been relevant to the Elizabethans but it has little to say to a contemporary audience’. I believe Othello is still relevant to a contemporary audience‚ however modern individuals often view it on a different level to the people in Elizabethan times. Shakespeare wrote the play for an audience who accepted the racist stereotypes rampant in the play‚ oblivious to their own racism. Othello was a tragic hero‚ and Iago exploited his tragic flaw’‚ in this case being insecurity and jealousy. This insecurity
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Antigone is still relevant in the world today. The characters in this play are very relatable. One characteristic that often shows up is hubris‚ which is also known as pride. Because many people can relate to Creon’s hubris‚ Sophocles’ Antigone is still relevant today. In Antigone‚ Creon’s hamartia is his pride‚ which can more accurately be called hubris. For example‚ Creon says‚ “Who is the man here‚ / She or I‚ if this crime goes unpunished?” (Sophocles Scene 2‚ 82-83) In this quote‚ Creon feels
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Would one die for love? Think about one losing their life over another loved one. Romeo and Juliet is a relevant work for a person in modern time due to it ways of teaching one about love‚hold a grudge and also push one to much. These are always ways that Romeo and Juliet are relevant to modern society. No matter how old and out dated works of art are they always find a way to teach one. Romeo and Juliet teaches one not to jump right into love. The Romeo states “Let me be taken‚ let me put to
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Discuss Dr.Faustus as a tragedy relevant to all times. The word tragedy finds its origin in Greek spirit‚theory and mythology in the word tragedia. Tragedy tends to bring to mind the thoughts of pity and sympathy. According to Aristotle‚ the famous Greek philosopher emotions of pity and fear are aroused while watching or listening to a tragedy. Tragedy is a play that represents a central action or plot that is serious and significant. These plays involve a main character that is a normal human
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resulting from the accounts of the natives by fellow countrymen ? My paper seeks to examine how relevant is the question of postcolonialism in those locations whose inhabitants find themselves being ‘othered’ in their own country by their fellow countrymen. Many critics hold the opinion that the question of postcolonialism is still relevant as the process of decolonisation is far from complete. And as Leela Gandhi has pointed out nationalism
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very mellow; and they kept this up for days and nights together. By day‚ London was a sight to see‚ with gay banners waving from every balcony and housetop‚ and splendid pageants marching along. By night‚ it was again a sight to see‚ with its great bonfires at every corner‚ and its troops of revellers making merry around them. There was no talk in all England but of the new baby‚ Edward Tudor‚ Prince of Wales‚ who lay lapped in silks and satins‚ unconscious of all this fuss‚ and not knowing that
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kinds of people. The Gettysburg Address touched several topics such as human equality‚ peace and honoring soldiers. The Gettysburg Address is still relevant today due to its motivational words towards human equality and paying tribute to war veterans. To quote the speech‚ Lincoln said "Fourscore and seven years ago‚ our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation‚ conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are equal". Here Lincoln was saying that when our founding
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advocated. The three primary approaches currently being debated include the structural‚ information processing/cognitive‚ and life-span developmental/developmental dimensions approaches. The purpose of this paper is to examine the differences and similarities between these three broad approaches. However‚ this exposition would be incomplete without a discussion of the concept of world views (Kuhn‚ 1970; Pepper‚ 1942). An individual’s theoretical position is affected by their world views. This world view
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Shallow-water Acoustics and Relevant Physics By: Elizabeth Fortlage Underwater Acoustics is a complex phenomenon. Leonardo da Vinci simplified the concept in 1940‚ two years before Columbus discovered America‚ by saying “If you can cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear‚ you will hear ships at a great distance from you.” (5‚ p.2) There are many factors that contribute to the complexity of underwater acoustics and sonar
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for ancient Greece‚ whose culture trickled down into the Western Roman Empire and even further into the Medieval Ages. Aspects of ancient Greek culture are even relevant today‚ thousands of years later. The reasoning behind why Greek culture continued to thrive after the nation’s decline can be attributed to many reasons‚ the most relevant being its large expansion. During the time period of Alexander the Great‚ Greece expanded tremendously and‚ by effect‚ exposed many other cultures to their own
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