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- 8501: Langston Hughes
- ... t publicity for his works and she got him seriously started in writing(Encarta). In an article about Langston Hughes in The Reference Library of Black America it talks about all the places in the world that Hughes has traveled. He probably used much of the information of the cultures of other countries to write. Hughes traveled all over the world as a seaman. He went to the Soviet Union, Haiti, Japan, Spain, Genoa, France, and other parts of Europe. Hughes was an author, anthologist, librettist, songwriter, columnist, translator, founder of theaters, and a poetical innovator ... and famous black writers in his time. The Harlem Renaissance was the black movement during the 1920's. Many African-Americans got famous during this time and more people in the United States and the world got to see another side of African- Americans which had never been seen before. People saw that blacks could do things the same or better than white people and many, but certainly not all, ...
- 8502: King Lear: Searching for Vision
- King Lear: Searching for Vision Through the course of the play, King Lear goes through a process of attaining self-knowledge, or true vision of one's self and the world. With this knowledge, he goes through a change of person, much like a caterpillar into a butterfly. In the beginning, King Lear's vanity, and the image and exercise of power dominate his person. But ... decisions), a "fool" of a conscious, a powerful storm, a "supposed" crazy man, and the death of the one who truly loved him, clear his vision and allow him to see the himself and the world as they truly are. The pain and suffering endured by Lear eventually tears down his strength and sanity. Lear is not as strong, arrogant, and filled with pride as he was in the beginning of ... This change which at it's heart is a change of vision (this is true for most of the characters in this play). What must change is how Lear sees himself, his children, and the world around. At the beginning of Lear's time in the storm, he is seeing the treachery of his daughters Regan and Goneril. This truly creates the anger within him. He expresses his anger at ...
- 8503: Julius Caesar - Mark Antony
- ... crowd, "Look you here, here is himself/Marred as you see with traitors" (III ii 197-198). The people in the crowd were so moved by his speech that they were willing to go to war against the conspirators. By starting this civil war, Antony again risks his own life to get revenge on the assassins of Caesar. Antony realizes that loyalty is an advantageous quality for a person to possess. He emphasizes this speculation when he does not ... sarcastically calling them "honorable" men. He enrages the people of the crowd by convincing them that Caesar’s assassination was morally wrong and the conspirators are traitors. By his powerful speech, Antony has created civil war in Rome and he has no concern for the welfare of the citizens who will suffer in the strife. Antony again shows his ruthlessness when he condemns his own nephew to death by saying, " ...
- 8504: Iago's Motivation
- ... with fury and rage. He douses his victims with a false sense of honesty and goodness. And, as do most skillful pyromaniacs, Iago first prepares his most important target, Othello: Though in the trade of war I have slain men, \ Yet do I hold it very stuff o'th' conscience To do no contrived murder. I lack the iniquity. . .\ I had thought t'have yerked him under the ribs\ . . .\ . . .he prated ... cloaked in misconception and dripping with innocence, Iago can ignite his scrupulously prepared fire. His evil creation is ready to burst into flames, "it is engendered. Hell and night\. . .bring this monstrous birth to the world's light" (I, iii 446-447). Iago is the ultimate opportunist, he knows exactly where and when to strike. He is fully aware that he can most malignantly destroy Cassio through dishonor, Othello through jealousy ...
- 8505: Macbeth - Bird Imagery
- Macbeth - bird imagery In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the use of birds helps describe a character in an inhumane way. It compares a character to the natural world and its natural surroundings. The focus on the natural imagery of birds characterizes the unnatural images that build up and grow around certain characters, according to Shakespeare’s time. The Captain telals King Duncan how ... lion”(1.2.39). The Captain is comparing the predator to its prey in order to describe the way Macbeth and Banquo reacted to the battles. Shakespeare is taking an unnatural occurrence, such as a war, and characterizing it using natural imagery(life) such as birds. Immediately after Lady Macbeth reads her husband's letter about the witches' prophecies, a messenger comes with the news that King Duncan is coming to ...
