Abigail Williams

My exposure to Shakespeare’s works has been to the extent of school mandated assigned readings, such as Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar. Consequently, I am not familiar with his other works. While watching As You Like It, I found myself expecting tragedy instead of humor and was pleasantly surprised when presented with the latter. My experience had been a thoroughly enjoyable one as I was able to see Shakespeare’s play as he had originally intended, a story told through acting rather than…

Similar to Jack, Roger also changes from a somewhat civilized to a bloodthirsty boy, arguably even worse than Jack. Unlike Jack, he has no intentions of actually being a leader, he simply enjoys hurting people. Roger can be compared to some of the most evil and terrifying people that ever walked on this earth. Even though he is only a child, he is the beginning of something evil, an evil that this world has not seen since Vlad Dracula was alive. Vlad just like Roger was living in an uncivilized…

The short story “A Rose For Emily” was written by William Faulkner in 1930. Fifty-three years later, a movie adaptation was created based on Faulkner’s short story. The short story and the film both tell the story of Emily Grierson, but they are limited to what their mediums allow. This limitation inhibits the movie and the short story to be completely the same. The symbolism within “A Rose for Emily” and the plot remain alike; whereas, the chronological order and the mood are dissimilar between…

Traditional southern gothic writing uses grotesque and disturbing events to create a specific tone and atmosphere within the writing. “A Rose for Emily” is a short story written by William Faulkner. Faulkner’s story is told by an entire community within a town and narrates the development of a mentally-ill woman named Emily Grierson. The reader is shown the downfall of this woman and eventually the dark secrets that she bears inside the house that her father left her after his death. This…

He explains that happiness is active, meaning that we take an active role in our happiness. We have to be involved in life, we just do not sit around waiting for life to happen but participate in life, which helps bring about happiness. Robin Williams appeared to be taking an active role in his life. He was a big movie star, comedian, husband and father. He presented to the world as happy but something was missing. Aristotle’s primary focus of happiness was virtue. Virtue for Aristotle is broken…

Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) is the largest Opera Company in New England, founded in 1976. It is a nonprofit organization that relies on extensive donations from many supporters to produce and perform a great deal of programs on the stage and community (Boston Lyric Opera, n.d.). Its partners are divided into two parts, one is public support and another is organizations and institutions. The mission of Boston Lyric Opera is to produce excellent productions, inspire audiences to appreciate opera, and…

There’s No Dichotomy Between Hester and A Farce In D.H. Lawrence’s, “On The Scarlet Letter,” it is made clear that he does not praise the character Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter.” To Lawrence, the portrayal of Hester Prynne is a mockery. Lawrence employs a sarcastic tone, repetition, and precise allusion to critique Nathaniel Hawthorne’s vision of Hester Prynne. This method is effective because it allows the reader to focus on Hester Prynne’s sin itself rather than…

In Cicero’s “On Friendship”, Cicero first explains how he heard the speech that Laelius gave. He then celebrates the friendship he had with Atticus and records the dialogue between Laelius and other characters as a representation of the friendship he had with Atticus. Through reading the dialogue the reader can determine that Laelius truly loved his friend. Furthermore, this dialogue displays the way the Romans viewed and defined friendship while also displaying the value in having a good friend…

Rationale A Poor man’s Happiness Sadness has no end Happiness does Happiness is like a feather, That the wind is blowing through the air, Fly so light. But he has a brief life. Needs wind to go on and on. The poor man's happiness seems The Great Illusion of Carnaval He waits all year For a moment of dream To make the fantasy King or God But will end on Wednesday. He dreams of what he wants to be, Because he has only one life He thinks There is only one chance To do what he wants. Golden…

The Clerk’s Tale is Chaucer’s exaggerated version of Petrarch’s or based his on the original by Boccaccio. It exaggerates that of an abusive relationship in marriage during the medieval times. There is a tyrant and a victim and Chaucer does everything he can to distinguish between the two and get the readers to …. Chaucer’s Clerk made terrorising an explicit motive for Walter’s tests, he also makes the torment the explicit effect experienced by Griselda. Chaucer has Griselda describe Walter’s…