Marriage and Divorce in Today’s Society Love has been a popular theme in every form of media for centuries. Shakespeare‚ The Beatles‚ even deadbeat rappers make references to making love somehow. And all this time it has been glorified and put on this pedestal‚ that makes it seem like it will last forever‚ this is very far from the truth. I believe that said glorification and overuse of the idea of “love” has given people in today’s society the wrong idea. Movies like “Eat‚ Pray‚ Love”
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stories that can be classified within the genres comedy‚ tragedy and history. Proving as relevant today as they were 500 years ago‚ these stories conform to certain elements that define what genre the story falls under. Comedies such as The Taming of the Shrew and A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Tragedies such as Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and Histories such as King John and Henry V have all played a relevant role in defining the genres Shakespeare writes by. In particular‚ Shakespearean comedies hold
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or thou will have hell to pay. It’s no surprise this movie was based on Shakespeare’s misogynistic and sexist play‚ The Taming of the Shrew. In it‚ a woman is mentally prodded until she’s happily docile. There’s 411 years between Shrew and Deliver Us from Eva. Oh‚ the endurance of misogyny. Eva isn’t necessarily ’happily docile’ in the end‚ but she pretty much takes her taming. She earnestly apologizes to the boys and submits to their thought that she was "a distraction and a huge pain in the a**
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The Fool – King Lear The Royal Shakespeare Company writes of the Fool: There is no contemporary parallel for the role of Fool in the court of kings. As Shakespeare conceives it‚ the Fool is a servant and subject to punishment (’Take heed‚ sirrah – the whip ’ 1:4:104) and yet Lear’s relationship with his fool is one of friendship and dependency. The Fool acts as a commentator on events and is one of the characters (Kent being the other) who is fearless in speaking the truth. The Fool provides wit
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DISCUSS THE ISSUES CREATED THROUGH THE USE OF STEREOTYPES IN THE MEDIA. 10 Things I Hate About You is a modern re-telling of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. The Strattford sisters‚ Kat and Bianca have the same last name and both go to Padua High‚ but that’s where the similarities end. Bianca is preppy‚ pretty‚ popular‚ and well-liked. Kat shuns the in-crowd and does whatever she can to make people mad. Their father is very strict and has a house rule that neither girl can date
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Marinos Throughout the 20th Century‚ there have been several attempts to transform William Shakespeare’s famous works into a modern context‚ with The Lion King based on Hamlet and 10 Things I Hate About You as a loose transformation of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course‚ there have been two successful transformations already based on Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet; West Side Story and Zeferelli’s Romeo and Juliet. West Side Story is an entertaining musical set in New York City
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modest young lady‚ the sweetest lady‚ a “jewel”. All these adjectives connote meekness‚ submission and mildness‚ three important features that men looked for in a woman. It is obvious that ‘shrewish’ and rebellious women‚ like Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew were badly regarded. Hero would be more similar to Katharina’s sister‚ Bianca. Beatrice is undoubtedly one of the strongest female characters Shakespeare has ever created. She is the niece of Leonato‚ a wealthy governor of
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what we are choosing between. I think this because the traveler could not see further down than “where it bent in the undergrowth‚” and this shows how we cannot see into the future. I was surprised when I saw how this relates to Kate in The Taming of the Shrew. Kate expects she will hate being tamed and married to Petruchio which she expresses
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Teun A. Van Dijk‚ in his essay "Pragmatics and Poetics‚" explains the reason for speech is "to change the internal state of the hearer" (Dijk 30). Ferdinand de Saussure describes in his essay‚ "Nature of the Linguistic Sign‚" how a word is more connected to the minds of the speaker and the hearer than to anything else. He describes that the "linguistic sign" as a unit formed equally by the association of a "concept" and a "sound-image." The "sound-image" is what one would call a spoken word‚ something
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Entertainment in the 1990’s Have you ever thought about when your favorite things first became popular and why? Many leisure activities of today originated in the 1990’s. The 1990’s were very influential within the entertainment industry because of their food‚ music‚ and movies. The 1990’s showed a big change in food. It was the decade where the Food Network came onto the air‚ garlic became more commonly used and many delicious foods were invented (Neman). Emeril Lagasse was a very popular chef
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