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- 1611: Achilles Anophtheis (Achilles revisited)
- ... The task is now complete. I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I hated writing it. Before you mark it, allow me to interject a quick quote from Shakespeare: "The quality of mercy is not strain'd". Thanks for an illuminating, enchanting course. See you in January. Yours in Homer,
- 1612: Dickens and "The Jew"
- ... Then, of course, there was Hitler. Persecution and horror beset these people. They did nothing to deserve that. They were just practicing what they believed and who they were. In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, the Jew Shylock was forced to become a Christian after he condemned Antonio for not paying him back. This is an unfair proposition. The old adage ...
- 1613: Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter: Unpardonable Sin
- ... history. Years of friendship are recorded in correspondence between the two and obvious admiration of Hawthorne by Melville is established in Hawthorne and His Moses where Melville compares Hawthorne to Shakespeare. Moreover, I am certain that they did talk and share ideas just as friends today come to hold similar beliefs from years of interchange. It should not be a surprise ...
- 1614: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- ... Feeling helpless and lost not knowing who to trust she finds a friend in Mrs. Flowers who helps her out tremendously by opening her eyes to literature such as Dickens, Shakespeare, and other well known authors. The positive tone of her work uplifts the reader with a renewed belief in the human ability to ease random in justice in order to ...
- 1615: Of Mice and Men
- ... shows his strengths in two ways, one was taking on Lennie and the second was to slay Lennie at the end. And in the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Romeo is also considered to be a strong character for two reasons also, one was against all odds, falling in love with his parents worst enemies’ daughter. The second was ...
- 1616: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... expect from a slave with little formal education? Twain also pokes fun at Rednecks, by comparing them to educated people. I thought it was funny when they tried to recite Shakespeare, other people were offended for some reason. This type of politically correct anti-discrimination is almost worse than racism itself. Racism and discrimination is wrong, but what is comedy if ...
- 1617: The Crucible: John Proctor
- ... the character but not upset because the downfall was the character’s own doing. Throughout the ages, there have been a plethora of tragic heroes including Marcus Brutus in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and Creon in the play Antigone. In the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor fits the classic Greek definition of a tragic ...
- 1618: Cue For Treason
- ... along the way. One of the other small conflicts that Peter has along the way involves the Yellow Gentlemen. The Yellow Gentleman asks Peter if he could borrow his William Shakespeare play, ‘Henry the Fifth’, for one night and gives Peter a shilling for his generosity. The Yellow Gentleman says he would meet Peter at the same place and time as ...
- 1619: Flatland: Social Satire of Victorian English Society
- ... of his efforts to advance the cause of education for women and classes lower than the English aristocracy which are the priests. Abbott was a successful theologian, classics scholar, and Shakespeare expert (which explains the Shakespearean references in the frontispiece and several quotations in this book), as well as proficient in mathematics. He was headmaster of the City of London School ...
- 1620: Canterbury Tales: Who is the Narrator?
- ... an audience that's been dead for 600 years, and without knowing more about author or audience, it's dangerous to equate an author automatically with his/her characters(2). Shakespeare was not Hamlet, Herman Melville was not Ishmael even though Moby Dick begins "Call me Ishmael," and Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, was not a hodgepodge of resurrected body parts ...
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