but also his guilt, his insomnia, and his catastrophic fall.) Through natural or supernatural means, depending on how ...
- 494: William Shakespeare's Life
- ... that their good offspring. Antony and Cleopatra with a different type of love, namely, the middle-aged passion of the Roman general Mark Antony for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. In Macbeth, Shakespeare depicts the tragedy of a basically good man, who led on by others, succumbs to ambition. In getting and retaining the Scottish throne, Macbeth dulls his humanity to the point where he becomes capable of committing any enormity. Three other plays of this period suggest a bitterness lacking in these tragedies because the protagonists ...
- 495: 11th Century Scotland and Witchcraft
- ... phrases, symbols, and signs that we use today are also used in 11th century Scotland. Often such things are often seen in horror movies or pieces of literature, such as Macbeth. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, you are introduced to three witches, in the first scene of act 1, they are described to be ugly beings with no definite determination of gender. While researching it was ...
- 496: "Perfectly Imperfect: The Shakespeare Story"
- ... James I took over the company, and it was renamed the King's Men. In the first ten years of the 17th century, Shakespeare wrote his greatest works. Included were Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear. It was those plays that probably caused the King's Men in the Globe Theater to be ranked first of all of the play groups in ... It Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet the Prince of Denmark Henry IV (two parts) Henry V Henry VI (three parts) Henry VIII Julius Caesar King John King Lear Love's Labors Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure Much Ado about Nothing Othello Pericles Richard I Richard II Richard III Romeo and Juliet The Comedy of Errors The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of ...
- 497: Hamlet Criticism
- ... that he doesn t have the time or ability to carry out his plans efficiently and effectively. Cooleridge contrasts Shakespeare s use of a tragedy in Hamlet to the play MacBeth. Cooleridge shows that Hamlet proceeds in his schemes with the utmost slowness, while MacBeth has a pace that is crowded and moves with breathless rapididty. These two plays with themes of Greed and Revenge are both rooted in the same systems of belief but ...
- 498: Violence on the Tube
- ... videotapes, and films in the classroom. Children in day- care centers often watch Sesame Street. There are filmed and videotaped versions of great works of literature such as Orson Welles' Macbeth. Nearly every school shows films of laboratory experiments. But what of our viewing outside of the classroom? Television is also one of our major sources of informal observational learning. According ... children get into fights, or read about violence in the newspapers. Even if all those sources of violence were somehow hidden from view, they would learn of violence in Hamlet, Macbeth, and even in the Bible. Thus, the notion of preventing children from being exposed to violent models is impractical. We might also want our children to learn some aggressive skills ...
- 499: Othello - William Shakespeare
- ... Othello, once distracted, is not capable of appreciating Desdemona; he knows enough of Venice to see its prejudice, but he does not recognise her amazing courage in opposing it. Like Macbeth, Othello has succeeded as a soldier, and is accordingly left with a dignity and pride but misunderstands the world outside the military one. With his suicide Othello acknowledges his fault ...
- 500: Hamlets Antic Disposition
- ... certain measure of manifest destiny, running parallels with many of Shakespeare's tragedies, wherein protagonists' and antagonists' fates were decided by ethereal, non-participating characters (I.e., the Witches in Macbeth). In the end, Hamlet died with the nobility of defending his father's character, and setting wrongs right, proving those wrong that initially slandered him with accusations of hedonism and ...
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