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- 24781: Frankenstein
- By: Anonymous The novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley is an excellent example of the Romantic Movement. The movement took place in the period from the late 1700’s to the mid-1800; it emphasized passion rather than reason and imagination and intuition rather than logic. One of the key concepts most Romantic writers used was, nature is a source of inspiration. They believed ... to the field of, “mathematics and the branch of study appertaining to that science as being built upon strong foundations, and so worthy of my considerations” (Shelley 27). The night of the creation of Frankenstein’s monster “was on a dreary night of November” and as he worked on it “the rain pattered dismally against the panes,” (Shelly 42). He created him by candle light in an isolated part of an ... of Mont Blanc when a storm is going on. The environment just like that in the creation of the monster, puts dread in the reader and also shows what is going on inside of Victor’s mind and heart. Victor is so upset in the chapter 9 that he decides to go to the Alps to ease his soul. He believes the nature in the Alps will cause him to ...
- 24782: The Country of Thailand
- ... bordering countries around there are Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Malaysia. Because Thailand is located near the equator, the climate is usually warm. Thailand has four seasons just like America. The only difference is that Thailand’s seasons’ are not the same as ours. For example, while America is in their summer season, Thailand is in their rain season. This is very similar to fall, but without the cold. America’s spring season, is their summer season. America’s fall season is their spring. The only season that is the same is winter. The people of Thailand originate from China. The history of Thailand began over 2000 years ago, when Thais living in ...
- 24783: Beowulf, Epic Hero
- ... leadership. He has many loyal men that would die for him, because he gives them something to live for, a better life style. So therefore this is what makes Beowulf one of the greatest “hero’s” in literature. To find courage in a person these days is hard to come by. A lot of people are afraid of various things, and to be fearless is quite an honorable characteristic in one’s personality, although it could get you in to trouble now a days. Because of the rise in crime in the Twentieth Century, there are many things to fear such as getting mugged, robbed, raped, killed ... one has to take risks on his own behalf to save the suffrage of others, because he wants to. Beowulf had killed many monsters before, but this was for his own safety, like the one’s he fought in the sea. But Grendel was a monster that was eating his men and Beowulf was not taking that too well. "’We have done this work of valor against the strength of ...
- 24784: Walter Whitman
- ... trip to New Orleans. He saw the vastness of his country for the first time, and he began to set down in poetry his impressions of the nation and its people. No publisher or author's name was on the first edition of 'Leaves of Grass' in 1855. Whitman printed it himself, and throughout his life he continued to publish expansions and revisions of the work. He sent copies of the first edition to well-known literary men. Some condemned the book, but Ralph Waldo Emerson saw its merit. In the 1856 edition Whitman printed Emerson's letter of praise, which called the book "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom yet contributed to American literature." Early in the American Civil War Whitman learned that his brother George was wounded and ... in Washington as a government clerk and also served as a hospital volunteer. Inspired by the suffering he saw, he wrote the volume of poetry called 'Drum-Taps', published in 1865. After the war Whitman's books began to sell well, and he contributed several articles to magazines. In 1873 he fell ill, suffering the first of several paralytic attacks. He remained an invalid for the rest of his life. ...
- 24785: Blindness In Oedipus The King
- ... in Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King.” First, Sophocles presents blindness as a physical disability affecting the auger Teiresias, and later Oedipus; but later, blindness comes to mean an inability to see the evil in one’s actions and the consequences that ensue. The irony in this lies in the fact that Oedipus, while gifted with sight, is blind to himself, in contrast to Teiresias, blind physically, but able to see the ... sin so hidden from Oedipus’ and the peoples’ eyes was quite visible to Teiresias. What Teiresias lacked in his ability to see the world, he made up for in being able to see a person’s heart - a skill that nearly cost him his life after a lengthy argument with Oedipus. Yet what distinguishes Teiresias from the others was his genuine concern for others – a concern that he voiced before demolishing ... The murder of his father, Laius, and the subsequent marriage to this mother, Jocasta, further elucidate the extent of Oedipus’ blindness; blind in deed, reason, and consequence. Tragically, Oedipus’ anagnorisis occurs simultaneously with his mother’s/wife’s suicide. With a heart full of despair and a pair of newly opened eyes, Oedipus makes his transformation complete as he exchanges his limited physical eyesight for the spiritual sight possessed by ...
