«William Shakespeare’s extensive investigation into social life in his earlier plays allowed him to instead focus on the more complex topic of human consciousness, which he pursues through magical inhuman characters, in his final play The Tempest. ...» Document abstract
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SummaryWilliam Shakespeare’s extensive investigation into social life in his earlier plays allowed him to instead focus on the more complex topic of human consciousness, which he pursues through magical inhuman characters, in his final play The Tempest. In his book The Feeling of What Happens, Antonio Damasio expresses the different states of consciousness and selves from the autonomic proto-self, to the constantly changing core self, to the memory-based autobiographical self, and finally to the far-reaching extended consciousness. Shakespeare investigates consciousness through his magical character Ariel, who exhibits all the levels of consciousness to varying degrees. Ariel’s hyper active proto and extended consciousnesses allow him to control his shape and visibility and think of many creative ways to manipulate the other characters, but his core and autobiographical selves remain underdeveloped as they hinge on Prospero’s motivations for his actions.
«The Iraqw of Tanzania, by Katherine Snyder, is a detailed ethnographic account of the affects of Maendeleo (progress and development) on the Iraqw people of northern Tanzania, shaped partially by the struggle between the young and the old to capture...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe Iraqw of Tanzania, by Katherine Snyder, is a detailed ethnographic account of the affects of Maendeleo (progress and development) on the Iraqw people of northern Tanzania, shaped partially by the struggle between the young and the old to capture the true essence of Iraqw culture. However, she argues that they are not squarely against modernization in their area instead they adapt and often take an active role in the process while questioning what modernization means to them.
«Irreverence in comedy has been at the forefront of recent comedic performances. In one television show, ‘The Office’, depicts supervisor David Brent, performed by Ricky Gervais, as an irreverent ‘funny man’. In one episode, while orienting a new...» Document abstract
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SummaryIrreverence in comedy has been at the forefront of recent comedic performances. In one television show, ‘The Office’, depicts supervisor David Brent, performed by Ricky Gervais, as an irreverent ‘funny man’. In one episode, while orienting a new employee around the office, he listens to his phone messages, and after the last one, pretends to pick up the phone and throw it out of the window - all in effort for a laugh. The new employee looks on, not even feigning a laugh. But the audience does, because of the irony at work. Brent is a self-proclaimed ‘comedian’ – a person who lightens up the typically drab idea of ‘work.’ However, nobody in the office finds his irreverent humour funny – he is less comedic, and more annoyingly loathsome. The audience laughs at the awkward situation between someone trying too hard for a laugh and not receiving it. The audience and the employees laugh more at Brent than with him. Well, the employees laugh behind his back. However, the irreverent comedic episodes elucidate the character of David Brent. The episodes depict a person concerned with assuming a comic role rather than that of a supervisor who runs a productive office. Irreverence has a point to make. Furthermore, the irreverence of David Brent makes the audience laugh before they cry at the threat of the Wernham Slough office being closed. They suddenly stop and want Brent to put aside his obsession with acting the fool, but it is a character fault Brent will never overcome. ‘The Office’ is a modern example of what Shakespeare utilized in his varied body of work – in tragedy, historic or comic plays. For there are numerous instances of Shakespeare’s application of comedic irreverence, and like ‘The Office,’ Shakespeare used it for an intended significance toward the total effect of the play. For such tragedies as Romeo and Juliet, one might conclude that the comic irreverence of the Nurse in Scene two, Act five seems out of place. However, upon further investigation the comic episode proves integral to the tragic plot of the play: the comic episode allows the audience to laugh before they start to cry, and that the Nurse’s character is revealed as one comprised of vanity –inherent vanity in her speech, and vanity in her thoughts about love, which in a later scene proves detrimental to Juliet.
«Gender and sexuality are very difficult concepts to define in our post-modern age. To begin with, the term is outdated to fit the social norms of today: attraction lies anywhere and is not confined to ‘heterosexual love’ between a man and a woman....» Document abstract
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SummaryGender and sexuality are very difficult concepts to define in our post-modern age. To begin with, the term is outdated to fit the social norms of today: attraction lies anywhere and is not confined to ‘heterosexual love’ between a man and a woman. Gay, lesbian and bi-sexual are terms used to describe the previously neglected aspects of sexuality. Gender bending sexual androgyny used to be thought of as repulsive, but as Baz Luhrmann tells us, is all the more coveted in our liberalism of the present. As well, the more androgynous you are – in how you look and how you love – the more attractive you are; a signature of sexuality in the forever reviving pop-culture. As Luhrmann’s William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet uses every aspect of pop-culture, from music to fashion to actors to create a post-modern Verona, he also utilizes androgynous sexuality in various characters. Yet, not to alienate any audience member, Luhrmann elucidates all varied counterparts of gender and sexuality: from femininity to masculinity; from heterosexuality to homosexuality and homosociality. He throws everything that is pop-culture at us in the film, and as he shows in the varied characters, gender-bending sexuality is integral to our time and age.
«Paul Laurence Dunbar and Edwin Arlington Robinson created “We Wear the Mask” and “Richard Cory” during the literary renaissance after World War I. Society was targeted and critiqued by authors who wanted to describe the “spiritual problems and...» Document abstract
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SummaryPaul Laurence Dunbar and Edwin Arlington Robinson created “We Wear the Mask” and “Richard Cory” during the literary renaissance after World War I. Society was targeted and critiqued by authors who wanted to describe the “spiritual problems and disillusionments” (p 765). Dunbar and Robinson described the feeling of alienation, or estrangement from society and its ideals. The insightful theme of alienation critiqued society as being false; ideals of money, power, and social politics were corrupting the modern minds.
