The Prodigy

at Oxford University, reports that contemporary linguistic findings have presented an undeniable indication that “Marlowe’s hand appears in several Shakespearean texts,” including the Henry VI plays (Morgan 1). During the 16th century, scholarly prodigies, such as Marlowe and Shakespeare, revived passionate, tormented love poetry and crafted various staples within literary history. The idea of…

The general who is a hunting prodigy is starting to get bored with hunting and now challenges Rainsford to a three day hunt where Rainsford will be the game. After the final day of the hunt, Rainsford sneaks up on General Zaroff and kills him saying “‘I am still a beast at bay’” (14)…

"Two Kinds from The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan is a story about a mother, who is determined to make her daughter a prodigy, the mother of the speaker in this story is a believer in the American dream "My Mother Believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America" (Tan 294) the mother believed in dreams coming true in America, and like any loving mother she wanted…

With as much as literature and entertainment have evolved in the past 400 years since the honored genius William Shakespeare popularized theatre and genres such as the Tragedy and Comedy, people still remember his work by reading and seeing it performed from time to time. People are even shown techniques he pioneered on his own such as words he invented and comic relief. In the play Macbeth, it has been debated for years about the value of the Porter’s scene and whether or not it is comic relief…

In classic republicanism, the state of nature is men are corruptible; therefore, government steps in to guard individual rights and encourage civil virtues. According to The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America, it states, “We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union… promote the general Welfare, and secure the blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…” America was founded on the principles that the people would need to be virtuous…

Before he became Darth Vader, his name was Anakin Skywalker and as a child he was not only a Jedi-Knight prodigy, but he also had the highest midi-chlorian count in the galaxy(3). Midi-chlorian are intelligent life forms that dwell in living things symbiotically and when in significant numbers they allow their host to sense the force.(4)Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin's…

The violence and cruelty in Sports One of my favorite memories from childhood is sneaking outside to play soccer with my friends instead of doing my homework. No matter how many times my mom caught me, and no matter the punishment, I still snuck out as often as I could to play soccer with my friends. For most of us, sport is a fun entertainment and a social activity with physical benefits. Professionals, who dedicate themselves to their sport of choice, consider it a passion to compete against…

America,” (Tan 18), citing her mother as one of the few who still believed in America as a land of opportunity for all. Her mother’s belief in American opportunity forced Jing-mei to undergo various tests her mother made up in attempts of becoming a prodigy–a Chinese Shirley Temple, a child geographical genius, a balance-oriented girl, and then a Bible-commanding lady–but failed until her mother watched a Chinese girl mastering piano on the Ed Sullivan Show like how her mother expected Jing-mei…

The archetypal theme that good and evil exists in everyone is what I would say as the main theme in the novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson with the characters in the story having a good side mainly but have an evil side also. The main character Dr. Jekyll is a good example of this being the case because he is the epitome of being both good and evil. His normal identity Dr. Jekyll has a mostly good side with good intentions and thoughts. His other side,…

achievement because they exhibit their tenacious hopes that their children will be able to one day become something of themselves. In terms of the Woo’s quote the cultural value of achievement is what sets off Suyuan's need for her daughter to be a prodigy of something, in comparison, the value also correlates to the Angeles Family because they want their children to achieve what they never could. In contrast, the Joy Luck Club families not only have similar cultural values, but they also have…