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- 10901: Antigone
- ... In this essay I will tell you a short account of the play and the ways in which each character could be the tragic character. In the beginning of the play there has been a war between the Argive and Thebes armies. Antigone’s two brothers, Eteocle’s and Polynecies, killed each other. Eteocles was buried, but Polyneices was top lay in a field and be eaten by the animals. Antigone ... he is wrong and it really makes him feel bad. He killed a young woman and took her life from her for a very unjust reason. He tried to keep a young man killed in war from being buried. He has to watch his son and wife kill themselves all because of his arrogance. After everyone dies he is then forced to continue living with all this guilt and shame. Antigone ...
- 10902: King Lear: A Story of Blindness
- ... able to understand how what he is saying affects Edmund. Gloucester tells Kent that he has an older son, “by order of law” (legitimate), and then he jokes about how Edmund “came saucily to the world before he was sent for.” When watching the play, the viewer sees Edmund’s reaction to his father’s description, and he definitely does not look happy. Even though Gloucester knows his two sons, he ... Goneril lie to the King, Cordelia’s disinheritance and the banishment of Kent for his “honesty,” Gloucester is primed for manipulation by Edmund. In Act I, Scene 2, he laments the many problems of the world, and he includes the “bond cracked ‘twixt son and father” among them. At times, Gloucester seems to be trying to fight what Edmund is telling him about Edgar. However, the physical evidence of the letter ...
- 10903: Langston Hughes
- ... and she cannot retu! rn to the person she was. Her soul is free, but the burden of that freedom is too much, it overwhelms and overtakes her so that she cannot exist in this world. It seems to Edna that life is not worth living in a prison. As a result, at the end of the novel, the ocean beckons and she follows. She swims into the inviting and seductive ... the speaker^s connection with the earth and nature in his poem, ^The Negro Speaks of Rivers^. In this poem, the speaker in the poem has ^known rivers^; he speaks of ^rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.^ Rivers symbolize the lifeline of the earth. When the speaker refers to the rivers, he is reflecting on his connection with the earth. He ...
- 10904: Mars
- ... Mars. It’s enormous mass may have dramatically changed the climate by changing the rotation of Mars. Moons Mars has two small moons: Phobos and Deimos. They were named after the sons of the Greek war god Ares, who was the counterpart to the Roman war god Mars. American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered both moons in 1877. The moons appear to have surface materials similar to many asteroids in the outer asteroid belt, which leads most scientists to believe that Phobos ...
- 10905: What Men Really Want
- ... and now are because of this. I know too many families that were ruined and fell apart because of the use of alcohol. Ads like this make no regard to the suffering alcoholics in this world, and that if an alcohol abuser was reading a magazine in a local salon, flipped through and found this ad, what would happen? Yes, I know that it is up to that individual to control ... to help us grow, flourish and prosper, far be it from them to help us in that. We are in the age of nuclear technology, so many incurable diseases, and still trying to help third-world countries get on their feet. Now, we have our own problems, one of them being alcoholism, and we don’t really have time to sit and look at these ads, (some of us will), we ...
- 10906: The Taming Of The Shrew
- The Taming Of The Shrew The Taming Of The Shrew by William Shakespeare is probably one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies. Its plot comes from the popular “war of the sexes” theme in which males and females fight with one another for dominance in a marriage. The play begins with a drunk man named Cristopher Sly being fooled into believing he is a ... only wife that comes when the husbands all ask their wife to come. She also proves this when she says to the other new wives: I am ashamed that women are so simple to offer war where they should kneel for peace, or seek rule, supremacy, and sway, when they are bound to serve, love, and obey.(Act V, scene 2, 161-164) It is hard to believe that someone like ...
- 10907: Immortality In Shakesperean Poetry
- ... perceives immortality is by writing directly about it. There is a number of poems in the author presents eternal life in plain and precise language. In sonnet number 15 the author says, And all in war with time for love of you, As he takes, I engraft you new. (15.14-15) It is obvious that what poet means is that even though time makes people older, poetry can rejuvenate a ... that the poem about that person is read. In his writings, Shakespeare truly believes that poetry brings immortality to people. In sonnet number 16 he writes, But wherefore do not you a mightier way Make war upon this bloody tyrant, time, And fortify yourself in your decay With means more Blessed the my barren rhyme (16.1-4) thus asking a simple question, "What better way to immortalize yourself then through ...
- 10908: My Antonia
- ... and light had dried out. Everything about this old man was in keeping with his dignified manner (24) Mr. Shimerda was indeed a prosperous man in Bohemia, but had made his living in the business world, not by running a farm to provide for his family’s needs. His hands show that he rarely performed hard manual labor, but that he did work hard with his hands to weave. His face ... this wore on Mr. Shimerda. “I suppose in the crowded clutter of their cave, this old man had come to believe that peace and order had vanished from the earth, or existed only in the world he had left so far behind” (71). Unfortunately the Shimerdas were the only Bohemian family for miles. Something as tragic as his suicide would surely bring at least some compassion from someone in the community ...
- 10909: Poussin And Roman Influences I
- ... he continued to influence artists. Even the Impressionists and Cubists had an appreciation for Poussin's his work for, respectively, its perfection and near abstract qualities (Blunt, 1967). The influence of Rome extends throughout the world in artistic, philosophical, and political arenas. One agent of that grand influence was Nicolas Poussin who brought Baroque Classicism and other aspects of Roman art of that time to France. Works Cited Blunt, Anthony. Nicolas Poussin: The A.W. Lectures in the Fine Arts. Bollingen Foundation, NY 1967. Martin, John Rupert. Baroque. Harper & Row, NY 1977 Russel, John. The World of Poussin. Time Life, NY 1969
- 10910: Sonnet 64
- ... Describing the battle between the ocean, "watery main," and the "firm soil" Shakespeare shows that nature is also influenced and changed by Time's "feel hand." As man's monuments fall, time changes our natural world as well, creating a broad and rich geologic history. With chiasmus in this quatrain Shakespeare finalizes and supports the powerful image of the endless cycle of the ocean and the unstoppable force of time as ... meditation. Therefore the poem, in a sense, is Shakespeare's thought progression. At the closing of the final quatrain his realization about the impacts of time is clear; time has caused "ruin" of the physical world and has a power beyond comprehension and, with this ultimate power, time will eventually take his "love away." His finalizing line of the third quatrain, "That time will come and take my love away," provokes ...
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