Honour

I think possibly, you have this coming to you, my dad said when he went to school it was Christian based education, and everyone in his class was Christian. In my class I’m the only Christian. There is 6 Muslim girls, 4 Hindu’s, 8 Sikh 's, I could join the atheistic society, Drama society, Music society, Sikh, Hindu or Muslim society, however I can’t join a Christian union as the teacher said their isn’t a call for one, I’m calling. I think they call it positive discrimination, however all is…

were all asleep” (197) according to Kikuko. The narrator’s father was a member of the Japanese Navy in World War II. Culturally, suicide was viewed as an honourable act. Many Japanese people would rather die with honour than live with guilt and regret. Watanabe is “a man of principle and honour” (194) according to the narrator’s father. He believes this to be true due to the cultural context of the act. Watanabe would have also lived through World War II. Therefore, both Watanabe and his…

In the playwright, Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, two of the protagonists in the play take to the public to win over and manipulate the crowd while discussing the major event that had just taken place. Julius Caesar, whom the people wanted to be their king, had just been assassinated by Brutus and the other conspirators, so in a way to try and sate the crowd, Brutus and Antony both gave speeches. However, both speeches were able to influence and gain the support of the crowd in…

examined life will involve improving ones’ soul, as well as having wisdom and truth and that a life filled only with money and honour is not really a life worth anything. I feel that this text relates very heavily to his teaching on the unexamined life because those who improve their souls and have wisdom are the ones who are living the examined life whereas those with only honour and money have basically…

him. He will never compromise his principles to please someone else. This is a grand display of his similarities to Aristotle’s proud man. To continue, John Keating in the Dead Poets Society is a man who also does not aim at things commonly held in honour. Through the lessons in his class, Keating teaches his students the importance of being unique and to not fall into conformity. To get his students to understand this idea, he proclaimed “Now we all have a great need for acceptance but you must…

GREECE'S CULTURE 'The Iliad' by Homer is an ancient script written by Homer to describe the events of the Trojan War in Greece. It is very poetical in a sense and contains language which may be considered forgotten. It is centred around the protagonist, Achilles, fighting a war and it talks about the struggles of war, the main one being losing his 'war prize' in a sense, in the form of Briseis, a maiden whom he got from winning a battle and takeover. HISTORY Greece is a country owning a…

MATILDA Matthew Lewis succeeds in portraying Matilda in The Monk as the Dark Hero conventional prototype referred to as the femme fatale. The femme fatale is a hero type who uses her feminine wiles to seduce lovers, who subsequently find themselves in dangerous or difficult situations. Lewis’ creation of a masculine gothic novel contributes to the characterisation of Matilda and her fulfillment of the Dark Hero role. The masculine gothic novel provides that characters and readers witness…

In what ways did the Julio-Claudians use traditional and foreign religion as a political tool? In this essay I will investigate the ways in which the Julio-Claudian dynasty used traditional Roman religion alongside foreign cults as political tools to legitimise their imperial role by emphasising divine heritage and by providing religious cohesion by conflating traditional Roman religion with aspects of foreign cults. I will use both ancient authors and modern scholarship to analyse the ways in…

when he threatened to make it seem as if she had committed adultery with a slave (Livy 1.58). Livy describes this as a “conquest of the woman's honour,” (Livy 1.58), which implies Sextus’ lust was an act of tyranny, like Tarquin’s tyrannical greed. Lucretia then asked her husband and his companions to avenge her, and committed suicide to save her ruined honour (Livy 1.58). Among the companions was Brutus, who turned the blame on the tyrannical behaviour of Sextus and his father Tarquin, and…

Further proof of Birhtnoth’s confidence is shown through the men who follow him, they went into battle and pledged their allegiance to him. These men had enough confidence in Birhtnoth to die fighting in his honour, “They all desired either of two things, to leave life or avenge the man they loved” (194-195). Birhtnoth must have shown great confidence as a leader to have received the kind of loyalty that he did that day. The loyalty his men had for him furthermore proves why the translation…