In Anglo Saxon culture and literature to be a warrior was to be a hero A warrior was to be strong intelligent and courageous Warriors had to be willing to face against any opponent and fight to the death for their glory and people The Anglo Saxon warrior was able to be all of these as well as be humble and kind to their people In literature Beowulf is a perfect example of an Anglo Saxon warrior Anglo Saxon warrior is clearly shown in Beowulf In Beowulf the Anglo Saxon warrior is shown well by t
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a popular childrens book about a young girl named Alice who travels to a land full of riddles and rhymes where nothing makes sense and everything is a contradiction As Alice travels down the rabbit hole the reader is instantly removed from reality and transported to a fantasy world that isnt what you would typically expect in childrens literature This is a story that shows the struggle of a young girl growing up in wonderland she meets a series of charact
I had a load of bricks on my shoulders and I wanted to drop it but I couldnt It was weighing me down and weighting me down but I couldnt let go of the sack Then a White Man with long yellow hair hair shining like the sun came up to me He had on a long white robe too He came up to me and said Jane you want get rid of that load I said Indeed indeed But how come you know me Can you be the Lord He said To get rid of that load and be rid of it always you must take it cross yon river Gaines 143 The p
John Donnes Paradox O death where is your victory O death where is your sting Now the sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law But thanks be to God who has given us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ I Corinthians 15 55 57 55 The Sonnet of Death Be Not Proud is an eloquently told argument for why death is not to be feared but embraced Its author John Donne argues that death is weak and cannot hurt us He knows death is what all men by nature fear because we have not seen what
Macbeths vaulting ambition though it is what brings him to his height of power it is also what leads him to his downfall Vaulting Ambition is Macbeths only flaw it disables him to achieve his utmost goals and forces him to face his fate Without this ambition though Macbeth never would have been able to achieve his power as King of Scotland or have been able to carry out his evil deeds In these instances ambition helped Macbeth do what he wanted to do But consequently Macbeths ambition has anoth
Lysistrata The play Lysistrata was written by Aristophanes during the twelfth year of the Peloponnesian war It was first performed in Athens Greece in 411 B C with the typical male audience and all male actors A great deal of thought went into this play that Aristophanes wrote he shows the folly of war chauvinism and sex by making his audience look foolish though sexual humor and old comedy Many things that are demonstrated by the play Lysistrata still occupy the American society today In the p
Kent is one of the best loved characters in Shakespeare and the Fool is one of Shakespeares triumphs in King Lear Explore fully the dramatic characterization of these two and the use the playwright makes of them in highlighting the ideal of Faithful Devoted Love In this tragic comical play by Shakespeare King Lear is portrayed as the tired ruler of England his plan to divide his kingdom between his three daughters and then place his welfare in their trust leads to his humiliation and total loss
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying You will die like a dog for no good reason Ernest Hemingway The novel A Farewell to Arms was written by Ernest Hemingway who was born in 1899 in Oakpark Illinois He entered World War I as a driver in the Norton Harjes Ambulance Corps After he was injured on the Italian front Hemingway was sent to a hospital in Milan where he meets an American Red Cro