Nothing From the beginning‚ the theme nothing has been prevalent. "Nothing will come of nothing‚" (1.1.95) Lear says to his beloved daughter in the first act of the play. The quote sets the story by meaning that Cordelia will not receive anything until she professes her love for her father. As Cordelia is an honest daughter of Lear‚ lying to her father like her two older sisters have was a challenged. She truly loves him the most; she cannot bring herself to praise him falsely. Instead‚ she says
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The easy subject I could have pick would be hockey or lacrosse and how clever the two sports are when you look at it in an intellect way. I have always been a fan of history and when I was 13 years old‚ I watch every single program on the History channel. I was looking for something to occupy my down time. I heard about comic books and their rich history and backstory‚ but and I thought “that is for kids.” I would not think about reading comic books until I saw character that look like Sting and
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This dojo‚ which smelled of sweat that would make people pinch their noses and curse out loud before they even reach the door is a familiar sight to me. But the sound wasn’t right. As much as i hated those stinky brat (That only came to hit on my distant cousin)‚ training just didn’t feel the same without them‚ the worst part of this eerie silence is probably how it keep remind me i’m about to sell grandfather’s dojo to pay that 50.000$ dollar debt my good-for-nothing failure of a father left behind
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The Deception in King Lear William Shakespeare’s play King Lear is a play full of deceit‚ betrayal and meaningless promises. This becomes evident in the first few lines. We first learn of the empty words of Goneril and Regan as well as their hatred for their father‚ King Lear. This becomes the center of the play and also leads to the madness that the king suffers from. The first words that Goneril speaks are totally empty and are the complete opposite of what she really feels. She
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For my transformation I choose the novel ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens and transformed it into a poem that targets the attitude and pain of the main character Miss Havisham. One of my main attempts was to focus on her loneliness and bitter personality. I wanted to grasp these points in particular to show the links between her attitude and hatred towards men and the world around her. She has a vengeful side which is portrayed in her violent language ‘stab’ and ‘death’. Her attitude towards
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Havisham Havisham is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy. It is part of the Mean Time collection that was released in 1998. Havisham is a poem about that fits into Carol Ann Duffy’s body of work throughout this collection as it deals with the theme of memory and nostalgia and it charts the impact of time on the character fates in this instance which is related to love‚ life‚ loss‚ and death‚ and its damaged irreconcilable relationships also form a part of this poem. This poem is typical of Carol Ann Duffy’s
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It has always been in human nature to want to progress. Wherever we go‚ we always hear about the “next big thing‚” whether it be a new smartphone or a breakthrough in medicine that touches on many social issues‚ bringing up a debate on whether or not the end justifies the means. This will for progress sometimes ends with negative results‚ however‚ no matter what the original intention may have been. There are many examples in Shakespeare’s King Lear that expertly demonstrates that‚ although the
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Preserving Childhood Innocence Books are banned due to explicit content proposed to certain audiences. This is done to protect the readers‚ mostly pertaining to children. A wise man name Salman Rushdie once said “What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend‚ it ceases to exist.” This explains any piece of literature will always offend someone and writers should not live in the fear to inflict someone’s penniless tender feelings which is prominent in the The Catcher and the
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As the stock market crashed down the American economy at the beginning of the 20th century‚ it created a tidal wave of destruction that engulfed the entire country. Eventually the storm subsided into heavy clouds that passed‚ leaving behind a ferocious sun that revealed America’s upheaval into the Great Depression. John Steinbeck book‚ The Grapes of Wrath‚ illustrates a families journey as they are forced from their farm in Depression-era Oklahoma and set out for California along with thousands of
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sense of reality leads to not only the evil rule of his two daughters‚ but also the deaths of many‚ including himself and Cordelia. The eyesight motif also is present in Gloucester’s struggle with his children. He is blind to deceitful ways of his bastard son Edmund‚ and hunts his innocent son Edgar. Shakespeare makes it incredibly ironic; for it is not until the Duke of Cornwall gouges out Gloucester’s eyes does he realize how he had‚ “stumbled when I [Gloucester] saw” (4.1.18). But as Lear realizes
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