He magnanimously invites all present to join him at Scone, the customary venue for coronations in mediaeval Scotland, after insulting Macbeth and his wife as 'this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen'. ... Her ability to dissemble is palpable when she feigns fainting while Macbeth babbles incessantly to MacDuff after being asked for an explanation as to why the Chamberlains are dead. ... These actions, regardless of his righteous qualities, leave Malcolm and the audience to surmise that he indeed is a 'dead butcher'. ...

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In the film, Dead Poet's Society by director Peter Weir, we explore the concepts of Tradition, Honour, Discipline and Excellence, through the range of students and staff at Welton Boys Academy in the 1950s. ...

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The Burial of The Dead "April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. ... Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. ... Eliot later portrays the world as deteriorating and dying, with the depiction of the terrors of death seen as the speaker will 'show your fear in a handful of dust'; 'dust' conveying deterioration and aridity, whilst...

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Dawn of the Dead (George Romero, 1978) and 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002) portray the aforementioned failures respectively, leaving viewers to ponder a potential fix to national renewal. Kyle Bishop, author of "The idle proletariat: Dawn of the Dead, consumer ideology, and the loss of productive labor," focuses on the metaphor of zombies acting as a catalyst that reveals the exact problem infecting humanity: pervasive consumerism. (1) Jordan S. Caroll, author of "The Aesthetics of Risk in Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later," focuses on the risks that our society undergoes by...

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There is no water , no sunlight basically everything is dead . ... The second Archetype is the Flood Archetype , which I feel communicates the message of the film because the real world is dead , dark and is basically a big wasteland where there is no water , no sunlight . The whole place is like big debris where everything is dead , the reason for this is because human life got so used to having Artificial Intelligence do everything for them , rhey didn't realize that slowly but steadily Artificial Intelligence had started to rule their life and humans were not be able to live freely as...

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Two films that espouse such ideals are Night of the Living Dead (1968) by George Romero and The People Under the Stairs (1991) by Wes Craven. ... The originator of this so-called "splatter cinema" was an independent feature made in 1968 called Night of the Living Dead that eventually became one of the most popular horror films ever made. The basic storyline is radiation from a satellite has turned the recently dead into mindless zombies on a quest for human flesh to eat. ... Even the zombies themselves, seeming the most outlandish part of the movie, act mainly as a natural disaster, somethi...

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Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term also encompasses cenotaphs, these are empty tombs, tomb-like monuments which do not contain human remains; and communal memorials to the dead, such as war memorials, which may or may not contain human remains. ... It can play a role in burial rites, serve as an article for use by the dead in the afterlife, and celebrate the life and accomplishments of the dead, whether as part of kinship-centered practices of ancestor veneration or as a publicly directed dynastic display. It can also func...

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Graeber (1997), in contrast to Nelson, looks at the Merina people of Madagascar, who strongly believe that it is important to maintain a unity between the living and the dead in order to sustain their history and identity. The burial process for the Merina people of Madagascar plays a very crucial role in their lives, they believe that the dead should be buried in collective family tombs and that there should be a means of latitudinal organisation according to junior and senior ancestors. ... The relation between the dead and the living gets jeopardised if the tombs are destroyed. The Merina...

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I have longer to please the dead than to please the living here" (Antigone, 85-89). ... She still retains her courage against Creon's death penalty and her confidence that serving the dead was more important than serving the living. ... Even her final act-suicide-was supposedly a demonstration of her unwillingness to submit to Creon, to the mortal world, and to serve the dead. ... I'll soon be there, soon embrace my own, the great growing family of our dead my arrival may be dear to father, dear to you, my mother, dear to you, my loving brother, Eteocles" (Antigone, 978-988...

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In many cultures, exocannibalism (eating an enemy) was believed to transfer the dead person's "skills, power, and positive qualities- to the consumers (Cannibalism 2). ... Within our social structure society has deemed that eating other humans as a means of a regular diet is dead wrong (criminal cannibalism). ... In a different implication, cannibalism is thought to symbolize "reverence for the dead, an incorporation of the spirit of the dead into the living descendants, or a means of insuring the separation of the soul from the body."" ... Shortly after hearing rumors of cannibalism, rep...

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He wishes to continue his research in the field of the reanimation of dead tissue. ... During his last experiment, Victor appears to dangerously consume himself in his labor and goal of reanimating dead tissue. ... First, the physical process of re-animating dead organisms will be studied strictly on non-human subjects at first to minimize the risks made obvious from the prior experience. ... There are clearly many beneficial aspects of continuing this research, however, we also need to discuss the ethical dilemmas and dangers of re-animating the dead. ...

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Tybalt is a Catholic character, and as he states "to strike him dead, I hold it not a sin," he is saying that to murder Romeo would not be a sin, as they have hated each other for so long that Tybalt thinks that God would exonerate him for killing Romeo. ... Even as Mercutio dies he makes a pun "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man" meaning "serious" and "a place to put dead bodies," proving that Mercutio is comical, which makes it even more of a tragedy to the audience as he dies. ... He is saying that he would rather she were dead than live anymore, as she is no longer a vi...

