Madam

especially puzzles. My personality and worldview fit into the category of shy and hardworking. Instead of back mouthing or talking back to higher authority, I tend to treat them with great respect. When I address or talk to others, I tend to call them Madam or Sir. This not only shows that I have courtesy to others, but I also take my behavior seriously. Also, I fit into the world by being an independent individual that is very serious about the work that results, thus being a very focus minded…

Restoration plays, specifically comedies, show marriage not only in a negative light but also as a flawed institution. With few exceptions, most couples in the comedies either fall apart or, if they are not yet official, their promise to marry is broken. As Hume states in his essay “Marital discord in English Comedy,” Restoration Comedies were not hostile to marriage but “[they] increasingly exhibit an awareness of the drawbacks and possible pitfalls of matrimony,” and so these plays focus on…

The eighteenth century, Rococo era, was a light-hearted time being pre-revolutionary. This was a period the postmodern world would attempt to emulate. Rococo was a time of, intellectual, social, and political achievements. Not until the eighteenth century did many of the plans and ideas of the last one-hundred years were finally undertaken. Mathematics and the sciences were being accepted and embraced. They were changing the way that society thought and acted. Democracy began to seed in the…

herself in the servant’s rooms and the servant found herself in the princess’s room. It worked! The witches potion had really worked! They both quickly realized this and ran to find each other. When the girls found each other, the servant screamed, “Uh, madam, I really think you should look in the…

The book Jesse Owens: An American Life encompasses the true meaning of persevering and prevailing in the face of adversity, oppression, and misfortune. The story of Jesse Owens and his climb to becoming arguably one of the greatest athletes and Olympians of all time invokes feelings of disgust caused by how humans can treat another, yet feelings of triumph caused by the incredible nature of the human spirit and the will to overcome circumstances. William Baker captures the rich history behind…

Art can inspire one to look beyond the bleakness of his or her environment and aspire for more. Richard Wright, born in 1908, spent his formative years in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee; unfortunately, all three states were notorious for their observance of the racially discriminatory Jim Crow laws. Biracial author Thomas Chatterton Williams was raised in the suburbs of Westfield, New Jersey, where he discovered Hip-Hop culture and nearly allowed its negative influences to deter him from…

Shakespeare establishes an outsider in several of his plays, and whether certain groups are considered to be “in” or “out”. The displays this theme by Othello being a general of color living in Venice that has to balance out being a moor and a Venetian. Othello shows various times in the play signs of difficulties that he has while he tries to balance those two things out. He is put into situations that call out characteristics from both personas that affect the way he communicates with various…

Susan Griffin wrote: “He says that women speak with nature. That wind blows in her ears and trees whisper to her” (14). While the sentiment is beautiful, the dichotomous thinking in patriarchal society that sets up binary separations of male/female and culture/nature along with assumption that women are inherently closer to nature informs these lines, and as Griffin says, this “notion is not intended as a compliment” because “the idea … is an argument for the dominion of men” (Griffin 10). This…

Another delicate nuance that I would like to consider about her marriage. In order to remarry she should probably discuss it with her only son, who by the way was the prince and could have his father’s throne. Neither the movie nor the text do not speak about it, but if we try to picture the possibility that they might have discussed her marriage, Hamlet definitely would oppose to her marriage plan, which after all Gertrude ignored, or perhaps she did not discuss it with Hamlet which she had…

In the Oxford dictionary, feminism is defined as the advocacy of women 's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes; therefore a feminist would be defined as a person who is in support of feminism. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”(Austen 2) This is the opening statement Austin uses at the beginning of the book, which defines the plot of the book, the belief that any single man who posses some form of…