Beowulf is named after the hero Beowulf who was the main character, Beowulf was declared a hero after he fought three battles to become a hero; he fought Grendel, Grendels mom, and finally a dragon. The first battle he fought to become to become a hero was Grendel. He became a hero after defeating Grendel →
Agnes Grey is every woman whose fate is to suffer the oppression of the society. At the same time, she is not blind to the fact that women are oppressed in all societies.
Daily, we make decisions to questions like, " How are you?" We respond with the obligatory " fine" or " great" or with a truthful five minute description of all our aches and pains, both mental and physical. Constantly society dictates, " Good people do not tell lies", but day in and day out →
In Shakespeare's Macbeth, King Duncan's death caused a great turmoil in the minds of the Macbeths and left no space for love, hence, their relationship began to crumble, as they reacted to the murder in different ways: Lady Macbeth, entering insanity, and Macbeth, thirsting for more power. Immediately when she received the letter from →
As a result of this detailed, striking image, the reader becomes aware of the great evil and darkness represented by the Lord of the Flies, and when Simon begins to converse with the seemingly inanimate, devil-like object, the source of that wickedness is revealed. In the imaginations of many of the boys, the beast is →
You decide to write him a letter telling him about the success of his play, " Macbeth", in the 21st century and this play is still being read and performed and filmed. Dear William Shakespeare, I am writing to you from the 21st century as we have developed a →
Page one Why the Deaths ofRomeo and Julietshould not be a Surprise Romeo and Juliet both end up dying in Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet should not be a surprise because there is a lot of foreshadowing preparing us; for this twist in the plot.
The fog is a representation of the isolation between Elisa and the rest of the world. Therefore, this symbolism of the weather, the landscape explained the limitation and opportunity of Elisa to see and go to the outside world.
Bash him in! " One of the first examples of the loss of innocence and emergence of a savageculturebetween the boys is demonstrated in this quote; the initial loss occurring during the killing of the pig, the emergence of savagery in the reenactment of the hunt. One of the first, larger violent section of the →
Linton, suspecting something, followed; and when I attempted to call them, she pulled me back, slammed the door to, and locked it".She had no notion of the danger of the situation, or the severity of the consequences. Her obstinacy is another sign of her immaturity, as well as her inability to see the consequences of →
Jones and his men's' attempt at " rabbitting" parallels Czar Nicholas II's attempt to maintain law and order in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, as the rabbits of the farm represent the lower social classes of Russia, who begin to start waves of violence throughout the cities before the revolution. In the beginning, the pigs →
I believe he is of mine; I am sure he is, I feel akin to him, I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him.[...] I must, then, repeat →
The boys begin to reenact the killing of the pig by tormenting one of their peers." Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society. Piggy and Ralph recognize the evil that is coming out in every one of the boys →
Heathcliff's manipulative and vengeful actions are truly those of a villain. Heathcliff as a Victim: Nelly's unwillingness to acknowledge Heathcliff's presence to Catherine in a crucial time allowed him to overhear the hurtful things that she was saying. If Nelly had tried to stop Heathcliff from running away, he →
She finds it difficult to distinguish reality from her dreams. In chapter 26, Jane and Rochester are set to be wed when the wedding is interrupted by Mason who proclaims that the wedding cannot take place because Rochester is already married to Bertha. Bertha is representative of the fears Jane →
In many ways, since Friar Lawrence is the only one who knows everything and kept the secret relationship between Romeo and Juliet, he is most responsible for Romeo and Juliet's death. His bad choices such as secretly married the couple, made up the plan for Romeo and Juliet to escape, and arrived the tomb late →
The use of propaganda ensures a constant feeding of the people with lies that in turn shape their thinking. The use of ' Telescreens' to enhance the propaganda is effective in that the citizens are kept aware that the authorities are scrutinizing them." You had to live did live, from habit that became instinct in →
I do not approve the nurse decision being helpful about Romeo and Juliet's relationship. Currently, I have not read that much in the play of Romeo and Juliet. That's why the nurse made an impact because she abetted Juliet into marrying Romeo.
Hamlet would suffer in the eyes of the people if he were to murder Claudius, the reigning king, and claim his motive was the words of a ghost. This is a time when Claudius's image has been tarnished and the people may be suspicious of him in connection to the death of King Hamlet.
