It seemed that Gene's best friend Phineas (a.k.a Finny) and Gene were the perfect combo. ... One may ask what went wrong, well Gene started to get jealous of Finny's superb athletic skills and suspected him of messing with Gene's studies but in the real world finny was trying to get Gene to have more fun and loosen up. ... Gene turns blind with anger and jealousy and purposely shakes Finny off the tree ending his athletic career. ... He has ended Finny's dream of being an athlete and he has to live with the guilt of hurting his friend for a reason that made no sense. .....

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Hera, Zeus' wife, is obviously jealous of the hold that Thetis has on her husband. ... Through his actions and beliefs, Hector shows that he is a proud, dutiful, wise, and honorable man, once of the most noble in the entire poem. ... He says that his anger and pride have taken away his humanity. Now he must return to the fight to avenge the death of his friend and defeat the Trojans, just as Zeus has planned. ...

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Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. Hoffman's film is a Hollywood product, intended for a broad...

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