«The author of either a novel or a short story has one main purpose: to dazzle the reader. However, dazzling the reader is a difficult process because we don’t all have the same attention spans, or have the same interests, or even enjoy the same...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe author of either a novel or a short story has one main purpose: to dazzle the reader. However, dazzling the reader is a difficult process because we don’t all have the same attention spans, or have the same interests, or even enjoy the same words on the pages that other reader’s find enjoyable. It’s a phenomenon of sorts, when an author attains such remarkable success in the eyes of the reading public; one has to remark to oneself: ‘Why does everyone want to read this particular author’s work?’ In short, the reader’s were dazzled by the presentation of characters, the situation, the consequence, the author’s careful manipulation of certain details to provide those nearly elusive underlying themes. Such authors as Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle enjoyed staggering success with populations across the world – but how did these detective-story writers do it? What was it that these author’s possessed for them to seemingly somehow conjure millions of people to read their body of work? In such stories as Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, they convey the author’s mastery of tension. In a detective story, it is important for the author to pique the reader’s interest, and then lure them along with the correct amount of tension that doesn’t reveal too much, but just enough to move the story along. In both stories by Christie and Doyle, the author’s use a specific setting of the isolated country-house to create the effects of tension. The country-house is inherently thought of as being inhabited by noble, wealthy aristocrats, who have a staff of servants to run the household.
«“A manifestation of any of these qualities: bravery, courtesy, honor.” This is the definition of the world chivalry as found in the dictionary. Though it was first coined during the Medieval Age, the idea still hold true today. One of the greatest...» Document abstract
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Summary“A manifestation of any of these qualities: bravery, courtesy, honor.” This is the definition of the world chivalry as found in the dictionary. Though it was first coined during the Medieval Age, the idea still hold true today. One of the greatest books of chivalry is Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote. The hero of the story, Don Quixote, rides into the world to correct the evils that have befallen society. Over the course of his journeys, he routinely mistakes situations and tries to help where his assistance is not needed, usually resulting in creating more problems for the victim. He is driven by the idea of chivalry and idea that had been imbedded in his mind from the books he has read about knights of old. By showing different instances how Quixote makes things worse and not better, Cervantes both glorifies and pokes fun at the notion of chivalry. However, as a reader, one can not admire a man who leaves behind is home to help others in the world. Even if he creates and imaginary problem out of nothing, the reader still recognizes that he genuinely tries and help, as opposed to just sitting back and watching the world go by. In today’s society, Quixote would feel out of place, not only for his dress and manner of speaking, but also because the world today lacks the kind of people who would go out of their way to help someone else. It appears that many people today or so wrapped up in their own lives that they do not take the time to help others. Thought Cervantes’ book was written centuries ago, the chivalric qualities of honor, courtesy, and bravery displayed by Quixote are ones that are lacking in today’s society.
«When Steven King releases a new novel it is bound to be one of the scariest works of literature around. King’s books, filled with images of deformed dolls and haunted houses, strike fear in the hearts of his readers. King’s writing appeals to our...» Document abstract
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SummaryWhen Steven King releases a new novel it is bound to be one of the scariest works of literature around. King’s books, filled with images of deformed dolls and haunted houses, strike fear in the hearts of his readers. King’s writing appeals to our senses, torturing and manipulating them to create a sense of fear. We are horrified immediately following the reading of a scary line, but that sensation only last for a minute until we are brought back to reality. We know that what we just read is not about to happen and is completely fiction so we get on with our lives. While the “high” we get from this sensual fear alters our senses, it is the horror of reality that strikes true fear into people. Most of the time we can clearly see this horror, but the true horror comes when a nightmare exist right in front of our eyes, yet we are blinded to it until someone comes along and reveals it to us. These prophetic voices, like writers such as William Blake and Mary Shelly, open our eyes to the horrors of reality, but they do so in a subtle way. In neither of their writings do these authors expressly condemn certain aspects of society, but rather make these horrors known, leaving it up to the reader to make their own decisions. Through the readings of Frankenstein and the “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, the reader must “bring in their own sense” in order to begin to see the horrors that are hidden from most of society.
«The ancient heroes and rulers all had many great qualities that allowed them to rise to such as level, but all were aware that the gods could take it all away in an instant. Therefore, these great men prayed and sacrificed to the divinities and...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe ancient heroes and rulers all had many great qualities that allowed them to rise to such as level, but all were aware that the gods could take it all away in an instant. Therefore, these great men prayed and sacrificed to the divinities and feared their power greatly. However, in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Tyrannus”, both the king and his wife show a sense of arrogance concerning the oracles and gods. Even if in the beginning he displays belief in the oracles, by the climax Oedipus places himself above such petty soothsayers. While some believe that the gods force you into making choices, Sophocles expresses his belief that even though your future is foretold, it does not prevent a man from taking his own actions. This kind of action was completely out of line for the time and his punishment is severe.
«The letters of Paul are the first written communication following the crucifixion of Christ. Paul’s letters at first appear to be more written commands rather than correspondences. The letters of Paul are usually interpreted as laws given by Paul to...» Document abstract
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SummaryThe letters of Paul are the first written communication following the crucifixion of Christ. Paul’s letters at first appear to be more written commands rather than correspondences. The letters of Paul are usually interpreted as laws given by Paul to different peoples concerning the worship of God. However, when read much closer, you are able to see more than just his commands but also what life was like in the first century and many different aspects of Paul’s character. The main letters that most people read are his letters to the Romans and Corinthians. Paul established the city of Corinth before he left on his travels so these letters are much more personal than the ones to the Romans. Paul uses his letters to answer questions the people have regarding practices of their faith and to “force” upon them the importance of practing religion.
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