Duke Orsino Character Analysis in Act 1 Orsino is the duke of the country Illyria. He is lovesick for the beautiful lady Olivia. From the first line of the play‚ Orsino’s character can already be distinguished as he rant about his love for Lady Olivia; “If music be the food of love‚ play on”‚ from this we already get the gist that he is a melancholy character. He uses the words such as ‘excess’‚ ‘surfeiting’‚ ‘appetite...sickening’ and ‘dying fall’ in his rant about his love for Olivia. These
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The Starry Night is an artwork by Vincent van Gogh. I was created in 1889‚ and it is considered a post-impressionist art work. It has a size of 73.70 x 92.10 cm. The medium used was oil on canvas. Its current location is in The Museum of Modern Art in New York‚ NY. Additionally‚ the art work Reclining Nude by Henri Matisse was created in 1935. Its size is 66 x 92.7 cm‚ and the medium used was oil on canvas. It is currently located in The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore‚ Maryland. Therefore‚
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Love as the Cause of Suffering In William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night‚ love as the cause of suffering is one of the most prominent theme of the story. Even though this play ends in love and wedded bliss‚ Shakespeare also shows us that love can also cause pain. The characters often view love as a curse‚ something that is thrust upon you and you cannot easily or willing escape. Examples include Malvolio’s love for Olivia‚ the love triangle between Olivia‚ Duke Orsino‚ and Viola as Cesario‚
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In the kingdom of Illyria (fantasy world)‚ Twelfth Night was supposedly originally written for the entertainment of Queen Elizabeth I. William Shakespeare’s comedy associates with the Feast of Epiphany (January 6th) and was means for entertainment in the seventeenth century. It contains some aspects that can be thought of as a successful comedy when compared to the standards of today’s society. The play incorporates some of the very same devices that are used in modern comedies today‚ such as topsy-turvy
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fog descends around the Tyrone ’s summer home‚ another fog falls on the family within. This fog is that of substance abuse‚ in which each of the four main characters of Eugene O ’Neill ’s play‚ Long Day ’s Journey into Night face by the end of Act IV. Long Day ’s Journey into Night is a metaphoric representation of the path from normalcy to demise by showing the general effects of substance abuse on human psychology and family dysfunctions through the characters Mary‚ Jamie‚ Edmund and Tyrone. <br> <br>Mary
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Book Review The novel “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time” written by Mark Haddon revolves around an autistic boy called Christopher. The protagonist of this murder mystery novel is Christopher; a fifteen year-old single child who had a remarkable talent for math although lacks much social skill and dislikes being touched. Like many autistic sufferers Christopher loves pets and has one of his own‚ a pet rat. His decisions are always
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and affecting‚’ said The New Yorker. ‘Clever and observant‚’ gushed The Washington Post. ‘Funny‚ sad‚ and totally convincing‚” added Time” (Moss 1). All these statements are pertaining to the riveting novel‚ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. First of all‚ this story recounts the tale of Christopher Boone‚ who suffers from autism through his own point of view. Christopher lives with his father‚ because he thought his mother had died‚ however his father lied. Christopher’s
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Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’ undoubtedly presents these common comedic traits and exploits them‚ primarily through the incorporation of foolishness within many aspects of the play‚ therefore conforming to comedy by that definition. However‚ within the play‚ arguably at the heart of it‚ there are other themes such as confusion and misunderstanding which lead to the question of whether foolishness is truly at the heart of the play and if there are other themes to consider. Twelfth Night begins to suggest
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“The Thousand and One Nights” (“Alf Layla Wa-Layla” in Arabic and often referred to as “The Arabian Nights” in reference to the first edition published in English)‚ is unique in its adaptability and resilience. Over a period of more than a thousand years‚ this book has continued to enrapture its readers as it has changed and evolved. It is impossible to find any definitive “true” version of the Nights. The tale has many authors from many places and seems to have consistently evolved since its earliest
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The magic of the Arabian Nights by Wendy Doniger The original‚ authentic‚ real Ur-text of the Arabian Nights (aka Alf Layla wa-Layla‚ or the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights‚ or just the Nights) is a mythical beast. There are far more than a thousand and one nights‚ for the thirty-four-and-a-half stories in the fourteenth or fifteenth century “core” body of the Nights were soon supplemented by other tales in Arabic and Persian‚ from the culture of medieval Baghdad and Cairo‚ and then in Hindi
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