Arsenic and Old Lace, a well written Shakespearian comedy was the script chosen for this years Fall Play. All of the play takes place in September, 1941 in the Brooklyn, New York home of Abby and Martha Brewster. The Brewster sisters are crazy lunatics that rent out the extra room in the household. Also living in the house is Mortimer Brewster, a nephew of the sisters. He is madly in love with a neighbor named Elaine Harper. There is one slight problem, Mortimer is afraid to marry Elaine because he doesn't want to pass the craziness in the Brewster family along. Still with the one extra room, they don't rent the room out to any normal person, they enjoy renting the room out to older men that are lonely and don't have a family. When the room is occupied by an elderly man, they make him comfortable, and give him the appearance that he is in a family relationship. Then the Brewster sisters slip arsenic into their famous Elderberry wine killing their resident. This would happen throughout the duration of the show. After the resident was dead, their mentally ill son Teddy would burry them in the basement. The sisters tricked Teddy into thinking that he was President Theodore Roosevelt, and that he was digging the graves as part of the Panama Canal. The sisters eventually accumulated thirteen people during their life time. Dashing into the story comes the Brewster's other son Jonathan and his kooky scientist Dr. Einstein. They too are murderers they just have a different way of killing people. They travel across the globe killing people. Dr. Einstein and Jonathan find their way back to the place of Jonathan's birth. He was not wanted by the Brewster's, and therefore was shipped out of the family. Jonathan was desperately in need of a face change; because the first time Dr. Einstein tried to do the procedure he was drunk. However, the two travelers were not alone. They had just killed someone, and they needed a place to dispose of the body.
The questions discussed in this paper are "when was the Great Sphinx built?" and also, "what kinds of kooky things have you heard about the Sphinx?" The biggest controversy surrounded the Sphinx is not the question why was it built, but instead the question when was it built. There are two d...
Rage According to Webster's Dictionary, a monster is "a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty." ... It is this desire for revenge that leads the creature to commit acts of rage against so many. ... Within the novel, there are two major acts of revenge, one being the murder of William, and the other, Elizabeth's murder. ... Murdering William in the woods not only caused one death, but it also indirectly caused the death of Justine who was accused of the murder and executed. ... Even today, this idea that society induces rage remains a very co...
Murder can fall into two offenses which our first degree and second degree murder. ... A serial killer is a murderer who murders multiple people over a period of time with a cooling off period between each Murder. ... The next type of murder category is mass murder. ... The next type of murder category is sensational murder. ... The last type of major murder category is spree murders. ...
Murder is wrong, plain and simple. ... Coincidentally, that is the definition of murder. ... It can then be said that the death penalty is the most overlooked form of government hypocrisy; we would murder people who in return murder people, to show that murder is wrong. ... The death penalty is murder by the government. ... Murder by a citizen will have consequences, yet a government-approved murder is not only acceptable, but enforceable. ...
One of the main elements of the Iliad is the rage of Achilles. ... One key factor in understanding rage in the Iliad, is considering the definition of rage from the Greek language. Rage is referred to in Greek as menis. Menis means a supernatural and/or enduring rage. ... Yet, rage is key in all of these subjects. ...
Frankenstein Comparison Essay Both Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and Young Frankenstein were both great movies, though, I preferred Mary Shelly's Frankenstein a little bit more. I"m not really into those old comedies. Anyway that is not the point the point is that both movies no matter how differen...
Have you ever been at a bus terminal, or a train station, or one of those fast food/gift shop plazas they have along the interstate? If so, perhaps you noticed, tucked in a potted plant, on the floor of the bathroom, or sitting on a bench, a little pamphlet. Maybe you picked it up, looked at the g...
The definition of road rage is very widely noted. ... (Fumento, "Road Rage Furry"). ... (Vest, Jason; Cohen, Warren; Tharp Mike "Road Rage USA"). ... (Fumento, Michael "Road Rage Furry"). ... (Fumento Michael "Road Rage Furry"). ...
