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- 6471: The Oresteia
- ... one conflicted decision. Because of this decision, Iphigeneia dies, Agamemnon dies, and Clytaemestra dies. The bloodshed is tragic because the slaughtering is all within one family. The decision that provokes the other decisions is Agamemnon's settlement on sacrificing Iphigeneia. As a result of this sacrifice, Artemis allows the Greek army, whom she had been holding on the shore, to begin their journey to sack Troy. Agamemnon's dilemma, which had two unfavorable options and multiple consequences on either side, deserved more contemplation than was given. Should he kill his daughter and continue on to Troy, or should he let his daughter live ... there are 1000 ships armed with Greek soldiers that are ready to fight and win honor back for their city. How is Agamemnon going to tell all of his soldiers, "Well, sorry guys, I don't want to kill my daughter, so it looks like the trip is off." Not only is he going to look cowardly in front of his men, he is also going to look like a ...
- 6472: Hamlet Revenge Essay
- ... act blindly through anger, rather than through reason. It is based on the principle of an eye for an eye, but this principle is not always an intelligent theory to live by. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Young Fortinbras, Laertes, and Hamlet were all looking to avenge the deaths of their fathers. They all acted on emotion, but the way the characters went about it was very different. Because of this ... eldest sons had one thing in common. All three of the murders affected the sons of the deceased in the same way; it enraged them. For people during this time, revenging the murder of one’s father was part of one's honor and had to be done. All three of the sons swore vengeance and then acted towards getting revenge for the deaths of their fathers. Because of all of this, revenge is a major ...
- 6473: A Dolls House - The Transformation Of Nora Helmer
- Going from Child to Woman: The Transformation of Nora Helmer In Henrik Ibsen’s, A Dolls House, the character of Nora Helmer goes through the dramatic transformation of a kind and loving house wife, to a desperate and bewildered woman, whom will ultimately leave her husband and everything she ... hung onto money I give you, and you actually used it to buy yourself something." (1507). Later in Act I, her friend Mrs. Linde visits Nora. Even in their conversation Mrs. Linde comments on Nora’s childish behavior. "Well my heavens - a little needlework and such – Nora, you’re just a child." (1511). Nora quickly defends herself, in some sense to regain her standing within her own ranks. "I’ve also got something to be proud and happy for. I’m the one who saved Torvald’s life." (1511). By doing this Nora is secretly undermining society and providing for her husband. In contrast to society beliefs at the time, shouldn’t a wife provide for her husband in his sickness? ...
- 6474: Tragedy Of Macbeth From Macbet
- William Shakespear's Macbeth is a macabre tale of the downfall of a noble man who goes from being revered as "O' valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!" (I,ii,24)at the beginning of the play to being reviled as "abhorred tyrant" (V, vii, 10) by play's end. The play unfolds this downward spiral from heroism to villainy with some of Shakespeare's most dramatic and descriptive language. Shakespeare unifies his tragedy with a number of image patterns which help to create atmosphere, establish theme, and elucidate character. The imagery of clothing in Macbeth is used to ...
- 6475: Critique Pedagogy Of Praxis
- ... must stretch his capacity for knowledge and grasp for the insights in an arduous work of educational philosophy. Paulo Freire writes, "Moacir Gadotti, is a thinker who knows that, if he has truths, he can't be too certain of them. The only certainty is the uncertainty that seems to be absolutely certain." Freire seems to have caught the essence of Gadotti, the man, while Gadotti, the philosopher, is reveled in his response to Carlos Alberto Torres's forward to Pedagogy of Praxis. " The objective of that school is the democratization of power within the school and the formation of an intellectually autonomous citizen, a participative citizen who is as qualified for social ... not merely transmit knowledge, but also preoccupy itself with the global formation of students from within a vision in which the act of knowing and intervening come together in reality." The first chapter of Gadotti's book is concerned with the conception and method of dialectics. Hegel's dialectics take a step down to Marx and Engel's dialectics. "Hegel's dialectics were limited to the world of spirit, Gadotti ...
