...main plot in the play “A Man For All Seasons” by Robert Bolt is corruption, more specifically political corruption. While the play focuses heavily on the social demise, and moral strength of the character Thomas More. It also covers the inverse process with other characters, such as; Richard Rich, Thomas Cromwell, and the king of England Henry VIII. In the play Thomas More stands as a beacon of selfhood and virtue, while the other three men used manipulation and disloyalty, to gain wealth and power, no matter what the consequences may be. The character Richard Rich did not start out corrupt in the beginning of the play, but became corrupt with prospect of becoming wealthy and powerful. Rich was denied a high-ranking position by More, and in turn accepted a position from Cromwell in exchange for assisting him in taking down More. Rich is aware that he is being used by Cromwell, but he is so obsessed with jumpstarting his career, and rise to power, he turns a blind eye to it. Throughout the play loses his innocence, he even stated that to Cromwell when he accepted the offer as post at York, and Cromwell ask why he looked so depressed, Rich’s reply was “I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence” (Bolt 74). He is quickly reminded by Cromwell that he had lost it a long time ago, when he decided to assist him and the King in taking down More, who was supposed to be a friend of his. Now, what is pretty ironic about Rich’s situation is that at the beginning of the play he was the one who...
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...Hamlet Theme of Appearance vs. Reality A major theme that encircles the play "Hamlet" is the disparity between what something appears to be, and what something is in reality: In otherwords, to distinguish between what is fake (a lie) and what is truth. This theme is so heavily enwoven in the play due to the fact that most of the central characters in the play hide behind a mask to conceal their true intentions while as trying to figure out what the other characters are thinking. For example, with the case of Hamlet he chooses to appear mad in front of the others (whether or not he actually turns mad is a whole other debate entirely) so that he may better conceal his true intentions (he does a poor job in this part) and gain the opportunity to kill Claudius (perhaps with the defense that he is insane?). Thus, Hamlet exaggerates and shows tremendous hatred and disgust towards Ophelia so that he may convince Polonius and Claudius that he has gone mad due to Ophelia's rejection of his love. On the other hand, there is Claudius, the duplicitous cowardly, and conniving politician. Claudius, in comparison to the rest of the characters in the play, is the master at deception and hypocrisy. Claudius hides behind a veneer of being a gentle, just, and concerned King, that grieves for his dead brother and who cares for his people and in particular, his stepson. However, in reality, Claudius conceals a very dark secret and fears Hamlet's apparent madness not because...
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...Where to start? Control. Poverty. Corruption. Safe to say that I will not be allowed back in Kazakhstan after this blog has circulated the internet. Trust me, they could not pay me enough to go back to that place. Between forging signatures on contracts, stealing money from the players and ten-hour days at the rink, the only downtime was in a train cabin with three other Canadians for thirty-six straight hours. By the end of the season there will either be some criminal convictions or a suicide attempt, and I was not going to be part of either, so I had to jump on the camel and ride out of town while I still had the chance. Some of you have read my initial blog regarding my experience during training camp. If I had the knowledge I do now during training camp, I would never have played a regular season game for Beibarys Atyrau. However, hindsight is 20/20, and I started the season in Western Kazakhstan 30 kilometers from the Caspian Sea. My contract was breached in every way possible from the time I arrived until the time I left Kazakhstan. Salary payments were supposed to be made “promptly” at the beginning of the following month. So, salary payments for the month of August should have been paid September 1st … but they were not. Instead, we received a portion of our payment on the 17th. I say portion because we were not paid in full. The team President decided that we performed poorly at the exhibition tournament in Eastern Kazakhstan and deducted every player 10% of our...
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...When we talk about preparing college football players to the NFL, they’re many solutions, like preparing them financially and being able to recruit . Where does all the money go when teams win championships or when boosters pay for teams expenses? The players do all the work so why don’t they get a piece of the action? If we don’t pay college athletes, It can take away their future and their career, this can take away a part of their life just by not paying college athletes. Although college athletes cannot get paid because of the NCAA union stating that no contracts, salary, or prize money can be received by any team or college athletes, athletes should be paid because they rely on the sport to be successful in the present and in their...
