The Blue Angel I watched the DVD version of the "The Blue Angel" in English only. The film begins at the Professor's house. Inside, the house is rather drab in that there is no real decorations or anything eye-catching. It just sort-of blends in, much like Professor Rath. The mise-en-scene at the Blue Angel is quite the opposite. The walls are covered in various decorations and posters. Although this film was ... as the clown he has become. Faced with his wife's infidelity and his realization that his life is upside down, he says nothing. Even with his silence, his feelings are more than evid...

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... Georgie stayed. She helped him learn to trust other people and make friends. It was her that started Georgie down the path of love. The other supporting character was Mrs. Harper, a pretty woman who lived across the street from the children's house. At first she and Georgie didn't like each other at all. But when she did begin to like Georgie, it was much faster than ... Georgie to like Mrs. Harper but he is being as stubborn as a mule and only truly begins to like her after the play they put on for the school. Unfortunately, the day after the play, Robin drowns in the lake where he and...

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... fully attain Daisy's love and affection. Before Daisy, Gatsby was a simple guy, and now even though his house is extravagant Gatsby is the same, he's still simple. So it is no surprise that "His bedroom was the simplest room of all" ( 97 ). At one point in the novel he takes Daisy to his room to show her his room, and subtly trying to let ... inner self. She couldn't possible love him, not Page 2only did Daisy not know the real man underneath the mask but, "She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand" ( 114 ). She would never come to understand him because be...

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... to write to her and asked her to wait for him until he returned. She agreed at first , but along came a rich man by the name of Tom Buchanan and began having relations with Daisy. She didn't really love Tom but he had money and power so as any girl in ... Daisy all about it. Gatsby also arranged for he and Daisy to be invited to Nick's house one afternoon. After meeting her there they talked for a short while and it ended up with the three of them going to Gatsby's house. While they were there Gatsby showed Daisy his biggest rooms, his priceless antiques, even his finest ... shirts. Dai...

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... play is about looks, not about the reality of things. As long as something can look good, the other thing will fall in place. After Lady Bracknell finds out that Jack owns a house in the Belgrave Square, she asks him what his town house number is. Jack responds truthfully and ... tells her his number is 149 and to this she responds, "The unfashionable side. I thought there was something. However, that could ... easily be altered."". Today people still care about what society will say. People try to outdo each other. They buy fancy cars with lots of little accessories. They buy the ... n...

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... is in love with Arlene, something Hagar does not understand nor approve of. John tragically dies while performing a stunt while drunk. Hagar moves to the coast, buys a house, and ends up living her last days with Marvin and his wife Doris. Shortly before her death Hagar realizes many things about herself. First of ... her heart is made of stone, and that she has been hard and has never opened up to anyone, like the stone angel. The stone angel was brought from Italy, as a symbol of the Currie familys pride, and not as much to honor Mrs. Currie. Jason Currie has incredible pride, and up...

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... suppose him virtuous, know him noble, Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth; In voices well divulged, free, learned, and valiant, And in dimension and the shape of nature A gracious person. But yet I cannot love him. He might have took his answer long ago" (1.5.258-264). Olivia knows that Orsino loves ... Viola is doomed from the beginning for Viola is in love with Orsino. Olivia loves Viola because Viola called her a proud woman, therefore, this love cannot be achieved because it is a dream. Olivia says, "Make me a willow cabin at your gate And call upon my soul within the house...

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... is in love with Arlene, something Hagar does not understand nor approve of. John tragically dies while performing a stunt while drunk. Hagar moves to the coast, buys a house, and ends up living her last days with Marvin and his wife Doris. Shortly before her death Hagar realizes many things about herself. First of ... that her heart is made of stone, and that she has been hard and has never opened up to anyone, like the stone angel. The stone angel was brought from Italy, as a symbol of the Currie family's pride, and not as much to honor Mrs. Currie. Jason Currie has incredible pride, an...

