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  • Course Of The Play Oedipus
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    Oedipus Rex is a play about the way we blind ourselves to painful truths that we can't bear to see. Physical sight and blindness are used throughout the play, often ironically, as a metaphor for mental sight and blindness. The play ends with the hero Oedipus literally blinding himself to avoid seeing the result of his terrible fate. But as the play demonstrates, Oedipus, the man who killed his father and impregnated his mother, has been blind all along, and is partly responsible for his own blin...
  • Walter The Liquor Store
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    A Raisin In The Sun Everyone in America wants to achieve financial success in their life in one form or another. Sometimes living in a capitalistic society entices many to become too materialistic. This is most commonly referred to as the American Dream. For most Americans, this high status is very difficult to achieve. The play, A Raisin in the Son, (written by Lorraine Hansberry) examines an African-American's family's struggle to break out of the poverty that is preventing them from achieving...
  • Oedipus Evokes Pity And Terror From Readers
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    THE GREEK THEATRE 2) Is Oedipus a Tragic Hero? Answer this question demonstrating specific understandings of the concepts of Tragedy and the Tragic Hero. In the Greek play, "King Oedipus" written by Sophocles, certain characteristics, which determine the traits of a tragic hero, reveal themselves as the play unfolds. These traits enable readers to enjoy a more enhanced reading of the play and also serve to evoke a particular response from the reader. Readers acknowledge that King Oedipus is a tr...
  • Blood In Shakespeare's Play Macbeth
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    bibliography: macbeth paper, use of 'blood' april 2005 Paper: The use of imagery and "blood" in Shakespeare's play Macbeth. Imagery is the use of symbols to convey an idea or to create a specific atmosphere for the audience. Shakespeare uses imagery in Macbeth often, the most prevalent one, is blood. I believe he uses this as a way to convey guilt, murder, betrayal, treachery and evil, and to symbolize forewarning of events. In the beginning of this play blood resembles honor, bravery, and maybe...
  • Wide Range And An Ascending Melody
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    I attended the University Symphony Orchestra's 'An Evening of Handel, Schubert, and Haydn' on Thursday, September 30, 2003 in the Daniel Recital Hall. The hall was much more crowded than I expected. At the beginning of the concert, the orchestra was seated on the stage; the men wore tuxedos, and the women wore black dresses or pants. The concertmaster came out to tune the orchestra, and then the conductor made his entrance and gave a brief description of the piece that was about to be played. Ge...
  • Sight In The Play Oedipus The King
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    The concept of sight is one of the major motifs throughout Sophocles' play Oedipus the King. The play revolves primarily around series of events caused by many people's insight or lack there of. Oedipus does not see that he is caught up in a web of cruel destiny that he can not escape. The gods demonstrate foresight and insight into the play. In addition to this, Tiresias has physical blindness but also has prophetic insight. Finally, both Oedipus and Jocasta portray types of mental blindness an...
  • Wladislaw
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    Character Review In the movie The Pianist, Adrian Brody plays a polish Jew named Wladislaw Szpilman. The date is set during the 1940's, in time of World War Two and the beginning of the Holocaust. It is then, when Jews are forced to live in ghettos after the invasion of the Germans. All families, no matter rich or poor, are put to live together where food is hard to find and death awaits them all. Wladislaw is a well-respected pianist with a perfect family, which he greatly cares for and appreci...
  • Writing Of The Play Trifles
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    Susan Glaspell's "Trifles" The nineteenth century produced several prominent female literary writers. Like many other women writers, Glaspell dealt with issues such as gender differences and inherited a rich legacy from the women of the nineteenth century. In Greenwich Village, Glaspell and her husband wrote openly about many controversial issues (Smith 179). In 1915 Glaspell started the Provincetown Players. Glaspell's involvement in the Provincetown Players strongly influenced the writing of t...
  • Beginning Of The Play Willy
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    The Attempts Made Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, is a play depicting one man, Willy Loman, in his attempt to achieve the American Dream while living amongst his wife and children. Throughout the play the reader is introduced to many characters, some who are dynamic and some who are static. In any good literal work there is a balance of both of these types of characters, and Death of a Salesman is no exception that Willy Loman, his wife Linda, and their two children, Biff and Happy, creat...

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