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honourable and dishonourable violence. To quote Jessica Lugo, “Shakespeare’s Ovidian precursor delivers a tale of gore that develops the themes of barbarism and silence. In Titus, Shakespeare roots out the essence of Ovid’s characters, exposes their most primal motivations, and establishes a partnership with the long-dead poet.” It is also the aim of this essay to explore how Shakespeare employs and expands upon the violence described in his “Ovidian precursor” to highlight his themes of…

living being, is the microcosm of the ultimate reality in universe, “Brahman”. Each inner-self not only comes from Brahman, but also the manifestation of Brahman. “Atman is Brahman”, refers to that there is no distinction between our self and the primal reality. What’s more, our Atman will keep cycling in “Samsara”, the reincarnation, before we achieve Moksha, a state of emancipation, liberation from Samsara and the final goal of Hindu religious. In order to achieve Moksha, we can only go…

preparedness because the war had ruined them for everything. Paul seems to agree as he reminisces, “We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war” (Remarque 88). Paul juxtaposes his innocent youth with his transformation into a soldier. In this context, the use of the phrase…

Feminism is becoming one of humanity’s many pillars in terms of the modern-world. There are protests, commercials, rallies, and groups all supporting the rights of the female gender and what it means to be a woman. These “suffragettes” concentrate their labors and energy on issues such as inequality, the wage-gap, rape and sexual assault, domestic violence, and other matters that pose a threat to a woman’s dignity. Readers should not construe the complete outlook posed from a feminist 's…

to take a portion of a women and focus solely on that body part, removing her face and effectively turning her into simply a breast, abdomen, pair of legs or buttocks (see Appendix F). In some cases, women are actually dismembered or portioned into cuts of meat, which sends the message that women are no different nor more valuable than a piece of meat (see Appendix G and Appendix H). This objectification of women is demoralizing and dehumanizing. Jean Kilborne suggests that the dehumanization…

Gallant Sir Gawain and fearless Beowulf are two great examples of the classic heroes from all of literature. They fight strange and terrifying creatures, they use their strength and wit to out do their opponents, and they always fight for what they believe in no matter the cost with their own noble code which will always guide them. No matter if it’s a swing of a sword or fall of an axe these men will aways fight for what they stand for even if they go about it in different ways. Gawain may…

of a sudden, the next scene after she asks her uncle Emilio that she wants to be a killer, fifteen years have passed and she is already an assassin. Since the audience did not see her growth to the cool badass assassin we see later in the movie, it cuts the audience off from having any connection with the protagonist. If this sudden jump was avoided it would have made the movie's character development a whole lot better because it gives a sense of connection from protagonist to the…

way we live now- and the way we might be living in 10 minutes time if we’re clumsy”. The show quickly gained a cult following due to the sense of fear that both entices yet horrifies its audience. It has a way of tapping into that very realistic, primal part of us. The Science Fiction genre can be problematic for a series of reasons. For me, I believe that its impossible to write about something you’ve never experienced first handed, this applies to literature, film, and TV. But with Black…

Sigmund Freud conceptualised the working of the human mind through his famous ‘id, ego, and super-ego’ theory in 1923. According to Freud, the human mind is a complex interaction of the id, ego, and super-ego. All together the three make up what is known as personality, or the human ‘psyche’. To put it simply, the id is the instinctual function of the mind, the ego is the realistic function and the super-ego is the moral function of the mind. There is a familiar metaphor of angel and devil on…

Nonetheless, the perpetrators seem to be capitalizing on our longstanding love-hate relationship with clowns, tapping into the primal dread that so many children (and more than a few adults) experience in their presence. In fact, a 2008 study conducted in England revealed that very few children actually like clowns. It also concluded that the common practice of decorating children's…