Gertrude Stein

Mordred is a character in the Arthurian legend, he was King Arthur’s nephew, the son of Arthur’s sister Anna, and was born through accidental incest. King Arthur slept with his half sister Morgause and from that Mordred was born. Merlin, the wizard, predicts that Mordred will later ruin Arthur and his power and suggest that he put him out to sea. King Arthur, in an effort to kill Mordred, shipped him off on a boat that later crashed leaving Mordred alive. He was then found by a fisherman and…

The soliloquy in Act 4 scene 4 is one of the most important soliloquies because he brings up and addresses multiple themes within it. Shakespeare does a great job of utilizing the soliloquies to help improve the meaning of the play. Within the soliloquies he uses an abundance of literary techniques to help enhance the meaning of play through these soliloquies. The soliloquy in Act 4 scene 4 uses techniques like irony to help the reader understand what Hamlet is going through his head. He uses…

In this passage from Sophocles’s play Antigone, the chorus praises all of man’s accomplishments. Because they held off the army and the atmosphere is celebratory. Before the choral ode 1 Antigone tries to convince Ismene to help her bury Polynicies because it’s the right thing to do. Ismene declines her request and makes Anitgone do it on her own. Through imagery and credibility, the Theban elders express their pride in mankind to the audience. First the chorus uses imagery while telling the…

Shakespeare and Inarritu explore the idea that human life and suffering is ultimately meaningless in the play King Lear, and the film Birdman, through the idea that the inevitability of death makes life meaningless. Using a solemn tone, both Shakespeare and Inarritu have indicated that their plot’s possess tragedies, and suffering. Where Inarritu has used a modern American setting to show how human life is ultimately meaningless, Shakespeare has used England in the 700th BC, while they are in…

A defense mechanism in which a sexual or aggressive impulse is shifted to a more acceptable object. Donkey was upset that Shrek was always nice and friendly with Puss In Boots. Yet he was always mean and rude to donkey. Instead of dealing and talking about it to Shrek, Donkey takes his aggression out toward Puss in boots. He hates him and does not trust him. It is defined as a negative out look on life. Shrek throughout the movie shows a negative outlook towards life. He is always mean to…

In “Monet Refuses the Operation,” by Lisel Muller, the author is writing about a man named Claude Monet, an elderly man who has developed cataracts in his eyes. Monet’s doctor is telling him that he should get them surgically removed, but Monet refuses and starts telling the young doctor why. Monet explains to the doctor that removing the cataracts would “restore my youthful errors” and he would again see the world as “fixed notions of top and bottom” Monet wants to continue seeing the world…

he will miss his father, and will never meet anyone quite like his father again. This explains why Hamlet was so sad upon his father’s death, and shows the reasoning behind his revenge. Hamlet also demonstrates his loyalty when he gets angry with Gertrude, his mother, for marrying Claudius so close after his father’s death. In 1.2, Hamlet says, “She married. O, most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets! It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I…

In the play Everyman, Everyman is sent on a journey to his death by God who is upset with him. God is upset with Everyman because he feels like Everyman is ungrateful for everything he has done for him. Along his journey he loses friends and he gains friends. Before Everyman went on his journey he comes to the realization that he doesn’t want to die alone so he goes to his friends for help. First, he goes to his closest friend Fellowship to ask if he will join him on his journey. But…

Hamlet Hamlet is victorious because he did what his father wanted him to do, and that was to kill Claudius. On the other hand, he was also told not to kill or hurt the queen but she dies at the end because of Claudia's poisoning the drink that was meant for Hamlet. Before all of this happened Hamlet was spoken to by his father telling him that he wants Hamlet to get revenge on his killer; Claudia’s. As Hamlet was trying to get Claudia’s to confess to the murder he needed to do something crazy.…

William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Hamlet depicts how three sons, Hamlet (the prince of Denmark), Laertes (The son of a nobleman), and Fortinbras ( The prince of Norway), handle the deaths of their fathers. They all had love and respect for their fathers and felt like it was their duty to avenge their father's death. Each character has their own form of revenge. Hamlet convinces everyone to help carry out his revenge, Laertes allows pure instinct and emotion to drive and control his revenge,…