Grendel and Beowulf’s themes compare and contrast because they both have the same heroic ideals but are two different stories based on totally different morals. Grendel is written by John Gardner and is basically about nature vs. nurture, Grendel starts from his being a young child then it tells what happened in his life to make him the way he is at the end of the book. Beowulf is written by an unknown author. Beowulf is based on him conquering evil or “monsters”. Grendel and Beowulf show a lot of the same characteristics, but they show a lot of differences in the way they act and respond to things.
In a world that is filled with such things as hate, war, terrorists, genocide, starvation, etc., goodness can be challenging. I believe that all too often we think of being good as a list of things we mustn’t do, but to be our brother’s keeper goes above and beyond that concept. It means, as the Bible says, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” I believe “neighbor” means all human beings. The people of Le Chambon believed that too, they carried out both the positive and negative moral injunctions. Most people will never have to face the same challenges as the people of Le Chambon, but still, it’s a core part of what it means to be morally responsible.
William Shakespeare's eponymously titled play Macbeth is one of the most celebrated writings in history and is still being performed and studied today. The play reflects the established socio-cultural beliefs of power and the effects of an illegitimate rule during the Jacobean period. Written in the seventeenth century when belief in a divine-ordained hierarchy prevailed, it was thought that if monarchical power was accessed via illegitimate means, destruction of the mind and state would result. Through the character of Macbeth, Shakespeare positions his readers to believe that power can attract even the most noble of men. In the opening of the play, a loyal Macbeth is approached by three witches who entice him with their claim that “[he] shalt be king thereafter.” (1-3-50).
Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech is a novel which has plenty of themes like time never stops or nature has bond with human life.But the most important of these themes is that people mustn’t judge a man until they’ve walked two moons in their moccasins, until they be them for a long time. And this is entirely about empathizing. Walking in someone else’s moccasins is important in Walk Two Moons because book wants to teach us that empathizing shows the truth. The reasons for this are people mustn’t be biased, because everyone doesn’t seem like who they really are. And empathizing helps us to notice things that we couldn’t realize before.
Mr Obi is a responsible educator, specifically a headmaster, of Ndume Central School. He does his best, as also suggested by his wife, to manage the school well. In his point of view, he also wants teachers to give their time and energy to the school as much as possible. As a headmaster of the school, he wants the rules to be followed strictly, hence the issue of the dead men's path rose. He forbids the villagers to use the school compound and he compromises nothing.
Rashmitha Rapuri Mr. Morano ENG 2DB-03 June 5th, 2015 Macbeth Act 2 Modernization Rationale The Shakespearean play Macbeth, explores many genres and themes to many audience’s interests. It carries a sense of comedy, tragedy and supernaturalism. Macbeth is a play of contradiction and the power of being a king which the protagonist, Macbeth, is striving for. In the beginning of the play, Shakespeare highlights Macbeth’s gracious qualities such as bravery, modesty and loyalty. However, these qualities turn into greed, apathy and self-indulgence soon after Macbeth takes fate into his own hands, guided by his wife and the three weird sisters.
Although it is in fact a theory, many individuals find it to be the golden rule of evolution. Anthony Burgess, the author of many perplexing novels, found that within human beings lays a code for survival. In A Clockwork Orange, Burgess reveals that individuals who lack corrupted morals or brutal behaviors prove to be the weaker links within society Lacking in brutal behaviors and corrupted morals, the prison chaplain who guides the protagonist, Alex, suffers the disappointment of failure. As a man of Christian beliefs, his purpose is to preach excellent morals. Throughout the novel, how he continuously reprimands the workings of the Ludovico Technique, a brain washing procedure in which Alex is put under to become “good”.
A detailed analysis of the dramatic contribution that Friar Lawrence makes to William Shakespeare’s tragic love story ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Ben Jonson once claimed that William Shakespeare (1564-1616) “wanted art” (lacked skill) and this viewpoint can be instantly refuted by the manner in which Shakespeare handles the role of Friar Lawrence in ‘Romeo and Juliet’. The conventional love play, featuring characters who are supposedly doomed from the start and whose “outcome is destined to be lose-lose” (Pam Marshall), can be viewed as a simple story with an outcome which will move the Elizabethan audience. However, Shakespeare can be seen to challenge the ideas of fate, belief through the character of Friar Lawrence and the themes of light and darkness. In this essay, I will look at the role of Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet – in particular, the eventual tragic deaths of the “star-crossed” lovers – and the manner in which Shakespeare uses Friar Lawrence as a means to challenge ideas of fate and light/darkness through his use of language, imagery and metaphor.
Blindness and Insight: Torvald’s Tragedy of Pride Pride has been the cause of many conflicts through the ages of time. It is said, that at the center of every conflict is a man’s pride. Pride is a human nature that clouds the thoughts and controls the emotions of people. Pride builds barriers of arrogance and vanity that blinds people of seeing what is really going on around them. In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, the pride of Torvald blinded Torvald, and gave him a sense of manhood and superiority over Nora throughout the play until his pride was put to the test, and in doing so, revealed a weak and desperate man.
King Lear is the title character of the play, so it is obvious he is pretty important. And in the play, he definitely knows it. This is evidenced by his inflated sense of self; he has such an ego that he wants to hear his daughters profess their love for him, saying “Which of you shall we say doth love us most,” (Act I Scene I Line 51) and when one refuses, disowns her, as well as banishing his best friend for disagreeing with him. However, these rash actions suggest something more to me. I think that inside, Lear is insecure.