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- 961: The Sea Dogs... Puppets in a Political War
- ... England sponsored and supported the English sea dogs. But Drake was not the only pirate sponsored in this battle. The queen gave (Hawkins) him a financial backing, as did a number of nobles and the Lord mayor of London, (Cochran 24/25). But because of Drake's success he received the most substantial support from nobles and Queen Elizabeth. The war between the Armada and England was the proving ground for ...
- 962: Romeo and Juliet: The Betrayal of the Adults to Juliet
- ... Juliet the Nurse instead believes "I think it is best you marry the county...For it excels your first (marriage)." (III, v, 230, 236) Juliet feels betrayed by this reply as the Nurse "... dispraise my lord (Romeo) with that same tounge/Which she hath praised him beyond compare/So many thousand times?" (III, v, 249-252) The Nurse's betrayal causes Juliet to go to the Friar with the intent to ...
- 963: Compare and Contrast the Language of Romeo and Juliet in the Balcony Scene
- ... are full of the religious register. Juliet uses the religious register when she says "Or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is God by... believe thee." Juliet here takes Romeo as her Lord as it was a practice in those days to consider their husbands as Gods. Thus Juliet refers to Romeo as her God. The use of religious register elevates their love to a higher plane. The ...
- 964: Macbeth: The Symbol of Blood
- ... symbol of blood in the scene in which she walks in her sleep. She says "Out damned spot! Out I say! One: two: why then 'tis time to do't: hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call out power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in ...
- 965: Hamlet: Character Traits
- ... a demon instead of his father's spirit. Another example of his bravery is portrayed when he actually sees the ghost: HAM. It will not speak. Then I will follow it. HOR. Do not, my lord! HAM. Why, what should be the fear? 5 Hamlet is not afraid to follow the ghost and speak with it, despite the fact that Horatio is telling him not to go. He asks Horatio why ...
- 966: The Tragedy Of Hamlet
- ... 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 how Polonius' innocent involvement with the ...
- 967: Hamlet Revenge
- ... Hamlet wounds Laertes with the sword. That is the wound by which Laertes dies. Hamlet had many chances to kill his uncle, but his rage outweighed his intelligence; and he chose to wait until the lord could see no good in Claudius, and then strike him down into a world of eternal damnation. "Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;ΰA villain kills my father; and for that ...
- 968: Fate in King Lear
- ... a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will." These words from Hamlet are echoed, even more pessimistically, in Shakespeare's later play, The Tragedy of King Lear where Gloucester says: "Like flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport". In Lear, the characters are subjected to the various tragedies of life over and over again. An abundance of cyclic imagery ...
- 969: The Odyssey: Character Study of Athena
- ... back in his palace. This isn't the only way she helps Odysseus and Telemakhos. She goes to Zeus and talks to him about what should become of Odysseus. And of course Poseidon, the evil lord of the oceans, wants him dead. And despite the fact that she would be going against another Olympian, she stands with Odysseus to the end. She protects him from the flying spears from the suitors ...
- 970: Saigon
- ... 17th century, a small township was formed.According to one theory,Saigon or Saicon has its root in a Khmer word Prei Kor(Kapok Tree Forest). The name Saigon was used offically in 1698,when Lord Nguyen Phuc Chu send Mr. Nguyen Huu Canh to this region to create various districts and to form a government for this southern outpost.Because Of its strategic location for trade and commerce as well ...
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