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    KING OF FRANCE Bid farewell to your sisters. CORDELIA The jewels of our father‚ with wash’d eyes Cordelia leaves you: I know you what you are; And like a sister am most loath to call Your faults as they are named. Use well our father: To your professed bosoms I commit him But yet‚ alas‚ stood I within his grace‚ I would prefer him to a better place. So‚ farewell to you both. REGAN Prescribe not us our duties. GONERIL Let your study Be to content your lord‚ who hath

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    The film RAN and the play The Tragedy of King Lear can be related to each other in many ways. Kurosawa was able to produce a film that was a valid‚ effective and relevant portrayal of Shakespeare’s play. The first way is in how they relate to each other on a plot based theme. The second way is how they can both be analyzed to themes such as; family‚ betrayal‚ loyalty‚ and selfishness. The third way that they relate to each other is how RAN uses Japanese drama to portray a Shakespearean tragedy. Kurosawa

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    Lear and Comedy.... Lear and Comedy. Strangely enough‚ it is G. Wilson Knight‚ a critic famous (not to say notorious) for a vehemently Christian interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays‚ who notes in The Wheel of Fire some of the comedic aspects of King Lear[1]. Whether or not the harsh moral ecology of King Lear fits comfortably with the Christian ethos of forgiveness‚ structural elements of comedy are plainly present in King Lear‚ quite apart from the sardonic humour of the Fool. Indeed‚ a ‘happy

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    to choose fools over knaves.” Discuss In King Lear virtually every character is either a fool or a knave; however these terms contain multiple layers. The crucial scene in which this idea is presented in the play is act 2 scene 4 when the Fool talks to Kent after he has been put in the stocks‚ and more specifically his line “The knave turns fool that runs away;/ The fool no knave‚ perdy.” On one level the Fool is mocking Kent for his loyalty towards Lear despite the fact that Lear’s fortunes have

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    Gatsby is portrayed as a modern day King Midas in the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. King Midas was a Greek man who was greedy and wished for the “golden” touch – everything he touched would turn to gold. When this was granted‚ he realized that the power didn’t make life any better and that it just harms him. Gatsby was similar to Midas in the sense that he took things for granted and turned small money into wealth. In the novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ Jay Gatsby is a businessman

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    King Lear‚ when read from a Marxist perspective‚ blames everything on the conflict of classes. In particular‚ there is a focus on the traditional feudalism versus the "new" capitalism. Lear is viewed as a hero because he manages to journey from being a mentally impoverished king to a simple man‚ while Cordelia is the heroine. The villains of this story are not clear-cut‚ crude villains but complex villains with more logic and commonsense the conventionalists. The Marxist reading even attempts to

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    King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s most refined works. In accordance to the majority of Shakespeare’s tragedies‚ the characters in King Lear are well developed and portray evident personalities. Their characteristics and actions are so extreme that they closely mirror those of animals. In particular‚ Shakespeare uses animal imagery in King Lear to illustrate the vulnerability‚ cruelty‚ and perceptivity of critical characters. Animal imagery in King Lear is used to effectively emphasize the vulnerability

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    Great Education Many describe Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations as a Bildungsroman – a novel tracing the education and spiritual growth of a young hero‚ in this case Philip Pirrip‚ better known as Pip. Pip’s thoughts on education change throughout the course of the story‚ beginning with idealistic views of becoming a gentleman and ending with a deeper‚ more intellectual perspective of being a gentleman. After meeting the wealthy and once elegant Miss Havisham‚ Pip becomes ashamed of his life

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    Alexander the Great Alexander of Macedon Biography King of Macedonia and Conqueror of the Persian Empire Alexander III the Great‚ the King of Macedonia and conqueror of the Persian Empire is considered one of the greatest military geniuses of all times. He was inspiration for later conquerors such as Hannibal the Carthaginian‚ the Romans Pompey and Caesar‚ and Napoleon.  Alexander was born in 356 BC in Pella‚ the ancient capital of Macedonia. He was son of Philip II‚ King of Macedonia‚ and Olympias

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    single parent or having both parents. It provides information on how it affects kids who grow with single parents and how some kids becomes emotionally stable and very successful in life. The statistics shown is based on what to expect from a child being raised by single parents compared to a child that has both. Commonly today’s society; single parenting is becoming a dominant figure and the affects that are becoming of it. Reader Paying attention to how the author states his information such as

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