Mark Bowden

Her name is dripped with legend, power and seduction. She became the last in a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy and would use her powers of beauty and charm to seduce military leaders. Cleopatra, is quite known in popular culture as this divining figure, using her brains and beauty to rule in her way, portrayed by beauty icons in films and plays such as Elizabeth Taylor and Claudette Colbert. Everyone knows her legend but very few actually understand her true importance as a…

Roman Empire unique because of several reasons. First roman empire had most powerful and organized the military system. The large standing army was concentrated on the frontier and defended the interior of the empire against foreign invasions. The Roman imperial administration attempted to make the Roman armies as productive as possible. Someone who had joined the army had decided upon his life’s work since the standard enlistment was twenty-five years. Romans believed that the that wanted to…

Caesar was stabbed 23 times. The date of his death, March 15th, is also called the Ides of March. His murder made many people angry, as influnced my Mark Antony’s famous speech. In the beginning of the play, a soothsayer says, “Beware the Ides of March!” He changed the calendar to the currently used Julian Calendar with 365 days and a leap…

Musical Theatre – Little Shop of Horrors Seymour is a nerdy man who works as an assistant in a florist where he discovers a plant (Audrey II) which he named after a girl he likes who works at the flower shop also (Audrey). The plant feeds on blood and human flesh. Audrey is a young girl who is going out with a dentist (Orin) who eventually gets feed to Audrey II. The flower shop owner witnesses this (Mushnik) and so Seymour has to feed him to Audrey II as well. This makes the plant bigger,…

Within the play Julius Caesar, as an audience, we are asked to question every character’s virtue. As the play progresses these lines between good and bad men become increasingly blurred, making it harder for the audience to distinguish the wrong from the right. Ultimately it would appear that every character is filled with both evil and good and it seems as though throughout this play Shakespeare is trying to highlight the unrealism attached to such simplistic ideas. Within Medieval England…

Throughout the span of history, the words honor and honorable are often used to describe a person’s superior standing and their chivalrous deeds. As honor is such a fundamental characteristic of a man’s vigorous identity, men would make an excessive effort to prevent their loss of honor. In both modern and traditional literature, honor is used as a theme to capture the integrity shown by these people. British anthropologist Julian Pitt-Rivers once describe honor in his book Honour and Shame as…

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar displays the significant actions leading to Caesar’s fall and the conspirators’ fall as well. Brutus had honorable intentions, wanting to save Rome and fellow citizens, while the other conspirators only wanted more power, and in the end both reasons for the assassination were for naught. Rome was filled with anger and the blood of “honorable” men. All conspirators but Cassius and Brutus are slain by the common people. In the end, as in most Shakespearean tragedies,…

The story “The jumping Frog of Calaveras County is somewhat different from the play form presented to us at ISU. One way they are similar is that they both had the story about Jim Smiley and his jumping frog. Although, the story form went into greater detail with Andrew Jackson and the racing horse, they both had the main idea. One way they differ from each other is that the play form did not start with the narrator wanting to gain knowledge of Leo Smiley. The story form did start with it. The…

Ernest Hemingway once declared "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called 'Huckleberry Finn.'... It's the best book we've had.”(Nix) Samuel Clemens is an author better know by his pen name Mark Twain. He is an American literary icon, who was a great author and humorist. In the late 19th century Mark Twain wrote the classic novel and masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain revolutionized literature with his use of humor and his portrayal of…

Moreover, right after this he continues with consistent repetition of facts Caesar has done for the beloved Rome. Making his way into Logos. Antony uses facts, precedents, and logical reasoning. Line 92-96, “You all did see that on the Lupercal/I thrice presented him a kingly crown,/Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?/Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;/ And sure he is an honorable man.”. What Antony is doing is basically stating out a faulty syllogism: ex; Major Premise: If Brutus is…