Analysis of a Current TV Comedy Show Seinfeld It is definitely Seinfeld’s unmatched take on life’s most mundane moments that makes it a tremendously successful comedy. Seinfeld is a TV comedy often ironically referred to as "the show about nothing‚" which actually details the lives of four single people living in New York City. It is the cleverly written plots‚ snappy dialogue and crafty‚ genuine characters that make Seinfeld distinct from other similar TV situation comedies. The first specific element
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PAOLO AND FRANCESCA Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) more Artful Romance | François-Auguste-René Rodin (1886) | The story of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta is told in Inferno (part of Divine Comedy) by Dante. Paolo and Francesca were historical contemporaries of Dante. Francesca’s father‚ Guido da Polenta‚ lord of Ravenna had waged a long war with Malatesta‚ lord of Rimini. Finally peace was made through intermediaries‚ and to make it more firm‚ they decided to cement it with a marriage
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that the ghosts refuse to abandon‚ even though to do so would bring them to "reality" and "joy forevermore". The narrator is met by the writer George MacDonald‚ whom he hails as his mentor‚ just as Dante did when encountering Virgil in the Divine Comedy; and MacDonald becomes the narrator’s guide in his journey‚ just as Virgil became Dante’s. MacDonald explains that it is possible for a soul to choose to remain in heaven despite having been in the grey town; for such souls‚ their time in hell
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once said that the most significant occurrence of his childhood was his meeting with his love‚ Beatrice. She was glorified in “La vita nuova” (“The New Life”) and again later in “La divina commedia” (“The Divine Comedy”). Although his great literary works prove that he had a great education‚ little is known about where he studied. It is known that he was in Bolonga in about 1285 and it is possible that he studied at the university there. He supported
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In the Divine Comedy‚ Dante explains that those sentenced to hell for all of eternity are punished according to their sin. This means that the punishment suits the crime. This idea‚ or concept‚ is called contrapasso and it is critical to see how Dante view’s sinning. Dante claims that for the different sins there are different punishments. Some of these punishments include being bitten by insects for eternity and having your blood sucked back up by worms in your feet so that you may bleed forever
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THE DIVINE COMMAND THEORY Introduction Divine Command Theory is an ethical theory which claims that God’s will is the foundation of ethics. Based on Divine Command Theory‚ things are morally right or wrong‚ compulsory‚ allowed or disallowed if God or deities commands it. In Divine Command Theory‚ what makes an act moral or immoral is that God commands or prohibited it. Apart from being commanded by God to do certain thing‚ some other aspect of Divine Command Theory‚ also hold that an action is moral
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“Life is a storm‚ my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment‚ be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst‚ for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you” (Dumas 172). This quote really does summarize Edmond Dantes. One moment he’s walking high‚ in another moment he is in jail‚ then he is free and out plotting his revenge against his three enemies
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TITLE: THE CONTRAPPASSO The Divine Comedy was written by Dante Alighieri ‚approximately between 1306 and 1309‚ when Dante was under the final sentence of exile. Historical thought is that the first seven songs‚ of hell‚ were started before Dante left Florence‚ and that only at a later time when the writings were sent to him he continued to write them. Hell is conceived by Dante as a giant chasm in a conical shape that opens from Jerusalem to the center of the earth. Hell is divided into nine
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s Stairway to Heaven‚ originally titled A Matter of Life and Death‚ captures a distant interpretation of traditional views of Heaven‚ Hell‚ and Judgment. The directors do this by reshaping standard images of Heaven‚ eliminating Hell and restructuring Judgment. All together this created a vastly different afterlife than was constructed by classic artists such as Dante‚ and Michelangelo. Death is uniquely contradictory in Stairway to Heaven. Death seems to
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The relevance of Dante’s hell to contemporary society in the western world could be said to be visible from the very first Canto. Here Dante is lost and unable to find his way back to the right road. "Midway this way of life we’re bound upon‚ I wake to find myself in a dark wood" (Dante‚ 1949‚ p71). This could be said to be a representation of the psychological torment of many people who become depressed or unsure of their place in life. Many people are forced to go on a journey within themselves
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