Essays Tagged: "Imagination"

The Downfall of Lady Macbeth

r to pay full attention at all times. Unfortunately, one of these characters is a victim of her own imagination. Although Lady Macbeth adds much positive flavour to the play, her character is revealed ...

(2 pages) 49 0 2.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth

Hamlet and Gertrude, love or hate

for Hamlet, the fictional prince of Denmark in Shakespeare's play of the same name, this is not his imagination but cruel reality. Not only has his father passed but, as if to mock the very memory of ...

(4 pages) 97 0 4.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

The Tempest. Raging Waters

ated by Prospero's powers. Many of these encounters may not even be illusions but figments of their imagination as well as hallucinations. While others tend to happen because of the magic that Prosper ...

(4 pages) 110 1 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Imagery in Literature

complex and hard to decipher.Imagery is an important element in writing. Imagery can stimulate the imagination and create vivid pictures in the mind. Imagery can have a different effect on everybody. ...

(2 pages) 18450 19 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Merlin

future maybe, even maybe the past where years, days, centuries, minutes all irrelevant if you have imagination. I now dream of a time and place were men have such things as bravery and honor. I now s ... animals. This shows that as said in the first paragraph some one just made him out to be from there imagination.Next on the line up is Excaliber. In this story Merlin is portrayed as a unsung hero. If ...

(5 pages) 73 0 4.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Basquiat - my views on the film and other things on art

An artist, 'One, such as a painter, sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of imagination and talent or skill to create works of aesthetic value, especially in the fine arts.' Or ...

(2 pages) 36 0 4.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Romeo and Juliet

iam Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a popular play that continues to capture the imagination and emotions of people around the world. The drama portrays the passionate, violent and ... s characterisation. He was often careless in the plot, suck like Romeo and Juliet where he adds his imagination into the story . This really attracted people as they read the play. In the play, Romeo ...

(20 pages) 247 2 4.3 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

TO (blank) or not to (blank) that is the question

ything importantBut it hurts so much hereThere are so many reasons why I would rather goAnd only an imagination that makes me want to stayWhat could be, would be, and should beMight beThat hope keeps ...

(1 pages) 61 1 3.4 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Emotions

Elizabeth Drew once stated,"The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion,"And I could see what she was saying. In this day in age we have to be v ...

(10 pages) 586 0 4.0 Mar/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Themes in the text "The Handsomest Drowned man in the world" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Essay- The Handsomest Drowned Man in the WorldAs one of the greatest imaginations of all time, Walt Disney once said "Where would I be without my imagination? … i ... time, Walt Disney once said "Where would I be without my imagination? … if we don't use our imaginations to their full potential then some of lives greatest moments are being left behind". If ... cs. These classics hold many different memories for each individual. If we lived in a world with no imagination we would be very boring, all the same and no one would have creativity. In the book The ...

(2 pages) 115 0 4.6 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Studying the setting in the forst quarter of a boys life

s strongest and most important traits which also helps to develop he plot. If it weren't for Cory's imagination I am sure most of the situations n the book would have happen differently.2) Overly pass ... lake knowing how gruesome his death was, flying would be an amazing adventure it's too bad that my imagination has surpassed the point where I can do those thingsCory and I are very brave people, I h ...

(6 pages) 39 0 4.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Scarlet Letter"

ape her isolation, Hester goes into her inner soul and into the past. In Hester's 'dusky mirror' of imagination, she remembers her old home in England, her mother, her father, and most of all, her own ...

(2 pages) 39 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Music As A Motivator

body. Musiccan make us joyful or sad, it can make us want to move our body, it can stimulate our imagination,or even heal us. The aforementioned has the ability to change one's state of mind a ... ntime. This essay will examine music's many disciplines and how they motivate our creativity,imagination, health, and culture. Whether listening to your favorite piece of music or going to a ...

(15 pages) 458 3 4.4 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

To Be Shakespeare, or not To Be Shakespeare, That is the question

for the audience, since, for the most part, they were looking at a bare stage. However, this use of imagination and portrayal is no longer needed when the script is brought to film. Every pearl and sn ... pparently, she is sane enough to hide a key in her mouth. This last part is quite a stretch for the imagination, since this is a girl who is seeing imaginary flowers, singing songs, running around in ...

(8 pages) 133 0 3.9 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

critical analysis of "Death of an Author" by Roland Barthes

for the reader to solve. Before I read this story, the title 'The Death of an Author' brought to my imagination the biography of a writer slowly drinking himself to death trying to finish the story of ...

(3 pages) 65 0 5.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Reality or Illusion, in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment"

t was reading the text as literal, and concluding the experiment as reality rather then afigment of imagination caused by the intoxicating brew.A couple of points that Hawthorne made led me to believe ...

(3 pages) 66 0 3.4 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Women in 1950's Hollywood Films-- the Hayse code and the changing roles of women.

nism, but I believe that any such movement such as feminism must have seminal images in the popular imagination to become a popular movement. The popular imagination, here, consists of what its mass m ... edia produce. A member of the populous can see the media how she likes, as fascist dictators of the imagination or as an anarchic self governed pool of imagery to add to and take from as they want. Bo ...

(5 pages) 233 2 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

The text is about Sherman Alexie novel: The Lone ranger and Tonto fist fight in heaven. It is a character analysis on how the Indian's in the Spokane reservation are at different phase of survial.

Survival=Anger X Imagination. Imagination is the only weapon on the reservation.--Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and T ... dian's survive their hardships that mainstream society has put on them, with the use of emotion and imagination. Survival for Alexie's Indians is, "not to slow dance with [their] skeletons (21)." The ... t of this dress on her back, then we'll have found the one who will save us all (76)." Aunt Nezzy's imagination gives her strength by looking into the future for hope of a savior however; her environm ...

(4 pages) 140 0 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

an essay with personal opinions on hume and descartes on the theory of ideas

. Descartes believed there were three types of ideas which are, innate, adventitious and those from imagination. He stated since he exists and his idea of what a perfect being is, such as God, then Go ... ve their strengths and weaknesses but I like Hume's theory better than Descartes.Descartes believed imagination could not help humans. Descartes' definition of ideas was, only things which exist in th ...

(2 pages) 234 0 3.3 Oct/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Imagination is the Highest Kite One can Fly

te flying is one of those things I take for granted. So I asked him why. To my chagrin, he replied "imagination is the highest kite one can fly.' Alex added:· There is no limit to your imaginat ... w high you fly your kite.· As long as there is string you can fly a kite· Kites, like imagination can come in different sizes and shapes· With imagination you can get the soaring ...

(2 pages) 44 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing