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- 1311: Oedipus Rex - Compared To Hamlet
- ... truth. Truth was a deciding factor in both outcomes of the plays. If the truth were known earlier, it would have changed the entire aspect of each play. Works Cited Shakespeare, William. Hamlet: Prince of Denmark. The Essential theatre 7th edition Oscar G. Brocket, Robert J. Ball. Harcourt Brace College Publishers Pg. 114 Sophocles. Oedipus the King Pg. 71
- 1312: Little Girl Lost
- ... the prologue is addressed to "children" and that the "maiden" is still clearly under parental guardianship create contradicting feelings about innocence. All this could be slightly misleading. Perhaps Blake, like Shakespeare, believed in very young brides. While the boy and the girl in the "Nurse’s Song" and the little lost boys, both in "Innocence" and "Experience," are clearly children, the ...
- 1313: John Dryden
- ... religious poems. Beyond those poems he wrote many great passages of poetry. He wrote an astounding amount of good poetry, probably more than any other poet in the language except Shakespeare and Milton (Hammond 67). The English author John Dryden called himself Neander, the "new man," in his Essay of Dramatic Poesy, and implied that he was a spokesman for the ...
- 1314: Heart Of Darkness
- ... was dulled by the darkness over his long stay in it. Kurtz was a great speaker because "it echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core" (220). Shakespeare knew this, for he once said, "the empty vessel makes the greatest sound." This explains the combination of hollowness and eloquence. Kurtz was under a spell of the darkness. Marlow ...
- 1315: Heart Of Darkness
- ... born December 3, 1857 into a family of polish decent in the northern Ukraine. The backgrounds of his family members consisted of a father that was an avid translator of Shakespeare as well as poet, along with a mother, that while was prone to illness still was well read and very intelligent. When Conrad was five, his father was exiled into ...
- 1316: Hard Times And The Nineteenth Century
- ... too great a part of the studies dedicated to mythology, literature, and history. "In almost every school in the kingdom passages of our finest poets are learned by heart; and Shakespeare and Walter Scott were among the Penates." It was their opinion that schools such as the one that Gradgrind governed were in the minority. Now in the opening lines of ...
- 1317: Great Expectations
- ... was barely five and for the next few years Dickens lived wonderfully, reading every book he could get his hands on. He quickly read through his father's collection of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Defoe, Smollett, Fielding, and Goldsmith. Every one of these authors left a mark on the young mind of Charles Dickens which is easy to see in his style and ...
- 1318: Elizabethan Sonnets
- ... to the natural objects were created by God, hence when the mistresses were better than nature, then there would be nothing better than the mistresses. Sonnet 130 written by William Shakespeare developed into an anti-Petrarchan position by denying the image of Petrarchan poet's mistresses who always were ideal and idolized. Any lover's mistress in Petrachan poet's sonnet ...
- 1319: Edward II - To What Extent Is Edward Responsible For His Own
- ... flaws; he is susceptible to flattery to such an extent he does not see real loyalty. This is a trait portrayed in kings not only by Marlowe but also by Shakespeare in ‘King Lear’. I also think Edward had low self-esteem due to his relationship with his father, and that this causes him to need the security provided by the ...
- 1320: Cymbeline
- Shakespeare's Cymbeline is a story of love, hatred, and betrayal. The main character, Imogen, is hurt by all of these emotions and actions. Not just by one person, by many ...
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