Samuel Alito

Name: Jocelyn Toh Sze Lyn Candidate Number: 2259 School: Tenby International School Penang Centre: MY401 _______________________________________________________________________ How does Shakespeare present the theme of deception in Macbeth? Throughout the play of Macbeth written by William Shakespeare, events always have a twist to them. Deception, which is defined as “the act of tricking someone by telling them something that is not true”, can be seen in the play through the main characters…

“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.” This quote extracted from Waiting for Godot, an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett that premiered on 5 January 1953, holds the essence of absurdist theatre and what its playwrights seek to express- the inescapable meaningless and futility of life. The origins of absurdist theatre are commonly linked to the avant-garde experimentations of the 19th century, but there has been speculation that there were traces of absurdist theatre in works…

ASSIGNMENT 7: ESSAY After analysing the character of Yossarian from Joseph Heller’s Catch 22 in comparison to Gilgamesh from The Epic of Gilgamesh, we can conclude by saying that post-modern writers often went back to classical literature for inspiration. This statement can be proven by referring to the similarities and differences between the protagonist as well as the archetypal plots and themes. In literature we find two types of heroes: heroes and antiheroes. The difference between the two…

A simple analysis on Oscar Wilde’s Salome Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. Scintillating with wit, he has left many talented works, and he was famous for his poems, fairy tales, novel and plays. First written in French, Salome was a single-act tragedy, which became his representative work of aestheticism. Originally, the story of Salome was come from the Bible (the New Testament: Mark 6:17-29 and Matthew 14:3-11), in which the name Salome wasn’t even mentioned.…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is a play about what happened during the Salem Witch Trials. It gives insight about what people had to deal with in this situation and how they handled it. The trials were basically a big test which helped figuring out whether or not people were guilty of witchcraft. This is an example of what a crucible is. In our world today we still have crucibles and even though they are different than back then, they all relate to each other because of what influence they have…

CHAPTER 1: CONCEPT OF FREEDOM George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a critic. His work as a London newspaper critic of music and drama emerged in The Quintessence of Ibsenism. His celebrated plays include Arms and the Man, You Never Can Tell and The Devil’s Disciple. His works present a bold intellectual criticism sugar-coated by a pretended lightness of tone. He rebelled against disordered thinking, and sought to puncture pierce pretensions. In the essay Freedom, G.B.Shaw reveals his…

America and England had intertwined economies that supported each other with things such as land expansion, but separated due to their conflicting ideas on the American value of economic freedom of the taxation of the colonies. During the French and Indian War, England expanded American land by seizing French and Indian territory. A map of territorial change shows the difference in land owned before and after the French and Indian War and the Treaty of Paris. England claimed much more land past…

Although colonists settled in America as an escape from England, due to unfair laws, lack of organization and colonial revolts, and intellectual reforms, it prompted the colonists to seek for freedom from England which is what made the American Revolution inevitable. When King Charles III ruled the colonies, he paid more attention and intervened with the colonial affairs. Around the 1660’s, merchantilism transformed the America’s economy (3). England sought for more wealth from trade and…

The American Revolution, also called The United States War of Independence, was a political revolution that occurred between the years 1765 till 1783. The revolution ended with 13 of Great Britain’s North American colonies winning political independence and forming the United States of America. The French and Indian War which took place between 1754 and 1763, was one of the causes of the American Revolution. This war between Britain and France ended with the victorious British deeply in debt.…

During the founding era of America, the American colonies initially directed their corruption anxiety towards Britain. However, this concern shifted focus when the Framers realized the impending civic corruption in their own country that threatened their own attempts to create a structure of self-government. This shift suggests the variable nature of corruption and its ability to fluctuate based on perspective. In Corruption in America, Zephyr Teachout uses the generations of the Framers to…