Ghost Dance

"The Hound" is a story written by H. P. Lovecraft. This story starts off building suspense. It starts off as the narrator watches his friend get torn apart by a creature beyond the imagination. As this happens the narrator feels like suicide is the answer, not wanting to get torn and mangled like Saint John. He hopes the heavens will forgive him for this unholy practice. He explains how this creature came to be. The creature was woken up by his expedition. His expedition involved a group of…

Furthermore, we can see the struggle to find the truth of life in the Tron. In this movie, many people believe that Sam’s father was mysteriously died but Sam Flynn shows that he do not care what other people’s opinion about his father in newspaper or television. Sam Flynn tries to discover his journey that led him to his father and he proves to himself that he has a possibility to change his destiny. Together with his father, Sam uses his potentiality to bring his father back to the real world.…

In the play, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is a university student who had to go through the tragedy of losing his father and understanding the truth behind it. He has to follow his fate in avenging by murdering his uncle, Claudius. He became a significant character to the play. In this particular play, Hamlet acts as a pathetic character with three major traits of being contemplative in his thoughts, impulsive in his actions, and melancholic in his words. His character…

So many actions and choices made to truly win nothing. By the end of it was never shown if the ghost was redeemed. Hamlet falls along with everyone else with no clear victor. Plot: After the death of the late King Hamlet his brother, Claudius, ascended the throne and wed the Queen. Prince Hamlet was not keen to the ordeal and was set onto the path of revenge once his father’s ghost appeared. The ghost of the late King Hamlet told his son that in order to redeem his father Hamlet must rid of his…

I know that you are not dead, there’s no way that you can be. I’ve been reading into this for quite a while, and there are many reasons as to how you are still alive. I hope that I will be able to meet you sometime soon. One of your other stage names, Makaveli, is one of the main reasons that people believe you to be alive. You picked this name after an Italian war strategist Niccolò Machiavelli, who pretended to fake his death. When the order of those letters are switched, it says, ‘Am…

At the end of the novel, Baybars was forced to sign a treaty, since he had suddenly had lost his massive advantage. Ever since his close officer, Omar, had been killed in an attempted Templar assassination of Baybars, he had become depressed. Will himself lead the treaty party from Acre to Baybars, and presented the treaty to him in Chapter 47. Young had Baybars sign the treaty on May 22, 1272. The main problem with the treaty in the novel, besides having Will leading the charge, was when the…

For this exercise I am using the final two paragraphs of The Pit and the Pendulum. At the climax of The Pit and the Pendulum, the narrator realises that using reason and rationality in his struggle to avoid death is futile, and so he abandons himself to his instinct as he unwillingly confronts the pit, the symbol of the dark, unknown part of his psyche (just as his cell is representative of his mind).. This confrontation is more terrifying than death and his unexpected rescue is all the more…

The 1990 version of Hamlet directed by Franco Zeffirelli (Links to an external site.) is a two-hour movie in which several scenes were cut from the original four-hour play. It is accessible and interesting to watch. Zeffirelli is also the director of the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet. He received an Academy Award nomination for directing the play. Later in his life, he received many different honors. Due to his experience of directing other plays into films, Hamlet is another successful…

the only one to not betray him. To understand Hamlet as a character there needs to be knowledge of the connection between Hamlet and his dead father and how both the presence and lose of this figure changes him. Both with him before death and the “ghost” of his father met later. During the plays long run we are never faced with the late King of Denmark Hamlet in flesh and blood, but we do hear some descriptions of who he was as a person. Though it would be foolish to say that he does not have a…

Hamlet Extra Credit After seeing Hamlet performed and reading the original play, I've grown to appreciate the different interpretations of the play. At the Shotgun Theatre performance, they did not include every scene and line, and cut back the number of characters. As there were only seven actors, all but two actors played multiple characters. This led to an interesting new take on most of the scenes, because certain characters couldn't be on stage at the same time. Some of the characters,…