Play analysis "Arms and the Man" By Bernard Shaw "Arms and the Man" starts with gunfire on a dark street in a small town. The romantic and willful Raina is about to begin her true-life adventure by sheltering the handsome fugitive Bluntschli‚ enemy of her equally handsome fiancé Sergius The setting of the play is in war-torn Bulgaria‚ and focuses not only on the romance between the young people of the play‚ but the atrocities that go on during war times and the ability of people not so very
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In the short story “Silver Pavements‚ Golden Roofs”‚ the author Chitra Divakaruni highlights and enhances the theme of how Jayanti’s high class and wealthy background sets her up for high expectations of living the American Dream but later on disappoint her. Jayanti’s mindset initially presents an optimistic future and more idealistic view of America‚ but upon her arrival this idealistic view slowly begins to deteriorate by her uncle’s view of America. This idea raises the question of how does Jayanti’s
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Raina Petkoff Raina is one of Shaw’s most delightful heroines from his early plays. In the opening scenes of the play‚ she is presented as being a romantically idealistic person in love with the noble ideal of war and love; yet‚ she is also aware that she is playing a game‚ that she is a poseuse who enjoys making dramatic entrances (her mother is aware that Raina listens at doors in order to know when to make an effective entrance)‚ and she is very quixotic in her views on love and war. Whenever
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politeness behavior in a way that takes into account the constraints on individual behavior that derive from the social setting without assuming that individual cultures are homogeneous or that there is homogeneity across cultures. The theory of relative face orientation We have discussed that Brown and Levinson’s (1987) face-saving politeness theory has been undermined for its inability to be applied universally. In surveying recent studies in cross-cultural communication‚ Mao (1994) mentions Janney
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Pereboom 1990). The conclusion of the argument is often directed against skepticism of some sort. For example‚ Kant’s Transcendental Deduction targets Humean skepticism about the applicability of a priori metaphysical concepts‚ and his Refutation of Idealism takes aim at skepticism about external objects. These two transcendental arguments are found in the Critique of Pure Reason (1781‚ 1787)‚ but such arguments are found throughout Kant’s works‚ for example in the Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
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How "realistic" is Kantian "empirical realism"? Mainly by way of commentary on passages from the Analytic of Principles and Appendix to the Dialectic of the Critique of Pure Reason‚ Abela offers‚ first‚ the "priority-of-judgment" view: "Kant...banish[es] the idea of any epistemic intermediary between belief and the world" (35); "there is nothing outside judgment...that informs‚ constrains‚ or ultimately grounds objectively valid judgment" (139-40). The ultimate ground is simply the totality of one’s
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He cannot even begin to describe where it is they go towards‚ believing it would be even harder to imagine than Omelas. I do not think he could have been one who walked away from Omelas. He seems very resigned to the belief that idealism should be set aside for pragmatism. The willingness of the author to allow us to add any details we like to her story is added to help us visualize its possibility. These minute details don’t change the bones of the story or the meaning behind
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The History of Philosophy A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y and Z (A) Abelard‚ Peter: One of the most heated debates that troubled the church in the Middle Ages was the question of universals. This question goes back as far as Plato’s Forms. It has to do with the relationship between the abstract and general concepts that we have in our minds (what is the relationship between Chair with a capitol “C” and chair with a small “c”?). And from this‚ two radical viewpoints emerged
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Sancho Panza. Throughout Spain‚ Quixote and Panza meet characters that hinder‚ help‚ and challenge the concept of chivalry in a modern world. Quixote epitomizes idealism by becoming a knight-errant when chivalry is considered an outdated moral code. Commentary by Cervantes is both biting and affectionate‚ but ultimately a criticism of idealism. Quixotism‚ a word derived from Don Quixote‚ is defined as the impractical pursuit of ideals. Quixote was once a gentleman from La Mancha‚ but books of chivalry
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