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The story “The Interlopers” written by Saki is also connected with Nietzsche’s philosophy on Apollo and Dionysus, which are central themes within his first major work, The Birth of Tragedy. I am going to argue that the Apollonian and Dionysian philosophy can describe not only humans and that someone can go from Dionysus to Apollo with just a few words. I am going to argue this despite the fact that in general this philosophy is applied on human beings, yet relating it with “The Interlopers”.…

3.2. Romeo and Juliet themselves As we all know, Shakespeare's tragedy ends with Romeo and Juliet commiting suicide. Romeo deliberately takes the poison after he thinks that Juliet is dead. After Juliet finds out that Romeo is dead, she deliberately stabs herself with a dagger. That is the reason why they are responsible for their own death, because it was their own choice and nobody told them to do that. Furthermore, their feelings are another reason for their death. Looking back at the…

Allyson Krohn Professor Scott Eng 333 02/04/2018 The Knight Vs the Pardoner The General Prologue in the Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, there is a general introduction of the characters who are going to be competing to tell the best tale of the group. There are two characters that I would like to focus on, because they are quite the opposites; The knight and the Pardoner. The knight is the vision of a chivalrous knight and the pardoner being quite the opposite is known for swindling…

1. Introduction to Tragedy in Manon “Why did he love her? Curious fool, be still! Is human love the fruit of human will?” Such a cry starts the novel Manon Lescaut. Kenneth Macmillan’s ballet Manon (1974) holds this same tragic element as its raison d’être (Haby); regardless of intention something always goes wrong. Set in the avaricious French Regency, the story of the eponymous courtesan and penniless Des Grieux details his faithful love despite her fascination with material riches. As opposed…

How Shakespeare expresses England through imagery Imagery helps to set tone and express emotional ties or discomfort to other characters or places and forces the reader to use their imagination for perspective in a literary work. Emotion and perspective guide how imagery affects us. For example, most literate people are aware of the description of heaven and hell. A sickness plaguing a community or village in an era where medicine and disinfectants were non-existent can be described as a…

Imagine what it would be like over a hundred years ago to trust someone, then to know they were secretly talking about you behind your back. Imagine that even though you've known your significant other better than anyone, you got pulled Into a trap that leaves you in disbelief that they’d even cheat on you. Imagine what would happen when you find out after they pour these infectious words into your ear and then all of a sudden your anger starts to fizz up, so you go to confront them, only to…

The Tempest Reimagined “The Tempest Reimagined” depicts two stories in two different timelines, which are acted by the same actors separately in different scenes. The stories were Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ and one depicting the struggles of the Yolanda victims in Tacloban. This would have been brilliant if they were able to pull it off. However, this may have rather caused confusion on my part, especially at some point in the play wherein these two timelines get mixed up, which may have…

The vast majority of people would vehemently insist that they could never betray a close friend—let alone kill them. Yet, in Mice of Men, George—who claims “Lennie is the one person he has in the world TBD” commits a particularly insidious act of betrayal by murdering his best friend in the name of self-preservation. This critically acclaimed novella is centered around two ranchers, George and Lennie, who are presumably the best of friends. However, it quickly becomes apparent that half of the…

Conflict between Rodolpho and Eddie: "and he takes and puts his filthy hands on her like a goddamn thief!" "He's stealing from me!" Eddie insults Rodolpho by calling him a thief and saying his hands are filthy."and he takes and puts his filthy hands on her like a goddamn thief!"This shows that Eddie does not think Rodolpho’s intentions with Catherine are right and he is jealous of their relationship. Eddie is possessive of Catherine and by calling him a thief he is implying that Catherine is…

Doctor Faustus or the original title of this play The Tragical History of Life and Death of Doctor Faustus was written by Christopher Marlowe and it is based on German stories about the title of character Faustus. The story of this play take place in Wittenberg, Germany in the 16th century. This play was first performed between years 1588 and 15963. The story of Doctor Faustus is compared to the Greek myth of Icarus, a boy who was lost in a labyrinth, and his father gives him wings made of…