Heir apparent

achieve his goals of becoming a great ruler. Louis XIV was born in the Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France on September 5, 1638 to Louis III and Anne of Austria. Named Louis Dieudonne (Louis the God-Given), he gained the common title of French Heir Apparent, first in line of succession that can’t be displaced from inheriting the throne by the birth of another person ("Louis XIV") At the time of Louis’s birth, his parents had been…

Macbeth, leaving him completely unlike the man who had killed a traitor in the name of the King. After being deeply affected with his overwhelming regret time and time again, Macbeth begins to restrict his emotions. His newfound apathy is especially apparent upon receiving word of his once beloved wife’s suicide. Without much distress at the news, Macbeth simply says, “She should have died hereafter;” (V.v.17). Macbeth shrugs off the news as he feels she would 've died later anyways. This…

Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code is a world renowned novel known for its controversial depiction of the Catholic church and the use of secret societies to tell his fictitious tale of finding one of the world’s most famous artifacts. A devout Monk, Silas, of Opus Dei (a secret Catholic Society) is sent by an unknown Teacher to find the hidden location of the famous Holy Grail in Paris. After confirming the location with 3 members of the Priory of Sion (keepers of the Holy Grail), Silas shoots…

Many women in Kimani’s and Olenja’s (2001) focus groups spoke from instances that they were chased out of their husband’s houses by their in-laws when it became apparent that they were not able to conceive. Many women were even physically and emotionally abused by their own family members and neighbors. While it is not unusual in African communities for random adults to discipline other people’s children…

fear of these people weakened the trust of the people in their emperor. The people believed the emperor had lost The Mandate of Heaven. Towards the turn of the 1st century CE, Han emperors died young only to be replaced by someone young or no heir apparent. This meant a cousin or a relative had to become emperor. Cunning schemes by Eunuchs led to them taking power through political battles. During this period in time, various natural calamities took place such as floods, tremors, and…

Economic status this day in time is everything if you don’t have money, then people will judge you for it. In many cases in the department of criminal justice people are let go because their family’s wealth or their wealth and it’s not a good thing because rapists and killers are let free with a clean slate because they have money. Innocent poor people are sent to jail because there at the wrong place at the wrong time, because they have no money they cannot get a good lawyer and they have to…

Upon Julius Caesar’s funeral, in William Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, both Brutus and Antony attempted to persuade the people of Rome to believe two entirely different stories, and only one them were victorious. Both speeches were crafted with different methods of persuasion, and because of this, the people embraced their words differently. Both speakers were attempting to achieve total persuasion of the unforgiving crowds, and certain aspects of their speeches lead to either…

When Shakespeare wrote Henry IV, Part II, England faced issues of kingship, constitution, and rebellion. Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Elizabethans in the 1590s, undoubtedly had anxieties about the aging Queen Elizabeth I’s lack of an apparent heir, much like the anxieties surrounding Hal’s imminent succession to the throne. At the same time, Shakespeare presents to his audience a history play, dramatizes information, introduces fictional characters, and “mingling kings and clowns” on stage, and…

Shakespeare was aware of who was part of his audience and knowing that Queen Elizabeth was very fond of theatre he attempted to entertain her but also, belonging to the English population himself, he too feared a civil war as a consequence to her apparent lack of concern about succession. Therefore he disguised his thoughts by using his plays in order to portray hypothetical consequences. Julius Caesar for instance, is mainly centred on the repercussions of the…

Describe The Hundred Days’ Reform and analyse in detail to what extent it succeeded and what its consequences were. “The greatest dangers lie in the allowing of ignorant persons to meddle and talk and argue amongst themselves upon subjects they know not of.” This statement, published in Emperor Guangxu’s second edict during the Hundred Days’ Reform period, ironically summarises one of the major failings of the reform period. Had the Emperor not been swept along by the pace of the reform, but…