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    22/6/13 “Shakespeare’s ability to create tragedy transcends time.” Examine how the playwright uses language forms and features to achieve his purpose in ‘Antony & Cleopatra.’ Shakespeare’s 16th century tragic play ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ is able to transcend time due to its ubiquitous and day-to-day themes of the struggle between reason and emotion and the convoluted definition of honour. These themes are still‚ and always will be‚ so universally relevant because they are very personally

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    The Snow It Melts The Soonest - A portrayal of love ”The snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing And the corn it ripens faster as the frosts are setting-in And when a young man tells me that my face he’ll soon forget‚ before we part he’ll tell me that he’d be fain to follow it yet The snow it melts the soonest when the winds begin to sing And the swallow flies without a thought long as it is spring But when spring goes and winter blows my love still firm will be I know

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    The different portrayals of female characters Antigone and Lysistrata illustrate the fundamental nature of the proper Athenian woman. Sophocles’ Antigone allows the reader to see that outrage over social injustices does not give women the excuse to rebel against authority‚ while Aristophanes’ Lysistrata reveals that challenging authority in the polis becomes acceptable only when it’s faced with destruction through war. Sophocles and Aristophanes use different means to illustrate the same idea; the

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    Portrayal of Gender Roles and Sexuality in Media Ariel Norbutas Walden University HMNT3001‚ Section 1‚ Modern Popular Culture June 13‚ 2014 Portrayal of Gender Roles and Sexuality in Media The media plays a substantial role in much of societies definition of normalcy involving gender roles and sexual orientation. Popular culture attempts to paint an image of what normalcy is by using “sheer repetition on a daily basis‚ which plays an important role in shaping broad social

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    Portrayal of Minorities in the Film‚ Media and Entertainment Industries (1999) explains how‚ since the beginning of this nation as a whole‚ people of color have been treated as being inferior to white people. Unsurprisingly‚ when it comes to the film industry

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    Elia Kazan’s portrayal of good and evil in ’On the Waterfront’ is more than it meets the eye. Good and Evil appear in seperate characters and also at different times on the same characters. More importantly‚ Elia Kazan gets an important message across; No character is truly evil. Good is symbolised in numerous ways throughought the film. The church is one such example of this. It represents the highest order of purity and goodness‚ yet it is always on the background of the film. During

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    Women’s Portrayal in 19th Century Literature In the 19th century women were suppose to be the perfect wife‚ mother‚ and lady. Women were set to a standard by Coventry Patmore in his poem The Angel in the House. In which he describes what the perfect woman does‚ inspired by his wife Emily’s actions. The Angel in the House is meant to reinforce the Victorian ideal of feminine self-sacrifice‚ submissiveness‚ and motherly devotion. In novels like Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre the idea of the Angel

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    However‚ oppositely‚ Okonkwo’s (third?) wife Ekwefi is rather portrayed and treated as an object then actual humans. Some examples of her portrayal are “Okonkwo is bashing her”. From this scene‚ I believe that not only the wife was bad‚ but also Okonkwo was generally just abusive as well. Even though she may have done something wrong‚ there is no need to abuse anyone because they did the wrong

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    the Sixteenth century was the traditional role of women during this time. Many contemporary sixteenth century writers portrayed women in their ideal form in the literature they produced‚ which caused great problems for women during this time. The portrayal of the “ideal” woman was based on the established protocols of the ideal way women were expeted to behave according to sixteenth century societies standards. In literature‚

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    Female characters are often absent in SF as there is rarely any need for romance. In the portrayal of Carmen in Starship Troopers‚ the body does not automatically make a character masculine or feminine. Given the lack of real women‚ feminine substitutes may fill the void‚ these substitute figures connecting the narrator of The War of the Worlds and Juan to their femininity before being eradicated or accepted. In The War of the Worlds‚ the curate shows up just as the narrator thinks about his wife

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