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- 8561: King Lear And The Fatal Flaw
- ... is fear, but what actually possesses him is rage. The King and his fool are thrown out into the stormy night. “You unnatural hags, I will have such revenges on you both that all the world shall - I will do such things,” Lear is going mad, but knows more than he once did. Not only does he come to realise what he has done, but also on what a cruel and reasonless basis the world punishes. Crouched permanently in the realm of madness, there is no escape for Lear. It is nothing but the repercussions of his terrible pride that has given him his ticket to this insane world, and the fact that he has realised that. The concept of a fatal flaw is the most central concept in the play. Lear’s demise can attributed wholly to the intense pride he had ...
- 8562: Hamlet and Oedipus Rex: The Birth of Kings
- ... downfall. This is a battle between the light and the darkness, the light being the truth and the darkness being the lie. Throughout the two plays we can see that both are isolated in a world of their own, completely unaware of the truths surrounding them. In Hamlet's case, growing up under the loving care of his parents, he believes that his father died of natural causes. Or, in Oedipus ... is under the belief that his father died of natural causes and nothing more. As he comes to realize the truth, he leaves behind the safe harbor of innocence and naïveté and enters the uneasy world of adulthood and experience. Standing within his castle, he makes a speech to himself and to God commenting on the quickness in which his mother married his uncle. It is at this point where the ... waited longer than a month before marrying again. The discovery of the fact of his father's murder by the hand of his uncle leads to an awakening from the fog, which created the illusionary world Hamlet lives under. Doubts begin to cloud Hamlet's mind. He asks the question, "to be or not to be for that is the question." In asking this question, Hamlet poses the question whether ...
- 8563: Saint Joan's Tragic Flaw: The Epilogue
- ... He says, "Perhaps I should never have let the priests burn you; but I was busy fighting; and it was The Church's business, not mine." He had already made it clear that fighting the war was his priority in Scene V. Referring to Joan, he says, "The day after she has been dragged from her horse by a goddam or a Burgundian, and he is not struck dead: the day ... the modern gentleman's announcement, all the characters pay homage to Joan. However, when she threatens to return to earth, they are all terrified by this idea. Shaw's point here may be that the world is never ready to accept the truly divine. By stressing this point so overtly, Shaw is beating the audience over the head, once again undercutting the subtlety of the rest of the play. Shaw's ...
- 8564: Knowledge And Technology In A
- ... industrialized capitalist society that he lives in over the feudal society of medieval Britain. But in a closer examination of the work it becomes clear that this observation is much too simple, as the industrial world that Hank Morgan creates is destroyed. Therefore the book can be viewed as a working out of the idea that a quick change in a civilization brings disaster. Civilization and change need to be developed ... a republic. However his plans are destined to fail because he is incapable of understanding values that are different from his own; he is the ultimate know-it all, and sets out to remake the world in his own image. He is given “the choicest suite of apartments in the castle, after the king’s”(Twain 31), but he criticizes them because they lack the conveniences of the nineteenth century, such ... explained. “Cause and effect…don’t exist in Camelot. Things happen to people in Camelot without purpose, plan, or coherence; God twists and turns the road whenever and however he pleases.”(George 60) Hank’s world is finally destroyed because he forgot this basic principle of medieval life. He tried to establish the physical aspects of modern industrial life, but he ignored the intellectual ones. He showed all his subjects ...
- 8565: Movie: Stand and Deliver - Mr. Escalante Should Be An Inspiration to Everyone
- ... many of the holes in his students lives, he has proven that there is hope for everyone. With the help of Mr. Escalante, the students are ready to begin their new lives in the real world, not the one of gangs, violence and repression, but the world with jobs, loving families, and personal happiness. If every teacher were as successful as Mr. Escalante, our educational system would be leading the rest of the world, not following it.
- 8566: A Clockwork Orange: Review of Book and Film Version
- ... which entails undergoing experimental treatment in return for early release. He seizes what seems to him an opportunity, but is horrified by the "cure" he endures. The new "good" Alex that is released unto the world is depressed, frustrated, and lonely, although no longer violent. A radical political group then exploits him as an example of the cruelty of "the Government." This faction tries to force Alex to suicide in order ... of the other. This is similar to Gene Roddenberry's creation of the Klingon language, which sounds very much like Russian, in his series "Star Trek," although this may have been due to a cold war stereotype. This symbol, although it was attempted in the film, did not work well. It seemed that dropping words like "droog, tolchock," and "zooby" in the middle of a sentence of otherwise perfect English only ...
- 8567: Hamlet: Tragedy of Failure
- ... which includes eight violent deaths, adultery, a ghost, a mad woman, and a fight in a grave. Here are all the ingredients of a horror story. Bradley then asks the question, "But why in the world did not Hamlet obey the ghost at once, and so save seven of those eight lives?" The answer to this question lies not in the fact that had Hamlet done so the play would have ... it merely. (Act I, scene 2) Thus weakened, Hamlet is unable to act on his father's ghost's command. "Hamlet" is Shakespeare's most popular tragedy, if not his best, and one of the world's best-known plays. In addition to being a sensational story and containing some of the world's richest poetry, it showcases Shakespeare's understanding of the subtleties of human nature to a degree remarkable for his time. How else can we explain why "Hamlet" has generated such a significant number ...
- 8568: Dover Beach By Matthew Arnold
- ... land. The metaphor of the tides and the sea is suggested by the sounds and view of the speaker's window, but Arnold uses Sophocles as another example of nature's strength over the entire world. Arnold uses this to illustrate the speaker's despair and helplessness over his situation. Arnold uses this writing to exhibit the conflict between the land and the sea, and how more than just land suffers ... and complete the story's mood. Arnold utilizes this part of the poem to advance from the sea to the "Sea of Faith" with "girdled furls" to expose hopelessness to "the naked shingles of the world". In the last stanza, Arnold ties all of the thoughts of the speaker together, while incorporating imagery, to illustrate how by examining nature and history, the reader has reached the reality of the inevitable. Arnold portrays how the speaker bitterly sees "the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams" "hath really neither joy, nor love nor light". Arnold's use of repetition here illustrates the despair and hopelessness of the situation. The ...
- 8569: King Lear, William Shakespeare
- ... of Dover, Lear questions Gloucester's state: No eyes in your head, nor no money in your purse? Your eyes are in a heavy case, your purse in a light, yet you see how this world goes. Gloucester. I see it feelingly. (IV.vi.147-151) Here, Lear cannot relate to Gloucester because his vision is not clear, and he wonders how Gloucester can see without eyes. Although Lear has seen ... portrayed by the main characters of the two plots. While Lear portrays a lack of vision, Gloucester learns that clear vision does not emanate from the eye. Throughout this play, Shakespeare is saying that the world cannot truly be seen with the eye, but with the heart. The physical world that the eye can detect can accordingly hide its evils with physical attributes, and thus clear vision cannot result from the eye alone. Lear's downfall was a result of his failure to understand ...
- 8570: Hamlet: Chivalry
- ... pool their resources. Four men may pool their resources and equip a fifth (9). This is where a life of service comes into play. Notice that this warrior's sole responsibility is to render his war fighting skills to both the people who appointed him and the leader he is to fight for. This is the underlying purpose of the knight and soon shapes the traits of chivalry. The use of ... these developments weapons began to change. The lance became longer and more sophisticated. Training regiments began to emerge. One such regiment was the "practicing of mock warfare known as tournaments. Tournaments were central to the world of chivalry: they acted both as training grounds for knights….and as focal points for a literature and culture based on knighthood" (19). A knight had to be trained in all aspects of combat from ...
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