He is currently visiting Yorkshire and is therefore staying at Thurshcross Grange his landlord is Mr Heathcliff who lives at Wuthering Heights. Mr Lockwood pays a visit to him and hisfamilywhere he comes across Joseph, the servant and Cathy whom is the daughter-in-law of Mr Healthcliff. We discover who Cathy actually is →
9) Consequently the issue of gender, in particular the status of women and women as the inferior gender is subtly yet profoundly highlighted throughout Shakespeare's plays.' Shakespeare's contribution to the debate on women is his perception of the artificiality of gender.' p. 118) Gender is a performance and Shakespeare uses a variety of →
By the end of this tragedy she has nothing to live for, is riddled with guilt and has lost all sanity. At the opening of the play the audience see how fervent her hunger for power and status is when she summons evil spirits; " Fill me from the crown to the →
Edmund is the invalid son of the Earl of Gloucester and his betrayal runs deep in the play. In the play divine justice is seen in the battle between Edgar and Edmund.
Besides, the division of the characters to the positive/negative ones, the passivity of the characters and the dynamics of the plot also represent the structural similarity of " Prometheus Unbound" and the last Shakespeare's plays. The final monologues of the characters are the important peculiarity of the composition of romantic plays of Shakespeare and, correspondingly, →
I know she has the idea regarding the procedure that I will use to ascend to power. We will wait till the King goes to sleep and I will have to stab him on the chest.
It underlines the purity of Romeo and Juliet's love by associating it with a pure feeling such as religion, and it creates an escape from their damnation according to Christian values by creating the religion of love. In the Christian faith, which was ubiquitous in Shakespeare's England, suicide is against God's will, and therefore punishable →
Lady Macbeth: And I am Lady Macbeth, but call me Queen Macbeth. I did not purposely do this, I thought Lady Macbeth was in the room with me!
Jones gets kicked off the farm and the animals decide to take over the land. They re-named the farm Animal farm and two pigs Napoleon and Snowball decide to take over. They taught the animals many new things including reading and writing.Mr. Napoleon decides he wants to take charge so he takes nine dogs to →
Aristotle's theory of a tragic flaw is designed to allow the audience to engage with the hero, regardless of the character's higher status or power. This view also suggests that a tragedy is a play which causes pity and fear amongst the audience for the tragic hero; in Shakespearean tragedies the Hero's flaw is often →
This essay will research the relationship between clip and silence in The Outsider and Waiting for Godot. " Silence fills this hollow universe, Silence is the pick we make, Silence is the decease of this all, Silence is our destiny." This infusion from Okami Kamikaze 's verse form, 'Eternal silence ' seems to suit Beckett 's →
The knowledge of what the mirror is, what it implies about Alice's true identity, and the desire to cover up her own nakedness is where Alice becomes markedly human. Alice's orientation to the world through her sense of smell clues her into the proximity of the villages.
Dramatic irony; lady Macduff assumes that her husband fled the country because he is a traitor and does not love his family. He is defending his cousin Macduff to Lady Macbeth by explaining that he is a just and trustworthy man and not a traitor.
In Act One of Romeo and Juliet, we discover that Mercutio is a good and close friend to Romeo and he's a very sarcastic person born to entertain people too. Lastly, those are the ways of how we notice that Mercutio is a good, close, sarcastic, and entertaining friend to Romeo.
How do the writers of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights use setting and atmosphere in the development of their novels? Setting and atmosphere are dominant features of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Their experience of being governesses and living in a parsonage next to a graveyard on the →
He is saddened by the death of his father, who he admired as a king and husband to his mother. His grief over his father's death is compounded by his mother's hasty marriage to Claudius. All is not well; I doubt some foul play" , he said. Hamlet feels that the presence of the →
Due to this difference, the crowd has exercised a dominant influence upon the dramatist in every era of the history of theatre; the themes, the thoughts, the emotions, are decided by the prescribed agendas of the public. The theatre was symbolic, it was in a theatre that illusions were created and hence it became the →
Heathcliff becomes more and more obsessed with the memory of the elder Catherine, to the extent that he begins speaking to her ghost. After hearing the end of the story, Lockwood goes to visit the graves of Catherine and Heathcliff.
