Romeo and Juliet Compare-Contrast Brad Herring 12/12/12 Period 1 In William Shakespeare’s play‚ “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”‚ the type of love that the two main characters share for each other plays a big part in their horrible tragedy. Although Shakespeare portrays the two youths as experiencing strong first love attraction for each other‚ Romeo’s passion and love prevails as the more sincere of these two star-crossed lovers. Throughout the story‚ Juliet falls in love with
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people were killed in wars because they followed the orders from their authorities. They didn’t even have an accurate reason to kill others‚ but they still did it as it was their missions. Obedience is a form of social influence where people follow an order from another‚ who is often their authorities. Obedience is depicted more clearly in the poems by Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost. In the poem “ The Man He Killed”(1902)‚ Hardy illustrates the man kills his enemy as it is his mission. He questions
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Who killed Juliet? Juliet kills herself‚ but who is really to blame for her death. In shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet one might agree that the tragic love story ended well‚ tragically.While many people disagree whose is at fault one might agree it is her own fault. Juliet is upset her father is trying to marry her of to he one‚ and only Paris‚ so of course she immediately falls head over heals for the one person she is told to hate. Romeo and juliet’s fell in love the second they look into each
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O’Flaherty and the poem “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy are two pieces that deal with the issues of war‚ and in fact share many similarities and differences in the areas of plot‚ irony‚ and theme. Liam O’Flaherty
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Romeo and Juliet In Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo and Juliet made decisions that lead to them both dying‚ which they could have avoided. Romeo causes Mercutio’s death by trying to stop Tybalt and Mercutio from fighting. “I am hurt. A plague o’ both houses! I am sped.” Mercutio says this after Romeo intervenes and causes Tybalt to stab Mercutio. He curses them by plaguing both houses‚ causing bad luck. Mercutio then dramatically shouts his death by saying‚ “I am sped.” “Romeo attempts to
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Hardy is a novelist‚ a poet‚ a writer and much more he has been a very huge influence on British liturature. Hardy was influenced by the Romantism period and looked up to both Charles Dickens and William Wordworth. Like Dickens‚ he was very much critical of the Victorian Society. Hardy was born June 2‚ 1840 in the village of Upper Bockhampton. Thomas Hardy was more of a poet than a novelist. I am focusing more on Hardy’s poems where he uses irony‚ imagery‚ and dialect but they all show humor
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“The Man He Killed‚” the main character is fighting a war. He meets a man‚ and is forced to kill him because he is on the opposite side of the war. But later in the poem he wishes he could have met the person in a different environment‚ not during the war. The story starts off with our narrator stating that he wishes it was a different time. This is because currently there is a war going on‚ and he is forced to kill a man he does not even know. In the first quatrain the narrator states that he wishes
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Mankind has fought wars for centuries; over many different types of things like religion‚ resources‚ and territorial growth. “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy‚ can undoubtedly be considered an anti-war poem. The narration takes the reader through the remorse the soldier feels as he considers the weight of his actions. The simple‚ straightforward nature of the poem seemingly begs the reader to understand it. However‚ there are many details in the lines that warrant a second reading. There are several
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an absurd tragedy. Both “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy and “Old Mother Savage” by Guy de Maupassant explore the theme that war is absurd because it makes enemies of those who would otherwise be friends. First‚ the speaker of “The Man He Killed” discovers that war makes enemies of those who would otherwise be friends. The speaker of the poem is a soldier that is on the battlefield facing his enemy. In the first stanza‚ the speaker of the poem exclaims “Had he and I but met…we should have sat
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“The Man He Killed”: A Reflection of Human Nature Philip Zimbardo‚ a renowned psychologist known famously for the 1971 Stanford Prison experiment‚ once said “human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The ’situation’ is the external environment. The inner environment is genes‚ moral history‚ religious training” In this quote‚ Zimbardo addresses the perceived reasoning behind any individual’s decision making. Similar to this reasoning‚ Thomas Hardy’s “The Man He Killed”
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