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Though Queen Margaret was clearly a powerful and influential Queen, Shakespeare dismissed her political accomplishments. In Richard III, the playwright only mentions to her actual involvement in the War of Roses once, referring to when Margaret took a cloth drenched in Rutland's blood and waved it in front of Richard Plantagenet's face: “The curse my noble father laid on thee, / When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper / And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes, / And then, to…

In A Doll’s House, Krogstad was the character that was very similar to Iago as he was first viewed as the plays antagonist too. Krogstad is first introduced as a co-worker of Torvald in the plays beginning. Torvald, Nora’s husband, had just recently obtained a new position at the bank in which would allow them to live a more comfortable life. When Krogstad learns that he will be fired from the bank, he attempts to use Nora and the power of blackmail to prevent Torvald from firing him. Doing his…

A Doll’s House Essay A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, is of the best-known plays that displays modern and realistic prose drama. The play demonstrates a bold exposition of the hypocrisy and the struggle within a seemingly happy marriage. Appearances and reality, as well as betrayal and deception, are key discussions from A Doll’s House. Throughout the book, Ibsen used metaphors for crafting, plot sequences, and character blocking for emphasis of the themes. The chasm between appearances and…

This career has been a major part of my life, even when I was a small child. My father was a high school history teacher. If my father had not been in this position, I would not be who I am today. I have always had a deep love for history and art (that my father most certainly instilled in me). This has become part of who I am and shapes how I see the world. Never once do I see a classical-facade building and not identify the type of pillars out front.The emperors of ancient Rome have become a…

betrayed, indicating Littlefinger’s lack of loyalty. In contrast to Ned, Littlefinger only serves himself, so that his position on the small council and the power he wields within the realm are not jeopardised. While Cersei is loyal to her family and house, she does not fulfill her duty as a wife and Queen, nor is she loyal to her husband. Cersei’s treachery culminates in the death of Robert Baratheon “The queen would not have waited long in any case. Robert was becoming unruly, and she needed…

The Renaissance was a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, which was widely regarded as a cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern times. It started as a cultural movement in Italy, and though this cultural movement of extravagant arts and political ideals many Italian city states and merchant families began to internally compete with each other in a cyclical trend of showman ship. This showmanship was intended to project the ideas of cultural superiority upon…

ELDON THE GIANT AND BREDOCK HOLT THE GNOME lay concealed in a patch of scrub grass and stubby trees, which did little to shelter them from the elements. It was late evening and they were high on a steep hillside overlooking a bleak valley. They were both well wrapped against the biting wind and incessant driving rain, but that did little to raise their spirits. It had rained almost nonstop since their arrival in Yar-Atgur, the Gnome homelands. They had set out straight after the meeting with…

Napoleon did service for Louis xvl and he did artillery unit at Vallance. Napoleon was an influence because he was a good general for the french who took over most of Europe and others.He had 10 siblings and had a nice childhood. He had a pretty good education. He was not poor his father was lawyer and his mother was a stay at home mom. Napoleon was 4/10 children that lived he was not wealthy and attended military school and was ranked little corporal he then got invited to a royal military…

realities Every house has a front door which is the gate. Some properties may have several gates. What people don't realize is that individual lives have gates into them. Organizations, communities, villages, towns, cities and nations and there is no exception. All these have spiritual and physical gates just as your eyes are a physical gate and also a spiritual gate. Another example is that man is first and foremost a spirit being, having a physical body and living in the natural. The White…

Henry Jenkins refers to poaching as a “raid on the literary preserve that takes away only those things that seem useful or pleasurable to the reader” (Jenkins 471). Jenkins is not talking about hunting animals, but rather fans of texts or media. In other words, he is saying that fans use texts to create new meanings for themselves that they find more appealing than the original text that is the object of their fanship. Fans, instead of animals, are rather taking parts of a text for their own…