It is confusing as to whether or not the author holds Heathcliff's foreign presence, and perhaps an inclination for destruction, or Hindley's abuse as the cause of the tragedy that befalls this family and their estate. Eagleton almost absolves the child Heathcliff of any intentional destruction, but he does assert that the introduction of the →
While traveling to King Duncan's castle Macbeth and Banquo stumble upon the three witches. The first witch greets Macbeth with his current title as the Thane of Glamis, the second witch greets Macbeth as the Thane of Cawdor, and the last witch greets Macbeth as, " All hail Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter"
When the first of the prophesies is proven to be true by the thane Ross, Macbeth begins to " questions not the purpose of the witches, but the benefits of their prophecies, in a paradox he begins to contemplate how him being the future king could be a bad thing." This is Macbeth's first →
To sum up the noted idea, it is conspicuous that Macbeth's unmistakable weaknesses are consuming his perception and conclusively leading to his mental degeneration, and in continuation enabling his ego and ambition to grow. As Macbeth's conscience decreases, his ambition and motivation escalates. Conclusively, it is visible that Macbeth's actions lead to his dismay in →
It is a book full of satire but represents the human society. The story starts with the old major of the manor farm who dies and upon his death, two young pigs named Snowball and Napoleon take over the leadership of the farm. Jones out of the farm and formulate seven laws to govern the →
She took the chance of writing to show the quality of strength in women. WHAT IS IDENTITY? The condition of being oneself and not another. There is a restructuring and reorientation of women's roles in contemporary society. IDENTITY CRISIS FACED BY WOMEN CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL: SHORT SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL: The Brahmin heroine, Akhila →
In further argument, Styan proposes: As long as the characters remain convinced of their own existence, and serious about themselves and about their virtues, it is in the nature of the theater for us to accept the substantiality of the make believe, and thus become involved in the tragedy.However, Shepard expresses his opposite idea that →
Just at the start of the play we see Macbeth fighting against Norway and Ireland and at the end of the play Macbeth if fighting against Macduff and his army. Everyone around him influenced on his behaviour and caused him to kill many innocent people.the witches caused him to search for power →
It can be said however that the fault is not Macbeth's alone as the witches and Lady Macbeth were partly responsible for Macbeth's downfall. Lady Macbeth believes that Macbeth is too soft, which can be seen by the use of the metaphor, " too full of the milk of human kindness". This metaphor refers to →
When religion is first mentioned in the novel, when Jane is young, she confesses to Mr. Brocklehurst, the supervisor of Lowood, is incredibly religious. However, he is described throughout the novel as being cruel, mean, and incredibly hypocritical.
Many of the choices that lead to negative consequences were because of characters in both Romeo & Juliet, and West Side Story acting out of love. The act of love is not the only emotion that can cause someone to make a wrong choice.
Throughout all of these narratives there is relevant injury for past events, coming to an result of growing in either a positive or negative manner. The short narrative that in my sentiment is the most powerful in respects to trauma and growing is the narrative " Minimum of two ". His scruples so catches up →
The play was set in the Victorian era.[3]The main role of the husband was to be the provider and leader; this applies to Torvald the husband of the protagonist Nora. Nora is a victim of the society and of her marriage.
Romeo + Juliet 1996 transforms the original play into a modern-day film for a contemporary audience. The universal theme of love is reoccurring throughout both the play and the novel. In the play, Romeo + Juliet, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties and emotions. In the course of →
Lear has given away his power, he has destroyed hisfamilyby disowning one daughter and angered another, and he has banished his most trusted advisor. When the play begins, Lear is King of England. The play opens with his two advisers, the Earls of Kent and Gloucester being surprised that Lear no longer appears to prefer →
Their pain drives them to innocently justify their greed without realizing the effect of the economic consequences that impacts us all. Hamlet feels that life is a difficult journey and that the value of oner's life comes from facing all of the hills and valleys of the journey. Hamlet and all his friends have been →
The use of irony highlights to the audience Huxley's critique of Mond's authoritarian control and his propaganda used to justify it. Finney uses the concept of monotony, allusive to industrialization and the ' workers utopia' of the USSR to critique a government that uses capitalist desires as a distraction to cold war fear.
Literature is now seen as on the one manus, a produced object and on the other manus as a consequence of the societal production and the definition of the existent becomes dependent on the environment in which it was produced and this is where the impression of political orientation comes in. Ideology has become a →
Well, it is hard to keep the wallet right next to yourself all the times, if someone does not have pockets to put his wallet in.that day same was the case with me, I had no pockets to put my wallet in so that I had to carry my wallet in hands, I came out →
The histories behind the idea of a family are not important to the society because they never had emotions and feelings that people in the past had. The World State is a totalitarian regime where people in their society are brainwashed and conditioned to follow certain rules.