- 6476: River Of Names
- ... Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. -Herman Melville In today s society people are eager to categorize what they are unfamiliar with. They perceive people who are poor, and from the south as white trash. Their own socio-economic background of course influences this perception. Allison ... but hard edged truths. Dorothy Allison speaks through this narrator with unflinching honesty about a world where pain and love intersect. Stealing was a way to pass the time. Things we needed things we didn t, for the nerve of it, the anger, the need. But sooner or later, we all got caught. Then it was, When are you going to learn? Allison s characters are based on her own poor southern family. She managed to escape the fate that destroyed so many generations of this family through her own stubborn determination for survival and by writing as ...
- 6477: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- ... reminds Mr. Enfield of a previous incident in which he witnessed an extremely unpleasant man coming upon a small, screaming girl while the strange man was running from something or to somewhere. Enfield really didn’t like the man and recalled how he was being forced by a crowd to make retribution by money. The man went inside the strange door and came out with gold and a check. They made ... see if the check was good because it was from the well-known Dr. Henry Jekyll. That evening in his apartment, Mr. Utterson has further reason to be interested in Mr. Hyde because Dr. Jekyll’s will has an unusual clause that stipulates that Edward Hyde is to be the sole beneficiary of all of Jekyll’s wealth and property. After some time, Utterson meets up with Hyde entering the door, and he starts a conversation with him. Hyde gets suspicious and hurries inside the door. Utterson then walks around the ...
- 6478: Shirley Temple: Black Hollywood's Youngest Star
- Shirley Temple: Black Hollywood's Youngest Star Did you ever know that a little girl could be a famous movie star? It happened to Shirley Temple, she became Hollywood's youngest star. On April 23, 1928 Shirley Temple was born. One day, when Shirley was three and a half years old, about two hundred children gathered at her dance school to audition for a movie ... Shirley raced out onto the brightly lit stage and got the part in the movie series Baby Burlesks. For the next two years, Shirley sang her songs and danced in this movie. Her mother didn't like that Shirley was always doing the same thing. A big movie company called Fox, hired Shirley and started making movies just for her. Shirley became the most popular star in the movies. Everyone ...
- 6479: Social Heirarchy
- ... society can be dealt with in a minor 30 minutes. In reality, our problems may seem very serious, but they can be taken away very easily by television. The cause of this is mass media's influence on how these serious problems are resolved in "TV Land." It is warping society's idea on how problems can be resolved, or even given the idea that these problems of society are not needed to be worried about because of the way that they are treated as minor problems ... able to accomplish all of these characteristics is of an easy task. For this reason, she is the perfect representation of the "in" crowd. Although she seems to be a sweet and kind person, Brooke's attitude towards Sam and her friends show just the opposite. Brooke hates the fact that Sam tries whatever it takes to lower the pedestal that Brooke and her cohorts believe they stand upon. This ...
- 6480: Pablo Picasso
- ... to fly beyond all the degradations of the lie, the stupidity of criticism, towards that total freedom which inspired his youth." As Barnes notes, Cubism was an art that concentrated on forms, and an artist's job was to give life to that form. Until this goal is accomplished, the Cubist painter has not fully realized his purpose. After his initial Cubist period, Picasso moved through various other stages. He experimented ... himself is only a trifling bit of the world, and that no more importance should be attached to him than to plenty of other things, things which please us in the world, though we can't explain them (Barnes). Picasso painted for himself, as a release from the pressures of his society and as a way to express his thoughts and problems in tangible form. For this reason, the events happening around the time of any Picasso work must be understood before the true meaning of any resulting art can be understood. In the time period directly before the painting of Bull's Skull, Fruit, Pitcher, many hardships befell Picasso. As William Rubin explains, during the winter of 1938, Picasso was bedridden with a severe attack of sciatica. Two other tragic events happened to Picasso during the ...
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