The course of true love is not only unsmooth‚ it is also irrational‚ whimsical‚ and unpredictable. This truth written by William Shakespeare is on ample display in one of his most popular romantic comedies‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Theseus formulates the correlation that exists between the insanity often expressed in the actions of desire and the words of a poet during his speech near the end of the play when he observes that "The lunatic‚ the lover‚ and the poet / Are of imagination all compact"
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A dynamic antagonist‚ Abigail Williams from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a great example of how a character can be molded by personal desires and a work’s setting to become a villain. Seemingly innocent‚ orphaned adolescent Abigail ultimately causes hysteria in the town of Salem from her frivolity and selfishness. The reasoning and origins of Abigail’s malice demonstrate the setting’s influence on the inhabitants of Salem during the 1962 witch trials. Abigail is introduced as Parris’ niece
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11/12/1597 My dear star-crossed lover‚ Romeo‚ the moon dangles heavy tonight‚ as it casts a glisten of hope in my eyes. As you read these words‚ I would be on my way to be buried next to Tybalt‚ green to the Earth. The news has already hit Verona about her exile. My spirits had crumbled to this news‚ but Friar Lawrence had given us a glimmer of hope to reunite us. It might even be destiny. Friar Lawrence explained the plan to me‚ it involved a potion. Don’t worry my love‚ it will mimic the slumbers
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Camron McLean Mrs. Pedrotti English 1‚ period 2 Nov. 22‚ 2013 The scarlet Ibis Essay Pride is an emotion that often has negative connotations. It is closely associated with conceit or disdain. James Hurst short story “The Scarlet Ibis‚”pride is the perspective of Brother‚ a young man whose pride becomes a destructive force in his life. He uses the tragic relationship of two brothers to demonstrate the themes of pride. The memory of which will keep Brother on the alert for pride for the
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“Just this or that in you disgusts me; or here you miss‚ or there exceed the mark.” Even the acknowledgement of her infractions is an insult to his aristocratic status‚ as he states it‚ “E’en then would be some stooping‚ and I chose never to stoop.” Conceit is the Duke’s downfall. In like fashion‚ the central character in “My Ex-Husband” sees herself above the necessity to address her husband’s duplicity. She refuses to “lower herself” to negotiate with a “lout.” Haughtily‚ she remarks that‚ “Even if
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Water Commissioner under Emperors Nerva and Trajan‚ wrote De aquaeductu‚ an official report on the aqueducts of Rome. The work provides much of the information we have today on the technology and details of the ancient aqueducts. With typical Roman conceit‚ he compares Rome’s aqueducts with the monuments of Greece and Egypt‚ despite the fact that Rome also had plenty of its own ‘useless’ structures and also built them throughout its territories. . . . with such an array of indispensable structures
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Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare “The Preface is the impartial estimate of Shakespeare’s virtues and defects by a powerful mind”. (Halliday). Johnson’s Preface to Shakespeare is a classic of literary criticism in which he is above his political personal‚ religious and literary prejudices: mentions both the merits and One of the first excellence of Shakespeare‚ as Preface shows: “Shakespeare is above all the writers‚ at least above the modern writers‚ the poet of nature; the poet that holds up
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The lost generation Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful enables Diane Samuels to explore distant memories of the first world war Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo Time and memory shape this latest work‚ set during the first world war‚ from Michael Morpurgo‚ the children’s laureate. The style is simple and eloquent‚ the pace as gentle as it is persistent and ominous. A watch‚ given by an injured captain to the private who rescued him under fire‚ marks the passing of the minutes and hours
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A well-known proverb states‚ “Pride comes before the fall of man.” Pride is the deadly sin of superiority that breeds conceit and arrogance and is the most known characteristic of a poor leader. No literary piece better illustrates this point than Sophocles’ classic story‚ Antigone. In this tragic story‚ King Creon of Thebes is a prideful monarch who rules with an unyielding approach. Due to his arrogance and excessive pride‚ he is unwilling to abide by the laws of the gods‚ disregards the advice
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hear it. By doing this Sophocles’ showed that pride was bad in any form‚ even if it was substantiated by actions that one could be proud of. Personally I believe that this lesson is the most important of the four in modern day society. Arrogance and conceit‚ both brought on by pride‚ are problems commonly faced in today’s
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