In Shakespeare’s interpretation of Julius Caesar’s assassination titled, Julius Caesar, a man named Cassius is attempting to get the help and alliance of a fellow Roman named Brutus in the conspiracy of assassinating the Roman leader. He accomplishes this in constructed and detailed monologues to persuade Brutus to join the conspiracy. In each of Cassius’ monologues, Cassius strategically uses appeals and rhetorical devices to ultimately give a successful and persuasive speech to his audience, Brutus.…
Thus, by concentrating on the main levers of government in his hands, Caesar was able to control all the main spheres of life of the Roman society. He expanded the social composition of the ruling elites, integrating almost all the available layers of Roman society into it, and he solved a number of vitally important social issues that helped him to restore peace in the…
All texts are deliberately constructed to convey an agenda and a set of values. This means that every composer has a purpose, which is based on the issues arising from their context and audience. To that end, the composer uses conflicting perspectives as a vehicle for successfully conveying their purpose to the audience. So, through the representation of events, personalities and situations (which utilises form, language and structural devices), the responder is positioned to accept the perspective that the composer has represented as valid or credible. As a consequence, the composer is able to successfully impart their values to the audience. Examples of conflicting perspectives in society and the media come in the form of William Shakespeare’s…
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Every text is constructed for a purpose; the composer is trying to convey and embed their agenda into the reader by persuading them to accept their perspective on key events, personalities and/or situations. Through the manipulation of various textual forms, structures and language composers persuade their audience to adopt their perspective. Composers often decide to present conflicting perspectives to truly engage their audience. By demonstrating the concept of conflicting perspectives the composer is able to glorify their perspective in contrast to another to enforce their agenda, they position the audience through language to side with them. The tight narrative “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare’s utilises the final days of Caesar’s…
It seems that in the modern world and throughout history, we have been shrouded in conflicting perspectives. Everybody has a different point of view, a unique perspective and this is reflected heavily throughout most if not all literature. Further more, the conflicting perspectives often supply the text’s main interest and drama.…
The titular character in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” challenges medieval patriarchy in an attempt to denounce the sexist ideals at the time. However, the Wife of Bath herself is not a flawless example of feminism.…
Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar presents conflicting perspectives of Julius Caesar’s death. Shakespeare employs a variety of dramatic and language techniques to enhance the contrasting views of the assassination. Similarly President Bush’s Address at the 5th Anniversary of 9/11 and the article War is not a solution for Terrorism by Howard Zinn, deals with differing views of US occupation in Iraq.…
He does this by creating one of the first powerful feminists with The Wife of Bath’s Tale. Summarizing this tale there are three main things that the Wife of Bath points out. She makes her points very clear; women are smarter than men, better at manipulating thus having more power than men and simply only desire sovereignty. (Page 143, Line 184) “My liege and lady, in general--A woman wants the self-same sovereignty over her husband as over her lover and master him: he must not be above her.” I think those lines generally cover the difference of how men and women were/are not equal to men as they should be. Chaucer gets his point across and brings light to issues that are deep rooted by tradition and unopened minds. The ungratefulness of the knights new wife also proves where the minds of men have always been. Opening my eyes to see that the problems we have today are only as shallow as the people who go along with the issues, simply because they are not strong enough to try to make a…
Personalities, events or situations often elicit conflicting perspectives. To what extent has textual form shaped your understanding of conflicting perspectives.…
Conflicting Perspectives. What are they? I’m here to explain to you the conflicting perspectives of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ and Sacha Baron Cohen’s ‘The Dictator’. Both texts explore conflicting perspectives which are conveyed through their leading characters. Within these two textual forms, Shakespeare and Cohen use linguistic features such as emotive language, simile and prose to delve into the motives of each character and what has caused them to contradict each other.…
In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, Chaucer promotes a modern feministic perspective as he implements…
Within each person lies a inner difference that can change with true reason on what they believe in. Brutus and Cassius had a very strong relationship in what they believe in. This relationship soon on has a drastic complication. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, demonstrates that outside political views can greatly affect personal relationships by creating tension due to disagreements and public opposition.…
Chaucer’s Critique of Medieval Society As The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer progresses, the tales often critique one's sexual past while judging how they act through the tales, along with their gender. As karma and greed also have an extremely strong presence in the “Reeve’s and Pardoner’s tales” they both value money over the people that are important in their lives. The Wife of Bath critiques every aspect of male superiority as she is an extremely enthusiastic "feminist", that defends her side through finding the numerous amount of flaws in others arguments. This not only creates bad opposing arguments, but also helps her build a stronger argument. Her argument consists of why females should not be valued based on how many guys…
Throughout the entire existence of human being there have always been the people who don’t agree with the rest of the population for whatever reason, these people are usually given the title social outcast or simply different. Most of the time these are people who aren’t very socially comfortable and might even be a tab awkward when it comes to social gathering, these are people that you probably don’t consider your friend. Never the less these people usually have strong beliefs against the normal society of their day for their own reasons and can be either outspoken or very private and to themselves about their personal beliefs and problems with the society. These people can be defined as being iconoclastic, or someone who seeks to overthrow…