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    Nature’s Morality Embedded In Romanticism Since the beginning of creation man has always strived to learn more about himself and the world around him. One of the most prominent ways that man can connect with their inner self and find peace with the world around them, is to write and read different types of poetry. Starting from the streets of Athens with the philosophical and artistic minds of the Greeks, poetry quickly moved East, hastily engulfing the entire globe because of it’s ability to…

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    Green Light Iris Murdoch portrays various themes of good triumphing over evil while using a strong reference to the poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. To understand Murdoch’s version, you must know the original. Milada Frankova classifies the original poem as “an Arthurian romance which combines elements of French and Anglo-Norman romances with older Celtic sources”. Sir Gawain’s main focus that ties it to The Green Knight is the Beheading Game. The essence of the beheading game came from a…

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    FADE IN: INT. TRAIN - DAY Cliff is sitting on the train looking out the window at the Louisiana landscape. A dirty man sitting next to CLIFF is pulling his feet to his face so he can bite off his toenails. Cliff pulls out his wallet and stares at an old picture of MARIA, STAG and himself. They are all making goofy faces at the camera. DIRTY MAN Who’s that? CLIFF Just some friends. Old friends. DIRTY MAN She looks like she smells nice. CLIFF Uh, yeah... she does. DIRTY MAN Can I have it?…

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    Human Interaction “Class, Class please quiet down, today we have a visitor. I have studied this young man for most of my life. The year I graduated with my doctorate was the same year this man was put into Alburque Asylum for his mental state. This man has Dissociative Identity Disorder, something you all might recognize as Multiple Personality. DID is when a person obtains two or more personality states in their mind. In 1916, he was placed in this asylum as his mother felt there was something…

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    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Oscar Wilde When people put on masks they are putting on something that covers their real personality and their real self. They put on this mask though to make a new person so they aren’t who they actually are. If anyone else asks something about them, they might lie and make something up about the person they want to be. This is what Oscar Wilde is saying. When someone is there self, they…

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    During the sixteen hundreds in a Puritan society, the way you live is judged upon how well you apply the Puritan Gospel in your life. In the books The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller we were taken on a journey to see the lifestyle of a Puritan community. In The Scarlet Letter we followed a woman named Hester Prynne who committed adultery and was faced with many trials and tribulations because of her act of sin. In The Crucible we read about a group of…

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    Written at the peak of the Cold War, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible reveals the haunting truth about issues occurring in society in the 1950s. Published in 1952, Miller’s play hit the stage in 1953 with mixed reviews and little success. After the Cold War, when not many Americans feared the possibility of Russia taking over the United States anymore, The Crucible rose on the charts and became a movie in 1996, winning a Tony Award in the process. In his work, Miller, a critic of communism,…

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    What happens when a person is not satisfied with what they have? What is a person willing to do in order to receive wealth and fortune? Is it worth dropping all morals and ethics? This virus that affects and harms many is otherwise known as greed. Greed is defined as an intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food. Examples of this can even be found in today's society. One example is a person taking all the cookies in his house for himself, even though he knew…

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    “Carrying the woman, he walked among these sinners, the obese and the vain, the intolerant and the selfish, the liars and thieves, the wasteful and the avaricious. And wasn’t he the greatest sinner? Wasn’t he more dangerous to the people who loved him than any terrorist could ever be?”(Alexie 95). Sherman Alexie uses many references to spirituality and religion throughout his Ten Little Indians novel, whether implied or directly. Alexie uses these references to make his reader think about…

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    In this essay I will discuss how the power of drama and theatre affected the Renaissance. I intend to go through the changes of the theatre at this time, and how these changes came about. I will examine whether the power structure shifted during the Renaissance and I question as to who held the power to make changes in theatre. I will use the examples of Sir Thomas More and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe to illustrate the changes that occurred in theatre during the Renaissance period.…

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