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- 2291: Othello-values And Attitudes
- If Othello didn t begin as a play about race, history has made it one. The Venetian society that Othello is set in is representative of the writers context. The attitudes and values that Shakespeare reveals through the text are those ... unchaste, and morally frail. Their sexual desires were represented as unnatural appetites. They were also thought to be unstable sexual creatures, likely to betray men with Appetites never satisfied . The history of the handkerchief also suggests the power of female sexuality over men: That handkerchief Did an Egyptian to my mother give; She was a charmer, and could almost read The ...
- 2292: Orwell Critizism
- ... Orwell's entire purpose of writing the novel was to worn against the dangers of society forming a totalitarian society. He effectively creates a story that almost completely parallels the history of the Russian revolution. Although I do think this is a great book I believe it has some flaws. One of the major flaws with the writing of this book ... into account his audience when he wrote this book. He must have known that not everyone who would read his great work of literature would not know well the complete history of the Russian Revolution. Taking this idea into account, I think he could have somehow made it possible for a person who did not know about the Russian revolution to ...
- 2293: On The Short Story Phineas Com
- ... got Gene side tracked. Gene was very involved in school, one could say that Gene was intelligent. An example of this occurs while Gene and Phineas are studying for their History test. "I didn't do well in that course: that is, I got a B."(104) This quotation shows how Gene's school and education are very important to him ... example of this occurs when Phineas and Gene are studying. "With Phineas sitting next to me day after day like some guiltless Doubting Thomas, I began to wonder not whether history was real, but whether it was important."(104) This quotation shows that Phineas had an influence on Gene. One knows this because Gene is always very serious about his school ...
- 2294: Frankenstein 6
- ... s arrival, who the monster soon learns is named Safie; their previous sorrow has been replaced by joy. As Safie learns to read, so does the monster. He learns some history in the process, as the book Felix uses to instruct Safie is Volney's Ruins of Empires. He also learns the history of the cottagers and discovers that their poverty stemmed from Safie's father's treachery. Frankenstein - Volume II: Chapters VI - IX Summary One night, while collecting food, the monster finds ...
- 2295: Christian Elements In Beowulf
- ... Beowulf was a recited pagan folklore where the people of that time period believed in gods, goddesses, monsters,a heaven and an underworld. It’s significance lies in an oral history where people memorized long, dense lines of tedious verse. Later, when a written tradition was introduced they began to write the story down on tablets. The old tale was not ... An analogy of any kind between Beowulf and Christ in itself account for the notorious absence of explicit references in the poem. The epic of Beowulf is wrapped in a history of pagan ideal and Christian surroundings. The poem is woven in Christian allegorical figures which give Beowulf a romantic mystery that many epics lack. Beowulf is a timeless classic that ...
- 2296: Patriarchy In Fargo And Raise
- Explore the relationship between women's roles and patriarchal society in Raise the Red Lantern and Fargo. For many years from our history, women's rights have always been a contraversial topic. History has shown the world to be primarily a male-dominated society, where a woman's role is often dictated by a man. In the movies Raise the Red Lantern and ...
- 2297: Poetry And Langston Hughes
- ... sing of black America” (Rampersad 297). From his creativity and passion for the subject matter, he has been described as one of the most penetrating and captivating writers in the history of humankind. He also was described as “quite possibly the most grossly misjudged poet of major importance in America” (Jemie 187). He entrances you into his poetry, and at the ... that are recognized as having mystery and a continuous flow (the Euphrates, the Congo, the Nile, and the Mississippi). The rivers also appear in order of their role in black history. The “soul” in the poem belongs to an individual that has bonded with the rivers’ essences, thus giving him/her the immortality of the rivers (or God’s immortality). The ...
- 2298: Pocahontas
- ... the Indian princess Pocahontas, legends and stories of romance have been imbedded into our minds, but her dramatic life was more important to the creation of a segment of American history than legend. Around the year of 1595, Pocahontas was born to chief Powhatan, the powerful chief of a federation of Algonquian Indian tribes who lived in the tidewater region of ... never have survived. Her marriage to John Rolfe brought peace between her fellow tribesmen and her fellow Christians. She led a magnificent life and will always have her place in history.
- 2299: Aristotle’s Rules For Tragedy
- ... take it to a higher level (6). This goes along with the fact that plays are dramatizations of events (3). In the case of a dramatization of actual events from history, it is the job of the playwright to make the incidents pleasing to the eye and exciting. After all, the purpose of drama is to entertain the audience. In the ... this type of play between fantasy and reality but he would find it quite fascinating. To him, it would be a higher form of drama because it not only imitates history, but creates something new. He says that man “learns his first lessons through imitation, and… all men find pleasure in imitations”(4). In regard to character (15), the female traits ...
- 2300: Beach Burial - Kenneth Slessor
- ... chosen be Australia’s official war correspondent. He was to report on the Australian activities in the War and after it was all over he was to write the official history of those activities. He actually resigned in 1944 and never wrote this projected history, however the whole story is told in his diaries and dispatches which reveal an Australian patriotism which is partly genuine and partly came with the position. In the poem beach ...
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