Playwright Arthur Miller uses The Crucible to exhibit the theme of protectiveness of one’s reputation and self-image through his character John Proctor. In the play, John Proctors battle to be morally right and his affair with Abigail Williams essentially caused him a great deal of confusion. Proctor ultimately confessed, but was too enveloped in his pride so he refused to have his confession hung up on the church doors. His own refusal to let the reputation he built go to waste is what caused his
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Benvolio is to Blame! Someone has to be blamed for all 6 deaths in Romeo and Juliet. There are many people you can blame, but who is ultimately at fault? Benvolio’s name literally means ‘Peacemaker’; however, his name does not reflect on his behavior. He is to blame for all six of the deaths in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Here’s why. In Act Three, Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio and Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin (appositive), were on the streets. Tybalt wanted to duel Romeo but Mercutio stepped in for
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In Junot Díaz’s novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Díaz shows how a curse can overtake a person’s life, but can eventually be escaped. In the novel, Oscar is the main character who has been seen as dorky throughout his life, and who could never get a girl to like him. Oscar’s inability to obtain love is the curse that hovers over him throughout his life. In the end of the novel, Oscar finally breaks his curse when Ybón falls in love with him and his virginity is taken. Oscar dies soon after
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Two-Faced Duality refers to the concept of having two different opposing ideas act as different faces of a single entity. In Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the characters act contrary to themselves as the plot flips entirely to a tragic standpoint. Duality is a common theme personified in Romeo and Juliet and is the pivot that makes a play that could have been a comedy a solemn tragedy. It is seen in the swings of mood of Mr. Capulet and the Friar as they move from conservative stances
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Lies have been around for as long as a person has been. Everyone lies, whether it is to protect the ones we love or to cover up something we don’t want others to find out. Lying is the new moral of our modern day society. It's much easier to lie to someone than to tell the truth. In Ericsson’s essay The Ways We Lie, she describes nine descriptions and examples of lies we all say in a day. No matter how honest you try to be, most people ends up saying a lie. Sometimes lies are necessary, but does
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Alexander Hamilton Most people know him as the man on the ten dollar bill but who is he and what did he do to help shape the great United states we know today. Alexander was a great person in the history books but not well known. In the musical Alexander Hamilton it showed who hamilton was as a man, Military soldier, And a politician. The musical showed both his personal and professional life in a new way than what the history books told, The musical gives a whole new perspective of hamilton's life
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Let us begin with a discussion of Shakespeare’s artistic output during his lifetime. Strolling through any bookstore, it is not hard to see that Shakespeare’s plays are, in what we shall see is a modern idea of authorial ownership, attributed to him alone. While this is a nice fiction, and one that certainly contributes to the myth of Shakespeare-as-demigod, the truth of the matter is that Shakespeare’s works were often composed in collaboration with other playwrights. As Frank Kermode notes, playwrights
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Brilliant! Kenneth Branagh's version of the timeless William Shakespeare classic is a great rendition of the film, making it accessible to everyone, even those who do not like Shakespeare. Let me first say that I am a great fan of Shakespeare's works. In college I was an English literature major, with a minor in theater, and so Shakespeare is found in both. Theater people state that Shakespeare was never literature at all, which in the purpose of the plays is true, however because of the prose that
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English 212: Hamlet April 20, 2011 Judging the Book by Everything, but Its Cover “To be, or not to be, that is the question…” This is, perhaps, one of the most known quotes in world literature, translated into various languages from all across the world. It is an opening line to Hamlet’s soliloquy from William Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet.” This tragedy brilliantly portrays metal corruption of a person who is overpowered by grief due to his father’s death. Meanwhile, grieving Hamlet learns that
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet The gravedigger scene in act V scene I in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet cleverly highlights upon the major themes throughout the play. The following analysis of this scene will reveal how Shakespeare tied religion, mortality, love, and revenge into one critical scene that also revealed the plays only notable symbolic symbol, Yorik’s skull. In the beginning of act V scene I there are two clowns that are gravediggers digging the grave of Hamlets beloved Ophelia and
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