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- 341: Dorian Gray
- ... Dorian Gray, the author, Oscar Wilde, related the values during the 19th century through his characters. His personality and view of life is expressed through his novel-"Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks of me: Dorian what I would like to be On the surface, Dorian Gray is an example of a typical ideal aristocrat during the time which Oscar Wilde lived in ... as an appreciation of Dorian s beauty. Dorian is so pure and innocent-he doesn t know anything about the anxiety of life. He has all the beauty of a child in him, but then Lord Henry enters into the picture with his influential goal for life and its meaning. Don t spoil him. Don t try to influence him. Your influence would be bad. Lord Henry taunts Dorian and continues to remind him of all the sin that is building up and that even though his body is not aging, his soul is deteriorating fast. Lord Henry is the ...
- 342: Is Hamlet Mad?
- ... that we realise the full extent of his uncle's treachery. When he first sees the ghost, Horatio and Marcellus try to restrain him, Horatio saying: "What if it tempt 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 ... act oddly so that the King doesn't suspect Hamlet is plotting his downfall. However, Horatio and Marcellus even now think that Hamlet is acting rather strangely, saying "These are wild and whirling words, my lord", and "this is wondrous strange". The next passage of interest is in Act II Sc II, when Claudius says to his Rozencrantz and Guildenstern: "... Something have you heard Of Hamlet's transformation; so call it ... is later in the scene, when Polonius is sent to find out what he can about him. Hamlet comes on, and, using his antic disposition as cover, ridicules him: Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. Poloniuse: Not I, my lord. Hamlet: Then I would you were so honest a man. Polonius: Honest, my lord? Hamlet: Ay, sir; to be honest, as this ...
- 343: Standing Mahadeva
- ... is from the 8th century B.C.E. In the museum icon Mahdeva is standing with his two sons Kartikeya and Ganesha. Kartikeya is on the left side of Shiva. Kartikeya, the elder son of Lord Shiva, is also known as Subramaniam and represents a person of perfection. He has taken birth to destruct the demon Taraka sur . It seemed that the two (Shiva and Parvati ) were constantly making love, to ... to show that they have more strength then a normal person. Ganesha is on the right side of the Shiva. Ganesha, the youngest son of Shiva, is the god of knowledge and remover of obstacles. Lord Ganesha is also called Vinayak (kowledeable) or Vighneshwer (god to remove obstacles). He has elephant's head and a big belly. The story behind it was: Once Shiva went in a forest for meditation. At ... so Ganesha gets an elephant's head. Parvati was still not totally happy with the deal and wanted more. Then Shiva granted Ganesha a boon that before beginning any undertaking or task people would worship Lord Ganesh. Thus the reason there is worship of Ganesha before start of any work. His vehicle is a tiny mouse. In his hands he carries a rope (to carry devotees to the truth), an ...
- 344: Prejudice In The Merchant Of V
- ... Similarities Between Passover and The Eucharist To explain the differences and similarities between the Hebrew Passover and the Christian Eucharist we must first compare and research.. The Eucharist is the blessed sacrament in which our Lord, Jesus Christ is truly present under the bread (his body), and the wine (his blood). It differs from Passover in that the Passover has been a well known tradition for many years to the Jewish ... Eucharist completes Christian initiation to our faith. Those who have been raised to the dignity of royal priesthood by Baptism and configured more deeply to Christ by Confirmation participate with the whole community in the Lord s own sacrifice by means of the Eucharist. When we receive the Eucharist through the Sacrament of Communion God cleanses us free of sin, which is like the offerings brought upon the Lord during Passover. The unleavened bread in Passover is like the host that is consecrated to Christians during Communion. The Holy unleavened bread (host) and wine remind us of Jesus Passover. For the Christian community, ...
- 345: Hume
- ... from the New American Bible and to show how Hume would view these miracles. The stories are of Noah's Ark and The Burning Bush. The story of Noah's Ark took place when the Lord began to realize how great mans wickedness on earth had become. He began to regret the fact that he had created man on earth. The lord decided the only way to rid the wickedness would be to destroy all men, and all living creatures living on the earth. The only men in which he would not destroy were to be Noah ... his sons wives. He also would save a pair of animals. Of each species. The rest were to perish from the earth. He chose Noah to be the favor and carry out the task. The Lord requested Noah to build a ark explained exactly how it was to be made. Noah spent six hundred years of his life building the ark in which God insisted upon. When the ark was ...
