William Pitt

John Keats, born October 31, 1795, is one of the most celebrated poets of the English Romantic Age. Although he was only twenty-five when he died of tuberculosis, Keats remains one of the best-known poets of his generation. He wrote many famous poems and sonnets, so it is very unfortunate that he died before producing additional impressive works. Although he used innovative and non-traditional styles for many of his sonnets, much of his work revolves around themes associated with the Romantic…

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future” (BrainyQuote). These are the words of Adolf Hitler, who is commonly considered one of the most evil man in history. The world has always wanted to understand why he was so cold-hearted, but research has not proved what caused him to be delusional. However, there are many theories…

Morgan Minch Kessler AP Lit 6 August 2017 Summer Reading Summary Title: The Tragedy of King Lear Author: William Shakespeare Seting: France and Britain BC Most events take place in the palaces or castles, each character's land The heath Dover Point of View: The point of view is told from the perspective of a narrator. It is third-person, All the audience knows is what is told and presented on stage. 5 acts Literary Devices: Irony: King Lear exiles Cordelia his only daughter that truly…

A Rose For Emily In William Faulkner’s, A Rose For Emily, Faulkner illustrates a southern town that is rapidly changing to fit the times. Emily Grierson is an old fashioned woman who watches her town alter around her but, her tenacious attitude towards change prohibits her from adjusting to a new lifestyle. Faulkner portrays the change in the social structure of the American South in the early twentieth century with Homer Barron, Miss Emily’s house, and the townspeople. Homer Barron was a dark…

Name Professor Subject Date Progressive Era Reforms Question One Theodore Roosevelt stands as the 26th American president. He remembered so much because of the progressive era reforms. He played a role that has led to changes in the society that are felt to date. First, he remembered for inventing the modern presidency. He came up as a presidential peacemaker who averted so many wars through diplomacy and fought bravely in the Spanish-American War. This made US to be at peace with most of its…

The text which I have chosen to write about through the course of this essay is “The Freedom of the City” by Brian Friel. This play was first showed in February 1973, a year after the events of Bloody Sunday. It is quite clear from reading this play that Friel uses the events of that fateful day as his inspiration. Bloody Sunday is an event which lives on in the memories of many people and occurred during the height of the “Trouble’s” in Northern Ireland. This event occurred on the 30th of…

William Golding was a British author who wrote many novels in the mid to late 1900s. His most famous novel Lord of the Flies was written in 1954. Though during the time period that the novel was released it was not popular, in recent years it has become a prominent novel read across schools in the U.S. The Lord of the Flies comes in the wake of World War II. The novel is set on a remote island, where a plane was shot down by an enemy missile. Passengers on the plane were mostly young boys with…

Journal 3 My Journal 3 assignment was to read two short stories. These two stories are very different, but both seem to take you through the lives of people. Although these two stories a different, they both are about different cultures. One story is written in third person, while the other is a narrative. The short story This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona written by Sherman Alexie takes place on a Indiana reservation in Spokane, Washington. The two main characters are Thomas…

the spread of commentary on aspects of social, political and religious life in Elizabethan England. Playwrights would frequently use the stage to comment upon the world around them. Without a doubt, the most well-known playwright of the period is William Shakespeare, whose plays were popular in their day and are still popular with scholars and audiences in the present. This makes him an obvious choice for a case study into the way into the way Renaissance drama could be said…

Through non-conventional theatre, in the form of immersive theatre, the performative characteristics of scenic design are scrutinized. By transcending traditional dramatic performances, yet still incorporating similar characteristics taken from conventional theatre, immersive theatre stimulates the spectator’s theatrical experience while still making it new yet familiar. It is crucial to present or evoke an action through the depiction of fictional events, or at least, through the embodiment of…