- 8506: Allen Ginsberg: Poet
- ... on the condition of the United States. Had there actually been a Communist attack on America as people feared due to the red scare, the government would have taken the appropriate steps to prepare for war. Since Ginsberg realized, "I am America," he followed that paranoia to its logical conclusion by considering his "national resources" in preparation. Among his resources were 25,000 mental institutions, city streets populated by millions of ... of supporting the Communist cause, whether they actually did or not, lost their jobs and were blacklisted. Citizens were taught to fear and hate Communists. These attitudes lingered in the American psyche throughout the Cold War (Montana, , Jackie). When Ginsberg says, "America you don't really want to go to war. America its them bad Russians. them Russians them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians" (74-78) Ginsberg is kind of joking around, kind of in a sarcastical way, saying, "Oh, its ...
- 8507: Hamlet: Inner Turmoil
- ... amazing, contradictory, unsettled, mocking nature of that mind, as it is torn by disappointment and positive love, as Hamlet seeks both acceptance and punishment, action and stillness, and wishes for consummation and annihilation within a world he perceives to be against him. He can be abruptly silent or vicious; he is capable of wild laughter and tears, and also playing polite and sane. The narrative is a kind of mystery and ... that he cannot speak to them with honesty, because they themselves are dishonest in their intents. Honesty resonates as a theme in Hamlet because nothing is as it seems in Denmark. The King deceives the world and pretends a legitimacy he does not have; Hamlet deceives the court by feigning madness; Polonius, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern all try to deceive Hamlet into revealing why he is distraught, and no one knows what is truth and what is a lie. The world has not grown honest, as Rosencrantz claims, but dishonest, and no one who lives in it can keep his honesty pure from the corrupting air. Hamlet seems to be the character who uses the ...
- 8508: Hamlet - The Love Of Hamlet For Ophelia
- ... retaining a very embittered and cynical outlook on life. "Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His cannon ‘gainst self-slaughter … how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world." (1.2.131-134). Throughout the play, Hamlet teaches the audience the depths of his depression through soliloquies. Hamlet not only regards the world with pessimism, but he also has suicidal feelings. Hamlet displays thoughts of self that questions the worth of living. The foremost cause for his exasperation and aggravation is the fact that his mother and his ... seeing Ophelia do the same he can take no more and demands that she "Get thee to a nunnery." (3.1.121). Hamlet said this because he holds Ophelia in high regard, aside from the world he regards so cynically, he does not wish for her to become involved with it’s corruptness, therefore he feels she would remain fair in a nunnery. It is in Act 5, I have ...
- 8509: Hamlet - Soliloquies
- ... too solid flesh would melt,… Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world (I, ii, 135-140). Through these lines it is obvious that Hamlet is in the midst of a deep depression. He has no control over the "uses of the world." Hamlet compares Denmark to an "unweeded garden" to symbolize the corruption within his country, that is seeded within Claudius and his incestuous marriage to Gertrude. Hamlet goes on to compare his father to Claudius and ... suffer/ The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune/ Or take arms against a sea of troubles…"(III, I, 65-68). These "slings and arrows" are the conflicts faced by Hamlet and the rest of the world. Next Hamlet considers suicide as a solution to his problems. "To die-/ to sleep-perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub! / For in that sleep what dreams may come…"(III, i, 72-74). ...
- 8510: The Beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
- The Beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes The issue of how and why government is organized was an integral part of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and John Locke in Two Treaties on Government contributed to the thoughts to the discussion. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes lived through the civil war and was disturbed by the mess it created. He set fourth his political philosophy in a book called Leviathan, published in 1651. His Leviathan presents a bleak picture of human beings in the state of ... function is largely negative: protecting life, freedom, and property. (2) Government can be dissolved in time of defeat (as can society itself). (3) Government can be overthrown when it places itself in a state of war with its citizens either through illegal leadership or corrupted leadership.
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