... return." The protagonists of this film are Christian and Satine, both of whom fall in love with each other for the first time. The antagonist is "the Duke." He's the jealous type of guy and he wants to kill Christian at the end of the play because he too, was in love with Satine. ... doctor told him that she was going to die very soon, but as she wakes up, Harold remained silent to tell her. The day before opening night the Duke wanted to see how the progress of "Spectacular, Spectacular" was going. As he saw the ending he didn't like it because he had a suspicion that Satine ... change...

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... for life and her easy-going attitude. He wanted her to love only him and it disgusts him that she could possibly have eyes for more than him. The Duke is selfish and inconsiderate in this act. He is telling the servant about this fault to relieve some of the guilt he feels. The servant, being a lowly citizen ... , will not tell anyone of this and at the same time the Duke can relieve some of his own feelings. He is more or less using the servant as a human diary. He recounts all of the things he loved yet envied ... can look at nothing but him and they can share this strange love together...

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... the 1700's. His openhanded inauguration with the entire city looking upon him is the start of his downfall. From the beginning of the picture, the Duke is up to his evil ways. His ravenous chuckle and self-assured poise illustrate his power beyond the Jew-banned city. With the help of ... Oppenheimer, a hackneyed, money-hungry, con artist with a long beard and great wittiness, the Duke begins to gain everything a man of power could ever wish. Conning tolls from passing townspeople over the roads and bridges, he makes money the dirty way, all ... of her. He then holds a party for all the...

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... are many ways the characters in this play show loyalty. Olivia and Viola show loyalty to the ones that they love the most. In Act 1 Scene 1, the Duke comments on her vow "Oh she that hath a heart of that fine frame to pay his debt of love, but to brother". Olivia vowed to go into mourning ... for 7 years out of love for her brother. The duke admires this intention and believes that this example of loyalty reveals her true character. Viola also shows a part of her character by remaining loyal to the ... disguise is the only way. In the same scene, she says she will commit, as silence is ...

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... the play the people who truly love each other are together at last at the end of the play. In the beginning of the play the Duke was in love with Olivia; Olivia was in love with Cesario; and Cesario is actually a woman named Viola who is in love with the ... so sweet now as it were before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou"! Viola is just as lovesick. I think that it is good for the duke to be with viola instead of Olivia, he spent so much time chasing her until he was blind that he was the only one chasing between the two. Olivia did ... not want him. Viola on the other ha...

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... of Illyria suffers from unrequited love. He is in love with Lady Olivia but she has no intention of getting together with him. Duke Orsino lives in a fantasy world where Lady Olivia and he are together and happy. Towards the end of Twelfth Night, Orsino feels betrayed by Cesario, his messenger. Lady Olivia is ... in mourning, for seven years, for her brother. She refuses to have anything to do with Duke Orsino. Her sadness and mourning ends when she falls in love with Duke Orsino's messenger, Cesario. Viola, who works for Duke Orsino as Cesario is in mourning for her brother, Sebastian....

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... whom she is infatuated, is thrown in high contrast to Viola's mostly nonchalant and subtle flattering of Orison. Cesario appeals to Olivia when he speaks of the Duke's love in a poetic and soothing quality. Cesario states, "With adorations, and fertile tears/ With groans that thunder love, with signs of fire," wooing ... how much the better/ To fall before the lion than the wolf" (III, I, 127-8). Although Olivia appears not to like being "hunted" by the duke in love, she cannot help seeing love in the same way. She is too seeing love as a "hunt." In all circumstances she is the victim and...

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... physical attraction is what happens to the body when an individual makes contact with another individual for the first time. This contact can be tactile or visual. When the Duke's "eyes did see Olivia first" (1.1.20) that "instant was [he] turned into a hart, and [his] desires, like fell and cruel hounds; E'er ... since pursue [him]" (1.1.22-24). The moment the Duke saw Olivia he knew that he wanted her and no one else. The Duke did not need to touch Olivia to feel some type of attraction towards her. The vision of her simply met his ... and that is how the emotional attraction develop...

