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Tristan Fryer English IV Mr. Saleeba October 4, 2017 King Arthur King Arthur was a great leader in his stories for multiple reasons. One of the greatest reasons was he led from the front. Another reason he was a great leader was that he was honorable. The last reason as to why he was a good leader was that he was imaginative. For these reasons he was a great king and a great general. King Arthur always led from the front and fought from the front. A reason as to why this made him a good…

characters, insinuating that only characters who are flawed will survive, that people must lie to survive. The character Cordelia in Shakespeare’s King Lear furthers the idea that an honest person in a prideful world will destroy their relationships, leaving them with nothing but the truths and deceptions of those around them. Cordelia is the only character in King Lear who exhibits pure honesty. Her unwavering truthful nature, however, only serves to destroy her relationship with her proud…

is convincing someone to do something without asking authority, but it also has a positive connotation with favourable characteristics to support it. Shakespeare uses these characteristics to contrast between the moral and the corrupt. However in “King Lear” there is a prominent aspect of power that corrupts the characters foreshadowing their death. Goneril and Regan are corrupted by the power given by their father Lear and their sexual desire for Edmund. Edmund is corrupted by a greed to be…

In April, 1992, Los Angeles was a powder keg. Four police officers stood accused of police brutality. A video surfaced showing them beating an unarmed black man named Rodney King. When a jury of 10 whites, one Hispanic, and one Asian decided the police had used justifiable force, (Evening Standard) a crowd of peaceful demonstrations turned violent and lay siege to the city. Those in the streets during the riots witnessed a multiethnic horde commit assault, theft, and arson. However, the millions…

Sex in a Sub Now comes sex and the burger king sub. Burger king is known for its affordable food, the big whooper, but came out with an interesting ad offensive to woman. With the 2009 new sub called the supper seven incher that grab the attention to everyone. Not only is the name of the sub sexual, but the woman with her mouth open about to take a bite of the sandwich tops it off with being offensive and degrading to all woman. This ad is clearly targeted to young males, the slogan for the sub…

The book was widely accepted and popular , because Arthur was the image of medieval king. And soon it reflected in French versions of Arthurian legends. There are a lot of manuscripts and books about Arthur, which is written in quite difficult Latin language. The book of Geoffrey is different from others because he didn’t write about love and chivalry, but Arthur’s warfare, he described the king as if people could love him , like him. Apart Arthur’s military success he imitated idea of medieval…

There were few known ruling women during the time of King Lear , one important figure being Queen Elizabeth I. “The Elizabethans had very clear expectations of men and women, and in general men were expected to be the breadwinners and women to be housewives and mothers” (3). In William Shakespeare’s play King Lear, he portrays the women to be dissimilar to how they appear in history. The daughters, Goneril and Regan, have profound amounts of power over that of their husband and seem to be the…

century the most often told stories by the people was about King Arthur and his kingdom. King Arthur was the son of King Uther Pendragon and was the only heir to his throne. Arthur is a medieval, mythological figure who was the head of the kingdom Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table. King Arthur is most famous for his leadership, his ruling, and his ruthless judgment of Lancelot who is one of his Knights and Guinevere who is his wife. King Arthur’s legendary life was not a usual life that…

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Walt Disney's The Lion King, due to The Lion King being adapted from Hamlet. Many of the similarities occurred between the storylines of the two works and the main characters within the works. However, the storyline was not exactly, mostly differing in the order in which events occurred and the development and portrayal of some of the characters. The storyline of Hamlet and The Lion King are nearly identical. Both King Hamlet and Mufasa were killed by their…

hide thy wife. This is what King Laius was thinking when he found out about the prophecy, which was that his son is going to kill him and marry is wife. “Oedipus the King,” a play by Sophocles, is a tragedy taking place at around 430 B.C.. Oedipus, the main character in this story, is the King of Thebes. When he was younger, his parents, King Laius and Jocasta, pinned his feet together (Oedipus meaning “swollen-foot”), and sent him away to his death but he was given to King Polybus in Corinth,…