Growing up‚ people realize that around the time of reaching a mature state‚ education has affected their personal family life in one way or the other. With that being said‚ in his essay‚ “The Achievement of Desire”‚ Richard Rodriguez headed towards a path where he was unconsciously distancing himself from his family and becoming much more independent than he had expected. Rodriguez gives the reader a sentimental idea of the two contrary lives he had growing up‚ the life he had as a child‚ and the
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For the purposes of our assignment I will attempt to put Richard Branson in a sort of box that he would surely object to and would certainly pop out of like a jack-in-the- box. The difficulty with attempting to analyze the leadership style of Branson is that everything that has been written about him prefaces his achievement with his larger than life personality. There’s no denying that Branson is fun and passionate‚ but he’s also very bright and very hardworking. I think that if Branson took
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Good morning/afternoon Throughout my comparative study of texts and context‚ I have explored various connections shared between William Shakespeare’s ‘Richard the 3rd’ and Al Pacino’s ‘Looking for Richard’. As both of these items are based on the same character‚ King Richard the 3rd‚ they share a lot in common. The connection that I have chosen to concentrate on though is the idea of power‚ and how both texts explore this theme. William Shakespeare is an extremely famous English
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he is so influential would be leitmotifs‚ music tracks that would be linked to ideas‚ characters‚ settings‚ etc. The reason these are so important is because of their virtually ubiquitous use in movies‚ video games and television. If you think of all of the entertainment media today‚ leitmotifs show up in basically everything; some examples include radio jingles‚ TV show themes‚ YouTube channel intros‚ character
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The attack of "conscience" that King Richard suffers in Act 5‚ Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Richard III (133-157) can be seen as the psychological climax of the drama‚ one that is critical to both Richard’s development as a character and the play’s ultimate success. Richard’s struggle to reconcile the many different roles he attempts to play into one unified self‚ reflected in the tone and composition of his speech‚ adds depth and humanity to his character; at the same time‚ his ultimate failure to maintain
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The themes in the play “Richard III”; manipulation‚ dreams‚ and deception are enhanced by the use of figures of speech‚ diction‚ and the features of drama such as stage directions. These help to convey the way in which Richard is able to gain the trust of the other characters allowing him to trick and fool them in order for him to gain the upper hand and become the new king. In “Act 1 Scene 1” Richard starts off speaking to himself speaking of that peace had finally returned after a recent war then
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15th century‚ Richard III (RIII) transcend Shakespeare’s contextual world and coincide with the values we hold today. The continuing relevance of the play RIII is fuelled by our contemporary societies desire to re-evaluate the role of women‚ characterisation of villains (Richard) and the role of materialism in modern day contexts. This desire is depicted through the 1998
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Richard II For further information regarding the critical and stage history of Richard II‚ see SC‚ Volumes 6‚ 24‚ 39‚ 52‚ 58‚ and 70. INTRODUCTION Richard II (ca. 1595) is the first drama of Shakespeare’s second historical tetralogy‚ a sequence of chronological narratives based on events in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries that chronicle the ascent of the Lancastrian line to the throne of England. In the play‚ Richard‚ an ineffectual monarch and the last of the Plantagenet kings
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William Shakespeare’s play ‘King Richard III’ and Al Pacino’s 1996 doco-drama film ‘Looking for Richard’ reveals the explicit relationships between each text and their respective audience. The Elizabethan and twentieth century contexts in each of these texts are important as it demonstrates the value of each text and enables the understanding of how the film enriches the ideas presented in the play. Shakespeare’s ‘King Richard III’ portrays a malicious and corrupted Richard to explore the themes of divine
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Through exploring connections between Shakespeare’s Richard III and Al Pacino’s Looking for Richard the values of the era are often a product of the context of the text. However‚ through studying the theatricality of man and the pursuit of power‚ it is clear these notions transcend time and context. Shakespeare valued the way an actor could act within a play and theatre was valued in this context. Shakespeare also demonstrated how Richard pursued political power‚ whilst Shakespeare himself pursued
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