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... of his kingdom wished only to end his days near his three daughters. Two of his daughters were married to the Dukes of Albany and Cornwall; while the Duke of Burgundy and King of France were both suitors for the hand of Cordelia. One day the king called on his daughters and told them that he would ... Even if the Earl of Kent, one of Lear's favorite courtier and captain tried to say a word for Cordelia's sake, but Lear would not listen. When the Duke of Burgundy heard that Cordelia will have no share of her fathers kingdom, he gave up his courtship. But the King of France was wiser and to...

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... adversities that their true love for another is realized. In Twelfth Night, Viola is a noble young woman that falls in love with the Duke Orsino. She decides to disguise herself as a young male messenger, Cesario, being aware that the Duke loves another, Olivia. Viola wishes to be on an intimate level with Orsino. "It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing ... with Tranio- (Taming of the Shrew V, i, 126-127). Viola is disguised as a man and among her tasks from the Duke is to send words of veneration and affection to Olivia. Her new role allows her to be familiar and intimate with Duke ...

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... and limericks. However, creating a situation which is entirely beyond its character's control is the sign of a true art. Shakespeare manages to convey seriousness and sincerity for Viola's love of the duke. The situation itself, is purely comical. The fact that it is purely coincidental that the man whom Viola ends up serving, is the man whom she ends up loving. She ... that Viola is forced to take is one in which she must tiptoe among her own lies. She must declare the duke's love for Olivia and hide her own for him. Of course, the irony of her convincing delivery of the duke's feeling...

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... Iago thought he would have for sure. Iago coerces with Brabanzio and happily agrees to spoil the newlyweds' happiness. He first goes to the Duke and states that Othello, a moor, has married his daughter and hopes the Duke will breaks the marriage. 1) Act I, Scene 1: Iago informs Brabantio that Othello and Desdemona have eloped "I am one, sir, who comes to tell you your ... daughter and the Moor are making the beast with two backs."" (Lines 128-131) Instead, the Duke is impressed with Othello and sees that he is a prominent man and is truly a loving husband. Iago becomes enraged again at...

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... and his love with Desdemona. He is confident that she likes him as much as he does. Cassio, lieutenant arrives with orders for Othello: Othello is to meet with the duke and senators of Venice about a Turkish invasion of the Venetian colony of Cyprus. Brabantio arrives with his men and forces Othello to accompany him to the ... duke, its like a trial, in this case Othello is the defendant. The case is about the "theft" of Desdemona from Brabantio and Othello's defense to that is that they both love ... his love. When Desdemona enters, she tells her father and the senators that she has ...

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... could not have fallen in love with Othello or marry him; he believes that Othello has used spells and witchcraft to make her marry him. Brabantio actually says to the Duke "By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks, For nature so prepost'rously to err" (1.3.61-62) to convince him that their relationship is against nature. Since Othello is ... black Brabantio thinks it is against nature for them to even be together and reiterates it saying to the Duke and Senator, "Against all rules of nature, and must be driven To find out practices of cunning hell" (1.3.101-102). Brabantio is tryin...

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The movie, "The Notebook" starts at a nursing home with an old man, Duke. He is reading to an older woman, who has senile dementia. Duke reads her the story about lovers, who met at a carnival. During the summer holidays, Allie and her family would go down to their summer house. That's when Allie and Noah ... ...

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... -66). Enraged, Branbanzio lashes out against Othello. He mind is clouded by rage spawned from taunts yelled to him in the night by Rodrigo and Iago. When he approaches the duke with his affairs the scene is described. "She is abused and stolen from me, and corrupted by spells and medicines bought of mountebanks. For nature so preposterously to err, being ... magic. "Of my whole course of love, what drugs, what charms what conjuration and what mighty magic -for such proceeding I am charged withal -I won his daughter."(p.2124 line 91) The duke promises that whoever is responsible will be p...

