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Shylock’s first scene in The Merchant of Venice is important because it sets the tone for the audience’s view of him throughout the play. I have never seen the play performed, but it has been my experience that an audience will form an opinion of a character upon first seeing them. There are many different…

Rev. John Hale vs. John ProctorThe characters of John Hale and John Proctor in The Crucible can be compared and contrasted according to their key traits, goals, and tendencies to change. These characters are probably the two most important characters in the play. They both are strong men mentally and are proud of what they…

OedipusD. T. Suzuki, a renowned expert on Zen Buddhism, called attention to thetopic of free will in one of his lectures by stating that it was the battle of”God versus Man, Man versus God, God versus Nature, Nature versus God, Manversus Nature, Nature versus Man1. ” These six battles constitute an ultimatelygreater battle: the battle…

Moby Dick Essays Moby Dick – Characters of Captain Ahab and Ishmael The characters of captain Ahab and Ishmael are almost opposites. About the only things the two share in common are that they are both seamen and they both are on a hunt for a whale. Ishmael is a pleasing character, who plays the…

Where Lies the Blame? In Sophoclese play Oedipus The King, the fate ofOedipus, the main character, was foretold at his birth that he would kill hisown father and marry his mother. As a young adult, he went to see an oracleafter hearing rumors. The oracle told him of his foul fate and he ran awaytrying…

1Eng. Lit H2/19/04In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies the theme of right versus wrong exists. The plot of the story is a basic fight for civilization where no governing body exists. This means that there is no ruler or parent to tell the kids who have been stranded what to do. They become their…

s for many reasons, one of which was his drastic conversion from a miserable criminal into a heroic, peaceful man. Jean Valjean seems like a three dimensional character at first. But deep inside his emotions he shows a defined viewpoint on life making him a flat character. One of the most compassionate things he did…

Victoria receiving a phone call from her longtime friend, Caitlin. Caitlin calls the then fresh from Harvard 22 year-old Vix (short for Victoria) and tells her she’s getting married and that she wants Vix to be her maid of honor. The only problem is that Caitlin is marring Vix’s old flame. When Vix hears this…

Oedipus is a man of integrity and passion whose goal in life was to seek the raw truth. Throughout the story, he constantly tried to obtain that goal, but at times he tried to swallow his tongue because he sometimes had the inclination way down in his gut, he might be a killer. Worse than…

The main characters of Dostoevskys novel The Brothers Karamazov are, as the title suggests, the members of the Karamazov family, if it can indeed be called such. The only things that the members of this family share are a name and the Karamazov curse, a legacy of base impulses and voluptuous lust. References to this…