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- 4281: Henry V
- ... secures from the Archbishop of Canterbury a declaration that states that the "Salic Law" barring women and their descendants from ascending the French crown could not be urged legally against his claims to titles "usurp'd from (him) and (his) progenitors. The King resolves, therefore, "by God's help … to bend(France to (his) awe or break it all to pieces." His purpose is strengthened by the arrival of the French ... hour the spirit of the fun-loving Prince Hal breaks out in a prank that he plays on one of his men. In the opposite camp, the over-confident French leaders jest at the "beggar'd host" of their enemies. The Constable of France derisively sends a herald to King Henry to "mind (his) followers of repentance." However, in the battle that in the morning follows, the badly led French forces ... Katharine, his daughter. He acknowledges him as heir to the French crown. And from the union of the English King and the French Princess is born, a son "Henry the sixth, in infant bands crown'd king, of France and England" is born, thereby ending the period with the unification of the two countries both as a nation and a family.
- 4282: King Lear: Illusion
- ... 153) The Fool can also be seen to have vision of Lear's blindness. He, throughout the play, as with all fools in Shakespeare, retorts the truth If I gave them all my living, I'd keep my coxcombs myself. There's mine; beg another of thy daughters. (King Lear I.IV.106-107) Lear's threat of the whip makes the Fool push the issue further and continue about truth ... of his best lines is "I stumbled when I saw", ironic that his realisation comes only when he is blind. It's also interesting to note that blinding was a punishment for lechery in the day; he receives this for the conception of the bastard Edmund. He does receive more punishment for this though in hi banishment from his castle and his eventual death. Edmund draws more people into the illusion ...
- 4283: Death of A Salesman: Summary
- ... son of the previous owner, who Willy was good friends with. Eventually Howard leaves the office for a few minutes. Ben appears and Willy is transported back to Biff's senior year. It is the day of the big football game. Biff has been asked to attend three Universities. Still immersed in this fantasy, Willy leaves Howard's office ranting as he walks down the street to Charlie's office. At ... he and Biff and Willy are going to meet for dinner. Happy starts hitting on a woman at the next table and Biff comes in. Biff did not land the deal with Bill Oliver that day, and now he has to somehow tell the bad news to Willy. Hap tells Biff that it would be better if they simply lie to Willy and make up a story about how Bill Oliver is going to think it over. Biff does not want to do this. Biff's experience that day with Oliver made him realize everything that is wrong in his life and how to fix it, but he knows Willy will not be pleased. Willy arrives and Biff begins telling his story. Biff ...
- 4284: Educating Rita – Coursework Piece
- ... emphasises the ‘problems’ Rita is trying to overcome. In one of the most revealing passages in the play she says - “There was always somethin’ …tellin’ me I might have got it all wrong. But I’d just play another record or buy another dress an’ stop worryin’. …’Til … y’ have to decide whether it’s gonna be another change of dress or a change in yourself.” This tells us exactly why ... you have written, quote, ‘Do it on the radio’ unquote.” Despite this she backs up her argument at the end of the scene by explaining that if the radio had been around in Ibsen’s day then “that’s where he would have done it”. Also in a long soliloquy she describes how the Daily Mirror, the Sun, ITV and the Unions aren’t doing what they should be and are ...
- 4285: Romeo And Juliet: Violence And Bloodshed
- ... then realized that a great deal of the violence in Romeo and Juliet become more understandable; they're all short tempered because of the heat! This is even noted when Benvolio warns Mercutio that " The day is hot, and Capulets abroad/And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl/ For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring." Unfortunatley, he warns too late, and the brawls he wished ... ever a time in you life in when it was so hot during the summer u wanted to kill somebody? Tempers explode when it's hot. Here in Illinios, at the end of a ten day heat wave, a newspaper reported a knife fight had broken out when a man asked another, "Hot enough for you?" The connection between heat and violence is well-known and documented. In 1969, the United States Riot Commision, investingating the ghetto riots that day on which the violences first erupted was quite high. If fact 9 out of 18 of the riots the temperatures reached over 80 degrees. This only proves that, Hate can be the fever of ...