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...Shakespeare over 400 years ago, but, however, it continues to reign as one of the most imitated and relevant plays of our time. Interpretations of Shakespeare’s classic tale of revenge have turned up in some surprising places: children’s television programs and films, a popular television series about a corrupt motorcycle gang and other well-known shows, motion pictures, and best-selling contemporary novels. Perhaps one of the most interesting Hamlet interpretations is a film for children called Green Eggs and Hamlet. The live-action film, released in 1995 and written by Mike O’Neil, retells the tragic tale in classic Dr. Seuss rhyme. The film follows Prince Hamlet as he seeks to avenge his father’s murder, while his servant, Sam Iamlet, encourages him to sample a new food dish. The Disney classic, The Lion King, is also fully based on Hamlet. Released in 1994, The Lion King contains some direct parallels to the play, including the death of King Mufasa at the hands of his scheming brother, Scar. Mufasa’s young son, Simba, is visited by his dead father’s ghost, and there is even comic relief provided by two supplemental characters – Timon and Pumba. Although there is some debate over whether the references to Hamlet were intentional, this is where the similarities end, as The Lion King has a much happier ending and far fewer deaths. Sesame Street also took on the almighty play. Monsterpiece Theater, a recurring segment on the show, featured Mel Gibson as Hamlet in 1994. Gibson repeated...
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...Everyone Wants an Extravagant Lifestyle: Is Your Soul worth Losing to the Seven Deadly Sins Oscar Wilde’s fictional novel The Picture of Dorian Gray is about a young, charming man that is in conflict with the cultural anxieties of living an extravagant, seductive, moralistic, and self-confident life style along with two friends with similar conflicts. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel that reveals many aspects of cultural anxieties instilled in three characters. The cultural anxieties complicate the virtues of every character in the novel and lead each of their lives into the vices of their virtues. All the characters have the anxieties for living great lives. However, all their lives turn for the worse including death. Each character wants more or less than their role, place, and identity in society. The anxieties of the Late Victorian Era were “sexual restraints, low tolerance...
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...usually fatal. Nothing good comes out of it. Throughout the drama of “Dr. Faustus,” the main character experiences his rise with the forbidden knowledge but this hero also is lead to a fatal damnation because of the journey he chooses. Faustus plan to learn the power of black magic also known as the forbidden knowledge leads the tragic hero to his path of corruption and soon to be damnation to hell. The decision for Faustus is merely based on Faustus own character flaw of pride. “Considers logic…but notes that disputing well seems to be the only good of logic…considers medicine…he has achieved great renown as a doctor already…considers law…but dismisses law Greenlee 2 as to petty…religion and theology seems to offer wider vistas and finds the Bible’s assertion ‘the reward of sin is death’ and unacceptable doctrine (sparknotes). After dismissing all these studies, he choose magic because he believe that this is a “world of profit and delight/ of power, of honor, and omnipotence,/ is promised to the studious artisan (Marlowe, Dr. Faustus 1.1) The use of forbidden knowledge in “Dr. Faustus” is used throughout the entire play. In the third scene of act one, you get and understanding of why...
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...from different regions or the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement. Culture is like mental software and it has been defined as “the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others” Geert Hofstede, (2009). Culture diversity and multiculturalism are the problems faced by business firms who tried to do business globally. Cultural diversity related to variety of human societies like dress, language, traditions and cultures on a particular region or particular part of the world or as a whole, while multiculturalism with organizational promotion of multiple cultures. Multiple cultures mean giving respect to different types of culture at same time. All the aspects regarding the culture have to be considered when a concern is going to launch its products globally. So in the case of international business, understanding culture of different countries is important because then only a company can put forward its globalization strategies, marketing strategies as well as organization structure. Without proper foundation a company can’t keep moving globally and launch products since cultural world operates in its own internal dynamic, its own principles and its own law-written and unwritten. Understand words, material things and behaviour since culture is communication. Understanding the VINEETH KAKKANATTU AYYAPPAN: 000697414 4 cultural differences is not an easy purpose because each...