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... , a backdrop, or a combination of both. Several columns are usually added to Olivia's house and the courtyard in order to add a Mediterranean atmosphere to Shakespeare's Illyria. Twelfth Night takes place in Duke Orsino's court, Olivia's house, Olivia's garden, and to a much lesser extent on a street and beach of Illyria. This allows for the production to have fairly elaborate scenery, because the set ... as a bright, self-sufficient, and accomplished female almost makes her a foil to the gullible and flighty Olivia. Scene one begins with Viola/Cesario returning to Olivia's house to cont...

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... . Today, sexuality deals with the emotions and power of individuals in relation to other individuals. Sexuality is so impacting that it affects the perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of many people. Duke 2 Often, ideas and situations involving sexuality are depicted in literature and drama. For example, the movie Thelma and Louise tells the story of how sexuality between male and female controls ... , Mr. Humbert marries her mother; although, Mr. Humbert has no feelings towards Lolita's mother. The relationship between Mr. Humbert and Lolita demonstrates how sexuality interferes with m...

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... . Bruce Steivel did the choreography for the show, and Felix Mendelssohn composed the music. A Midsummer Night's Dream focuses around the tangled web of four lovers who are the subjects of Duke Theseus' court, and who get accidentally mixed up in the magical world of elves and fairies. Yoo Mi Lee and Dereck Townsend played the first set of lovers, Hermia and ... their execution of the movements and their expressions of the feel of the music, throughout all three acts of the show. The first act took place in the court of Duke Theseus, and included a series of pas de deux and solos, which ...

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... as Hermia's father, Egeus, forbade their love, they held onto their true feelings for each other. Lysander stood for what his heart told him, by questioning both, Egeus and The Duke Theseus. "I am, my lord, as well derived as he, As well possessed; my love is more than his; (If not with vantage) as Demetrius; And which is more than all ... up for one another. Hermia was willing to go against her fathers will, and run away to marry a man he did not see fit for his daughter. Lysander went against a Duke's rule, and decided that even with this decision being made, he would still have Hermi...

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... seen playing pranks on lovesick mortals, earnest youths enduring comical romantic confusion, and lovers finding understanding to the true meaning of love. Shakespeare uses the genuine admiration present between the Duke and Queen in contrast to the false attractions of the other characters. Serving as an example, Theseus and Hippolyta embody a relationship that remains true. Although they found love on the ... mask their excitement, the couple delights in the happiness the future shall bring. Certainly, both characters exude confidence as well as a deep admiration for one another. The r...

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... princess to marry someone she loves and is in love with. Well at a very young age the princess thinks she's in love and gets married. And later she meets this Duke of Nemours who she falls in love with. Her mother again cautions her so the princess leaves Paris and her prince. The second part of the novel is about the ... . The third part is about the letter how close to someone plays a part to how important he misses her. She is aware of how strong her feelings are towards the duke but she wont act on it. She is afraid of what it would do to her husband and how he would feel. She cares ...

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... love with 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..,. Hermia is saying ... ...

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... 's head. Two lovers defy the king and run away to be married. Hippolyta transforms her fiery disposition to be tamed in love with Theseus. The first lovers presented ar the Duke and queen of Athens, Theseus and Hippolyta. These two are passionate towards each other and eager to marry. Hippolyta sacrifices her warrior- Amazon lifestyle and reputation and allows herself to ... be the Duke's tame wife. Their love is significant to the fate of the Hermia and Lysander, the scorned lovers, because Theseus's experience of such motivational love influences his actions of condoning Hermia ... ...

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... , will marry the man of his choice, Demetrius, but Hermia loves not Demetrius but Lysander whom loves her back. Helena loves one who loves her not - Demetrius. Egeus sees the Duke and begs for his support in forcing Hermia to accept his wishes. Lysander argues that he is just as suitable a husband as Demetrius, with the advantage of being loved by ... Hermia. The Duke cannot change the law so he gives her three choices. "Either to die the death, or to abjure Forever the society of men." (Act I, Scene I, Line 65) "You can endure ... ...

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