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- 1671: A Man For All Seasons
- ... with a moral dilemma that will determine the outcome of his life. More, chancellor of England , and a strong Christian believer is forced to choose between his close friend, King Henry VIII, and the supreme lord his God. More is a man of moral integrity because he refuses to submit to external pressures to sign the oath condoning the Act of Supremacy. He follows his heart and soul in doing what ...
- 1672: A Farewell To Arms - Religion
- ... only those who don't have the power to disobey the church will abide by its rules (177). Henry also tells the priest "We are all gentler now because we are beaten. How would Our Lord have been if Peter had rescued him in the Garden?" (177). He is implying that the Christian God is no god at all, just the product of circumstance. What is deceiving about Henry's statements ...
- 1673: A Bird Came Down The Walk.
- ... cautiously because its natural habitat is in the sky. And the he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass When the bird finally flies away the poem's flow mimics that of a flying bird, very calm and free "And he unrolled his feathers / And rowed him softer home". She describes a birds flight like rowing in an ocean ...
- 1674: Emily Dickinson
- ... Love was another favored subject of Dickinson. She never talks about her love or lover but mainly concentrates on the passion side of love. In her poetry, she represents man with the words Father, King, Lord, and Master. She uses a metaphor to describe women to men as
- 1675: Hamlets Madness
- ... the ghost alone detracts somewhat from its credibility, but all the men are witness to the ghost demanding they speak alone. Horatio offers an insightful warning:What if it tempts you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea, And there assume some other horrible form Which might deprive your sovereignty of reason, And draw you into ...
- 1676: The Tempest: Review
- ... hollowly, invert / What best is boded me to mischief. I, / Beyond all limit of what else I' th' world, / Do love, prize honor you" (Act 3 sc. 1, p. 95). In modern terms, this means: "Lord, bear witness to what I say, and bless my claim (to this woman). Let me be damned if I lie when I say that I love honor, prize and honor you above anything else in ...
- 1677: To Tame A Shrew
- ... and sister. By the end of the play, however, she is presented as being mild and submissive to Petruchio, leading up to her greatest speech in the dialogue of the play: Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the ...
- 1678: Animal Farm
- ... only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plow, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. (p.19) This speech gets all the animals riled up and sends the toughts of getting rid of man. Old Major then teaches them the song the Beasts of England which ...
- 1679: Hamlet Polonius Family
- ... in a deceitful manner when dealing with Hamlet, it is only because he is carrying out plans devised by the king or queen to discover the nature of Hamlet s madness. Being the king s Lord Chamberlain, it is his duty to obey the king and queen s wishes and it is this loyalty that eventually proves to be fatal for him. An example of hoe Polonius innocent involvement with the ...
- 1680: Hamlet Character Analysis
- ... asks them, Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, deal justly with me: come, come, nay, speak. (II, ii. 259-266) Guildenstern s response was, My lord, we were sent for. (II, ii. 276) Hamlet asks them to be even and direct with, whether you were sent for or no. But after this question, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern asks if he should tell ...
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