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- 2351: Massacre Of Wounded Knee
- ... their release. On March 30, 1891, twenty-three prisoners were placed in his custody and they joined the show for a yearlong tour of Europe. This "battle" ended the long history of wars between the whites and the Indians. It signaled an end to Sioux resistance and a more widespread defeat for Indians throughout the west. They had to deal with ... to discard the religion that had promised them so much. After their final true last stand, the Sioux never rose again. Wounded Knee was the last major engagement in American history between the Plains Indians and the United States Army. The horror of Wounded Knee was a harsh lesson for all of the Indians that portrayed the finality to all Native ...
- 2352: Medieval Morality Plays
- ... through the morality plays and exceedingly supported the plays. (Dohrn 1). One scholar was noted to say that "morality plays were virtually sermons dramatized through allegory." (Morality Plays 1). As history explains, in 16th century England, there was a division between the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Anglican church. This division of the churches caused a problem for the morality plays ... but they also influenced many forms of western drama down the line. (1). In conclusion, the morality plays of the 14th, 15th, and 16th century medieval periods have a rich history behind them. The morality plays did not only entertain the higher, educated classes of the medieval times, but they taught Christian morals and values to the uneducated lower class of ...
- 2353: Lord Jim
- ... who has to go through life trying to put a hideous act of cowardice behind him. He has no place to call his own, and it seems as though his history follows him everywhere he goes. This makes it difficult to keep a job because not only does everyone know what he did, but also he knows that they look at ... man named Marlow went to Jim and spoke with him about his future and even offered him a job. Jim accepted, but soon after ran away because people remembered his history and he was scared. Eventually, Marlow got in touch with Jim and had a job for him on a trading post in Africa where he could be by himself and ...
- 2354: Fahrenheit 451
- ... faults of the past is the task Granger and his group have set for themselves. They believe that individuals are not as important as the collective mass of culture and history. The symbol of the phoenix\\'s rebirth refers not only to the cyclical nature of history and the collective rebirth of humankind but also to Montag\\'s own spiritual resurrection. Appropriately named, Guy is just a regular person who started out as a drone, following the ...
- 2355: Lack Of Knowledge Thesis Examination
- ... and corruption. Although the creature learns about the wonderful aspects of civil life, the creature also learns of his own status in human society. (Shelly 96)[6] He has no history because he is ignorant of his creator and creation, he does not have money, friends or property, and he “was not even of the same nature as man.”(Shelly 84 ... were interrupted and not successful, he enjoyed reading the works of Pliny the Elder and Buffon, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de; both of whom wrote extensive encyclopedic books on natural history. (25)[5] Frankenstein begins to build on his scientific knowledge. He also starts to take his study of chemistry seriously when he goes to Ingolstadt and finds a mentor in ...
- 2356: Heart Of Darkness 7
- ... soul is a savage evil side that remains repressed by society. Often this evil side breaks out during times of isolation from our culture, and whenever one culture confronts another. History is loaded with examples of atrocities that have occurred when one culture comes into contact with another. Whenever fundamentally different cultures meet, there is often a fear of contamination and ... function as eyewitnesses to the atrocities. What is reflected is the threat of loss of self, loss of centrality, and the displacement of Western culture from the perceived center of history by those whom it has enslaved and oppressed (Worthy 24)." This tells us that the evil side and the madness in both Kurtzes was brought out by the fear of ...
- 2357: Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood An
- ... personal and familial (John, 1998, p. 31). Though the basis of the novels seem similar, Ainsworth treated Dick Turpin in a different way than Bulwer treated Eugene Aram. Ainsworth romanticizes history, but basically sticks to the facts (as far as he knew them). Perhaps more importantly, Ainsworth does not pretend that the Turpin he invents is the real Dick Turpin, nor ... like Rookwood, was written as a romance, but not in a Gothic setting. Unlike Rookwood, the whole story centers around Jack and his antics. Throughout the novel Ainsworth stuck to history as best as he could. The real Jack Sheppard was born in 1702 and hanged at Tyburn on November 16, 1724, at the age of 21. He became a carpenter ...
- 2358: Shakespeare - Authorship
- ... thing(Satchell 71)." The true author, however, lies hidden behind he name of Shakespeare. Edward de Vere the premier Earl of Oxford is not only considered a great poet in history, but he may also be the great playwright who concocted the sonnets and plays which are now attributed to William Shakespeare of Stratford, England. Edward de Vere was the Lord ... splendor of the sun (Sobran 3). The similar syntax, images, and comparisons of the writings of these two authors show that de Vere not only was a great writer in history, but he was also the author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare. Perhaps the greatest evidence for the true authorship of the Shakespearean sonnets and plays is the ciphered ...
- 2359: Romeo And Juliet - The Role Of Love
- The modern literature community recognizes Shakespeare as one of the most brilliant minds in the history of dramatic theatre. His unmatched ability to represent human behavior and emotion makes the love in Romeo and Juliet the driving force behind the play's success. Shakespeare incorporated many ... many romantic and tragic playwrights to follow. His impact on our world can never be measured, but the play Romeo and Juliet was, no doubt, a revolutionary play in the history of literature.
- 2360: 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 ...
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