Biography of william shakespeare William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26‚ 1564‚ in Stratford-in Avon‚ England. From the year 1594 onward he was an important member of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men members of theatrical players. Written records give little information of the way in which Shakespeare’s professional life was his artistry. All that can be said is that over the course of 20 years‚ Shakespeare wrote plays that intensify the range of human emotion and conflict. Even though birth
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The Theme of Pride in the Play The Crucible Pride can be defined positively and negatively‚ it can mean a sense of one’s own proper dignity or value or self-respect‚ or an excessively high opinion of oneself or conceit‚ respectively. In the play which portrays both sides of pride we are transported to the late sixteen hundreds and introduced to the town of Salem in the province of Massachusetts Bay during the time of witch trials‚ and it’s excessively superstitious habitants. Some of the fictitious
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THE METAPHYSICAL POETS BELIEVED IN SEIZING THE DAY. DISCUSS WITH REFERENCE TO TWO POEMS In defiance of‚ and in gesture of confrontation to‚ a conservative‚ paternalistic‚ and religious world‚ the metaphysical poets John Donne and Andrew Marvell present a new mode of thinking; one not governed by the hope of heaven‚ but by faith in the flesh. The poetry highlights and reinforces the spontaneity of lust while underscoring the fact of human mortality. Challenge conventions and conservative ideology
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Egoism vs. Virtue Egoism is a habit of valuing everything only in reference to one’s personal interest or gain. Basically selfishness‚ almost an arrogance and conceit of one’s self and only things that will boomerang Back for self gain. In Ethical egoism we will focus on two psychological egoism and ethical egoism. I will also compare egoism to virtue. Egoism is a totally self-centered‚ self-gaining‚ and self-gratifying belief system and theory. In some strange ways I did began to understand
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Romeo a Montague and Juliet a Capulet fell in love. Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s popular play. Describing two people from enemy families‚ who fall in love. Which result in both Romeo & Juliet death. Romeo and Juliet’s death were results of their destiny‚ and they were fated to die no matter what action they did. First‚ Romeo goes to the Capulet’s party to see Rosaline. It is fate that he meets Juliet instead. In (1.5) when Romeo first sees Juliet he says‚ “ Oh‚ she shows the torches
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Since the inception of Sophocles’ Antigone‚ there has been an argument regarding the true tragic hero of the play. It is a commonly held certainty that Antigone must be the tragic character merely because she and the drama share the same name. This is‚ of course‚ a very reasonable supposition. Surely Sophocles must have intended her to be viewed as the protagonist; otherwise‚ he would not have given her the name as the play’s title. However‚ analytically speaking‚ Creon seems to fit the category
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St. Cyril of Jerusalem once said‚ “The dragon is by the side of the road‚ watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the father of souls‚ but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” In this quote‚ St. Cyril is warning his listeners to resist temptation‚ which is represented by the dragon‚ and in turn‚ encouraging them to seek deliverance from their personal weaknesses. This quote is vastly applicable to many of Flannery O’Connor’s stories‚ which tend to feature flawed characters
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The third-person omniscient is a narrative mode in which a story is presented by a narrator with an overarching point of view‚ seeing and knowing everything that happens within the world of the story‚ including what each of the characters is thinking and feeling.[1] It is the most common narrative mode found in sprawling‚ epic stories such as George Eliot’s Middlemarch. The godlike all-knowing perspective of the third-person omniscient allows the narrator to tell the reader things that none of
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STUDY QUESTIONS FOR ROMEO AND JULIET The following questions should be used to guide you in your reading of the play and to insure that you recognize important parts of the play. As you read independently‚ try to answer the questions as best you can and plan to come to class seeking the answers you could not get on your own. During our class discussions‚ be sure to record the answers. It is your responsibility to ask what you do not understand. *These lines may be on a test. Be able to
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Paradox A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense‚ but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. The first scene of Macbeth‚ for example‚ closes with the witches’ cryptic remark “Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair….” Parallelism Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related word‚ phrases‚ or clauses. The basic principle of grammar and rhetoric demands that equivalent things be set forth in coordinate grammatical structures: nouns
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