This speech is very powerful and when someone is feeling unmotivated and depressed it has the ability to stir you to focus. Henry knew that he was sending his troops out into a battle they would lose but instead of dwelling on this Henry convinces his men that the battle is more than a mathematical formula that they have all come there to fight for honour, for justice and for glory. He makes fighting with him at Agincourt sound like a privilege. Henry also brings up, once more the motif of the bond between kind and commoner. In the scene before the battle of Harfleur, he unites himself with his men, he says “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
However, it is not until a bit later in the tale that the two themes of sex and violence are obviously linked. This is clearly shown when the protagonist sees “a dozen husbands impal[ing] a dozen brides” in the mirror. The use of the word “impale” here is interesting as it has connotations of violent stabbing and penetrative sex. The Bloody Chamber, I think, is one of the best examples of a tale wherein sex and violence are always linked. In The Snow Child the themes of sex and violence are closely linked.
"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny". Mutiny suggests that there will be lots of conflict. Shakespeare introduces the idea of conflict when Sampson and Gregory start talking about how they are going to beat and rape the Montagues maids. You can see this when they say "we'll draw" and "thrust his maids to the wall". The biting of the thumb indicates the sign of disrespect and is the same as putting your middle finger up at someone nowadays.
One such flashback “the japs’d come round and beat us for the fun of it”. By using visual imagery in an innocent woman’s gives a description of the horrendous environment of the prison camp. The inhumane beating of civilian emphasizes the grotesque nature of camps. The ongoing physical abuse from the Japanese soldiers became a motif throughout the play evokes pathos and the understanding of the barbarity of the war time environment. Another visual imagery use the emphasis the horror of war is “get down on all fours… hack at the earth” which demonstrates the intense work the prisoners had to endure; this evokes a sense of pity and gain sense of sympathy from the
I also liked the way that the author went into every detail making the book easier for me to go back and review or read a certain topic again. I admired the way Napoleon won battles and was determined to win at any cost. I enjoyed the book, but I just have a different view or perspective than Owen Connelly of Napoleon. Owen Connelly negatively focused so much about Napoleon’s blunders. The author believes that Napoleon won many battles because of his enemies’ mistakes and not because of what he actually was…the greatest military mind that ever lived.
We are also told how contagious conflict and the 'ancient grudge' can be, ‘civil blood makes civil hands unclean’. The choice of the word 'civil' shows that the 'grudge' has gone beyond private and spread into society, highlighting how infectious it can be. Moreover, the word 'blood' implies death, proving the dangerous consequences of conflict both physically and mentally. Furthermore, the word ‘unclean’ reminds the audience of blood stains which yet again remind us of the deadly consequences of conflict, and also the long term effects of conflict, like the scars and the lingering guilt. The prologue inevitably ends with a Shakespearean rhyming couplet just as the tragedy will always end in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, 'Death-marks of love'.
A plan that involved avoiding bigger battles and fighting smaller battles to ware down the will of Hannibal's Carthaginian army. His level in developing strategies is like a bomb that never ticks down. These brutal strategies were the reason they had won this war and they had required industrious people to think like George. Continuing George Washington had been so inspiring to the world. So much that his picture is on $1 bill.
“Owen makes remarkable poetry out of the greatest human tragedy of the twentieth century.” Discuss the ideas Owen conveys in these poems and the techniques he uses to explore them. Through a first-hand experience of the horrific events during World War One, Owen had the experience to witness human tragedy and the horror of war, thus having an impact of his idea of war based upon what he had seen for himself. These ideas of the twentieth century enhance Owen’s capability to write such remarkable poems out of the greatest human tragedy expressed throughout war. Two poems in particular that express this are “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Disabled”. These poems show many figurative methods and techniques which convey the feeling of human tragedy and the pity and horror of war.
As the name suggests, the female’s breasts were ripped off by using claws which either would be heated or used cold. This torture device was used for women who had been accused of spreading gossip, committing blasphemy, being adulterous or carrying out abortion. This device could also be used to get confessions regarding these accusations. There were many other cruel and disgusting torture devices used specifically for women such as the ‘Ducking Stool’. For these reasons life in the Middle Ages was harsh as there were severe punishments for the littlest offences women were accused of attempting.
As the poem progresses, Mikhail begins to mock the routine of war, (wakes the sirens…dispatches ambos…swings corpses through the air) therefore showing us the harmful effects of war. Dunya Mikhail portrays the realities of war through the use of personification and lack of punctuation. As you can see the structure of the poem almost resembles that of a list, creating the effect of life during the war, long and routine. Through the use of action verbs such as swings, summons and digs for example she is using this language to show what the war does by giving it human qualities (read examples). The start of the poem (read first 3 lines) has quite a sarcastic tone and I think this shows how she feels towards the military glorifying war, doing whatever they can to convince you to join.