The Hunchback of Notre Dame By: Joe Dick During the 1482 Festival of Fools in Paris‚ Quasimodo‚ the hunchback of Notre Dame‚ is elected the Pope of Fools for being the ugliest person in Paris. He is hoisted on a throne and paraded around Paris by the jeering mob. Pierre Gringoire‚ a struggling poet and philosopher‚ tries unsuccessfully to get the crowd to watch his play instead of the parade. Archdeacon Claude Frollo appears and stops the parade and orders Quasimodo back to Notre Dame with him
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Szymanski 1 The Foolish One Since Reverend Brown is a harsh man‚ He is also a fool. According to the bible all harsh men are fools. They react out of anger and in Proverbs 18:2 it says‚ “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding‚ but only in expressing his [own] opinion” (English Standard Version). This meaning that they don’t enjoy other opinions or even the opinion of God‚ but are selfish in their thoughts and expressing their thought to others. The bible states that they are quick to anger (Proverbs
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and Andrew for their drunkenness‚ but she also tolerates them and shows her own capacity for pranks by initiating the phony love letter ploy against her supervisor‚ Malvolio. In I.iii‚ Maria draws our attention to Sir Toby Belch’s habitual late nights and drunkenness when she warns him that his niece‚ Countess Olivia‚ has lost patience with his dissolute behavior. She also prepares us for the entrance shortly afterward of Sir Andrew Aguecheek by referring to him as "a foolish knight" whom Sir Toby
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“Drinking makes such fools of people‚ and people are such fools to begin with‚ that it is compounding a felony” (Robert Benchley). The average person does not always make smart decisions‚ and alcohol tends to worsen that issue. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ many characters cope with their problems by drinking their lives away. But‚ what they do not realize‚ is that drinking makes their problems worse and makes their behavior portray them as unintelligent. Through the poor
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would marry and if they married a man who others listened to. Visions and having a powerful animal to help was very important as you see with Fools Crow which he didn’t have much luck when he was younger but that all changed when he’s presccdor helped by giving him some medicine. If one is unlucky with his animal then he might not be as successful as Fools Crow. You see how a man becomes well known from not being so boatful as what Fast Horse has done and it got him shunned and he was going in the
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adaptations of Shakespeare ’s comedies‚ Trevor Nunn ’s Twelfth Night and Kenneth Branagh ’s A Much Ado About Nothing [Much Ado ’]. Although both films can to an extent be seen as comedies with serious‚ almost tragic aspects inherent throughout‚ Nunn ’s film deals with these serious facets as central to the depiction‚ whereas Branagh‚ although not entirely ignoring the deeper issues‚ prefers a more light-hearted and visually attractive adaptation. Twelfth Night has been described as like Hamlet in a comic
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that is so is so.” To what extent do you agree with this in relation to Shakespeare’s play “Twelfth Night”? In Shakespeare’s comedy ‘Twelfth Night’‚ the main theme of disguise and façade is used to create comedy as the characters ‘conceal’ themselves. This adds to the confusion and consequently the characters‚ and at times the audience‚ are doubtful of what is real. Shakespeare makes it clear that ‘Twelfth Night’ is up for interpretation through the use of his double title ‘what you will’; he introduces
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How Does Shakespeare Present Different Types Of Love In Twelfth Night? Shakespeare presents lots of different types of love using a variety of techniques. The plot of twelfth night is very complex and has a lot of thing happening at a time‚ there is never a time where there is only one thing happening other than the end when all get revealed. This type of pot allows Shakespeare to introduce lots of different types of love to create drama and perhaps even humor at times. In the next couple of paragraphs
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A Beautiful Fool The novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald takes place in the 1920’s‚ a time of partying and fun‚ but also a time of gender oppression. The idea of an intelligent‚ independent woman was disregarded. Men were the dominant gender. Woman were not very respected at this time and were expected to be clueless and giddy‚ almost like a toy. Daisy Buchanan‚ expressing that her hope for her daughter is that she will be a fool‚ demonstrates what Daisy has been taught is the purpose
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experienced first-hand the horrors that existed‚ they cannot believe that such horrors exist. On the first train to the first labor camp Elie felt optimistic when arriving to Auschwitz saying “Confidence soared. Suddenly we felt free of the previous nights’ terrors. We gave thanks to God.” (Wiesel 27). When arriving to the camp Elie became more optimistic when he started to find people he knew still alive‚ even in these dark times he was able to find happiness. Not only did Elie have this mind set but
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