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He felt highly petrified and staggered to be witnessing the sight of a dead body, vulnerably floating around a river he used for fishing. ... He found fishing a way to distract himself with the problems that shadowed his life; therefore he didn't want to disturb his trip of redemption and continued fishing, leaving the dead, lone body aside to ponder on later. ... Claire feels utterly sympathetic, shameful and agitated from Stewart's awful decision of leaving a young girl's dead body in the river and she also feels confused about his actions. ... Therefore, he was determined t...

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In the section where the child asks the speaker what grass is, he proceeds to explain his symbolism of the grass that utilizes themes of nature (nature's cycles of rebirth and regeneration), a theme of unity and the democracy that runs the country (grass grows everywhere and links everyone's yards together as a whole), and a symbol of death or mortality (grass grows from the ground fertilized by the dead soldiers of the Civil War). ... "Drum Taps", another poem collection written from Whitman's reaction to the Civil War, speaks about the futility and ignorance of men pitting th...

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It is these supreme rules that Nietzsche rejects with his idea that God is dead. ... The acceptance that God is dead, and moral absolutes are abolished, leads to the next step in becoming an Overhuman, in the eternal recurrence of the same. ... If we lived every day of our lives the same way he had done before, then rejecting of redemption myths, accepting God is dead, and moving towards the Overhuman, become as distant as Romanticism, because one would have done them a hundred times before and will do it a hundred in the future. ... Even though Nietzsche never described his ideas as a temp...

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Animal Rights The problem with testing drugs on animals every year is nearly 100 million animals die in research laboratories at the hands of curious scientists who perform outdated and inaccurate tests that prove no benefit to humans or animals. Before these animals die, they are routinely bu...

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Count Dracula, being the Evil, intends to multiply and take over not only England, but the entire world, the universal aspect of the fight being stated by Professor Van Helsing: " they cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world: for all that die from the preying of the Un-Dead become themselves Un-Dead, and prey on their kind." ... The paragraph which precedes the Count's execution is quite enigmatic, and establishes the possibility that Dracula may not truly be dead at the end of the story: "..the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the...

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Thus, it is no wonder that the relationship between the young master and his servant is seen in old Roman comedy, such as "Mostellaria", and the Commedia Dell'Arte production of "The Lady who was Believed Dead". ... However, in the Commedia dell arte production of "The Lady Who Was Believed to be Dead", the relationship between the young masters and their servant is one of loyalty, as the servants go threw great lengths to ensure the happiness and well being of their young masters. ... While consoling Flavio, Oratio becomes so caught up in emotion that he forgets that Flaminia is only pre...

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His mother's death causes a morbid ambition in Frankenstein to create "life from dead matter", which he does eventually. ... Thus Frankenstein begins his morbid craft, he "collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secret of the human frame", and this morose degradation of the science shows how far Frankenstein will go to create "life from dead matter". ... As many people were trying to make this gloomy discovery, Shelley played upon this and used a character that eventually does go on to create "life from dead matter". ... William cries out, d...

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He "thrust his virile member into the dead girl.... Also the contrast between the euphemistic term of 'virile member' and the bluntness of the term "dead girl" adds to the shock of the act due to the discordance both of a man raping a 'girl' and also the fact that the girl is 'dead'. ... " Opening a coffin is viewed as a sacrilegious act and would have been heavily opposed to by society as Nellie displays by her exclamation "'were you not ashamed to disturb the dead?...

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"Nigger" was created as a combination of the Spanish (European) word "negro," which means "black," and the Greek word "necro," which means "dead." Those who designed the word intended to plant in the minds of whites, blacks, and the entire world the image of black people as inferior, contemptuous, and mentally dead. ... When the European used the word "nigga" towards blacks, it was used as a mental whip to force blacks into the image they had created blacks: mentally dead and equal only to the animals of the plantation. ...

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Reiko and Ryuji, after discovering Sadako's dead body in the well, are relieved that they finally end the vicious cycle of Sadako's grudge, and return to their mundane daily life. ... Nevertheless, the deeper they dig, the more unclear everything becomes; anyone who seems to be involved in Sadako's life either is dead or refuses to cooperate. ... A number of outlaws gain the knowledge of crimes from TV or newspaper description of the previous crimes; some people have difficulty in distinguishing the real world from violent video games where dead people can easily revive. ...

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Is it still around, waiting to be achieved by those who work hard enough, or is it effectively dead, killed off by the Great Recession and the economic hardships that many Americans have come to face? ... Many liberal economists and activists say that the American Dream is dead, but I say that it's more alive and important than ever-and that it is the key to climbing out of the Great Recession, overcoming inequality, and achieving true prosperity. ... How can anyone claim that because there are more poor people than rich, or more power and wealth concentrated at the top, that the entire ...

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Larry was her former lover, and, by choosing to believe he's dead, something which irks Kate later on when she speaks with "increasing demand" because it is an open defiance of her mental delusion that Larry is alive, Ann is showing she is willing to leave her past behind and destroy her relationship with Kate in order to stay with Chris. ... Here, Kate shows the full extent of her delusion: she asserts that because of God's existence, Larry cannot be dead, and if Larry is not dead, a God must exist. ...

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As the wounded and dead lay upon the ground, the strike movement initiated to protest the American military invasion of Cambodia immediately increased. ... Two of the dead, Jeffery Miller and Allison Krause, had actively participated in the rally. ...

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