Honour

catalyst; they challenge the perspective of individuals and culminate in the enrichment of one’s intellectual understanding of the world. This has been effectively portrayed thoroughly in the Shakespearean tragedy of King Lear and the 1994 movie, With Honours through the characters of Lear and Monty with the use of stylistic features. Although the characters are from diverging eras,…

My project aims to establish a sort of twinning between Italian schools (where Italian students are often obliged to study English having as teachers Italians, who have learned English as second language, attending Italian Universities, without improve their own knowledge in England) and English schools (ESOL for foreign people) in Sunderland where these students will be able to improve their understanding and their speaking English. In fact, in my personal experience, Italian students, after…

requests the aid of Clotaldo to help avenge her honour. Clotaldo, showing consternation at her male disguise, quickly has her back in female garb lest "Astolfo might see you as you were, and deem you wanton" (251). When Clotaldo demurs about killing Astolfo to exact revenge, Rosaura insists she will do it herself though it is "madness" and "self -destruction" (ref), then, when we next see her, she is asking Segismundo for help in restoring her honour. It appears that Calderon was not overly…

There seemed to be a general opinion among the Khasis that the traditional matrilineal clan system with avunculate leadership as the core of customs and tradition in the Khasi society had undergone drastic changes today. According to A. Mawlong (1998: 82-92), Christian teaching about the sanctity of marriage and conjugal life has indirectly resulted in greater importance given to nuclear families consisting of husband, wife and children. Mawlong was of the view that with conversion to…

towards Caesar after his return to Rome. At this point, he is loyal to Rome so he opposes Caesar and plans to harm him. When Cassius is first trying to sway Brutus into joining the conspiracy, Brutus says, “If it be aught toward the general good,/ Set honour in one eye and death i’ the other” (1.2.85-86). This demonstrates how Brutus does anything, including suffer death, and oppose Caesar being crowned for the greater good of Rome. Their senses of loyalty also influence how they speak about and…

the danger! Think what Creon will do!"(Sophocles, Antigone 14), Ismene is dismissing Antigone 's idea of burying their brother for fear of the punishment that would follow. She refused to disobey the law, despite this being her family and bringing honour to her brother. She believed that she was not allowed to stand against the law, "We are only women, We cannot fight with men, Antigone!" (Sophocles, Antigone 46). She had been taught that women were not allowed to have an opinion or go against…

come to a conclusion if Sir Gawain has been represented as an ideal knight in the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. During the Middle Ages and in many Arthurian romances written afterwards, knights were expected to uphold a code of honour known as the ‘Code of Chivalry’. Chivalry served as an epitome of character ideals in knighthood and was defined as an exclusive code of ideas and behavior during Sir…

Honour is arguably one of the most important themes in many of the readings done this year, and Shakespeare’s stunning piece of work, Julius Caesar is no exception. Brutus is at war with himself; trying to decide whether to stand firm beside his friend, or to kill Caesar for the betterment of Rome; while Brutus isn’t looking to be honoured for himself, and only towards the common good of Rome, he believes the people will still think him honourable for ridding the city of a potential tyrant. The…

They came together and competed against each other in different sporting events battling it off for the first place honour. “The games bring us together and create peace and understanding among us” said the orator (speaker) Lysias in 388 BC The Greeks invented an athletic contest and held them in honour of their gods. There were many different Greek festivals such as The Isthmos games that were staged every two years at the Isthmos of Corinth. The Pythian Games…

would be from women wanting to marry on her own. In the year 2011, it was reported that 605 honor killings were women and 115 were men, therefore in total there was 720 honour killings in Pakistan. From 1998 to 2004 in Pakistan, there were 2,700 women victims of the honour killings and only 1,700 were men. Women who are killed in honour killings will be reported of dying from suicide or accidents. This is a very difficult law to change, since it has been around for so long. I think if the United…