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... differences in social classes can never come between true affection for someone. Thus, true friendship is faithfully inseparable and lasts forever. From the peak beginning of the novel, Jess Aarons is found trying to make friends by competition of racing. He's trying to show off his running talent, ... trying to please. Although she does make him look bad, little Jess sees something in her that no one else sees - the beginning of a true friendship. As the story unfolds, Jess falls in love with Leslie and they become inseparable. Jess" and Leslie's bond of friendship gets stronger than .....

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... "regain" Daisy simply because he pursues her not really as a woman, but as an ideal. As an ideal, Daisy Buchanan--and all she represents--must vanish at the first eruption of crisis. Gatsby is very rich and he uses his money to buy friends. He doesn't have friends that he can trust because as soon as they ... see the opportunity, they"ll stab him in the back. All the people that were at his parties were not there to see him. They just wanted to have fun for free, just like everybody else ... does in the world. He thinks that everything is bought with money, including love and friendship...

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... solicitous of how she is exterminating peoples lives, reputations or authorities as long as her demands were retrieved. In this quote: "I know how you clutched by back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near! Or did I dream that? It's she put me out, you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your ... of Abigail. She is very persistent that John Proctor loves her still so she launches out for her revenge. She is convinced that marrying Elizabeth was the most immense mistake in his life and strives to abolish her by accusing her of witch craft, thinking that this wo...

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... man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behavior to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love: and such a man is Claudio. Meaning that he can't believe that Claudio who was great warrior has been ... . Benedick's another line was "I have known he would have walked ten miles a-foot to see a good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. Benedick is saying that he knows how Claudio would walk for ten miles to have good armoury, and now he has...

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... produced by regretful actions. John Proctor's past actions with Abigail Williams causes jealousy. John had an affair with his maid Abbie. It was due to the coldness he was recieving from his wife, Elizabeth. She soon became aware of their behavior and fired Abbie with great hate. Proctor breaks it off with ... that John wanted Elizabeth more than her and soon her hatred grew and grew. But Elizabeth was still angry with John and had the same feelings for Abbie. Soon after all the accuzations began, Abbie had Elizabeth accused of witchcraft. This was an action taken out of a hate and jealou...

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... , full of problems and arguments. Eddie is very possessive of Catherine which he seems to think is because of his family position, because Eddie is the man of the house. However this isn't fully comprehended until the end of the play when Eddie is talking to Rodolpho demanding his name from Marco (p82-83) "BEATRICE: that's not what you want EDDIE: Don't bother me! BEATRICE ... self-obsessed, caring more for himself than he does for anyone else. Because of this self-obsession, he is enraged when Marco accuses yells across the street as he's being taken away "That one! He killed my childre...

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... thing to love, her young son Paul. Her feelings toward her children, especially Paul, are exemplified when her children are around. She feels the centre of her heart go hard. Everyone thought of her as a great mother who loved her children, but only she knew that her heart was a hard little place that could ... not feel love for anyone, not even her children who desperately need it. Success for the mother is acquiring more wealth to hide her inadequacies. Their family was poor, although they didn't appear to be. The mother spent the money that they had and more at times. It is human nat...

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... she meets a young hunter, who is also an ornithologist, whom she soon begins to greatly admire, but is troubled by the fact that he shoots the very birds that she loves. From her experiences with the hunter, Sylvia learns a few things about growing up and making mature decisions. Because Sylvia has a close relationship with nature ... -as for Sylvia herself, it seemed as if she had never been alive at all before she came to live at the farm- (326). Sylvia feels as though she belongs in the woods. She loves and respects nature as she wanders about, exploring her beautiful world. Since Sy...

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... of an Hour," written by Kate Chopin, irony of a situation is emphasized too show meaning to the story. After Louise finds out the news of the death of her husband, Brently Mallard, Louise's first reaction was to depart in a "storm of grief" with "wild abandonment" (Chopin 3). However ... began to sit in her chair alone in her room and started to "reach in to her soul" (Chopin 4). Because of the death of her husband, Louise starts to realize the "new spring life"(Chopin 5) and all her surroundings she has never examined before. With her new state of mind Louise becomes jovial ... because...

