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    Revenge of Gender People have learned to categorize objects and themselves into different groups in order to keep an organized group or society. One of the main categories is sex‚ male or female‚ which is established immediately when someone is born. At first glance they are differentiated by their reproductive organs‚ but then they are both given different and specific characteristics that they should follow. Males are known to be strong‚ powerful‚ independent‚ non-emotional‚ competitive‚ etc

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    Billy's Revenge In Medea

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    realized that it was far from over in her eyes. She had been wronged and her mother had not enacted any satisfying form of justice‚ so she would have to take care of it on her own. As she plotted her revenge‚ she crossed a line. She was no longer seeking justice for a wrong doer; she was now seeking harsh revenge for his "crime" against her. In the Greek drama Medea‚ the main character‚ after whom the play is named‚ seeks what she sees as justice against those who have wronged her. In the play Medea‚

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    English 30-1 Hamlet Preseminar Work Alexa Forigo - Blackhall Act I Briefly summarize the key events in this act. In Act 1‚ we open with a dialogue between three men- Marcellus‚ Bernardo and Horatio. They are visited by a ghost‚ who is later verified by Horatio to in fact be the recently deceased King Hamlet. Next‚ we are introduced to Claudius‚ the new king since the death of King Hamlet‚ marrying into an incestuous relationship of King Hamlet’s past wife‚ Gertrude. He decides to keep Hamlet‚ our protagonist

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    Shakespeare ’s most well known play‚ Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark‚ for those who were involved in such revengeful scheming upon others ended up dying themselves (Farrell). For example‚ Hamlet‚ Claudius‚ and Laertes‚ all of Catholic faith‚ engage themselves in revengeful conduct throughout the entire play; all three of these characters end up dying as a result of their own revenge upon another. The lust for revenge begins when Hamlet discovers that his honorable father‚ King Hamlet‚ was not killed by a snake ’s

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    Medea Revenge Essay

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    Is Revenge Worth The Lives Of Your Kids? When Medea decides to take matters in to her own hands‚ about punishing the people who have done wrong to her‚ she is accused of wanting not justice—vengeance. Because I am not a native of neither Corinth nor Colchis‚ I have my own view about her motives. However‚ I would agree with the Corinthian Women‚ Medea is seeking vengeance; not justice. Some people might argue that Medea is seeking justice. When in actuality‚ Medea wants vengeance. The opposition

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    Indecisiveness In Hamlet

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    deaths of his beloved mother Gertrude‚ his only love Ophelia‚ her father and brother‚ along with his old friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Hamlet is a young‚ childlike character who is also a student of life due to his contemplating nature in which he is always questioning everything “to be‚ or not to be: that is the question” (Act III‚ Scene I). Hamlet delays to act because he does not know how to respond to Claudius’ action because secretly that is what he wanted—to kill his father and marry

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    Medea's Revenge Analysis

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    Her multitude of steps toward revenge shows just how elaborate and demented her plans are. Medea first starts with convincing King Creon to let her and her children stay one more day in order to prepare for exile. Medea never intended to use this day to prepare‚ for she used it to plan her revenge. Medea devised a plan to kill Creon’s daughter in order to make Jason suffer. Creon’s daughter is Jason’s new love interest

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    Hamlet Metaphor

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    Shakespeare"’"s Hamlet‚ a revenge tragedy that continually depicts the vibrant metaphors of manifesting corruption and festering disease in order to auger the impending calamities in the state of Denmark. Throughout Shakespeare"’"s play‚ there are successive images of deterioration‚ decay and death. These images are skilfully accomplished through the use of metaphors of rotting and dead gardens. Shakespeare wonderfully creates these metaphors that add great dimension to the play of Hamlet. The garden

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    Hamlet Questions

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    Hamlet Act 1 1) Bernardo had seen the ghost at prior watch (1.1.38). He is explaining how it has been two nights that this has occurred 2) Marcellus believe that Horatio should speak to the ghost because he’s well educated (1.1.49) He thinks that Horatio is better at communicating to the ghost and wont offend him 3) Fortinbras wants to get revenge on the king who killed his father‚ therefore he wants to kill Hamlet instead because he is the kings son. (1

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