Analysis Of Steven Stone 's ' The Lord Of The Kings ' Essay

Shakespeare’s plays are not always easy to define how a particular scene contributes to the overall picture of the play. Looking only at the surface of the gardening scene in act 3, scene 4, the reader merely acquires that the gardeners are speaking about binding the apricots and plucking the weeds at the Duke of York’s palace. However, the gardening essentially represents a metaphor for the rule and management of the kingdom under King Richard II. It becomes important to examine a scene such as this one to gain insight on what Shakespeare wants to convey. In this case, Shakespeare desires to reveal the perspective of the common man and the type of rule King Richard II has over the people of England.

Written by Brendan McConville, The Kings Three Faces: The Rise & Fall of Royal America is a masterful study of the colonial American approach toward monarchy, and the way this attitude was in political cultures just before the revolution. Just like other scholars who rush to promote their work, Brendan exaggerates his claim leading him to provide a counter thesis on the historiographical convention.

In the book, “All The King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren, the character of Jack Burden gradually evolves into a person with a deeper comprehension of the world around him. Jack grapples with many new concepts, including the concept of whether or not knowledge is power. Jack’s profession involves digging into the past to discover information about others, which often, he will later use to blackmail them. So naturally Jack believes knowledge holds great power. However, as the book carries on, Jack struggles with the idea that his knowledge may have a much deeper effect on society than the original purpose of the information. Throughout this novel Jack demonstrates that knowledge is power, but he eventually realizes

      The attack of "conscience" that King Richard suffers in Act 5, Scene 5 of Shakespeare's Richard III (133-157) can be seen as the psychological climax of the drama, one that is critical to both Richard's development as a character and the play's ultimate success. Richard's struggle to reconcile the many different roles he attempts to play into one unified self, reflected in the tone and composition of his speech, adds depth and humanity to his character; at the same time, his ultimate failure to maintain his "self-made" identity simplifies the play in a way that allows the author to satisfy his audience by punishing the villain and reaffirming the world views that Richard's character

In the story of The Once and Future King, there are many story sections in this book. Some may lead to happy endings and some may lead towards some tragedy. From Book One and Four there are parts that lead into many different direction. From Book One is the part where everything good happens, and Book Four is where everything goes down the hill and which leads to the ending of the story. Somehow there is a connection between these stories and how they could blend in together no matter what. We will begin and talk about how these two stories connect and how they have a theme together and how there are elements to the story.

To turn Henry V into a play glorifying war or a play condemning war would be to presume Shakespeare's intentions too much. He does both of these and more in his recount of the historical battle of Agincourt. Although Shakespeare devotes the play to the events leading to war, he simultaneously gives us insight into the political and private life of a king. It is this unity of two distinct areas that has turned the play into a critical no man's land, "acrimoniously contested and periodically disfigured by opposing barrages of intellectual artillery" (Taylor 1). One may believe that Henry is the epitome of kingly glory, a disgrace of royalty, or think that Shakespeare himself disliked Henry

Finally, last chapter, “Justice, Kingship, and the Shape of Society, discusses why Near Eastern communities desired to be ruled by a king during the 10th and 11th century. This chapter highlights that individuals of the Buyid period “believed that a general sense of mutual obligation would be maintained if loyalties to the multiple categories to which they belonged were maintained” (1980). Mottahedeh states that the men of the Buyid period recognized that loyalty to one category may conflict feelings of obligation, therefore they yearned for a loyalty not obligated to any category to uphold fairness in dealing with the different categories. As a result, the king played the “role of the arbiter, distant from the society, for which it arbitrated, known to live largely for its own interest and not for any particular interest in society,” in the Buyid dynasty (1980). Evidently, the final chapter of Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society highlights that the Buyid dynasty’s role of the king contributed to the creation of stable and moral communities in the 10th and 11th centuries.

Our ever faithful, ever true Lord and Savior has proven Himself in innumerable ways as "The Alpha and the Omega." We remember the Stow Ohio dinner with friends held on Sunday, May 9th 2010. HE has shown that He alone has the final say in the affairs of men, "The Almighty." As our Helper, He told us we are stepping into "our season of help." HE is still manifesting Himself as the ever-fresh, ever-new God, the God of "a new thing." In His mercy HE taught us the "power

Jesus Christ is the Alpha and the Omega. He is the first and the last, and He is in complete control of everything in between. God verifies this truth in Revelation 1:8 by saying, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.” He also proclaimed Himself as the Alpha and Omega in Revelation 21:6 and 22:13.

Yesterday around nine in the morning the disciples and some Christians gathered together to thank God. As they were sitting down they heard the sound of what they thought was strong wind coming in from heaven. Suddenly a big gust of wind came in and filled the whole room. Next they interpreted that they saw tongues of fire separate and come towards them. Witnesses elucidated that they saw the flames rest on their heads. They were then permeated with the Holy Spirit and started speaking in different languages. “It then became really noisy” said a witness. Because it was really loud this attracted a crowd. People saw them speaking in different languages and thought that they may of had had too much to drink. Peter heard the

Due to the powerful influence of the monarchy, the nature, duties and responsibilities of kingship were of particular interest to Shakespeare. The mark of a bad king was the decline of the political, social and economic climates, while the mark of a good king was the blossoming of such worlds. Therefore, the characteristics of the person occupying the kingship were crucial to the health of the nation. Shakespeare explores this issue in many of his plays by examining the traits of poorly fulfilled kingships, and the political and social ramifications of such monarchical failures. He does this most notably in Macbeth and Richard II. In both plays Shakespeare ultimately concludes that tyrants are

‘Star of the Sea’ by Joseph o Connor is a text set during the Irish Potato Famine, in 1847. The Irish Potato famine of the 1840s was the greatest social catastrophe of 19th century Europe, yet inspired surprisingly little imaginative writing. (Eagleton, 2002) However this book has been described by the Sunday Times as having ‘compelling characters and a dizzying narrative’ (Heaney, 2007) This compelling story is set around a wealthy, turned bankrupt, land owner and his family who flee to America, the promised land, in search of a new life. They are joined on this journey by a range of other passengers whose previous lives are in entwined together in a past that won’t let them go. The book has been written as

John, the servant of Jesus Christ, had been exiled on the Isle of Patmos because of his witness and testimony of the word of God, and because of his all-embracing commitment to Jesus. He proclaimed that he was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day when he heard a mighty, powerful voice speaking behind him. Upon hearing the voice, he immediately gave heed to the direction of the voice and saw seven candlesticks and the One standing in the midst of them. The significance of the candlesticks was that they were symbolic of the seven churches that were in Asia. The Lord assigned John the task of writing to the seven churches and reporting the revelation to them that was divulged to him by Jesus. Jesus analyzed each of the churches and revealed to John a status report of His findings. The very candid reports, whether good or bad,

In writing his history plays, Shakespeare was actually commenting on what he thought about the notion of kingship. Through his plays, he questions the divine right of kings, which the kings and the aristocracy used heavily in their favour to win the people's love. In Macbeth, King Richard II and King Henry IV part 1, Shakespeare shows us his opinion of kingship in general.

"Woe to him who says to wood, 'Awake!' to silent stone 'Arise! It shall teach!' behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet in it there is no breath at all. But The Lord is in His holy temple. Let all