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... despair. Through his love he has betrayed her and led her even more deeply into sin. And so her love turns to hatred of the betrayer. Love has little chance of surviving against the intensity of her concern for her own purity and clarity of conscience. For her there can be none of ... doing, that she was led into it, that it was not really her fault. If Bertrande wants to cleanse herself of sin, she must cease to accept the role of wife. At first she tries to deal with this by begging her "husband" to leave her, but when he refuses, saying that it would confirm ... is her madness, she be...

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... , without love. Gatsby died without achieving his goal in life, to have his true love, Daisy all to himself. Should somebody really die like this? The endings in the novel, "The Great Gatsby", can be changed dramatically. In the novel, "The Great Gatsby", I think Gatsby should have killed Tom, thinking that he would have Daisy all to himself. After Tom was killed, Daisy would disappear ... book that would make Gatsby happy would be that, Tom and Jordan are flirting and dancing and having fun all night at one of Gatsby's parties. Nick is watching them the whole night and becomes very jeal...

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... easy to look around and see many people who live in their past. Walking down a street, one can still watch cars pass by with peace signs and equal rights slogans or hear blasting disco music from the 70's. However, although the people in these cars enjoy the culture of the past, they know that it is behind them and can never fully be revived. They ... be revived. Therefore, he set out to reclaim his love, Daisy, and continue his life, as it had been in the past, unconcerned by all of the changes that had transpired. When Gatsby returned from his service in the armed forces, he embarked ...

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... with her and her boyfriend Willy Jack driving out to California for his big music career break. Willy Jack portrays a typical "abusive boyfriend" role in the story. While driving out to California Novalee asks to stop at a Wal-Mart to stretch, and buy a couple things. Willy Jack ends up leaving her ... . Novalee meets many people during her stay such as Benny Good luck, Moses White cotton, and her savior Forney Hull. Forney Hull aided with the birth of her child, and is the future love of her life. When her baby girl is born, she names her Americus Nation, aiming for a powerful title for...

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... Lysander and she wants to marry him. Hermia was not willing to give up her true love and she didn't mind being brought to meet the Duke. She still insisted to the Duke that she would not marry Demetrius. This can be seen clearly when Hermia quotes "..whose unwished yoke my soul consents not to give sovereignty..,. ... towards Lysander as she had to go through all this trouble. Other than that, Hermia's true love was also put to the test when Demetrius was crazily in love with her. All thorough the play, she was very faithful to Lysander as she kept rejecting Demetrius even thought at one...

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... but as time progresses Ophelia experiences many hurtful and confusing events that causes her to lose her mind and eventually her life. It is made clear from the beginning of the play that Ophelia has feelings for Hamlet and vice versa. Ophelia's father, Polonius, and her brother, Laertes, both advise her to forget about Hamlet ... . Even though she is in love with Hamlet she decides to put her emotions aside in order to please her father and brother. When Hamlet reads the letter that Ophelia wrote he begins to act strangely towards her. This leads her to believe that his love for her has ...

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... my birth, leaving my mother to be a single parent, she never made me feel neither inadequate nor mortified about our presence. During the time, single parents were condescended by the society in our culture. Divorce or multiple divorce, affair and equalities were major factors that many women had to struggle against and were ... typically demeaned once a woman engages in these acts. I sometimes doubted myself and my mother for comprising a family which the stereotypes label it as "dysfunctional" and blamed my mother for living with a shameful secret. I refused to take my mothers emotion ...

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... picking a satisfactory partner like beauty, body contour, class, etc. They seldom search for a person who has a good personality. Most people nowadays judge the person by his/her physical looks before considering having him/her as a partner. People of the older times just allow love to take place. It is only now that a person tries to manipulate someone he/she likes to make ... her/him fall in love with him/her. The individual chooses strategically where to take the person and what to do in every place they go to. The most embarrassing thing that people do nowadays is that they use fanc...

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