Abstract
The paper uses Henrik Ibsen's play "A Doll's House" to demonstrate that a climax of a play does not need to be verbalized.

From the Paper
"Bernard Grebanier in his venerable if Draconian Playwriting "How to Write For the Stage" concurs that a climax constitutes the significant 'turning point' in the plot. However, that does not mean the climax has to be verbalized. In fact, as we will prove, the climax of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is the very last sound the audience hears before the curtain comes down. It is the offstage sound of a door slamming. This sound finalizes the..."

Tags:an, explanation, why, the, slamming, of, the, door, at, the, very, end, of, "A, Doll's, H0ouse, is, the, true, unspoken, climax, of, the, play

Abstract
The paper discusses the issue of climax or climaxes in William Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

From the Paper
"William Shakespeare's tragedy "Hamlet" presents a portrait of a young prince whose behavior is described by Ernest Jones as that of a psychoneurotic and as simultaneously sufficiently possessed of his faculties to express contempt and hostility in an indirect and disguised form. Hamlet, having been informed by the ghost of his father that his father was murdered by the usurping Claudius, swears that he will seek revenge. However, what makes the play challenging is that there are many possible opportunities for Hamlet to obtain revenge and..."

Tags:Hamlet, William Shakespeare, climax

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This paper discusses the climax scene from the film "Searching for Bobby Fischer". The paper relates that this film is based on actual people and events, and this specific scene portrays the lead character as balanced, calm, and basically worthy of his victory. The paper breaks up the scene and talks about camera work, lighting, genre, ideology, and actors.

From the Paper
"The scene is a space full of young chess players seated at tables in a long, dark room. At the end of this elongated area is a table with a chessboard, chess pieces, and a timer. An overall brown color prevails with splashes of light coming through one side of the span from the non-curtained windows. A young man, Jonathan Poe, is seated at the left side of the table at the end of the space waiting for his opponent to arrive. Walking into the room is his challenger, Josh Waitzkin, a prodigal chess player. This moment is dramatic, nerve-racking, and full of anticipation."

Tags:chess, drama, lighting

Abstract
This paper explains that the Ghost's Walk, which is a symbol for Lady Dedlock's secret past, is one of the most haunting images in Charles Dickens' "Bleak House". Specifically, the paper relates the ways that Dickens uses this literary device to create an overall tension, to foreshadow connections between characters and to symbolize Lady Dedlock's guilty conscience. The Ghost's Walk is particularly significant to the book as a whole, the paper relates, because it brings the novel to its main climax.

From the Paper
"Esther's fascination with the Ghost's Walk is fitting, since she is personally a key to the fulfillment of its prophecy. How appropriate, even ironic, that just as Esther is wondering about the family curse, Lady Dedlock arrives to make her aware of her own part in it. This connection becomes blatant and fever-pitched when Esther later decides to explore the Ghost's Walk. "I was passing quickly on...when my echoing footsteps brought it suddenly into my mind that there was a dreadful truth in the legend of the Ghost's Walk; that it was I, who was to bring calamity upon the stately house.""

Tags:transition, guilty conscience, foreshadow, personified curse, climax

Abstract
This paper discusses the plot, climax, resolution and theme of Caroline B. Cooney's work "The Face on the Milk Carton", a book about a teenage girl that sees her face on the back of a milk carton. The review breaks down the story by it's main problem, the rising action, the climax, and resolution.

From the Paper
"The problem begins one day while Janie is eating lunch in the school cafeteria with her friends. Although she is allergic to milk, she take a small drink of her friend's milk and when she looks down at the milk carton, she recognizes the face of the young girl to be a picture of her taken when she was three years old. It has been fifteen years since the picture was taken, but Janie wanders if she had been kidnapped from a mall parking lot when she was just three years old. She wanders if her parents, who are kind, loving and very nurturing really are her birth parents. She is afraid to ask them questions, so she has her boyfriend help her investigate the truth. She has a lot of problems trusting her friends with what she has discovered because she feels that they will not listen to her or not believe her. The main problem in the story is that Janie does not know who she really is."

Tags:girls, teenagers, kidnapping, parenthood, conflict, resolution, literature

Abstract
This paper discusses the historical context which determined the Cuban missile crisis. It discusses the actual development of events, the climax and the resolution of the situation. The paper also underlines, when possible, specific issues and their contribution to the diffusion of tension between the American political parties. Finally, the last part of the paper presents the importance of the crisis in the Cold War environment.