Follow my mother..Claudius's relationship with Hamlet Hamlet and Claudius have an antagonistic relationship."...from the very beginning, his [Hamlet] struggle with Claudius has been conceived as a struggle for the control of language - a battle to determine what can and cannot be uttered"." Obviously, Hamlet deeply resents Claudius referring to him as his son". Hamlet's →
Was it to protect her? or was it simply because he was afraid to love? It was not until she truly believed he was mad when he started speaking to the ghost of his father.
Then we will concentrate on Gulliver's lost of identity in the country of giants by first showing the way the Honour of Maids treat Gulliver and then by analyzing how Gulliver is confronted with terrifying dangers. Gulliver is repulsed by women in the country of giants.
By deliberately contrasting the setting of the 'conventional' world state, to the 'wild' Malpais, Huxley challenges the humanity's value in a genetically engineered world. In Chapter One, we are oriented to the technologically 'perfect' world state of " Community. It seems much too like the marginalisation of the Malpais and nature to create a 'perfect' →
The purpose of the fencing match is for Laertes to get revenge on Hamlet for killing Polonius. When Claudius tells Laertes that he is to kill Hamlet in the fencing match, Laertes responds " I will do't...
Heatcliff could be regarded as a Byronic hero in that despite his deeply vengeful character, his exotic appearance and passionate nature which inevitably exerts a powerful hold on Catherine Earnshaw:" As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window".The uncanny phenomenon appears to make an entrance in the narrative when Lockwood →
Furthermore Deane's repeated references to ' blood' in the earlier vignettes could also be used to create a foreboding sense of the violence and conflict that we see in ' After' with the beginnings of the ' Troubles', a period of bloody conflict between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland between the 1960s and →
Both A Thousand Splendid Suns and Hamlet have stood against the test of time, with the former being written in the mid 1900s, and the latter in the early 1600s; despite their powerful effects on societies all around the world, both texts reveal discrimination against women, and the sexist actions perpetrated on females in Afghan →
However the cycle is imperfect since as the story closes, the animals are stranded, unable to act for themselves in the face of Squealer's rhetoric; the power in their frightened unity can only be exploited by the pigs who, separated into a different category, do not have their interests at heart. However, the pigs are →
In The Lives of the Saints, Hamlet takes on the role of the ' dark eyes' that attempt to conform women to their role as laid out by society. Moreover, Shakespeare and Ricci allude to the idea that women's status in society is attached to a male counterpart.
Gertrude is often been suspected of perjury towards the dead king and her quick remarriage is often seen as a sign of her unfaithfulness towards her dead husband. However, in the second part of the play, when Gertrude faces the truth of her first husband's dead, she immediately stands a reformed character, sympathetic to Hamlet's →
One example where Beowulf shows strength was when he was hanging onto Grendel, Grendel started to jump around and tried to fling Beowulf off, Grendel failed to get Beowulf off so it ended up Beowulf killing the monster by ripping his arm off. Another example of bravery that Beowulf showed was when he went to →
Clinton recent nomination for the 2008 US presidency is " outrageous!" says Peggy Noonan, RNC advisor." The focus of Hillary Clinton's ambition is not her country, but for herself..". Parallel to Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Clinton to be Lady Macbeth because her marriage made and used solely for political gain as Lady Macbeth used the →
In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's mother was truly not a mother figure at all. Taking the role of " mother" in the play is Juliet's servant, known as the Nurse. After growing up with Juliet, the Nurse grew closer to her and began thinking of herself as less of a servant to Juliet and more →
Beowulf is an epic hero because he crossed a parlous sea to save a village from a man-eating monster named Grendel. The three reasons I believe Beowulf is an epic hero is because he crossed a parlous sea, killed a man-eating monster named Grendel, and killed Grendel's mother for a village he had nothing to →
I have learned many life lessons from reading the Harry Potter series that honestly changed my outlook on life and impacted me personally. With the handful of friends that Harry Potter has introduced me to, I have a group of very supportive and loyal true friends.
As he was leaving Pencey Prep, Holden felt melancholic." When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the stairs and took a last look down the corridor. What he was doing was, he was sitting on the floor right next to the →
Those are the major similarities between West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet. In addition to the plot structures, similar themes are present in West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet. The demonstration of the thought that blind love can lead to rash decisions is present in both Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story. →
In Hamlet, the passionate and hasty Laertes and the vengeful Fortinbras are foils for Hamlet's introspective personality and provide a basis for comparison of the hero's course of action. Of the three, Fortinbras seems to be the most successful in achieving his mission, and is in fact, the only character in Hamlet who does so →
I instantaneously walked to the kitchen and quickly warmed the bottle of milk in the microwave. I squatted down in front of her and give her the warm bottle of milk with a smile.
