The excellence of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreables evaporate from their being in close relationship with Beauty and Truth John Keats Ode on a Grecian Ode is based on a series of paradoxes and opposites the discrepancy between the urn with its frozen images and the dynamic life portrayed on the urn the human and changeable versus the immortal and permanent participation versus observation life versus art As in Ode to a Nightingale the poet wants to create a world of
Is Ignorance Truly Blissful Miss Brill by Katherine Mansfield I cant exactly remember when or who told me but someone once told me ignorance is bliss Im aware that that is a well known saying However its an interesting concept How could the absence of knowledge or information be enjoyable Society is designed to seek more knowledge in order to advance ourselves and make life better The development of computers that transfer information in seconds has improved the quality of life for people acros
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
King Lear presents the audience with a bleak vision of society that is demonstrated through the dominance of nihilism to reveal a world devoid of justice morality or any good order This Aristotelian play depicts how a fatal flaw can catastrophically ruin a hero or heroine and lead them to their ultimate demise and induce total chaos within the society The Tragedy of King Lear has been subjugated to various different interpretations that each offer a particularly bleak view of human existence an
KING LEAR ESSAY Every individual brings their own cultural baggage to the interpretation of a text it is now considered that there is no one or absolute reading of a text but rather a myriad of interpretations Due to the rich and layered complexity of Shakespeares King Lear issues relating to our recent past and present can be raised through different interpretations and presentations of the play thus allowing it to remain contemporary King Lear can be interpreted as a family drama and a play a
Hay Fever was a comical play with a strong message The actors throughout this play steadily used others to gain their own attention The message this play left behind after many laughs was do not use others plain and simple The space was a well constructed thrust stage however the stage was not raised off the ground and the seats appeared to be mobile which lead to the belief that this is an Environmental Theater As for the layout of the stage there was a couch and a table in center stage for th
The play begins on a Monday evening at the Loman family home in Brooklyn After some light changes on stage and ambient flute music the first instance of a motif connected to Willy Lomans faint memory of his father who was once a flute maker and salesman Willy a sixty three year old traveling salesman returns home early from a trip apparently exhausted His wife Linda gets out of bed to greet him She asks if he had an automobile accident since he once drove off a bridge into a river Irritated he
Truth and Happiness Aldous Huxley author of Brave New World believed that society was not all that it seemed He believed there were hidden truths that if manipulated the wrong way could very well lead to an outlandish social transformation In Brave New World Huxley creates a society in which all the members are sheltered from truth and knowledge in order to ensure their happiness By using ignorance soma and sex Huxley expresses the idea that true happiness cannot coexist with knowledge and trut
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism where feeble mindedness native or acquired is necessary for docile productivity in the factory and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end Lewis Mumford Lewis Mumford describes a world where technology and industry has enabled men to manipulate mans way of thinking by gearing people toward feeble mindedness In Brave New World by Aldous Huxley men have taken advantage of techn
The primary impact of most allegorical stories is strongly influenced by the authors detailed characterization of the setting as well as the characters passions and point of view Such is the case in Susan Glaspells story A Jury of Her Peers The story conveys a richness of characterization and setting that are elusive at first reading but become more apparent as the story evolves In the final analysis the jury and the outcome of their verdict are elucidated By the use of symbolic language the te