A valuable text has something to say and says it well. How valid is this claim considering the different contexts a text can be received. In your response‚ compare your personal evaluation of Hamlet with one other perspective on the play. A valuable text is one that is able to articulate its ideas‚ allowing understanding amongst the audience. Shakespeare’s Hamlet performs this but does it so well that even audience of different contexts can grasp its notions. This is also because Hamlet explores
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narrator’s stance is emphasized mainly on the author’s description of the Puritans and his use of symbolism to describe their community. Throughout the passage‚ the Puritans are described in such a sense that characterizes them as a monotonous and ruthless society governed by laws and religion. As the Puritans are standing outside the prison‚ they all shared the same "bearded physiognomies." The narrator is being contemplative in saying this because it suggests the Puritans are a lifeless society
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must support all points you make by quotation from and reference to the play. CHARACTERS: “Ambition and self-interest are the qualities that destroy Macbeth” “Shakespeare’s Macbeth invites us to look into the world of a man driven on by ruthless ambition and tortured by regret” “Macbeth’s murder of Duncan has horrible consequences both for Macbeth himself and for Scotland” “Macbeth’s soliloquies are essential in order to retain audience sympathy for the central character”
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The Code of Hammurabi Hammurabi was a ruthless leader who killed and hurt hundreds of people for their mistakes. Hammurabi was a powerful king in a small city state called Babylon which was the capital of the kingdom of Babylonia. Hammurabi took power in 1792 B.C. for 42 years and had brutal rules with lots of power. Hammurabi´s code is not just because the laws that he has made are too harsh‚and why should diffrent people get punished more than others‚ finally Hammurabi should not have that much
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A Summary: In 1970s Western North Carolina‚ a young man stumbles across a grove of marijuana‚ sees an opportunity to make some easy money‚ and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. He is discovered by the ruthless farmer who set the trap to protect his plants‚ and begins his struggle with the evils of his community’s present as well as those of its history. Before long‚ he has moved out of his parents’ home to live with a onetime schoolteacher who now lives in a trailer outside town‚ deals a few
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Reducing the Number of Firefighter Fatalities One Heart at A Time I doubt that anyone would argue with the statement that firefighting is a dangerous occupation. The natural reaction of most is to flee from a burning building‚ but firefighters are not most people. Firefighters risk their lives on a day-to-day basis rushing to the scene of an emergency‚ fighting blazing fires‚ and entering burning buildings; it is hard to believe that the number one cause of line-of-duty deaths is cardiac events
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Hitler commands the Germans to invade the Soviet Union in 1941 – this was Hitler’s greatest mistake‚ but was luck on the Soviets side or was it all just the leader Stalin’s good tactics and leadership? Even though Stalin was a mass murderer and a ruthless leader‚ he did one thing right. After the Soviets were losing battle after battle Stalin let his commanders fight the war as they knew it‚ did not interfere with their plan and stuck to his word‚ unlike Hitler did. Stalin let his commanders be true
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Asoka: Ruthless Conqueror or Enlighted Ruler? Asoka: ruthless conqueror or enlighted ruler...we don’t know.The Indian leader asoka ruled the Mauryan empire over 2‚000 years ago.He helped to spread one of the world’s most popular religions and esablished reforms that still have great meaning for modern-day Indians.But his story also has a dark side. When the nation of India gained it’s independence from great Britian in 1947.They looked to their past-way back‚ over 2‚000 years-to find a design
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When the Vikings attacked the holy land of Lindisfarne in 793‚ it was the earliest recorded Viking raid in the west. Lindisfarne‚ located of the coast of Northumberland‚ was a monastery founded by Saint Aiden in 630. In Lindisfarne was the monastery named " Saint Cuthbert "‚ one of the most sacred places in Britain. Is it there that the sacred Lindisfarne gospels were located. For more than 150 years Lindisfarne had collected many riches in the monastery from people donating to the church. These
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass‚ An American Slave Slavery is an evil institution that‚ once established‚ robs not only the humanity of the enslaved‚ but also the morality of the slaveholder. It deprives the slave’s natural desire for knowledge‚ and hypocritically denies a man of his God given right to life‚ liberty‚ and the pursuit of happiness‚ stated in the Declaration of Independence for the very country that enslaves him. Douglass uses specific examples‚ in the case of Hugh
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