Comedy in Shakespeare
Shakespeare wrote many plays during his lifetime. Some of his plays have similar comedic characteristics and then other plays are the exact opposite of comedy. Shakespeare wrote tragedies, romance, history, comedy and problem plays all with great success. During the performance of these plays there ....

Conrads Absolutely Relative Lord Jim
Beginning with Platos search for objective moral facts in reaction to his teachers humble skepticism a great debate has raged between the diametrically opposed ideas of moral relativism and absolutism. The twentieth century has seen a great deal of prestige placed upon relativistic ideals espe....

Does science disaprove God??
Science And God Everyone knows that this is the age of science. The explosive growth of science and technology fills everyone with awe. Science has become a synonym for truth, and none can deny that science constantly strives to find truth. Since today science is man's greatest endeavor to di....

Dracula Christ? Bram Stokers Dracula as an Attack on Christian Tradition and Victorian Ideals
'The blood is the life! Is this a paraphrase of Jesus preaching at the Last Supper, or is this an exclamation made by one of Draculas disciples? The Messiah, Savior to all humanity, once taught his favorite twelve to drink his consecrated blood as one of the necessary steps to the attainment ....

Existential Human Existence
Kierkegaard, Jaspers, Heidegger and Sartre. These writers have widely differing outlooks, although they share certain general themes which have come to form the philosophical attitude known as existentialism. Since existentialism is a tendency or attitude, rather than a philosophical school, few doc....

French Revolution
In the years 1789 -1799 one-million-four-hundred men perished in the French Revolution. The fundamental of this conflict was between the French people and the king of France. The French Revolution lasted for ten years and had one of the highest blood shed and death toll seen in the 18th century and ....

Hamlet - In depth analysis
Hamlet Brief Intro To Tragedy Tragedy: · Is the account of a human conflict ending in defeat or suffering. · The main elements of tragedy are seriousness, magnitude, unity, conflict and suffering. · Seriousness- examination of life, especially the causes of human failure and unhappiness. ....

Influence of Violence in Media
Influence of Violence in Media Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine say, Brain scans of kids who played a violent video game showed an increase in emotional arousal and a corresponding decrease of activity in brain areas involved in self-control, inhibition and attentio....

Memory in Romanticism: mnemosyne, plasticity,
Memories do not comply with the dictums of time's arrow. Those among us who have experienced apparently unrelated flashes of recollections passing through our minds will surely vouch for that, and it is often said that people on the verge of death witness packets of memory from their early childhood....

Oedipus
When the play opens, the city of Thebes is wasting away under a plague that leaves its fields and women barren. Oedipus, the king of Thebes, has sent his brother-in-law, Creon, to ask the house of Apollo to ask the oracle how to put an end to the plague. Creon returns, bearing good news: once the ki....

Shiism , Khomeini and Iranian Revolution
Shiism , Khomeini and Iranian Revolution In February 1979 the Pahlavi monarchy finally collapsed after a year of mass demonstrations, strikes and confrontation. This cataclysmic event resulted in the deaths of thousands by execution and in the ensuing war with Iraq while at the same time fo....

The wife of Martin Guerre-Bertrande
Bertrande, just like all characters in The Wife of Martin Guerre, is motivated by self interest. Her devotion and faith in the ecclesiastic, social and legal systems of her time cemented within her mind a solid and immovable set of moral guidelines, and it is these morals which led to her emotio....

truth is only the truth; I cannot change, if I would.
Is it selfish of Bertrande to choose the truth and honor over happiness, comfort and the needs of others? Although it may be appear that Bertrande was selfish to consider her own feelings, such as truth and honor over the happiness, comfort and the needs of others, one must look to Bertrande's ba....

Wife Of Martin Guerre
Q2. Madame, I would have you still be deceived. We were all happy then, says the housekeeper. Why does Bertrande not take her advice? Perhaps one of the most controversial issues presented in the novella, The Wife Of Martin Guerre, would be the question of morality; and the ambiguity bet....

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