Puppeteer

Historically, bravery has been a popular theme in literature. The theme likely began from the Anglo-Saxon to Elizabethan period when rising monarchs clashed for rule over England. These influences infused later literature, which has often encouraged bravery. Bravery motivates difficult action when it triumphs over action-paralyzing fear. Max Brand’s “Wine on the Desert”, Edgar Allen Poe’s “Pit and the Pendulum”, and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi respectively reveal this thesis. However, the…

If you open your wallet and pull out a ten dollar bill, the face of one of our founding fathers, James Madison, will be staring back at you. Early in our school careers we are taught, if not in detail, about the constitution and the men who wrote it. As we progress we learn in more and more detail about the Philadelphia Convention and many of the key players including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. However, all the average students’ education on James Madison will…

Interest groups are the decisive factors in an election, and are prominent at every level of American politics swaying and influencing voters. They use tactics and send out messages that seem to be for the voters, when actually it’s the contrary. Interest groups seek to influence political processes in ways that benefit their members. In doing so, however, they may not act in the overall public interest. Still while acting for their own self improvement these interests groups continue to be…

beginning of the story that he was an honest and trustworthy man, had Othello come to the realization Desdemona was a strumpet on his own, and disguised a plan to prove Desdemona’s adultery. The play Othello, is like a puppet show and Iago is the puppeteer; controlling the outcome and fate of each of the characters. Iago was upset with Cassio because he got the job to become Othello’s lieutenant; however, he was more upset with Othello for not recognizing that he deserved the job more than any…

1960s Television Imagine yourself sitting in the living room with your family. It’s the mid 1960s, and you’re flipping through channels until you reach CNN, where John F. Kennedy is standing at his post, giving a speech, with Nixon right behind him. You are watching the very first televised presidential debate. You decide to watch something else, so you click the remote, and Fred Flintstone appears on the screen, living life in the town of Bedrock. On comes an ad about toothbrushes, then…

Nihilism in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, by John Le Carré, takes place in a historically gloomy period when rationing was a recent memory, the Berlin Wall stood tall and the sixties hadn’t yet started to swing. We are introduced to Alec Leamas, a burned-out spy drafted into a final mission; masquerading as a defector to the Communist German Democratic Republic. Le Carré’s 1963 novel presented us with a bleak version of the world: a world in which both the…

From start to finish Iago moves the characters of Othello as though they were chessmen. He utilizes their individual goals and interests to spur them to whatever insidious arrangement he wants. His dexterous control of those characters go from persuading Roderigo to serve Cassio another glass of wine, to driving Othello to the conclusion that lone by slaughtering Desdemona might he be able to spare himself and humanity from her slippery demonstrations of treachery. In any case, for every…

Introduction: Over the course of human history there have been a number of highly influential philosophers who have helped shape modern political science. Yet, few can claim to have made as large of an impact on political theory as Plato and his seminal work The Republic. The book takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and a variety of different individuals, and touches upon a number of subjects, such as the nature of justice, and debating whether the just or unjust man is happier.…

The short, simple style of Marie de France’s lai “Milun” lends itself easily to an adaptation into a short film in the style of silhouette animation. The goal of this film will be both to maintain the meanings present in the original lai as well as to expand the audience that is able to appreciate the poem. The length of a short film maintains the structural integrity of the story in its entirety while also making it accessible to audiences who may not feel equipped to read and interpret this…

The first thing that comes to mind when trying to link William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet with the concept of metatheatre, is the play which is staged by young Hamlet to confront his uncle Claudius with the murder of the old king Hamlet. Nevertheless, even though nothing qualifies more as metatheatre than this particular scene, the play-within-a-play is not the only significant device of metatheatre in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. There are several more metatheatrical plots that can be detected in the…