Name ENG-4U Teacher Comparison: Hamlet vs. Gladiator Hamlet is a tragic play that was written by William Shakespeare. In this play‚ it focuses on Hamlet in which he wants to seek revenge as his father murdered by his uncle and now his stepfather‚ as the murderer married his mother and King Hamlets’ wife named Claudius. Gladiator is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Ridley Scott where a loyal Roman general named Maximus Decimus Meridius betrayed when the Emperor Marcus Aurellus’s ambitious
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The first Gladiator fighting started around 265 BC. The Gladiators could of have been men or women and sometimes volunteers from the crowd‚ who risked their lives to fight each other or wild animals for audiences like the Roman Empire and Roman Republic. They fought for fame‚ riches‚ and glory in arenas like the Colosseum in Rome. Gladiators were solid men or women who were at their peak of fitness. Gladiators trained at special school that were designed for the purpose of gladiator fighting. There
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linked to the Roman gladiator combats. This is shown through the use of Panem audience experience being alluded to the audience experience of Roman upper and lower class at the gladiatorial games‚ comparing the Hunger Games arena to the Roman Colosseum and contrasting the tributes to the Roman gladiators. Seneca stated in Epistles 7‚ “it was really mere butchery.” This shows that not all people enjoyed watching the gladiatorial games. Some of the audience found the gladiator combats unethical. This
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found in a book‚ short story‚ or a movie‚ but it must contain specific elements. Most archetypal works contain a general "fight‚ flight‚ learn‚ return" pattern apparent physically or emotionally. Symbolic people‚ places‚ and objects can be found in an archetypal works also. Gladiator fulfills all of these requirements; therefore‚ it is an excellent example of an archetypal movie. Maximus Dessimus Meridius is the main character and the hero in the film Gladiator directed by Ridley Scott. He is given
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with other gladiators‚ wild animals‚ and condemned criminals. I am a professional fighters who would fight to my death‚ I was specialized with weapons. Until the Public built multi-purpose arenas throughout the roman empire. Rome’s martial ethics and‚ in fighting or dying well‚ I could inspire admiration and popular acclaim. We were celebrated in high and low art. Our value as entertainers was commemorated in precious and commonplace objects throughout the Roman world. The gladiators who died well
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has a lot to say about the culture and society we live in today. It is one of those lot.....and we ended up with this presentation‚ where we shortly show how The Truman Show can be and the principals of Marxism person’s reality is constructed by how they experience and interpret their personal reality‚ and also believes that the outcome of your experience is not certain and universal but relative and incomplete. It questions
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Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the Marxist view of the role of education in society The Marxist perspective of education in society can be very questionable because Marxist theorists such as; Louis Althusser‚ Bowles and Gintis‚ David Reynolds and Willis all seem to disagree with one another. The first thing I will write about are the strengths. The strengths about the Marxist view are it points out how ideology is transmitted within school via the hidden curriculum‚ how education legitimises
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Mary Gallagher Due: January 16‚ 2013 CLL 156 Mid-Term Many works of literature and even some films contain themes and evidence which supports Marx’s view of capitalism‚ as expressed in the Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto includes many concepts relating to the continuous struggles between classes and their inevitable impact on history. The specific classes discussed in the Communist Manifesto are the proletariat and the bourgeois
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Through the eyes of 4th graders brought into blasphemous situations‚ the show manages to criticize concepts such as the status quo‚ prejudice‚ extremities pushed in society ‚and class conflict– the most appoint one in the episode. This show is never shy when it comes to pointing out human error and ignorance and neither is Marx on capitalism and class. Karl Marx’s describes the United States as a capitalist dependent society whose people are often dehumanized and brainwashed‚ much like how the people
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Functionalism Key features Structuralism Organic analogy Consensus Functional prerequisites Collective sentiment The most notable early functionalist was Emile Durkheim. The theory was further developed in the mid 1900’s‚ particularly by American sociologists such as Talcott Parsons. Functionalists adopt an organic analogy to understand the workings of society. If you want to understand how the human body works you might begin by looking at individual parts such as the heart
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