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    What I Learned Since I Stopped Worrying and Studied the Movie: A Teaching Guide to Stanley Kubrick ’s Dr. Strangelove Dan Lindley‚ University of Notre Dame ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dan Lindley is assistant professor in international relations and security studies at the University of Notre Dame. Lindley worked for several arms control and research organizations in Washington‚ D.C. before receiving a Ph.D. from MIT. Lindley has published and spoken on U.N. peacekeeping‚ internal conflict‚ the Cyprus

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    A foil character is a character whose presence enhances the qualities of another character. A foil character isn’t that important but at the same time is very important because that character could be the cause of a dramatic ending. The play Much Ado About Nothing written by William Shakespeare‚ shows how misinformation led to a couple who were planning to get married ended up not going through with it. Don John and Don Pedro are two brothers but complete opposites of each other. Don John is a

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    After carefully researching Dr. Shipman’s character‚ in my opinion‚ I believe Dr. Shipman’s motive to killing his patients was growing up watching his mother’s doctor make house calls and treating her illness with morphine. Dr. Shipman’s mom died a slow and painful death of cancer. (Morris‚ 2001) On the night of her death‚ Dr. Shipman ran miles through the streets of Nottingham in the pouring rain‚ tears streaming down his face. (Morris‚ 2001) Dr. Shipman pursues becoming a doctor; nevertheless‚

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    Many playwrights utilize foils to assist the audience in deeply understanding the meaning of a play or the motivations of the characters . Foils are minor characters that have similarities or differences with a major character. Often the minor character is in the play so that the major character has someone to speak with. The similarities between the foil and the major are typically gender‚ same social class‚ or being in the same situation. The differences between the two may be an important

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    Katerina Klingensmith  Mrs. Drebus   Honors English 10: 7  22 August 2014  Outline   Thesis: The two Aphorisms here are trying to tell you that your life is short and you need to live it to the fullest  before it is too late.   I. “ It is better to die on your feet that to live on your knees”  A. Euripides   1. Born in Athens‚ Greece‚ around 485 B.C. Married a woman named Meleto and had 3 sons.  His family was most likely a prosperous one; his father was named Mnesarchus or Mnesarchide‚ and his 

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    A foil character is one who enhances unique characteristics of another character. This is accomplished by a strong contrast between the two characters. The famous play writer‚ William Shakespeare uses numerous foil characters throughout his plays. One of these famous plays is Romeo and Juliet. This play has many foil characters which magnify qualities in other characters. Specifically Romeo‚ who is the main character of the play and has three main foil characters. Each one of these characters brings

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    2013 English 3B Literary Snapshot 2 Rewrite: How does Miller develop the character of Abigail? In what way is the character of Abigail a foil to Elizabeth Proctor? In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ he develops Abigail by using her actions to make our view of her character change as she starts to act differently throughout the play. Abigail is a foil to Elizabeth Proctor since she uses lying as a tool to manipulate people as she finds it especially effective. Abigail gradually becomes inhumane

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    Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde‚ takes place during the Victorian period and starts off with a lawyer‚ Mr. Utterson‚ who witnesses a strange man commit a dreadful act of crime. In the wake of seeing the man for the first time‚ he meets him on a few more occasions after the same man‚ otherwise known as Mr. Hyde‚

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    Frankenstein and Dr Jekyll From the comparison between the novel by Stevenson and the novel by Mary Shelley we noticed some important analogies. One of these regards the theme of the limits of Nature. Walton’s only aim in life is to travel towards the unknown; Frankenstein has the ambition of distinguishing himself in science and so he creates a living being by joining parts selected from corpses without respecting the rules of Nature; Dr Jekyll creates a potion able to release his evil side‚ Mr Hyde. But

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    Caddy Compson: A Foil for Three Brothers In William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury one character unifies the story‚ Caddy Compson. She is central to the story and Faulkner himself said that Caddy was what he “wrote the book about” (“Class Conference” 236). However many of the criticism’s of the novel find Caddy less interesting than Faulkner’s other characters: Quentin‚ Jason‚ and Benjy‚ and there are less critical analyses that deal primarily with Caddy because as Eric Sundquist

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