This page intentionally left blank SHAKESPEARE AND TOLERANCE Shakespeare’s remarkable ability to detect and express important new currents and moods in his culture often led him to dramatise human interactions in terms of the presence or absence of tolerance. Differences of religion‚ gender‚ nationality‚ and what is now called ‘race’ are important in most of Shakespeare’s plays‚ and varied ways of bridging these differences by means of sympathy and understanding are often depicted. The full
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William Shakespeare was a famous play write and was widely known for his sonnets‚ plays and was considered as the greatest writer in the English language. He wrote many tragic plays‚ one of which was Hamlet. In Hamlet‚ there are many themes; one of the most pertinent themes is death. Throughout this play‚ Hamlet encapsulates the theme of death. Death is represented in the play when the late King Hamlet dies‚ by the hands of the villainous Claudius‚ Hamlets uncle. Hamlet is obsessed with the idea
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Paul Fussell begins the chapter by stating any poems two kinds of basic organization. The poem may either be stichic or strophic; in a stichic arrangement‚ line follows line without any formal or mathematical grouping of the lines into stanzas. In strophic organization‚ the lines are arranged in stanzas of varying degrees of logical complexity. A compromise between these two can be found in heroic couplets‚ which are best thought of as stichic‚ with a line of twenty‚ rather than ten syllables. Stichic
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in ancient Shechem in Samaria. He was raised by pagan parents. One day‚ He sought to find life’s meaning in the philosophies from first century to second century. His teacher in the first century had no knowledge about the existence of God. In A.D. 130‚ after a conversation with an old man‚ Justin’s life was transformed wonderfully when he said‚ “A fire was suddenly kindled in my soul. I fell in love with the prophets and these men who had loved Christ; I reflected on all their words and found that
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Explication of Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 73” In “Sonnet 73‚” William Shakespeare utilizes a somber mood‚ strong imagery‚ and intense metaphors‚ which construct a window into the soul of a dying old man for Shakespeare’s audience to visualize the dreadful oncoming of death and question the meaning of life. “Sonnet 73” is identical in structure to Shakespeare’s other sonnets with three quatrains and ending in a couplet. In the three quatrains Shakespeare compares the narrator to the transition from
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------------------------------------------------- Filial ingratitude in King Lear! Filial ingratitude is a dominant theme in King Lear. It is a universal theme in the sense that it is common to find many sons and daughters who show much ingratitude and cruelty towards their parents. In the play‚ there are two fathers (Lear and Gloucester) who suffer because of favoring certain kids to others. Their tragedy is caused by those whom they have already favored and preferred. The play gives us incidents
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Nature in Shakespeare’s Sonnets In Shakespeare’s fair youth Sonnets‚ the speaker uses imagery and metaphors from nature to describe man’s life cycle. While reading the Sonnets‚ it may seem at first that the main point of the Sonnets is that life’s purpose is to reproduce. However‚ after reading the fair youth Sonnets‚ it becomes clear that imagery from nature is used to prove that death is inevitable and should be accepted. The fair youth Sonnets are ordered in a specific way to resemble the
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Elizabethan age‚ love sonnets were usually written by men communicating their love for unattainable women and displaying courtly love. However‚ Spenser’s Petrarchan sonnets from the Amoretti sequence break conventional love poetry in many ways and challenge the usual pessimist look at love to give it a buoyant look. Spenser then sets his own approach of love to the Amoretti sequence by describing his courtship and eventual marriage to the object of his love‚ Elizabeth Boyle. In sonnet 75‚ Edmund Spenser
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READING IN OUR LIFE A person who knows how to read can educate themselves in any area of life they see fit. People who don’t read or are poor readers often have low opinions of themselves and their capabilities. They mostly feel isolated and behaviour problems surface. As we live in an age abundant with information‚ reading is the only way to become informed. *Why Is Reading Important? From time to time people have wondered why reading is important. Well The importance of reading cannot be
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“I have hated words and I have loved them‚ and I hope I have made them right.” ― Markus Zusak‚ The Book Thief “Like most misery‚ it started with apparent happiness.” ― Markus Zusak‚ The Book Thief “I wanted to tell the book thief many things‚ about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn’t already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask
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