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    T. S. Eliot Influences

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    separate eras. The first, early era would contain the poems “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and “Gerontion” (Ackroyd 705). “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was first published in 1915 (collected in “Collected Poems”, 1909-1962). This was one of Eliot’s most interesting but challenging poems to comprehend (706). Eliot dedicated “Prufrock” to his close friend and neighbor from his lodgings Jean Verdenal. He decided to dedicate this poem to him after he was killed in the first World War…

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    “Hamlet’s madness, whether genuine or not, adds to the fascination of his character for the audience.” Discuss this statement, supporting your answer with suitable reference to the play, Hamlet. The more I explore Shakespeare’s work, the more I am convinced that he had more wisdom in 1616 than we have managed to accumulate since. The lesson I derive from Shakespeare’s exploration of madness in Hamlet is that sometimes one just has to fight fire with fire. It is how Hamlet’s (probably)…

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    The famous Shakespearean tragedy King Lear depicts King Lear of Britain’s rollercoaster path from foolishness to wisdom and his eventual tragic downfall. Lear divides his kingdom amongst his three daughters: Cordelia who is banished for not correctly expressing her love for the King, and Goneril and Regan who turn against him in order to gain more power. Likewise, Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres tells a tale molded around King Lear where the owner of a 1000-acre farm named Larry agrees to hand it…

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    Throughout time, there has been many tragedies caused by romance. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a great example of romantic tragedy. In the play, Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, two feuding families cause tragic results for their children, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The events contrast hatred and revenge with love and a secret marriage, forcing the young lovers to die tragically in despair. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet can be blamed upon Friar Lawrence, the…

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    Romeo and Juliet is a play written by Shakespeare that was about two young people falling into an unbreakable love. Were Romeo and Juliet really in love with each other? Romeo and Juliet could not have been in love, they were both young, barely knew each other, and they were willing to die because they thought that was the only way they could be together. Juliet was only 14 years old when she decided to marry Romeo. Her father Capulet said, “My child is yet a stranger in the world. She hath not…

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    The term “honour” is defined as “high respect, esteem or reverence, accorded to exalted worth or rank” (Green lecture). The concept of honour plays a very important role in the William Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado About Nothing. As the play progresses, one begins to discover that the concept of honour and how one goes about defending one’s honour differs substantially between genders and thus, honour is “gendered” (Green lecture). Therefore, through analysis of the play, this essay will discuss…

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    Karnad’s The Dreams of Tipu Sultan, the first focus is the structure in dramatic sense. Dramatic structure is a basic form in which a presentation is setup. It includes elements like theme, action, character. Basically, it is the way that the playwright sets up the actions of the piece of theatre. In this play, the dramatist uses dreams, historical events, memories, diary, motifs and the division of play in to two acts without scene division. In addition, the first focus is on the dreams which…

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    Macbeth Guilt Analysis

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    One of the great artists of all time, William Shakespeare, had a famous saying, “A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man thinks himself to be the fool.” As cliché as this sounds, William Shakespeare consistently wrote about topics that he was not very familiar with himself, and therefore whenever he wrote on these subjects the reader can always tell that Shakespeare tries to be as vague as possible while still getting his point across. In the book Macbeth, there are many sciences,…

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    witches one with the initial prophecy with each of the three witches say, “First Witch: All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!/ Second Witch: All hail, Macbeth, Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!/ Third Witch: All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!” (Shakespeare I.iii.51-53). While the second time occured after Macbeth becomes paranoid about being dethroned, he seeks the knowledge of the witches which they say, “First Witch: The power of man, for none of woman born/ Shall harm…

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    The article “The Character of the British Columbia Frontier” by Barry M. Gough discusses the forces and institutions that influenced British Columbia to change from Ingenious land to a fur trade territory and then to a colony. Additionally, the character of the British Columbia Frontier was influenced by an imperial tide from 1846-1871 that caused a change in the character of human occupation and it brought new political and social institutions whose legacies can still be seen in present…

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