Sublime

Medea is without a doubt one of the most powerful women in literature, redefining femininity in a male-dominated environment, becoming a symbol of passionate revenge in history. Author Euripides creates interchangeable roles as a relentless heroine and inversely as an immoral antagonist within Medea, making it difficult to pinpoint the exact source of her expansive power; regardless we see Medea’s protagonist, time and time again, rise above her oppressors in a display of her mighty influence…

Greed for success causes emotions to blinds the logical side of people’s minds. Determined to achieve their goals, characters try to assert too much power over nature and others. Similarly, in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, power plays a dominant role in controlling and motivating the characters. Victor Frankenstein, Robert Walton,and the creature try to overcome different sources of power, revealing the dangers of ambition and anger. Throughout his life, Victor Frankenstein are obsessed with…

In the fifteenth century, the introduction of gunpowder revolutionized warfare and rendered the previously impregnable walled fortifications of cities weak and defenseless. It led to an arms race that reorganized political boundaries and shifted the mindset of Christian and Muslim regimes. While nation states were being built in Europe during the Renaissance, powerful Muslim empires were taking roots in North Africa, India and the Middle East. Safavid Persia rose in 1500 with the crowning of…

not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion” (Henry David Thoreau Page 1028). His cherish and passion to be with Mother Nature was definitely unparalleled; nonetheless, he also strove to find a good…

relax and let one's mind run free. He says to “let a man look at the stars” and let him enjoy the nature’s masterpiece. “One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with the design, to give man, heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime… If the stars appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore” (Emerson 1). Ralph believes that people take nature's beauty for granted and feels that if stars were only seen once in a thousand years they would be…

it is impossible to reach my age without contemplating it” he recently admitted. “We are all just passing by, and we occupy our chair very shortly” … His fourth wife, Anwen, confirmed his death (which happened last Wednesday) and “as the most sublime actor and…

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau are two of the most influential transcendentalist writers of their time. Both men rejected the idea that knowledge could be fully disocvered through sheer experience and observation and asserted that some information can only be discovered through extrasensory perceptions such as intuition or spirituality. While both shared the core beliefs of transcendentalism, each man chose to discover their path to disocover the inner self through different…

Most of the audiences on many drama shows have common misconception that actors of their favorite drama series have similar method of acting in the actors on stage. Lots of stars in the showbiz industry attained their fame with sophistication because they are mestizo and mestizo. In reality, actors on stage are having harder time on acting because of many reasons than the actors on screen. Acting on stage requires high level of concentration in every acting lesson to be an efficient stage actor…

field. Cons - You might notice a drop in your hunger level. This is one of the ways this product works in helping you maintain the right body weight. It is ideal to state that the results that come as a result of this little or no hunger effect is sublime. When you want to take this product, you must embrace the fact that there might be changes to your eating pattern. If you carefully examine the effects, you would see that you have nothing to…

“A Possible Break in One of Evolution’s Biggest Mysteries” by Peter Brannen is a sublime piece of writing and he does very well at expressing how whale evolution is seen today and the lengths that scientists are going to improve their understanding. While “12 Examples of Evolution Happening Today” is an enjoyable read and a good beginning…