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- 1601: The Importance of Literature vs. Science
- ... a time for hard facts and evidence, and there is a time for poems and soliloquies. There is a time for Einstein and Pasteur as there is a time for Shakespeare and Tolkien. Human beings are a composite of their primal emotions, and their need for structure and organization. Thus, without one or the other, we would not be humans anymore ...
- 1602: A Story of An Hour: Feelings
- ... took her. Not that she would not be sad again, but for now she was like a bird let out of the cage. Mrs. Mallard was a good example of Shakespeare's line “To Thine own self be true." She did not allow guilt to rear it's ugly head but instead just felt her feelings. She allowed no one to ...
- 1603: Analyzing The Struggle For Power In Four Novels: Fahrenheit 451, Invisible Man Lord of the Flies and Julius Caesar
- ... the protagonist that eventually turned the tide for black Americans in the 19th and 20th century. However, these struggles had been going on for several centuries before his own. William Shakespeare is known as one of the greatest playwrights to have ever existed. In his recreation of the Roman reign of Julius Caesar, he portrayed one of the greatest struggles for ...
- 1604: "Schlesinger's Canon Vs. My High School's Canon"
- ... the great writers of other ethnicities. My high school is a private college preparatory institution in San Francisco. Some authors whose works we read in our English classes consisted of Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Jane Austen, Ovid, Maya Angelou, Chaim Potok, John Steinbeck, Amy Tan, Chinua Achebe, and C. S. Lewis. This curriculum is not at all what Schlesinger claims to be ...
- 1605: The Theme of Evil in Literature
- ... when he dealt with Banquo and his son, whom the witches said will be king after Macbeth. He had Banquo murdered, and his son's "absence is no less material" (Shakespeare III.1) to Macbeth. Of course Macbeth wasn't the only one who began his reign of evil with selfishness. Jack, in Lord of the Flies also begins tearing the ...
- 1606: An Analysis of British Literature
- ... to being on "the banks and shoal of time," because he life as an insignificant sand bank which would be covered over by the vast sea of time and eternity. Shakespeare used the character of Macbeth to show that if a person sacrifices his integrity and morals, religion is meaningless and the person's life has no purpose. Macbeth's lack ...
- 1607: The Advantages of American Educational System
- ... performance that most systems treasure and tries to promote creativity among students and place academic performance on the second place. An example of how different systems teach the plays of Shakespeare demonstrates the point. The traditional system would require students to memorize Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy without any mistakes. Under the influence of the American system ...
- 1608: Censorship in Public Schools
- ... words, while in many cases having mild reactions to the actions described by the words? While D.H. Lawrence has seen considerable censorship due to his affinity for sexual content, Shakespeare has enjoyed relative peace even though Othello and his lover made "the beast with two backs" (I.I, 119-120). I, myself, will continue to struggle against the censors who ...
- 1609: Slangs in The English Language
- ... not considered. If a language is not comfortable, why would you want to speak it? Language has always changed to fit the paradigms of society (Crystal 105). For example, in Shakespeare's time, many contractions used today were considered poor English. Rarely could a person of high social status be found using "don't" in a sentence. Today, however, people may ...
- 1610: Personal Essay on Hamlet
- ... on and on about nothing. Now that I think about it, it isn't that ironic that Mr. Anderson knew that quote. After all, english teachers are required to take Shakespeare courses in college. What is humorous though, is that it took me eight years to realize his moral was taken from one of the greatest play-writes of all time ...
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