Trifles

King Richard II’s Underserved Loyalty by the Commoners Wat Tyler’s Rebellion was written after 1381 by an anonymous author to persuade the readers that King Richard II did not deserve the loyalty and devotion put forth by the commons. The author provides the reader with a chronicle of the peasant’s revolt in which he presents the commons’ reasons for revolting and how the King reacts to each interaction with the commons. The peasants are portrayed as justified in their actions, while the King…

such as money, gangs, or drugs. Nas rapped about his family, childhood, or his friends such as this verse: “My intellect prevails from a hangin' cross with nails, I reinforce the frail, with lyrics that's real Word to Christ, a disciple of streets, trifle on beats, I decipher prophecies through a mic and say peace.” (-Memory Lane, Nas). This is his pride, yet religion based way of writing, also described in this verse; "I wish some of these killings could be prevented/Whatever happens it was…

Macbeth: Tragedy or Not? Aristotle defined the term tragedy as, “A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language;... in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these emotions.” (Web). With this in mind, William Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, is a tragedy because the main characters suffer from their flaws. The play's tragic…

darkness foreshadows Macbeth’s tragedy. Later, when Macbeth ponders what kingship entails - whether it will just fall to him, or if an act of darkness is required. Banquo tells him, “The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray [u]s” (I. iii. 136-137). In this, he explains that the agents of destruction tell us the truth, only leading to our demise. We learn to trust their judgment because they tell us little truths, but will prove untrustworthy in the end.…

framed story of a man telling his shipmates of his times in the Congo free state and the horrors he faced while there. But when you dig deeper you realize the story is about the corruption of man when exposed to power. The story shines a light on the trifles of the times as well as how man with total power become detached from every form of society and its normal decorum. This is possible because the speaker provides a frame story in which he is all knowing, this snaps the reader in between…

Life. This is a novel of the dark passion. It records the sexual audacity of the women protagonist. It unites the three friends to preserve the national talent. This is the first time when Indian English writer have elevated his characters above the trifles of the society such as caste, religion. Govind,…

INTRODUCTION After the period of political disintegration culminating in the English Civil war, Thomas Hobbes espoused the theory of social contract which instigated disparate reactions and profoundly impacted the political philosophy of his time. In Leviathan, believing that a system devoid of government is systematically prone to dissolution into a devastating condition of war, he unified the concepts of civil polity under governance of an undivided and absolute sovereign and the laws of…

The Character of Aaron Crawford in “The Boy who Painted Christ Black” “The teacher always pronounced his name with profound gusto as she pointed him out as an ideal student”, as stated in the short story, “The Boy who Painted Christ Black” by John Henrik Clarke. Aaron Crawford, Aaron Crawford was the smartest in the Muskogee County School in Columbus, Georgia. This young boy painted a portrait that caused uproar at his school. This very unique portrait was a painting of Christ; not the…

realizes that Creon’s wrong when he tries to burn an offering to the gods and the flame will not burn. He also hears birds fighting and these are signs the god’s are not happy with Creon’s choices. Teiresias tells Creon, “O my son, these are no trifles! Think: all men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong” (5.33-35). It will be too late by the time Creon realizes the mistakes he has made and he will lose his son and wife along with…

Perhaps the most forward-thinking theme of William Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Macbeth is its relentless attack against the stereotypes pertaining to the qualities of what it meant to be a man during the period in which Shakespeare wrote, as well in the postmodern era. The vehicle through which Shakespeare delivered most of this theme is through the contrast of conscience between Macbeth and his wife, Lady Macbeth, who at the beginning of the play requests for the devil to castrate her to…