This feature that is found in Beowulf shows that a warrior is the best when he can lower himself to the position of a servant and induce closure for his adopted bearings. Beowulf is someone who is admirable in multiple ways, but one of the ways that he stands out from the →
Therefore, considering vaguely human character traits that Grendel possesses, almost any ' human' hero with the right set of heroic qualities could defeat a monster like Grendel. When Grendel first reveals himself and attacks the sleeping men at Heorot, which is King Hrothgar's mead-hall, the narrator of the poem claims that his motives are anger →
Fate can be identified throughout the play when Romeo gets the invitation to the Capulet feast, Frair Laurence's letter not getting delivered to Romeo and Juliet waking up too late. Firstly, fate can be identified when Romeo gets the invitation for the Capulets feast. Fate had it written for Romeo and Juliet →
From the onset of the story it is easy to see that Beowulf is a very hubris or prideful young man, but is that a good thing or does it hinder him in his quest? Throughout the entirety of the poem we see Beowulf grow from a valiant but prideful young warrior to an old →
A gothic protagonist is known to have sharply contrasting qualities within the character. This is seen in Macbeth as we see the contrast between Good and evil which is a strong source of conflict within Macbeth. Macbeth is not consciously and naturally malevolent, and there are many aspects of his character and →
" The murder of King Duncan has unanticipated consequences for both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The murder of King Duncan is the initial birth of Macbeth's greed for power and not only are these subsequent murders unanticipated consequences, but the guilt and stress that comes with it.
In Frye's words " Tragic heroes are so much the highest points in their human landscape," refers to the tragic hero being the one that stands out amongst the other characters. The tragic hero does not see the problem he creates or is given to him which makes him the tragic hero. He chooses to →
Obi, after the appraisal, had in mind many wonderful ideas and he decided to change many of the old traditions, which, as he worded, was kept by the " old and less educated one". It is reasonable to believe that Obi's youthful energy is the representation of the author's passion for modernizing the education of →
The concept of the Ring's power is applicable to real life situations, in which people should remember that when they are given great power they should think about what consequences their decisions may carry. Contents Introduction Historical background and plot The role of the Ring Characters, affected by the Ring →
He knows that Macbeth has the desire to be the king and would do anything to get the crown. Banquo knows Macbeth has it in him to commit murder. In the next three lines, Banquo explains that he should really be the king because the witches also proclaimed that Banquo would be the " root →
Tess has some appointments to make and since the body is with Anna's soul, it's hard to do everything. Tess wants to postpone the wedding so Anna will not have to marry Ryan in Tess' body but Anna proposes a toast and accepts Ryan for that's how she can make her mother happy.
The reader will wonder that all the boys respond in the same manner to the sound of the blown shell. The author uses aesthetics to drive emotions out of the reader about the value of fire to the boys. Ralph, Jack and Simon go on an exploration to confirm that the place is an island.
In the second part of the essay, the idea of a play within the play will be explored with the main argument that Hamlet himself acts a role towards everybody in his attempt to hide the secret of the murder of his father. The prince's frustration surrounding his lack of action will come to an →
The prediction that Macbeth would be thane of Cawdor is true, leading Macbeth to believe he will become King. The witches do suggest that he will become king, but it is Macbeth who produces the idea of murder.
As it is make into a movie called The Savage of Surrey, the influence of the suicide has been expand infinitely by the movie, and give an unprecedented impact to the whole peaceful society, our brave new world. I reckon the reason why we do not enjoy the whipping is we have not find out →
Roger is one of the antagonists in the novel, Lord of the Flies, and the decisions that he makes have major impact on the unfolding of the story. To me Roger is a despicable and reprehensible character who illustrates the worst aspects of humanity.
Lear's own suffering pulls Edgar out of his act of insanity and makes him resolute to help Lear and to reveal his true identity when the time is right. Edgar is also the difference between life and death for Gloucester, despite the fact that Gloucester's actions forced Edgar to become an outlaw. Edgar gives Lear →
Marxist - WH embodies the bourgeois yeoman, TG epitomises the Gentry - Heathcliff highlights the contradictions between the two, undermining WH and opposing TG - He caricatures the marriage market values of both thathe hates with Isabella - He is a product, participant and parody of capitalism - Cathys's lvoe for Edgar is in a →
Macbeth does not want to be known as a coward to his wife, so he decided to accept that he will complete the murder of Duncan. Macbeth finally see's Macduff and refuses to fight him because he's already sorry for the deaths of his family.