characteristics they appear to demonstrate. What unites these characters is their ultimate self-destruction‚ resulting in the death of three out of four characters studied here. These four characters are Macbeth‚ from the play ‘Macbeth’ by William Shakespeare; Eddie‚ from the play ‘A view from the Bridge’ by Arthur Miller’; Kenny‚ in the short-story ‘Hunters in the Snow’ by Tobias Wolff; and‚ Ben Sanderson in the film ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ directed by Mike Figgis. Macbeth and Kenny are characters who share a connection
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Italian-American immigrant community are firmly defined. Yet the community is still poised delicately between the "civilized" American society it hopes to assimilate into and the more fundamental Sicilian culture that it has recently left. The hero Eddie faces a moral dilemma as his personal desire comes into conflict with the accepted social customs of his group. As this is a wide-ranging topic‚ I wish to confine my discussion of the subject of cultural context to two main areas that interested me
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this scene‚ Catherine confronts Rodolfo over Eddie’s allegation that Rodolfo only wants to marry Catherine to be an American. However it is soon revealed that Rodolfo truly loves her. The two characters sleep together for the first time‚ a fact that Eddie finds out when he returns home drunk‚ which results in a devastating confrontation between the central characters. The seriousness and the intense emotions displayed in this scene‚ plus Arthur Miller’s use of dramatic devices‚ make this scene very
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A View from the Bridge A Play in Two Acts Characters Louis Mike Alfieri Eddie Catherine Beatrice Marco Tony Rodolpho First Immigration Officer Second Immigration Officer Mr Lipari Mrs Lipari Two ‘Submarines’ Neighbours Act One The street and house front of a tenement building. The front is skeletal entirely. The main acting area is the living room–dining room of Eddie’s apartment. It is a worker’s flat‚ clean‚ sparse‚ homely. There is a rocker down front; a round dining
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Arthur Miller first heard the story of a Brooklyn longshoreman that would become the basis for his play‚ A View from the Bridge in 1947. He would not write it until 1955‚ when it was produced on Broadway as a simple‚ unadorned one-act. Miller would then develop and expand it into a full-length production with director Peter Brook in London in 1956. The incubation period of A View from the Bridge‚ spanning from 1947 to 1956‚ straddles and absorbs a host of major events both on the national landscape
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Tragic Hero From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia A tragic hero is a protagonist with a tragic flaw‚ also known as fatal flaw‚ which eventually leads to his demise. The concept of the tragic hero was created in ancient Greek tragedy and defined by Aristotle. Usually‚ the realization of fatal flaw results in catharsis or epiphany. The tragic flaw is sometimes referred to as an Achilles ’ heel after the single fatal flaw of the Greek warrior Achilles. [citation needed] Aristotelian tragic
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In 2006‚ researchers from the Department of Zoology at Cambridge published findings dealing with the ground foraging pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor) and its kleptoparasitic counterpart the drongo (Dicrurus adsimilis). A kleptoparasite is an organism that gets a selection of its food by stealing or scavenging from other animals that it lives within close proximity to. There are many different ways that an individual kleptoparasite can manipulate or mutually exist with its host partner. There are
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PAGE 3: This is the scene when Eddie Carbone is introduced. He is ‘forty – a husky‚ slightly overweight longshoreman’. When asked by his friend if he is working at the Docks tomorrow‚ he replies: “Yeah‚ there’s another day yet on that ship.” This could be an attempt by Miller to briefly show that Eddie takes his job seriously and is a hard worker. A strong relationship between Eddie and Catherine is immediately introduced by Catherine’s speech: “Hi‚ Eddie!” However a certain questioning and
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A View from the Bridge is a play by American playwright Arthur Miller first staged on 29 September 1955. It is set in 1950s America‚ in an Italian American neighbourhood near the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. The main character in the story is Eddie Carbone‚ an Italian American longshoreman‚ who lives with his wife‚ Beatrice and his orphaned niece‚ Catherine. Nothing seems really outstanding up
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Introduction: How can the existence or absence of a consolidated democracy be measured? In my paper I am going to compare the democratic advancement of two African countries. After defining the key points that will help me to measure the respective degrees of democratization‚ I am going to evaluate whether or not one can speak of consolidated democracies or not. When it comes to finding criteria for consolidated democracies‚ there can be found many resources not only in the academic world‚ but
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