- 4286: Hamlet: Hamlet Resembles A Real Person
- ... father by marrying Claudius. Hamlet may be obsessed with the idea that all women are evil, yet he really does love Ophelia, because when he finds out Ophelia has died, he cries out, "I lov'd Ophelia; forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum."(Act V, Scene 1) The ghost provides Hamlet with a dilemma. In Shakespeare's plays, supernatural characters are not ... plunge his country into chaos. He realizes that this will happen when he kills Claudius. Hamlet is unable to combine the spiritual world (in the form of his father's ghost) with the tangible, every-day world that surrounds him. There is much irony throughout this play. One occurrence of irony I found particularly striking was the fact that Hamlet effectively maneuvers himself into the same position as Claudius. Claudius had ...
- 4287: Death of a Salesman : A Social Criticism
- ... do not survive in America's production-based, time-crunch, fast-food and fast talk society. The play opens with Linda, the loving and ever-supportive wife, welcoming Willy home from another grueling and fruitless day's work. Linda loves her husband even though she knows "Willy is essentially a self-deluded man who has lost the power to distinguish between reality and the obsessions that come to dominate his life ... running off the road on his present sales route. Linda often accommodates these delusions, encouraging her husband that he is successful, handsome, and well-liked, perhaps just a little tired from all his hard work day in and day out. Somehow she makes ends meet at home while New York City grows up around their small, suburban house, blocking out the sunshine and even the fresh air. Meanwhile, Willy's career is stagnant ...
- 4288: Communication Analysis: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
- ... these recommendations we must first understand the differences that exist between men and women. Men and women argue a lot about their roles as parents and spouses. Men feel that watching the kids during the day is not a full-time job and that their wives should be able to keep the house clean, get the laundry done, and cook the meals. Women, on the other hand, feel that it is ... do not need to be so long. They also say that women become irrational during more intense conversations and are oversensitive. Men need “alone time” and women need “together time.” When a man works all day and women stay at home with the kids, cooking and cleaning, their evening needs are opposite. The man wants his “alone time” and the woman wants their “together time.” With these tensions there are often ... times women will feel they have to have sex just to fulfill their husband’s physical needs. Doing this, women do not receive their emotional needs. When their emotional desires are not met during the day or evening by their husband’s, women will penalize men with no sex. Women need to feel love and romance every night in an emotional sense, while men just like sex, not truly making ...
- 4289: Death In Hamlet
- ... honor of his father. King Hamlet returned from his grave as a ghost to tell Hamlet that he was "Doomed for a certain term to walk the night…Till the foul crimes done in (his) day of nature were burnt and purged away". In order for King Hamlet to leave purgatory, Hamlet was required to seek "revenge (for) his (father's) foul and most unnatural murder" through killing Claudius, the murderer ... snatches of old tunes, as one incapable of their own distress, or like a creature native and indued unto that element: But long it could not be when her garments, heavy with their drink, pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay to her muddy death. It is this sickness of the mind that led to her death. Her death was obviously not suicidal, as she was "incapable of her ...
- 4290: Misinformation In The Media
- Misinformation In The Media The truth cannot be seen with a simple glance. One must look deeper into the source of information. The media provides us with our day to day information, but there are many problems with knowledge acquired in this way. The question we must ask ourselves is how do we distinguish the difference between correct information and such fallacies as misinformation, biased information ... waited them.” However in Atlanta, Georgia, the people are singing a different tune. Headlines probably read “Terrible Defeat of the Braves” or “Wait Till Next Game.” The Georgians probably believed that they had an off day and will come back in the next game. Yankee fans are prejudice to any team except the Yankees the same way Braves are loyal only to the Braves. Similar to misinformation, you have to ...
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