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Medieval monastic communities are partially the reason that many ancient texts are still around to this day. The monastic communities considered their work life to be a part of their prayer life. Monasteries often housed a scriptorium where texts were either copied or created. These scriptoria led to several famous texts being written such as The Rule of Saint Benedict and Beowulf. Though monastic communities were important in maintaining literature, several works were written outside of the…

Hamlet’s Character as a Tragic Hero Tragedy is one of the major and one of the most popular genres of theatre. It was basically popularized by the greatest playwright of all ages, William Shakespeare. Tragedies are a kind of plays based on human sufferings and audience feel pity for the characters as the play goes on. The protagonist of a tragedy or a revenge tragedy is a noble person, often called as ‘tragic hero’. Basically a tragic hero is someone who suffers a lot of mental and physical…

Introduction to the Iliad, the Odyssey and the Aeneid It is suggested that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed as an oral composition perhaps in the late eighth century BC (Kirk 1) whereas the Aeneid, a literary composition, was perhaps composed in the last half of the first century BC (Quinn 2). Despite the many centuries between them, the epics are built around the story of the Trojan War fought around 1200 BC. The Iliad focuses on a short period in the penultimate year of the war whereas…

In many places in his Inferno, the reason for Dante the poet’s placement of certain souls is murky at best. Nowhere is this problem so compounded as in Canto IV, where Dante the pilgrim meets the souls in Limbo. Dante the poet’s choice of whom to include among the “virtuous pagans” seems inconsistent and his removal of the pre-Christian monotheists from Limbo leaves questions about what it means, in his mind, to believe in God and to live a righteous life by His laws and the rules of the church,…

The divine comedy as a product of medieval literature, it has strong theology and is religious. In a sense, the divine comedy is a symbolic story. The author Dante experienced Hell, Purgatory, and finally Heaven, to meet God. “Before me there was nothing created except the eternal ones, and I endure eternally. Abandon all hope, you who enter (C3, 7-9).” Dante read the lettering at the gates of hell. Inside the Inferno, Dante wrote every sin down, including gluttony, lust, violence, heresy,…

“A real musical culture should not be a museum culture based on music of past ages... It should be the active embodiment in sound of the life of a community- of the everyday demands of people’s work and play and of their deepest spiritual needs.” (Wilfred Mellers, pg. 54). Music is always changing and adapting based on how people feel and what people like. Some people prefer to listen to choral works, while others are more interesting in instrumental music. Throughout history we have been able…

Ethical issues, which, according to BusinessDictionary.com, "a problem or situation that requires a person or organization to choose between alternatives that must be evaluated as right (ethical) or wrong (unethical)," are seen in many works of literature. For example, in Louisa May Alcott 's Little Women, the main character, Jo, struggles with not knowing whether or not she wants to marry her best friend because she wants to focus on her future. Another example is from Victor Hugo 's Les…

The recitative is a surviving technique that musicians continue to practice, even in the twenty-first century. Its pairing with arias has also made it a popular technique in vocal and instrumental compositions. The recitative is found in various genres of music, bringing to light the text of a piece. There are several different forms of recitative such as recitativo accompognato, recitativo secco, recitativo and recitative semplice. These forms of recitative follow the same suit, but vary from…

How did advances in technology and the development of the market contribute to new varieties of youth culture? Affluence combined with other crucial demographic, technological, ideological and institutional factors led to new varieties of youth culture. The youth of the 1960s were generally conformist and apolitical. Young people were at a stage in their life where they were most motivated to construct identities, to forge new social groupings and to negotiate alternatives. They had chosen…