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- 10281: The Many Aspects of Streets
- ... for spare change. Another characteristic one associates with the word "street" is violence. I think of how young people often join gangs and the violence they bring to the streets. Yet streets can also symbolize new beginnings, as one can drive down them to just drive and think. Streets also symbolize togetherness as a community, for they are usually associated with the communities of families and children who play in streets ... without a second thought in our everyday language. People do not usually think of materials, or of the uses of streets, or of the symbolism related that appears in all of the streets across the world. Streets are something we use every day and take for granted, yet our world would not function the same without them.
- 10282: Macbeth: Macbeth A Tragic Hero - His Strengths, His Weaknesses, His Tragic Flaw and the Effect of Outside Influences on His Nature
- ... to be his strengths, backfires and these become his weaknesses. During the play, Macbeth's strengths were ambition, courage, and honour. Prior to the murders Macbeth utilised his strengths well and this earned him a new title: "Thane of Cawdor". "For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name. Disdaining fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour's minion carv'd out his passage, Till he fac'd the slave." (Act 1 ... 2, Lines 16-20). However, after the murder of Banquo, his ambition and superstitious nature clouded his morals and common sense. Pride and ambition were a main contributor to his faltering public image of a brave hero. Macbeth's own nature and "metaphysical" influences is a lethal cocktail which propels him to his fate. The witches' ambiguous prophesies affected Macbeth by making him curious to why they greated him as ...
- 10283: The Vietname War in "America's Australia: Australia's America" and "Into the Dark House"
- The Vietname War in "America's Australia: Australia's America" and "Into the Dark House" From 1961-1975 the United States, Australia, Korea and New Zealand represented the Free West democracies, engaged in a conflict against a communist revolution in Vietnam. A conflict which according to JFK was of utmost importance, for Kennedy Vietnam represented the " cornerstone of the free world in southeast Asia." Joseph. M. Siracusa ( two books), McMahon and D.J.Dennis explore different areas of the Vietnam War in the following works, "Into the Dark House", "America's Australia : Australia's America", "Major ... Siracusa answers as being "utterly unintelligible." This is considered apart from the climate of opinion and from the far higher foreign policy considerations and requirements of the United States during the last stages of the World War II , the early Cold War period and particularly the Korean War6. Put simply, the reasons for American intervention in the War were inconsistent and lacking a solid direction or motive. This predicament was ...
- 10284: My Perception of William Shakespeare's Othello
- ... of a monster. Readers hearts respond greatly to the final breakdown of Othello's once ordered existance as he desperately clings to the one thing that seems certain to him: Iago's sincere friendship: "O brave Iago, honest and just,/ Thou hast such noble sense.."(5.1.31-32). In this tragedy, Othello is torn by a terrible dilemma, whether he can trust his new bride or whether he can trust his ensign. Why does he choose to trust the latter? Time after time, Othello fails to see through the machinations of Iago. Othello trusts too easily. Iago is a ... that Othello has attained as a civilized and Christian man; in attaining her, he attains the heights from which the tragedy requires that he must fall. Othello's love for Desdemona continues and creates ever-new deceptions until the final climactic murder is accomplished. And even as he kills Desdemona, after he has decided that she must die, he deceives himself that he is killing her as a duty, as ...
- 10285: Candide The Satire Of An Age.
- ... about what should be done. At last to the happiness of readers Pangloss is killed by being hanged. But this means that Candide’s reason is also dead! No problem he just goes finds a new companion, “Lacking him [Pangloss], let’s consult the old woman” (37). He soon loses her, gains another, looses him, and then gains another. Thus we see that Candide can only think if he has a ... because they have philosophers. This is typically Enlightenment, because nobles, are stupid and must have philosophers to make them Enlightened. For example L’Hospital’s a French Noble had in his “possession” mathematicians that developed new ways of taking limits (a Calculus idea). Yet in today's society we call this way “L’Hospital’s Rule,” not Bernoulli’s rule who is the one who “invented” it (Stewart 310). Candide is ... a thing greater then man (God) has everything laid out, and everything “is for the best” (30). It is here that Voltaire's attack on Christianity begins. He bombasts them for believing that all the world is a stage, and that God has written the script. This idea of predestination is the antithesis of the Enlightenment period, and thus it is only natural that Voltaire, a typical Enlightenment writer, harangue ...