- 346: Hume
- ... from the New American Bible and to show how Hume would view these miracles. The stories are of Noah’s Ark and The Burning Bush. The story of Noah’s Ark took place when the Lord began to realize how great mans wickedness on earth had become. He began to regret the fact that he had created man on earth. The lord decided the only way to rid the wickedness would be to destroy all men, and all living creatures living on the earth. The only men in which he would not destroy were to be Noah ... his sons wives. He also would save a pair of animals. Of each species. The rest were to perish from the earth. He chose Noah to be the favor and carry out the task. The Lord requested Noah to build a ark explained exactly how it was to be made. Noah spent six hundred years of his life building the ark in which God insisted upon. When the ark was ...
- 347: In Romeo And Juliet Who Is To
- ... be punished severely. The parents of both families are very much involved in the tragedy. Juliet's parents pressure her in the end to marry Paris, but she does not want to. In the beginning Lord Capulet is protective of Juliet and does not want to rush her to marry Paris. "Let two more summers wither in their pride/ Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride". Yet, in ... fault inevitably that the feud started from their relatives ancestors grudge. Because of Capulet wanting a companion for his daughter since Tybalt her kinsman was dead the marriage is brought forward two years. Which because Lord Capulet will not be crossed because of his raging inferno of a temper. Juliet's only option is to take the potion, and later because of that Paris, Romeo and herself die. The Montagues are ... more". Yet when her marriage to Paris is brought forward she answers in a different tone to the beginning "He shall not make me there a joyful bride." This change brings out the worst in Lord Capulet. Romeo seems to have a wonder at the Capulets, first Rosaline then Juliet but that is a big difference in status. Romeo is an adventurous person without someone following his every move. Because ...
- 348: Development of Defense of Provocation
- ... a man to death in a club. The appellant's counsel contended that the trial judge should have directed that the jury was open to find provocation to reduce the appellant's conviction to manslaughter. Lord Simonds provided direction upon what kind of provocation would reduce murder to manslaughter. He said that the provocation must temporarily deprive the provoked individual of self-control and in deciding this regard must be had ... conduct during that interval and all other circumstances which indicate his state of mind. It is here that the well known characteristics of "an unusually excitable or pugnacious" person are excluded from amounting to provocation. Lord Simonds also said that "the mode of resentment must bear a reasonable relationship to the provocation if the offence is to be reduced to manslaughter." The case which was to follow Mancini was Holmes v ... Public Prosecutions [1954] 2 All ER 801. In this case the appellant was a sexually impotent man who had been taunted by a prostitute regarding his inabilities, whom he then killed. Once again it was Lord Simonds who delivered the conclusive judgment in which he referred to his decisions in Mancini and Viscount Simon's decisions in Holmes. Despite Viscount Simon's acknowledgment of the need for flexibility in the ...
- 349: Hamlet's Inability To Decipher Right From Wrong
- ... treats Ophelia badly. In Act II, scene I, Ophelia tells Polonius, her father, that Hamlet has visited her closet and left it in disarray. “Polonius: How now, Ophelia, what’s the matter? Ophelia: Alas, my lord, I have been so affrighted. Polonius: With what, i’th’ name of God? Ophelia: My lord, as I was sewing in my chamber, Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbraced, No hat upon his head, his stockings fouled, Ungartered, and down-gyvèd to his ankle, Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look ...
- 350: The Ideals Of Knighthood In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
- ... bargain, thus proving that he is an honorable knight. Gawain’s arrival at the castle of Sir Bercilak tests Gawain’s pure mind and his courtesy, two very important knightly virtues. According to a bargain, lord Bercilak goes hunting three days in a row while Gawain remains at the castle and rests. Lining out the deal with Gawain he says, "Whatever I win in the woods I will give you at eve/ And all you have earned you must offer to me." Gawain accepts, and each day while the Lord is hunting, his wife tempts Gawain. Gawain is torn between his purity and his courtesy because he cannot commit adultery, yet he cannot offend a lady by not honoring her request. She gives Gawain a green girdle as a gift for use in saving his life, and asks that he does not let the lord know about it. The lord’s wife is not able to get Gawain to fail in his test of purity or courtesy to her because he will not sleep with her and is always ...
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