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    play.” Discuss. The fool is a continual character in the workings of Shakespeare. The Fool is usually a cunning peasant that uses his intellect to outdo people of a higher social status. This is particularly the case in the play King Lear. Lear’s jester‚ the Fool‚ is indeed a very strange character. He uses crazy talk and merry songs to give Lear important advice. Not only is he important in the development of the plot but he’s important in the development of Lear’s character and also has an important

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    03 October 2013 Hop Frog In Edgar Allen Poe’s 1849 short story‚ Hop Frog‚ the main character is a crippled dwarf that is forced to be a court jester under the king’s rule and later attains his revenge by killing him. Poe uses great characterization throughout the story to not only help the reader relate to Hop Frog‚ but to also show justice in his horrifying actions. He characterizes Hop Frog‚ Trippetta‚ and the king and his ministers in a way that allows readers to empathize with the story’s ending

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    American Pie Analysis

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    The immensely popular song "American Pie"‚ written by Don McLean‚ describes the "day the music died"‚ and the decline of society in the following decade. This date‚ specifically February 3rd 1959‚ is marked by the deaths of influential musicians Buddy Holly‚ Ritchie Valens‚ and J.P. Richardson. McLean wrote the song to describe his feelings towards the deaths‚ and to describe the history of American music up to the date "American Pie" was written‚ using symbolism to describe events without directly

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    is working for money to go back and help his country defeat the dragon that is destroying his home. The fourth one is old enough and obese enough to be her father. She is taken by the dragon because the jester made a deal with him. Then she turns into a dragon girl to find out that the jester her love turned against her after all she had done for him.(The dragon kissed her forehead to turn her into the Dragon Girl she was.) Once she turned Aethelbald tried to help her several times and finally

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    underlying theme throughout the play‚ but some of the most interesting reflections on death happen in the scenes we least expect them to. In Hamlet’s discussion with the King after Polonius’s death‚ and in Hamlet’s conversation with the skull of the court jester‚ death and what happens after death‚

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    pursuit. He eventually catches up in the control room located in the tower’s basement‚ where Vergil is having no luck reactivating the tower. The brothers battle again and seem evenly matched‚ until they are interrupted first by Lady and then Jester. Jester reveals that he is in fact Arkham‚ and has been manipulating them all to reactivate the tower. Arkham’s plan is to cross over to the demon world and steal the Force Edge‚ the dormant form of Sparda’s original sword which contains the bulk of Sparda’s

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    of Amontillado‚” is about the protagonist‚ Montresor‚ who acts serene at the beginning in order to reel in Fortunato into his trap‚ but at the end‚ his behavior is aggressive and vengeful. “Hop-Frog” is about a dwarf‚ who is a jester‚ named Hop-Frog. Trippetta‚ another jester‚ and he get disobliged by the king and his 7 ministers‚ but that soon becomes the death of the king and his 7 ministers. Hop-Frog shows the King and his 7 ministers the animal that they think Hop-Frog is. These two stories are

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    Hitlers Speech

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    just know he is a man of great power by his tone‚ posture‚ and the effectiveness of his audience the Germans. I think its smart that Hitler practices his hand jesters before his speech because body movement and posture can be judge on if not done right and he needs to keep his audience alert and listening the whole time. Plus hand jesters give words more meaning . Hitler is a very bad man but also a smart one you have to give it to

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    Elizabethan Era

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    and dancing‚ and playing games with each other at their local fair. March- Easter was the specific holiday for march ‚ weird right ?‚ the only thing different about that is the month that it’s in. April- April fools day‚ a great time to be a jesterjesters pretty much took over for the day‚ causing chaos with all of their tricks‚ and jokes. May- May day‚ the summer

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    already changing into the costume of a court jester.” Similarly‚ in the Cask of Amontillado Fortunato dresses as a jester while going to the carnival and Montresor takes him to the catacombs and ends up burying him alive. On the other hand‚ Dumas uses the outfit on the Count of Monte Cristo as an ironic way of saying that the Count is deceiving the other characters in the book through his multiple identities. In the situation in the Cask of Amontillado‚ the jester outfit symbolizes Fortunato as being a

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