Table of Contents:
Historical Context
Development of Events
Climax
Resolution of the Crisis
Importance

From the Paper
"The importance of the crisis has a series of different perspectives. On the one hand, it represented a test for the stability of the bipolar system. The fact that the two most important states in the world, having nuclear potential, managed to reach a non violent resolution of the crisis proved the stability of the system and the fact that, indeed, from the perspective of international relations theory, a bipolar system is the least vulnerable. (Nye, 2005) On the other, the event proved to be defining for reorienting the course of foreign policy during the Cold War. After the crisis, the Hot Line was established between the White House and Kremlin, to enable direct and unhindered communication between the two leaders of the world. Therefore, a certain awareness of the danger the world faced in 1962 led the political leaders to reconsider their intransigent position and be more open to cooperation in terms of international treaties and political talks. However, the changing of the leadership in Washington and the War in Vietnam slowed down the road to cooperation."

Tags:nuclear diplomacy, cold war, 1962

Abstract
This term paper examines the character of Hamlet in which we see a very human character, one whose destiny in part condemns a man whose is also condemned by his own actions. This essay discusses Hamlet's habitual indecisiveness which leads to a climax in which there is in fact no clear resolution to the play's action.

From the Paper
"We are accustomed to thinking of Hamlet as the hero of the play that bears his name the avenger of his father, the man who returns a sense of justice and order to the land of Denmark. And yet a closer reading of the play suggests that while Hamlet is in some sense a hero, he is also quite clearly culpable for the terrible events that occur. And yet rather than make him less compelling as a character, his essential flaws make him more interesting. His own indecisiveness and unwillingness to act in the end cause a great deal of harm in the world. His role as a prince is to serve as the protector of his people, as a dam against the threat of evil. This passivity of his is certainly not as morally wrong as is the active evil involved in the murder of his father. But neither is it heroism, constituting no outstanding feat of virtue. "

Tags:rotten, state, plucked, out, sense, justice, overcome, evil, world, Denmark, court, corrupted, cleansed, degree, death, play, character

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This paper explains how the Information Highway will affect the society in a manner that cannot yet be imagined and instead of a means of uniting the world the author feels that the technological revolution is creating a divide within society furthering social stratification and changing the dynamics of interpersonal relationships.

From the paper:

"As the communications revolution reaches its climax the society is increasingly becoming virtual. Millions of Internet users are logging one every day and interacting with each other over the Internet. Where once socialization was limited within borders today, the society is increasingly becoming borderless as the Internet creates a global world. Chat systems like MSN and AOL Messenger, ICQ and MIRC have captured the people's imagination and no longer is there a need to have personal face-to-face meetings. The interactive software's allow a user to have web conferences, meetings and chat with more than one person at a time. Society is becoming impersonal as concepts like 'cyber love' and 'cyber world' emerge. "

Tags:computer, society, dating, relationships

Abstract
This essay examines historical fiction as seen in the famous Hollywood movie Quo Vadis. The successes and failures of the film in accurately portraying Roman history and the struggle between early Christianity and Roman society are analyzed. Through a look at real historical sources, we can see that for the most part the film is an entertaining but flawed example of the retelling of a historical event and the personalities of that time. For example, the film leads viewers to believe that this period of history was the climax of the conflict between imperial Rome and early Christianity, but in fact Nero was no worse for the Christians than many other emperors before and after his reign.

From the Paper
"The characters of Marcus Vinicius and Lygia in the film are symbolic of the rift between imperial Rome and the early Christians, however, they are fictional characters and did not exist in ancient Rome. Galba was in fact the real leader who replaced Nero (he does in the film as well), but he was a seventy-year old man who only ruled for about six months before he was executed by rivals in the forum and replaced by Otho."

Tags:ancient, hollywood, quo, rome, vadis

Abstract
This paper looks at the way "Raisin in the Sun" develops, so that the focus is shifted throughout the play. The three acts are explored as follows: The first act's function in the play is to introduce the character's internal and external conflicts and make the reader guess what kind of solvency will come from the new money, act two's purpose is to give the audience a false sense of security which ultimately leads to the climax of the play and in act three, all of the issues in act one resurface.

From the Paper
"The first act of Hansberry's play is used to introduce the problems that the family is facing while showing that there is an end to these problems in sight. The money problems that the Younger family faces are shown through various ways in the beginning of act one. The first act's function in the play is to introduce the character's internal and external conflicts and make the reader guess what kind of solvency will come from the new money. The very beginning of the play familiarizes the audience with the Younger family's lack of resources. Several families share one bathroom on the floor of the apartments that they live on and Travis is made to sleep in the living room, because of the shortage of bedrooms in the apartment. By showing that the characters face these money problems, the audience is able to appreciate the situation that the family is in."

Tags:criticism, play