Lancelot

Truth ts very often stranger than fiction, and it is true but strange that my three favorite books are called “The Outsiders”. Chances are you did not escape high school without a reading of S. E Hinton’s “The Outsiders.” This bittersweet tale of borderline blue-collar youth struggling to survive in a bleak urban environment is haunting and strange. Some of the denimed protagonists are still in high school, where they fight with the upper-class “Soc” boys and reveal surprisingly sensitive…

King Arthur, a movie filmed in 2004, portrayed Roman Britain in the winter of 467 A.D. Artorius Castus, also known as Arthur, was a Roman officer who commanded a unit of Sarmatian auxiliary cavalry in Britain. These Sarmatian knights include Lancelot, Bors, Gawain, Galahad, Dagonet and Tristan. When the knights completed their years of service in the army, Bishop Germanus asked them to complete one more mission for the Romans in order to gain their freedom. During their task, Arthur and the…

Chapter 1: Hammy Runs Away It was a cold night when a small boy ran, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a map of the surrounding area. It was near midnight when the boy stopped running. He was in front of a shelter with an old Victorian appearance. He knocked on the door heaving from exhaustion, and the doors opened, revealing a kindly, old lady. “What’s your name, son?” the lady inquired, “A- Alexander, Hamilton.” the small boy wheezed in between staggered breaths. “Well come on in…

Dante Alighieri (Dante) was born in May 1265. His family had involvement in the Florentine politics. Due to his family’s political duties, Dante was able to meet and befriend many aristocrats such as Guido Cavalcanti, who is later found in Dante’s Inferno. Dante married into the Donati family, yet his true love was a woman named Bice, although he called her Beatrice. Bice, to most scholars, was the daughter of Folco Portinari, a wealthy banker at the time, and later the wife of another banker,…

How and to what extent does Shakespeare create sympathy for the character of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice? In the Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare depicts Shylock as a complicated character whom is easy detest due to his headstrong, money-hungry and vengeful nature. However, there are many instances in which sympathy for Shylock is generated, especially when he is pushed around and abused by the Christians and when he deals with losing his daughter. Shakespeare gives an insight into all…

Isaac Albéniz and Folk Music in Spain Introduction Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz is widely known as a piano guru whose music excellently portrays Spain’s spirit and culture. As a singer and a composer, he was able to meld performance and composition thus creating a fashionable music style similar to that of “Liszt” full of Spain folk idioms. His greatest inspiration was folklore, but he made a sole melodic style that stirred “Ravel” and “Debussy”. He had a great passion for national cultural…

“You mustn’t look ... for the old stable ego of character. There is another ego, according to whose action the individual is unrecognizable.” (D. H. Lawrence) How did modernism re‐conceive character? With the rise of modernism there came a huge change in the way characters were presented in works of literature. Up to this point the realist writers painted their characters in broad strokes, often using clichés and making people act in a different way to how a real person would behave…

As we have opinions that vary from person to person, the same can be said for authors. Opinions stem from experiences, external influences, and time periods that span in consistency from blatantly apparent to barely distinguishable. Different authors also varied the roles of their character according to the image they are trying to portray for said character. We can see the different roles in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by an anonymous author known as the Pearl Poet, The Wife of Bath by…

thing he ever did wrong by her was become a Jew. The use of the word rebel in this quote conveys the image of a trusted person turning on another unsuspectedly. Shylock, much like Bassanio, has lost someone who is very close to him. He lost both Lancelot and Jessica in one night, both who have been with him for a long time. Like Bassanio, Shylock turns his loss into a hatred for the one he considers responsible, which for Shylock…

please go tell Ysabel that supper is being served Manservant #1: Yes sir. [exits stage left] King Sarsaparilla: [turns to guard] So, did you hear about last night’s game? Bishop: Yeah, the Knights lost to the Monarchs 5-7. They shouldn’t have kept Lancelot. They should have replaced him with Gawain in the second quarter. King Sarsaparilla: Yeah. The Monarchs main weapon was Alexander the Great. He is really great. He’s the main weapon behind the Monarchs wins. Bishop: I think so too. [slyly]…