The Friar's Tale

PROSE STYLE OF Dr.S.RADHAKRISHNAN Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan A good prose-style is both a matter of choice of the words and their arrangement to form a complete meaningful sentence. Dr. Radhakrishnan is one the eminent philosopher of India who was a literate with special knowledge in handling prose style. Dr.S.Radhakrishnan was one of the most influential and recognized Indian thinkers in twentieth century. I wish to explain some important features about prose style just to explain how…

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” The book, ‘The Little Prince’, incredibly written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is a philosophical story that highlights on a child’s perspective in life contrasted with an adult’s perspective. A strange and wonderful story for all ages that also features superb illustrations made by the author himself. Although, the story book was likely made for children it conveys a lot of messages to the…

“You said we’ll play the Prince saving the Princess today!” “But we already played that yesterday, Lena.” “Yesterday it was the dragon that kidnapped the princess but today the bad Black Magician will kidnap her.” “Kidnapping again?” “Come on, Leon. You said you’ll play with me!” “How about we play other games? I got a new lego set here.” “Wuu, wuu. Leon, you’re a liar! Wuuu!” “But, but, I’ve been playing with dolls for days!” “Wuu, wuu, wuu!” “Quiet down,…

1 INTRODUCTION In this Master’s thesis, I will examine the audio-visual translations of the songs performed in the Walt Disney animation Frozen. The movie offers the watcher two translations of the movie in Finnish, which are subtitles and dubbed language. My aim is to compare the two song translations to each other and to the source language and analyse the translations through the perspective of music and its’ characteristics. In my research I have two hypotheses. My first hypothesis is that…

Vergil continues to describe the image “the mother wolf stretched out in the green grotto of Mars, twin boys at her dugs.” (8.617-619) Here, he alludes to the legendary, oft-admired founder of Rome, Romulus, and his brother Remus, who were, as the quote describes, allegedly abandoned and cared for by a wolf. Although he does not specifically use their names, it is important to note that the phrase “twin boys” would most likely immediately evoke this specific myth in the minds of his audience -…

In any individuals' lives, we at least have spent an immeasurable portion engrossing in the storytellings from elders or fictional entertainments such as novels, TV shows, and films. However, have we ever asked ourselves that are those fairytale stories moderately trustworthy in term of motivation for the readers when they are living in a wicked period of life? In Rosalie Bertell’s essay from The Impossible Will Take a Little While, she states that “Stories alone cannot keep us motivated and…

In considering those with a certain innocence and pureness, Willow from “Welcome to the Hellmouth” comes to the forefront. Thanks to Buffy, she escapes the fate of being turned into a vampire or killed in those first episodes. So, when the audience first sees Vamp Willow in “The Wish,” the character is based off the young Willow from the first two episodes. She is not the experienced Willow from the episode before and the transformation is startling. Carter argues that Willow is “a modern…

Title In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns the author, Khaled Hosseini, portrays powerful messages through sophisticated linguistic techniques. He takes advantage of a popular rhetorical device called a Christ figure to strengthen his argument and cement his intended lessons into the reader. Christ figures are not always a mirror image of Christ himself, but do symbolize him in certain aspects. Khaled Hosseini conveys a message of hope in the direst situations through Christ figures such as…

Voltaire was famous for being a writer, historian, and a philosopher known for his wittiness, his attacks on the Catholic Church, and his support of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state. Voltaire is partially famous for his wit and he shows that very well in Candide. Voltaire hated optimism and in a very well manner produces a humorously exaggerated imitation of that through Pangloss, the philosophical optimist, and Candide, the student of Pangloss.…

Fairy tales have a long history, being one of the most popular and well-read genres of literature, that has influenced generations for centuries. Originally oral tales, many world-renowned fairy tales have been recorded as literary texts or produced as a film. With fairy tales being shared in this way, it is too little surprise that fairy tales have become a large part of Western culture. German poet Friedrich Schiller claims that fairy tales still exist and remain extremely popular in almost…