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...we realized that our village possessed such as vast scope for the development of cottage industries. We all felt that a vast heap of wealth was lying unused in villages. The exhibition was held in the vast grounds of the banks of the river Cauvery. A temporary fence was erected on all sides and temporary stalls were built to accommodate exhibits of different articles. The exhibitions lasted for about a week and were attended by thousands of people. Buying and selling worth thousands of rupees was done. The district authorities were pleased with its success. First there were agricultural exhibits which the farmers had displayed. There were vegetables of all kinds and sizes. One farmer had a peculiar pumpkin which was praised by everybody. I was surprised to see a plum with resembled a red apple. There was also exhibited fine specimen of cereals which attracted much attention. There were also remarkable specimens of carrots and radish, sweet potatoes and tomatoes of different tastes and colors. Specimens of local pottery and tableware were also exhibited. There were pots made by rustic artisans. We saw apples, oranges, tomatoes, almonds, raisins and cardamoms of such fine shapes and colors that we could hardly distinguish them from the real ones. The different shade of color was so beautifully laid that they deceived even the sharpest eye. They received praise from all and the artist that...
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...literature. The manifesto, and the many that were written after it, identified and combated what the Dadaists saw as the bourgeois corruption that had caused the war and diluted art into something worthless. Through written manifestos, Dada poetry and collage, wild forms of theater and new ideas on visual art, Dada found a common voice among several different groups of artists from across Europe and in New York. Today, Dada is understood as an art movement, chronologically somewhere in between Futurism and Surrealism. Yet, Dada cannot be understood simply as a visual art movement, but instead as a literary movement. Rather than through painting or sculpture, Dada is best understood through the text, manifestos, poetry, and magazines produced by the Dadaists. Dada visual art by artists like Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, or Hans Arp do not rely on traditional formal elements of art, but rather on the titles of the works. Dadaists have more in common with their contemporary, poet Guillaume Apollinaire, than with any painter, and they are more concerned with Symbolist poets Arthur Rimbaud and Comte de Lautréamont than with modern painters Édouard Manet and Paul Gauguin (Drucker 197). Hugo Ball’s contribution, the formation of the Cabaret Voltaire, cannot be overestimated to the formulation of Dada. The Cabaret Voltaire event was essentially a stage play, with the Dadaists on stage reciting poetry (some original and some appropriated), performing wild dances, acting childish and telling...
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...5110 500/2493/0 500/2421/8 A CCEA Publication © 2007 Further copies of this publication may be downloaded from www.ccea.org.uk Specimen Papers 1 2 ADVANCED SUBSIDIARY (AS) General Certificate of Education 2009 English Literature Assessment Unit AS 2 assessing The Study of Poetry Written after 1800 and the Study of Prose 1800-1945 SPECIMEN PAPER TIME 2 hours INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Write your Centre number and Candidate Number on the Answer Booklet provided. Answer two questions. Answer one question from Section A and one question from Section B. Section A is open book. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES The total mark for this paper is 120. All questions carry equal marks, ie 60 marks for each question. Quality of written communication will be assessed in all questions. 3 Section A: The Study of Poetry Written after 1800 Answer one question on your chosen pairing of poets. Heaney: Opened Ground Montague: New Selected Poems 1 John Montague and Seamus Heaney both write about the Irish past. Compare and contrast the two poets’ treatment of the Irish past in two poems you have studied. Hopkins: Selected Poems Dickinson: A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse 2 Gerard Manley Hopkins and Emily Dickinson both express intense anguish in their poetry. Compare and contrast how both poets express intense anguish in two poems you have studied. Duffy: Selected Poems Lochhead: The Colour of Black and White 3...
