Sidney Lumet

Oscar Wilde implements a heavy focusses significant attention on class in The Importance of Being Earnest. People with and without money behave very differently, though strive for the same response and impressions from their peers. The characters in this novel are exaggerated to the point of absurdity when it comes to their obsession with class. Victorian upper class demands its members to keep up an important image in society and value money and appearance above all else, including people.…

Every day, we hear the term ‘love’ in a plethora of situations. So, what is love? According to Shakespeare, in sonnet 116 - The first quatrain describes love as an unchangeable force in the lines “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds, / Or bends with the remover to remove: / O no! it is an ever-fixed mark.” Shakespeare enforces the fact that true love always perseveres, no matter what it’s up against by using the metaphor, “That looks on tempests and is never shaken” in the…

Both King Lear and Of Love and Dust are stories about characters who seek power, but die because a stronger power is in their way. In both stories, two kinds of power are contrasted: physical power, or violence, and psychological power. Physical power is the kind of power people use when they’re threatening to use or are using brute force on someone else. Cornwall uses this when he blinds Gloucester in King Lear, as does Bonbon when he shoots the hawk as a threat to Marcus in Of Love and Dust.…

In the novel, Edmund shows both greed and dutifulness as a way of showing duplicity of both society as a whole and man in particular. Edmund is a bastard to Gloucester, a duke of England. He has a step-brother, Edgar, who is a son of Gloucester by law, despite not actually being his biological offspring. Edmund shows his inner greed through his famous speech: (add quote, "Thy nature art my goddess") This quote clearly shows Edmund desiring his brother's holdings, lusting after them with a…

Performer and executive Sidney Poitier was conceived on February 20, 1927, in Miami, Florida. He arrived more than two months rashly while his Bahamian folks were in the midst of a furlough in Miami. When he was sufficiently solid, Poitier left the United States with his guardians for the Bahamas. There Poitier spent his initial years on his dad's tomato ranch on Cat Island. After the ranch fizzled, the family moved to Nassau, when Poitier was around the age of 10. In Nassau, Poitier appeared to…

In London was where Shakespeare got his beginning. By the 1590’s Shakespeare was managing an acting company in London. It was called The Lord Chamberlain’s men. While managing this company it became very popular, also Shakespeare began publishing and selling his work. By 1597 he had fifteen plays published and by 1599 Shakespeare and a few business built their own theater on the bank of the Thames River. They later named it The Globe (“Prezi 3”). Some of Shakespeare’s earlier plays include…

of the combining of stolen works base their argument on several key works: The True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Leir and his three Daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and Cordella, whose author remains anonymous; Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney; and the true story of Sir Brian Annesley. Many people believe that the stories of Goneril, Regan, Cordelia, Kent, and Lear came from “The True Chronicle History of the life and death of King Leir and his three Daughters, Gonorill, Ragan, and…

Poetry by William Shakespeare and Phillip Sidney William Shakespeare and Phillip Sidney’s sonnets (specifically, 130 for Shakespeare and 7 for Sidney) do similar things like comparing women to things in nature, but they come up with different conclusions in the end. For example, one could say that Shakespeare compares the woman in his poem to nature in order to prove that it isn’t necessary to be similar nature to make her beautiful and rare. Then, Sidney compares his lady, Stella, to nature…

long term goal of this website is to be the premiere archive host for access to serving Dickinson manuscripts, letters, and modern and historical editors of poems and letters. The funding for this archive has been provided by the Harvard Library, The Sidney Verba Fund, The Houghton Library, and the Harvard University Press. Some of the institutions that contribute to this archive are the Boston Public Library, Amherst College, Library of Congress and the Yale University Library. The primary…

1. Sonnet 18 Perhaps one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18 presents an idea of permanence, or rather, stability. The speaker begins by asking whether he should or will compare "thee" to a summer day. The speaker says that this “thee” is more lovely and more even-tempered, by listing the cons of summer: winds shake the buds that emerged in Spring, summer ends too quickly, and the sun can get too hot or be obscured by clouds. The speaker goes on to say that everything beautiful…