Excellency

Dryden states that he was drawn to the story of Cleopatra and Anthony for the “excellency of the moral” (1). He argues that the couple knowingly committed “crimes of love”, and he argues that they should be pitied. In this way Antony appears rather ordinary, as he has fallen victim to a common ailment like love, and this has ruined him…

Thousands of years ago, Greek Mythology rose to the surface and enchanted the feeble minds of mortals. Stories of Gods among men swept throughout Ancient Greece, telling of Olympians atop Mount Olympus. Wildly far-fetched in today’s world, these stories gave meaning to the seemingly inexplicable questions and occurrences of life (“Greek”). The purpose myths served in Ancient Greece differs tremendously from todays. If they no longer fulfill the need for explanation, why are they still pertinent…

When someone has murdered their best friend in cold blood, sometimes justifying it is easy. In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare this is exactly what happens. In the story there is the noble man Brutus and his friends, one of whom is in place to receive the Roman crown, Julius Caesar. Brutus and the others feared that Caesar was going to become tyrannical when given power and would forsake them. After a while Brutus and his friends stabbed Caesar to death upon the Court House steps.…

confirm his confession but she lies in for his sake and tells them that he had never committed the such an act, Hale is the only one of the official court who knows for sure what the Salem witch trials are really about. He quickly informs Danforth, “Excellency, it is a natural lie; I beg you, stop now before another is condemned… From the beginning this man has struck me true”(114). After handing over so many people who did not seem evil at all into the to the hands of death, he does not wish…

faking and lying about them practicing witchcraft. Mary Warren openly says, “It were pretense sir.” (page 89). This is in response to the question of why she cried for help when people supposedly sent their spirit out against her. Proctor says “Excellency, you surely cannot think to let so vile a lie be spread in open court!” (page 89). This would be an example of the characters openly disagreeing with each other in the court. While one side of the story, Mary Warren’s says one thing Proctor’s…

philosophers would not be able to see on their own. Boyle states, "so although bare reason well improved will suffice to make a man behold many glorious attributes in the Deity... when assisted by revelation, may enable a man to discover far more excellencies in God, and perceive them far greater and more distinctly than he contemplated before." I think that Boyle is saying that even though we are able to discover things on our own, we can discover so much more with God guiding us. He will…

In a classic segment of Sesame Street, Big Bird sings “One of these things is not like the others” when referring to the largest of four bowls of bird seeds. The children must identify which item does not belong, and why. This task proves very easy, demonstrating that humans can easily single out an anomaly from a pattern. This theme corresponds with William Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night, a romantic comedy with an outcast. The main characters, Orsino, Olivia, and Viola, entangle themselves in…

The play takes place in a small town called Salem in the state of Massachusetts. The time period where the play takes place is around 1692. This small town filled with different types of people but they all have one thing in common and it is their religion. Everyone in Salem is very religious. They all are Christians. The town is so small that everyone knows each other very well. In this time era children were not allowed to have fun. It was considered against the ways of the church. Therefore…

In this paper I will examine the two short stories ‘A Diary Of a Madman’ by Nikolai Gogol and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ tells the story of an unnamed married woman who--according to the narration-- suffers from a ‘temporary nervous depression’ and as the story progresses she gradually loses her sense of self and reality. The story of Ivanovich Poprishchin in ‘A Diary of a Madman’ progresses in a similar manner, as the anxious and socially…

This book “Aren’t I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South” by Deborah Gray White was a great book. Deborah Gray White talks about the struggles the African black slaves had to suffer. The great thing about this book is not only the excellency of Deborah Gray White report and vivid imagery as she for tell the struggle that these black women slaves had to face, but I firmly believe that she can do these women justice because she herself is a black women who will not be biases toward the…