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    for his dark fantastical works in film‚ is said to be most loyal to the book versus the 1971 version entitled Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory . Like the book‚ the film conveys a heavy theme of morality and family. The motif throughout the movie is bad children are punished while good children earn the coveted rewards. In this case‚ an entire chocolate factory. The film explores the effects of unscrupulous behavior and the gains of selflessness‚ kindness‚ and being family centered. The

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    Hamlet and Macbeth‚ two dying heroes In all the plays of Williams Shakespeare there is a hero‚ a main character who changes major things in the country‚ because they are close related to the royal house‚ which makes them noble. But did you recognize that these well meant deeds‚ almost always leads to the death. In this essay I will compare this strange characteristic of the Shakespeare plays Hamlet and Macbeth. First Hamlet. The father of King Hamlet (which is the main character)‚ Old King

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    Most books that become a movie are heavily criticized for the differences between the two; The movie Othello‚ on the other hand‚ does an excellent job on following the original plot of the play‚ The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare. A praised and trusted war hero‚ Othello‚ is sent for service in a city named Cyprus and is accompanied by his first lieutenant‚ Cassio‚ ensign‚ Iago‚ and wife‚ Desdemona. Iago secretly hates Othello because he felt that he deserved Cassio’s

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    I have recently watched a movie called High Noon and just read a short story called "The Most Dangerous Game." High Noon came out in theaters in 1952 and is about a Marshall who has four criminals who want revenge on him for putting one of them in jail. It has cowboys and gun fights in the Old West. "The Most Dangerous Game" came out in 1924 and is about hunting and the main character surviving all by himself. Both of these stories are very well told and partly have suspense. They might have a lot

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    Arthur Miller’s movie‚ The Crucible and the play both have heaps of connections and diversities. All of them help forward a underscored message in both of the productions of the Crucible. Arthur Miller diligently made it clear to consolidate countless differences from correlating the two‚ you can conveniently identify the changes‚ additions‚ deletions‚ and the character patroyal. The changes in the movie are deeply flamboyant. One of the biggest changes is the main event for the cause of the Salem

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    Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most intense plays and one his most complex psychological studies. It is also a play about which there is a great deal of historical background‚ which I think you’ll find interesting because it reveals Shakespeare’s creative process. The play was written in 1605--1606. It’s one of the plays where the date is pretty firmly established by internal references to external events‚ and most scholars have agreed on the date. Shakespeare was at the height of creative

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    the play had to sacrifice her personal life to care for her sick father‚ Robert. In the jest of him being sick‚ we learn that Catherine has written a mathematical proof that intellectually resembles her brilliant mathematician of a father. Unfortunately after the death of her father‚ Catherine grows the courage to show her work to her new boyfriend and also her sister‚ but they end up not believing that Catherine is capable of writing such a complex proof. “Proof” has been turned into a movie as well

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    has a tragic flaw‚ which leads to his downfall. Shakespeare and Sophocles were both inspired by the theme of Tragic Heroes and have used this theme in their plays Macbeth and Oedipus Rex‚ respectively. These plays teach us moral lessons and it is imperative to decide which character best fits the title of a Tragic Hero. Undoubtedly‚ Macbeth and Oedipus are both Tragic Heroes but in different ways. Hamartia is a tragic flaw‚ which leads to a reversal of good fortune. An analysis of the two characters’

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    film and play: "The Night of the Iguana" May 13‚ 2006 John Houston carries a common theme throughout most of his movies‚ the theme of religion. The same holds true for his theatrical presentation of Tennessee Williams short play "The Night of the Iguana." The main character of the play‚ Reverend Shannon‚ is known to be a teacher of the word but this is not portrayed in the play even close to as much as it is in Houston’s film. I will discuss three major differences between Williams play and the

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    of Shakespeare’s 37 playsMacbeth is one of the most renown. Macbeth is about a Scottish general named Macbeth who has a blood thirst for power. He is guided by outside forces to choose the correct path of morality or evil. Adolf Hitler is the Shakespearian Macbeth because they both were ambitious‚ had qualities of murderous men‚ and tried to be the conquerors of their times. Macbeth and Hitler were both ambitious because they both tried to take what they did not have. Macbeth wanted to rule Scotland

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