boss drives." (Theodore Roosevelt). Like what Roosevelt said‚ leader and boss are different. Leader means use knowledge and skill let people follow and boss means use power let people follow. Creon and Prospero are the leaders in Antigone and The Tempest‚ and their leadership has some similarities and differences. And the difference makes Creon and Prospero have different results. Knowledge is more important than power‚ because knowledge can control the direction of result. In my opinion‚ leadership
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transformative effect on those who discover. In William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest‚ and Gwen Harwood’s poem ‘The Glass Jar’‚ the authors use the characterisation of main characters in their texts to explore the ways in which discovery affects people and how it changes their perspectives‚ leading to deeper and broader understandings of themselves and their worlds. The characters of the boy in ‘The Glass Jar’ and Miranda in The Tempest are important in the exploration of the effects of discovery and how
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Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare and Hour by Carol Ann Duffy Sonnet 116 and Hour are love poems that aim to describe love as a powerful force to be reckoned with. Both poems are traditional sonnets with 14 lines that express love as a “bright” “star” that almost brings light into people’s lives. Sonnet 116 describes love as a “star to every wand’ring bark” suggesting that it is the north star that guides ships home. The north star does not move so won’t let you down if you were to follow it. Perhaps
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The setting determines the atmosphere. In the story‚ the narrator tries to convince himself that the reason for his terror was the “gloomy furniture of the room”‚ “dark tattered draperies‚ which‚ tortured into motion‚” and the “breath of a rising tempest.” These descriptions form vivid images of the gothic setting in the reader’s mind. It also sets a dark haunted setting where the atmosphere is eerie. The words‚ “I know not why‚ except that an instinctive spirit prompted me-“ expresses the feeling
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Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare Shakespeaare’s sonnet 116 is a part of his 154-poem sonnet sequence. First 126 sonnets addresses to a young man and the rest of them addresses to “the dark lady” who betrays the speaker with the young man in the first 126 sonnets. The iambic parameter and refrains used in the poem are the musical components in the sonnet and in order to draw the attention of the listeners or readers of the poem they are reinforced with the repetition of certain sounds in the first
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abusive colonial control held over him by Prospero. To support this argument I will use Alice Walker’s The Colour Purple and an article from New Zealand History Online called “The Treaty in Practice” that deals with the Treaty of Waitangi. The Tempest‚ written between 1610 and 1611‚ has a powerful political context as it was in the early years of the 17th century that the British colonization of the Americas began. The British had been exploring and colonizing foreign lands since the late 1400s
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Driving Force Underlying Prospero’s Actions is Revenge The concept of revenge is a central theme in almost every work written by William Shakespeare‚ including Hamlet‚ Othello‚ Macbeth and The Tempest. It was one of the most important aspect of human nature presented in his works. In The Tempest‚ from the very beginning‚ Prospero’s behaviour seems to be highly related to his deep resentment of having been betrayed and overthrown by his own brother‚ Antonio. Every action taken‚ every decision
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perceptions and attitudes‚ which may also stimulate a sense of enlightenment for both the characters and the responder. These characteristics are evident in the three texts I have studied‚ “The Tempest” by William Shakespeare‚ Victor Fleming’s‚ “The Wizard of Oz” and “Sky High” by Hannah Robert. In “The Tempest”‚ William Shakespeare leads the reader into an island in a realm beyond reality‚ which generates obstacles and challenges that aid the characters in their self-discovery process. During their
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English 1104: Written English I (2053 words) Essay Assignment:: A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness by Terry Tempest Williams Terry Tempest William’s written essay‚ “A Shark in the Mind of One Contemplating Wilderness‚” delivers to us‚ with intended purpose using shocking truths of greed and destruction. Actions took under the cloak and disguise of the needs of civilization‚ creating more jobs‚ or even to boost the rich man’s governmental legacy of our badly raped and abused
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Matthew Morris LITR 2357 Dr. Virginia Hampton 6 December 2014 Literary Analysis Is the dream a reality or the reality a dream in The Circular Ruins? "The Circular Ruins" (Las Ruinas Circulares) is a fantasy short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Published in the literary journal Sur in December 1940‚ it was included in the 1941 collection The Garden of Forking Paths (El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan) and the 1944 collection Ficciones. This story is arguably the most allegorical
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