The Honourable

The Odyssey of Homer is considered one of the world's most famous epic poems. An epic is a lengthy narrative poem that is centered on a heroic figure who express the values of a culture or civilization. These values in Greek society are hospitality and home, which can also be said to be major themes in this epic. The Odyssey of Homer is revolved around the protagonist Odysseus's homecoming. Throughout Odysseus's adventure home he encounters variations of hospitality that affect his homecoming by…

Charlemagne’s reign is a key piece of medieval history that shows how he founded the Holy Roman Empire and changed many key aspects in Medieval Europe such as cultural and political reforms. In the preface for Life of Charlemagne, written by his administrator and long-time friend Einhard, Einhard gives several reasons for writing this biography. The questions posed is what are the reasons for writing this detailed biography? What do they say about Einhard’s sense of himself, and the time he…

Charles Dickens, the author of A Tale of Two Cities, shows a pitiful attitude towards his character Sydney Carton, and uses pathetic fallacy and juxtaposition to demonstrate this. At first sight, Sydney Carton was intended to be an insolent alcoholic and brilliant lawyer who was appropriately nicknamed “the jackal” because of how he gets no recognition whenever he wins court cases. Carton’s irresponsible habits are exemplified when he drinks excessively after he helps save Charles Darnay from…

Charlie made the incorrect decision when he hid in the bushes while Nostrils was getting beaten up. You should always defend a friend even if it puts your own personal safety at risk. Charlie should have confronted Jimmy Barlow, so to help Nostrils. Helping a friend would increase self-pride. Intervening could help reduce the damage that the victim suffers. For these reasons, I believe that you should always protect a someone, even if it puts you at risk. Firstly, Charlie ought to have stood up…

In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, he uses a complex character, Marcus Brutus to demonstrate the idea of a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a person of noble birth who suffers a catastrophe. Shakespeare displays the idea of a tragic hero by including his traditional elements, adding complexity to Brutus, and presenting him with an internal conflict. In this case, Shakespeare uses the concept of a tragic flaw to establish his interpretation of a tragic hero. An ancestor of…

and returned from them soon developed a hatred and anger towards war and those that started it. They saw, felt and knew the pain and horrors of war, whereas those higher up that never saw the actual battlefield continued to see war as noble and honourable. Family and friends of the slain had a change in attitude towards war also. The change in attitude can be seen in poetry originating from the war era. There were many patriotic poems before the war propagating the war or written by people…

Mark Antony fosters a strong sense of emotion in his compelling speech at Julius Caesar’s funeral to the Roman people in Act III, scene ii, lines 74-147. Antony prefaces the deliverance of his speech by calling Brutus and Cassius’ honorability into consideration, but ultimately criticizes them and ignites a fire of rage within the citizens of Rome. This scene occurs shortly after the assassination of Caesar. At this point, the Roman people hold the conspirators in high regard as the narrative of…

“Statement - All representations of people and politics are acts of manipulation” Every day as we step into the vast world of literature, we are constantly subjected to acts of manipulation. Our views are constantly shaped in a way the composers want it to be shaped. To put this more into perspective, we only need to look as far as the texts that I have been analysing in school of late – William Shakespeare’s dramatic play, ‘King Henry IV, Part 1’ and the RSC’s play within a play production.…

‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry is a utopian novel. It follows the story of Jonas, who receives the community’s most honourable job of Receiver of Memory. The Receiver of Memory gets access to memories of how the world was prior to the Sameness regime which now governs the community. After seeing how the world was previously, Jonas starts to second guess and abandon the totalitarian-like rules of Sameness. In the end Jonas leaves the community with a baby called Gabe, with whom he has a special…

father, has committed suicide and murdered his entire family. He “turned on the gas while they were all asleep” (197) according to Kikuko. The narrator’s father was a member of the Japanese Navy in World War II. Culturally, suicide was viewed as an honourable act. Many Japanese people would rather die with honour than live with guilt and regret. Watanabe is “a man of principle and honour” (194) according to the narrator’s father. He believes this to be true due to the cultural context of the…