- 10286: The Worn Path of Life
- ... pocket and stares at the two coins in her yellow palm. She decides to buy her grandson a miraculous present: "a little windmill they sells, made out of paper." She leaves the clinic with the new bottle of medicine and starts her slow descent down the stairs. I construe these description as the upper surface leading to a much deeper meaning. Underneath, a perceptive reader can find a fable worth studying ... The Worn Path" is a moving piece of literature. Eudora Welty uses her flair with perception and imagery as if she were giving us the opportunity to step into Phoenix's shoes and see the world through her eyes. She depicts her world with a realistic eye, and describes sights, thoughts and feelings with such detail and description that one cannot help but imagine them as though they were there.
- 10287: Romeo and Juliet: Forbidden Love Leads To Death
- ... man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is lessened by another's anguish. Turn giddy, and be helped by backward turning. One desperate grief cures with another's languish. Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die." Romeo takes the advise Benvolio offered, and not another word about loving Rosaline is spoken. On the same day, Romeo, Benvolio, and ... looks alone. Even harder to believe, is that if he was truly in love with Rosaline, he wouldn't have been able to drop her like a bad habit and and go looking for a new girlfriend the same night. If he were truly in love with Rosaline, he would have been crushed, torn and distraught over their breakup and wouldn't have gone out looking for other girls. Romeo was in love with being in love, he had to have a girlfriend who he could say meant the world to him. The friar thought that Romeo's actions were inconsistent with how he should have been acting. The Friar found it hard to believe that Romeo was in love with Juliet. He thought ...
- 10288: The Necklace: Madame Loisel
- ... She wanted to be the center of attention. I definitely believe her husband loved her. He easily gave her the four hundred francs that he had been saving for himself so she could buy a new dress. He had provided her with a servant so she wouldn’t have to do all the chores herself. He was supportive during her ordeal. He took loans out to pay for the new necklace. He got another job to help pay off their debt. We never saw him complain about their situation once in the story. If someone goes to this much trouble for you, they must really ... undergo the experience that she did. She would continue being a miserable person, who would be constantly dreaming of all that she didn’t have. Losing the necklace allowed Madame Loisel to escape her dream world and come back to reality.
- 10289: Macbeth: Shakespeare's Comparisons and Contrasts
- ... be tough and begs the spirits to "unsex me here." Macbeth, on the other hand, hesitates to murder Duncan for several reasons. Among these reasons the earthly consequences frighten him the most. How would his new subjects react? Would the kingdom disrupt in chaos? Furthermore Macbeth cannot escape present punishment if he fails. We see Lady Macbeth's persuasiveness producing a new courage in her husband and that courage is manly enough to perform murder. Therefore, Macbeth has no reasons for murdering Duncan except for his "vaulting ambition," his lust for power. Throughout the play we see ... Like Macbeth, Banquo is courageous. The sergeant who reports to Duncan regards Banquo as being Macbeth's equal in physical bravery. However, after Macbeth murders Duncan he fears Banquo. For Banquo, besides being Macbeth's brave and courageous friend is an honorable man; Banquo will avenge the king's murder. Macbeth struggles with a guilty conscience and a fear of Banquo's retribution. After contrasting Macbeth with these three characters ...
- 10290: Essay About Criticism of Shakespeare's Plays
- ... that he is able to achieve rebirth(Ribner 128). In Ribner's introduction to his study of Shakespeare, he states, “ Tragedy is an exploration of man's relation to the forces of evil in the world. It seeks for answers to cosmic problems, much as religion seeks them, for it is a product of man's desire to believe in a purposive ordered universe”(Ribner 1). From this introduction it seems ... essay, Thompson does not mention any specific characters from Lear. Thompson makes a point of mentioning that the critics most intent on analyzing the polarization of these forms of criticism are women and that male new historicist critics have been reluctant to respond. An argument Thompson brings up is that while feminist critics acknowledge the value of history in regards to criticism, historicist critics are accused of ignoring gender in their ... criticize those critics who specifically mention the relationship of power to gender as not being the issue of the play (Thompson 121). Several critics Thompson mentions directly have glamorized Edmund's behavior for “creating a new kind of reality” while condemning Goneril and Regan as “wicked, ugly sisters” when in fact the three characters are committing the same acts and often together. Edmund's marginalization as been noted as being “ ...
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