The Heiress

Likewise, the movie, Becket’s, focus on dramatizing the feud between Thomas Becket and Henry II. This movie was made in the 1960s which saw a rise in historical period dramas like, Lion in Winter, Anne of a Thousand Days, Mary Queen of Scots etc. The performances of the leads, Peter O' Toole and Richard Burton, are excellent, although sometimes overacted as was typical of that era in film. However, this movie was based on Jean Anouilh's play Becket, meaning they decided to keep Anouilh’s version…

Although William Shakespeare and Jane Austen lived in different time periods and wrote their works in different formats many of the same archetypes and stereotypes are used in both of their works. Austen and Shakespeare took a similar approach to the portrayal of female characters within their works, however in Austen’s novel it acted as the focal point of the story and took a more liberalized appearance because of the time gap. The male dominated view of a female’s place in society historically…

Abortion is the most controversial ‘right’ that is still being debated today. Abortion is the intentional termination of a pregnancy after conception before the fetus is visible or capable of living outside the womb. Many people believe it should be legalized, but many people also believe it should not. Millions of children are not alive today because they were never even born because abortion exists. Abortion was legalized in 1973 by Roe v Wade, since then, there have been roughly 55 million…

“Shaw was a very great man indeed. The danger is that when all the froth and nonsense about his being a philosopher has died down (as it must) a reaction should set in and lead people to forget his real genius. He was a comedian, in his own time; of the very highest order … He was a humorist of the more intellectual kind, a master of satire, art and fantasy like Gilbert, Wilde and Aristophanes. In that class no one had more continuous vitality. He is also, in his prefaces, one of the great…

born on April 23, 1564 based on baptism records from his home town of Stratford-upon-Avon that are dated for April 26 of that same year. Scholars also know that William Shakespeare was born to John Shakespeare, a leather merchant, and Mary Arden, an heiress, and had five siblings. These siblings included his two older sisters, Joan and Judith, and his three younger brothers, Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund. The only other thing that they have been able to determine is that William Shakespeare…

“Aaron Copland is an american-award winning composer, Author, Conductor, Lecturer, and Educator”. Some of his most famous works have been Of Mice and Men, The Heiress, and Something Wild. Another very well known composer of today’s film music is John Williams. John williams has been nominated for over 40 Grammy’s and has won 5. You might know some his works, such as, Jaws, Lost in Space, Fiddler on the Roof, Tom…

Hope Carin Britton In this semester, we have had four units that are full of hatred and prejudice. In this semester, the most important theme to me was hope. There were always the bad people. The bullies. The horrible attitudes that overcome us all sometimes; greed, rage, and hatred. Hope always won in the end. It always held on until the last moment of all of the hatred. The hope is what kept people alive in the Holocaust. Hope was always hiding in the shadows like Boo Radley. Junior…

Merchant of Venice typically is deemed to be “a tragedy.” However, the play is similarly meeting the classification gauge of a romantic comedy. Looking at the issue of romance, the play revolves around Bassanio, who is the Venice suitor and Portia, the heiress from Belmont. Bassanio attains some finance in the form of loan from his friend, Antonio that he utilizes to pursue Portia. On the other hand, the merchant, Antonio takes such loan on behalf of Bassanio from Shylock. An agreement made…

The story of The Queen’s Fool by Philippa Gregory vividly brought to life the ideas, characters, and fears of the 1550s that resulted from the fierce rivalry between King Henry III’s daughters, Elizabeth and Mary Tudor. It followed both women through the eyes of the psychic “holy fool”, Hannah “Green”, as they battled over the English throne. The aging, unappealing Mary Tudor was nearly the exact reverse of her youthful and lively younger sister. While Mary sought to stomp out all Protestants…

beliefs and also treated inhumane. Anti-Semitism is a reoccurring issue that appears throughout the Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” play. The problem starts when Bassanio, Antonio’s friend that needed money to impress Portia who was known as the heiress of her dead father’s money. Bassanio asked Antonio to ask for a loan from a Jewish moneylender named Shylock, because he was certain that Shylock would rather lend the money to Antonio than him. He promised Antonio that he will repay all the…