- 24786: Athens adn Sparta
- ... the structures of both of these civilizations were very different. Both of these city states developed under different sets of rules and standards. Sparta grew as a military power while Athens grew due to it’s government and vast amounts of territory. Athens held a large amount of territory. However, this land was of very poor quality, but so vast that farmers could make a living off of it. The political ... ideas of democracy to Athens, but did not please all the people of Athens. After Solon, Cleisthenes built on the already present ideas helped to modernize the political system until it became renowned for it’s political system. Sparta grew not by obtaining a strong political system, but by building and maintaining a military aristocracy. Sparta conquered lands directly around them. The society was set up with the warriors at the ... army and protect the land in which they already owned. They looked not for expansion but in preservation of existing domain. The difference between these two city states was that Sparta chose military as it’s means of division of society, where as Athens slowly grew and formed its society from reformation of it’s laws and government. Both grew strong under very different means of societal structures and proved ...
- 24787: The Life of Gottfried Leibniz
- ... the year in which he was awarded a doctorate in law, he served Johann Philipp von Schönborn, archbishop elector of Mainz, in a variety of legal, political, and diplomatic capacities. In 1673, when the elector's reign ended, Leibniz went to Paris. He remained there for three years and also visited Amsterdam and London, devoting his time to the study of mathematics, science, and philosophy. In 1676 he was appointed librarian ... George I, king of Great Britain. Leibniz was considered a universal genius by his contemporaries. His work encompasses not only mathematics and philosophy but also theology, law, diplomacy, politics, history, philology, and physics. Mathematics Leibniz's contribution in mathematics was to discover, in 1675, the fundamental principles of infinitesimal calculus. This discovery was arrived at independently of the discoveries of the English scientist Sir Isaac Newton, whose system of calculus was invented in 1666. Leibniz's system was published in 1684, Newton's in 1687, and the method of notation devised by Leibniz was universally adopted (see Mathematical Symbols). In 1672 he also invented a calculating machine capable of multiplying, ...
- 24788: The Symbol Of Blood In Macbeth
- ... play and most times in reference to murder or treason. The first sinister reference to blood is in Act 2, Scene 1, when Macbeth sees the dagger floating in the air leading him to Duncan's room and he sees "on the blade and dudgeon gouts of blood", indicating that the knife has been visciously and violently stabbed into someone. The next reference, in Scene 2, is when Lady Macbeth smears ... This is another sinister and evil reference to blood, setting up the innocent servants of the king. Again, blood is referred to when Malcolm and Donaldbain are discussing what to do and Malcolm says : "there's daggers in men's smiles: the nearer in blood, the nearer bloody." Meaning that their closest relatives are likely to kill them. Again, blood is being used to describe treason, murder and death. In Act 5, Scene 1 - ...
- 24789: Scarlet Letter: Reality Vs Per
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, a dark tale of sin and redemption, centers around the small Puritan community of Boston during the seventeenth century. In the middle of the town market place is a " . . .weather darkened scaffold ... to him . . . on the scaffold yonder . . . But here in the sunny day, among all the people, he knows us not, nor must we know him! (215)". Thus, Reverend Dimmesdale is still committed to the town's values of ignoring truth and going along with the public perception. The forest is also a location where the truth is not forbidden, but accepted. After Hester's judgment on the scaffold, she and her daughter Pearl escape there. The trees of the forest, unlike the people in town, listen to Hester and Pearl and welcome them, sins and all. On the ...
- 24790: Blackmur R.P., Form And Value
- ... the reader) has to combine, or fuse inextricably into something like an organic unity the constructed or derived symbolism of his special insight with the symbolism animating the language itself. It is, on the poet’s plane, the labor of bringing the representative forms of knowledge home to the experience which stirred them: the labor of keeping in mind what our knowledge is of: the labor of craft. With the poetry ... forms of knowledge, being magical, do not fit naturally with the forms of knowledge that ordinarily preoccupy us.” What Blackmur is arguing, is that magic and the interpretation of this, is dependent on the reader’s knowledge of magic. He continues the argument, by implying that Yates believed that imagination was as valid a way of understanding the world as was logic. Blackmur also argues that because Yates has a view ... the reader) has to combine, or fuse inextricably into something like an organic unity the constructed or derived symbolism of his special insight with the symbolism animating the language itself. It is, on the poet’s plane, the labor of bringing the representative forms of knowledge home to the experience which stirred them: the labor of keeping in mind what our knowledge is of: the labor of craft. With the ...
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