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...lives and bring them back to the reality of life. We do art for the people we love, and in a larger sense for the country.” That statement opened the press launch of Dulaang UP’s 39th season, held recently at the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater in UP Diliman, Quezon City. The theme running through the five plays that will be presented, in Filipino as well as English, until February next year is “Regaining Dignity.” The plays in the season are Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure/Hakbang sa Hakbang” (with Filipino translation by Ron Capinding), Aug. 20-Sept. 7, directed by DUP artistic director Alexander Cortez; Floy Quintos’ “Ang Huling Lagda ni Apolinario Mabini,” directed by Dexter M. Santos, Oct. 1-19; William Wycherley’s “The Country Wife/Ang Misis kong Promdi,” with Filipino translation by Nicholas B. Pichay, Nov. 19-Dec. 7; and Rody Vera’s “Bilanggo ng Pag-ibig,” inspired by the works of Jean Genet, the novelist-playwright who best exemplified the French spirit of succès de scandale “The Country Wife” will be directed by Tony Mabesa, “Bilanggo ng Pag-ibig” by José Estrella. All the plays will be staged at the Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero Theater (call 9261349, 4337840 or email dulaangupmarketing@gmail.com). Dark, messy play Although “Ang Huling Lagda ni Apolinario Mabini” is the only play with a Filipino theme (a musical at that, and is of great interest to history buffs), “Measure for Measure/Hakbang sa Hakbang” appears to be the pièce de résistance of the...
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...have been getting diagnosed with these diseases. Specifically, young athletes have been the victims of these diseases and now the sports world is reacting by making sports safer, even if it means changing up the game. Changing up the game is causing a lot of corruption in the sports world because people believe the game can’t be played right with recent rule changes that will affect what the game is all about. They believe...
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...fresh, smoothie and marvelous air to city. No winter, summer, fall or spring only dry and rainy season. After rain, city becomes red like wine because of its mud. 2. People * Appearance Young, Tall, medium and short size, rosy, organized, messy, faces seen glow with ever present smiles, but kooky, creepy and weird sometimes. Wrap, attire, exhibit and dress in traditional cloths for women who display multi color and for men nothing special. * Personality Kinds, energetic and social are their biggest identity, but sometimes, brutal, barbarous and active when they are disturber. Instructed, enlighten, and cultivated when it comes to serious matter such education. * Behavior Spirit of belonging, unity, and communitarianism are most of their strength, but gossip, jealousy and narcissist sometimes due to gap between rich and poor. Lack of occupations, many becomes addicted, obsessed, absorbed, hooked and devoted to religion. Society suffer from Rate of mortality very high due to lack of good health system, high unemployment and poverty. Family in control of marriage, tribe comes first, submitted and respect to their elder, only rich marry whom they choose (ie, from a different class or culture). Protecting and caring when it comes to problem. Backing, holding, and supportive people during wedding, funeral and others situations but backslider, pharisee, play-actor, hypocrites are always expected. They talk to much, no privacy when you are there, everyone...
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...Whenever Nick has a realization about the weather or the time the reader can make an assumption that a death or an important event will take place. Often Nick forgets the time or the month or the season. Nick even forgets his own birthday but remembers it on the night of Myrtle Wilson’s death. Also, when a remark is made about the weather the reader can pick up the foreshadowing that Fitzgerald is trying to clue us into. On Nick’s birthday, which he forgets, Gatsby, Daisy and Tom have gotten into a large spat and left everything out in the open. When the characters begin to leave their “party” Nick finally remembers it is his birthday. He has a lot of dull thoughts about the age of 30 a believes he is just inching closer to death. In this scene, he says, “So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight,” (Fitzgerald 136). Nick’s consciousness of time and the cooling weather change from the oddly sweltering day is Fitzgerald...
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