Desdemona

Blame defines when someone or something holds the responsibility of a wrong committed by another person. People assign blame to feel better about themselves and the mistake they made, using it as an excuse. As shown in the play, Romeo and Juliet, a series of faults are executed by multiple people unwilling to accept responsibility, causing a chain of events that conclude in the total death of six Capulets and Montagues. Two factors to blame for the untimely death of Romeo and Juliet are…

A) Contextualize: “The Disabled Debauchee” This passage includes the last three stanzas of the poem, where the speaker proclaims he will become “statesman-like” for libertines, encouraging them to act lewd when he can no longer perform. This passage occurs after the speaker has described libertine acts as a naval warfare through word choice and imagery. He plans to encourage others to perform debaucherous acts through the tales of his own influential sexual experiences. B) Interpret the…

One convention of melodrama is the traditional melodramatic plot, best known as the 3p’s, is the provocation, pang and penalty. This is used to convey the plot of the melodrama’s. The provocation is the initial cause for setting the action in motion, often the jealousy or greed of a wicked character. The pang is the sufferings of the good and innocent characters who are in conflict with the evil. And the penalty is suffered by the wicked character in his or her evil ways in a last-minute…

Sergius explains to Louka that he finds his romantic pretensions with Raina exhausting. Sergius’ romanticism is making him miserable. The pure and unattainable ideals he aspires to only ensure that he fails. These defeats accumulate, creating a gap between his ideas of what a romantic relationship should be and his actual actions and desires. His relationship with Raina is more akin to a performance than an actual romance. Sergius seeks to escape the pressures of his engagement with the more…

In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. They leave people with unanswered questions. The Mona Lisa is a famous painting by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor and architect Leonardo da Vinci. It as created sometime between 1503 and 1519, when he was living in Florence. ("Mona Lisa By Leonardo Da Vinci Arts." UKessay.com. 11 2013. All Answers Ltd. 01 2018) It now hangs in the Louvre, in Paris, where it remains an object of pilgrimage in the…

Sonnet 120 is a reflection of sonnets 33-35, though leaning more to Sonnet 34 because of the fact that he uses the word ‘once’ in the first phrase. Sonnet 120 is about the unfaithfulness that existed between him and an unnamed friend and how much pain it has caused them. In the first line Shakespeare inform his reader that his beloved had shown him unkindness at certain point of time. In this context, ‘unkindness’ is believed to mean unfaithfulness, meaning the youth in question committed an…

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a complex novel full of controversy, in a timeline that is both distant and relatable to the reader. In the world that is A.F. 632 life is something to indulge in, acting on one's urges is common, along with overly active sex lives, and constant drug abuse. Individuality has been lost to the past and new lower function human hybrid twins are everywhere. But in this strange world a character seems to stand out against the odds, making an identity for himself…

After Dantes’ escape from prison, Dantes has been able to manipulate Caderousse’s life. From Chapter 16 to Chapter 46, Dantes has been able to create events that build up to Caderousse’s current state. Dantes has started manipulating Caderousse’s life when he gave Caderousse a diamond while under the alias of Abbe Busoni. “This diamond was to be divided among Edmond’s friends, but he had only one friend. Take it and sell it.” (110). Knowing well about Caderousse’s character, Dantes has enabled…

Quixote, meanwhile, can be interpreted as a character that had completely been driven to madness and deception. However, his deception is different from Sancho’s in the sense that Quixote has been deceiving himself all along, whereas Sancho deceived someone else. Quixote manages to convince himself that he is a knight and a strong, powerful and formidable noble, which is considered a significant aspect of self-deception. There were in fact times that Quixote could be considered deceiving the…

Sweating, fast heartbeat, delusions, also commonly know as fear. Curiosity, the unknown, eeriness, is more known as mystery. This thesis is how Edgar Allan Poe crafts exceptional short stories with these qualities. I will be using The cask of amontillado to prove my thoughts of how suspense, mood, and mystery are created. 1 element for creating mystery is a revenge story. A second element for creating mystery is little subtle things in a story. A final element for creating mystery is long rising…