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    Hermia in your upcoming production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare. While I may be young, I believe that my understanding of Hermia’s character and the conflicts she faces in this play make me well suited to play this part, as with this knowledge and my experience I would be able to effectively portray a generally strong but complex character like Hermia. In the beginning of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” William Shakespeare shows that Hermia is strong-willed and…

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    Icarus Poetry Analysis

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    works “Musee des Beaux Arts,” “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus,” and “To A Friend Whose Work has Come to Triumph,” the authors use the myth of Icarus and Daedalus as this backdrop. Auden, Williams, and Sexton use the myth of Icarus as comparisons in their poems, but for different reasons. The authors, Auden, Williams, and Sexton, allude to this myth in their poems to either show Icarus’ story in its insignificance or in its triumph. In W.H. Auden’s “Musee des Beaux Arts,” he uses the myth of…

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    big important people in everything. For example, these people exist in sports, businesses, and even poetry. The American poet, William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), was one of the four major American poets or in other words, one of the big guys. Williams always loved literature; however, he went to medical school in hopes of becoming a physician. Despite his schooling, Williams still enjoyed writing. With his love of writing and physician degree, he really had a huge effect with the style, this…

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    City, after Carlisle Indian school, where she then became an assistant at the New York Public Library. At the time there were lots of known poets roaming the streets of Broadway, and so Marianne Moore got a chance to meet a few of them, like William Carlos Williams, and Wallace Stevens. She became friends and mentors to a lot of them. She served as acting editor of the Dial from 1925 to 1929. Along with the work of such other members of the Imagist movement as…

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    Hamlet Play Vs Movie

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    The essay I preferred to read for this secondary essay question is titled Hamlet by James Berardinelli. I preferred this one since this is the movie production I watched of Hamlet I felt this would help me determine if it was an excellent example of a movie review. The thought of having to read a review on Franco Zeffirelli version containing Mel Gibson repulsed me. I for some reason cannot stand Mel Gibson as an actor, I am guessing it is all those Lethal Weapon movies that I was forced to…

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    William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream explores one of the most fickle and complex conditions of man: love. Love takes many forms; therefore, it is not easily illustrated. In order to display the multifaceted nature of love, Shakespeare includes different examples throughout his play. Jealousy, as exhibited by Oberon, overshadows his love for Titania, driving him to play a cruel trick on her. In addition, the unhealthy adoration seen in Helena’s pursuit of Demetrius, deprives her of her…

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    1989. written by Tom Schulman. William Anderson was the editor , Peter Weir was the director, Steven Haft was the producer and The starring Robin Williams. The movie is talked about the Welton Academy, which is on the Northeastern United States It established on 1959 and it's the most Prestigious school on the United state. its famous on the commitment and the student whose graduated from it has higher qualify from those graduated from other schools. Robin Williams (Dr, Keating) play the new…

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    William Shakespeare is one of the most significant figures in English literature. To an extreme, he is one of the most significant figures in the English language itself. Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays in his lifetime. That does not include The Two Noble Kinsmen, which he collaborated on with John Fletcher, and two lost plays nobody will ever see again. His work was revolutionary for the time. It added significant depth to story telling. Shakespeare also pushed the boundaries of what was…

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    Mercury the lead singer of Queen, “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see…” English playwright William Shakespeare plays with this idea of dreams versus reality throughout a number of his production. The William Shakespeare play A Midsummers Night Dream plays with this idea more than any other play production created by the famous playwright. Within this particular play, Shakespeare plays with the…

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    the case in the Netflix series “House of Cards”. The Underwoods are alike in many ways to the Macbeths, for example, their thirst for power and money. Often times TV shows and movies base their playwrights off of famous poets and authors such as William Shakespeare and his many suspenseful characters such as the Macbeths. The Underwoods and Macbeths are alike in a lot of ways, including how the only thing they care about other than themselves is each other. They support each other and are…

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