the opportunity to cause a domino effect‚ where that one event sets off a chain of similar events and effects each individual that it impacts and eventually a broader society. This notion of a domino effect is evident in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest which is a magical play about people being lost and found and what they find is who they were all along and Bernhard Schlink’s semi-autobiographical novel The Reader a poignant meditation on love‚ loss‚ guilt‚ human frailty and making peace with the
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Dante’s Hell is based on a law of symbolic retribution – the talion or “divine justice.” Dante believed that the world‚ including art‚ is created by the “divine word‚” and that all meaning ultimately comes from God. The Inferno‚ then is a poem about the consequences of denying God. In essence‚ the punishments fit the crimes. The lower eight circles are a structured according to the Aristotelian concept of virtue and vice and are grouped into sins of incontinence (corresponding
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Bibliography: 1. John Fowles. The Collector. Boston‚ New York‚ London: Back Bay Books‚ 1997 2. William Shakespeare. The Tempest: An authoritative text sources and contexts criticism; rewritings and appropriations. New York‚ London: W. W. Norton and Company‚ 2004 3. Douglas Lanier. Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture. Oxford University Press‚ 2002 4. Shakespeare’s Late Plays
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various types of suffering. Suffering can be defined in two ways; physical suffering‚ in which the character is inflicted with physical pain and trauma‚ and emotional suffering‚ where the character suffers an emotional trauma or loss. In The Tempest‚ the physically traumatized characters‚ are Trinculo and Stephano. They are chased by dogs but their physical trauma has not induced any sign of remorse or guilt. Ferdinand‚ on the other hand‚ is overcome by emotional suffering at the "loss" of
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survivors can uncover something even greater. Even Prospero associates Gonzalo with an agent of fate. Gonzalo‚ is one of Prospero’s few friends‚ he has a colonizer’s urge to rule. But if he became king of the island‚ he wouldn’t rule at all. The Tempest is the definition of a "Utopia". For different characters this "utopia" means different things. Though all of the characters have a different image of “utopia”‚ Gonzalo and Prospero both think of the island as their “utopia” they have an almost similar
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Brague observes that in ancient and medieval times‚ the simple question‚ “What is man?” was seldom thought about. Contemplating this question requires one to believe they are a self-determining being. In ancient and medieval times‚ people did not think about who they were or if they could change. The universe was stagnant‚ every being had a purpose and a place and stayed in that place. In order to believe you are a self-determining being‚ you must be able to reflect upon yourself. This concept did
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Kyesha Fuller March 14‚ 2013 Ms. Gaston Strategic Read II Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place Book Report “The gift of being alone‚ I can never get enough.” In Genesis 2:18 the lord god said “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Looking through God’s eyes there are specific gifts of being alone. Aloneness is a rare gift but some people are afraid of being alone. If gods says being alone is a gift then
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too does Ariel’s song parallel his new freedom with Prospero’s return to his old position. Noble argues that the song and music in Twelfth Night are “not the indispensable factors in the presentment of the main theme [...] as have the lyrics in The Tempest” (13) and yet in this comparison the function of Feste and Ariel’s songs are similarly influential on the narrative. Just as in other elements‚ the specific songs in both plays subvert the generic expectations they set up‚ and help craft and activate
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a) Bring out the significance of the forest of Arden in As You Like It. OR b) Discuss the character of Rosalind in As You Like It. 8. a) What view of man and nature does emerge from your study of The Tempest ? OR b) Comment critically on the earth-air or Caliban-Ariel antithesis in The Tempest. 9. a) What is the problem in Measure for Measure and how is it solved ? OR b) Comment on the title of the play‚ Measure for Measure. 10. a) What according to Bradley‚ are the distinctive features of
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“The true savages of the play are these who would see themselves as the most civilised.” By exploring Shakespeare’s presentation of the relationship between nature and nurture in The Tempest so far‚ evaluate this view. The characterisation in The Tempest is used to present a relationship between innate benevolence and artificial nurturing. This can be directly linked to his agreements and critiques of Montaignei and his thinking. Shakespeare presents several characters who enact a savage-like
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