Betrothal

“The betrothal is a done deal, Agnes. And it will be final… the day after the coronation. Do this for your family.” And on that note, Agnes’ father swept out of the room with a harsh glance at Hugh, who was seated in the corner with his snake in the pocket of…

Sir Thomas More said of King Henry VIII, “[that] [i]f a loin knew his strength, it [would be] hard for any man to hold him”.[1] This quote suggests that King Henry VIII knew exactly what it meant to be king and that nobody was going to stand in his way. This proved to be true as King Henry VIII was the most contentious king in England’s history. He is most famous for his six wives, two of whom he beheaded, and his role as instigator of the English Reformation. Through his manipulation of…

It is surprising but true that audiences or readers would have come to the play knowing the outcome of the battle yet Shakespeare tends to create dramatic suspense and tension. John Summons defines 'dramatic tension' as "how you keep an audience hooked to the story of your play. It is about creating and maintaining an audience's involvement in the 'journey of your play." The playwright achieves this by using dramatic tragedy and twists, structure of the play and the characters and their…

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.” (Marcus Tullius Cicero). Over six million lives were extinguished by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Many of these people are nameless to the masses, but are survived by those who were in close relationships with them. After the Holocaust, many attempted to find loved ones, but few had availed. With countless murdered in the tragic event, few loved ones found each other; however, those lost are remembered by those who were given new…

permit Richard to provide for her and her daughters. This was the same king who was rumored to have murdered or ordered the execution of her four sons. However, Elizabeth’s last ditch effort to establish her power in England came from the potential betrothals to her eldest daughter, Elizabeth of York. During a rebellion against Richard, led by Henry Tudor, Henry’s mother, also a former Queen of England in 1445, attempted to orchestrate a marriage between her son and Elizabeth’s daughter. When…

the cornerstone of providence’s plan for Dantès. His promotion to captain of the Pharaon made the egocentric Danglars envious, and his mission to deliver the letter will unfold God’s intention for Dantès. Following Dantès sudden arrest during his betrothal feast, Dantès ends up on trial before Monsieur de Villefort, as “ ‘the public prosecutor [was] absent’ ”; after numerous questions regarding his involvement with the Bonapartists, Villefort finally asked, “ ‘To whom is the letter addressed?’…

In William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest” is about a man plot for revenge. Prospero learns to use magic and basically controls everything through the entire play in order to obtain his goal. The play opens in the midst of a storm at sea. The king of Naples and his party were the individuals upon the ship. The ship had troubles staying intact and end up sinking leaving them to fight to survive. Little did they know that Prospero was the one who created the storm. Close by there was an island…

BOOK REVIEW J.ASWIN KUMAR E.no:U101113FBT003 Whitney, My love Judith McNaught WHITNEY, MY LOVE is a romance of misdirection that will leave any reader breathless until the final pages. The first successful novel by the Author Judith M’Naught in 1985.Being unaware of the rules that most of the romance books followed she had her unique way of introducing the…

In Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, a young sailor by the name of Edmond Dantés is wrongly accused of being a Bonapartist and is thrown in jail where he discovers the truth of his enslavement and concocts a plan for revenge. The choices that Edmond Dantés makes drastically twists his once ordinary life into a whirlwind of secrecy, such as deciding to take a letter to Napoleon, from there delivering a message from Napoleon to one of Napoleon’s allies. Once imprisoned, Danéts meets a…

Redemption is the act of being saved or saving another person from some sort of peril or a difficult situation. In The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Edmond Dantes experiences a need for redemption early in his life and then satisfies that need when he seeks revenge. Guy Montag is redeemed in Fahrenheit 451 when he is saved from brainwashing by the government by seeing through their deception. In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Henry Jekyll has a need for redemption…