How London is Portrayed in Composed upon Westminster Bridge and London

This conveys the idea that the institutions put in place to aid people, may be doing the exact opposite. Furthermore, as the narrator continues down the streets he “mark[s]” citizens either with “ weakness” or “woe” (3, 4) The repetition in this instance recognizes the immense of poverty and suffering. Additionally, the strong negative connotations of “weakness” and “woe” establish a tone of hopelessness (3, 4). While conveying the distressed nature of man, the repetition of “every” further conveys the misery that surrounds, so much so that it is within each person the speaker witnesses (5, 6, 7). Moreover, as the poem continues, Blake implements the phrase “mind-forged manacles” (8). The purpose of this is to emphasize the constraints holding back man are fabricated in his brain, revealing that nothing can hold man back except himself. Blake furthers this point through multiple synecdoches. In the beginning of the third stanza the narrator hears the weeps of the “chimney sweepers,”

In order for one to keep their political status and please their country, there are some qualities, traits and skills required. For some, political skills may be a natural or intuitive trait. For others, it feels uncomfortable and takes excessive effort. In either case, political skills must be practiced and honed in order to recap its benefits. For instance, one may naturally possess skills such as listening to others, communicating and commitment. On the other hand, one may not possess those skills and it may require excessive effort to possess those skills. Prince Hal realizes that he must learn to possess these characteristics if he wants to be a successful king. Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare deals with the struggle of King Henry IV

This article’s purpose is to express the danger of breaking the law in England. Most of the punishments of our time are deemed cruel and unusual. The death penalty can no longer be enacted in cases of theft or highway robbery. The following paragraphs will describe the various instruments of punishment (torture) of the period.

The Elizabethan Age (1558- 1603) is an epoch in English history, remembered as a renaissance of classical ideals, naval triumph against the Spanish (which at the time were disliked and considered a rival kingdom) and international expansion. This generated a great wave of English nationalism. The era is marked by the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is often hailed as the "Golden Age of England".

The theme of matrimony in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue as well as in the Miller’s Tale does not fit in with traditional fourteenth-century culture. The characters in these two texts turn what is suppose to be a sacred unity into a promiscuous and taboo fantasy for pilgrims. The characters narrating these two tales promote the idea of what fourteenth-century canon law would define as adultery—to have had a third lover while married is the new societal trend for the characters in these tales. And so, marriage becomes a component to the larger fantasy of having a relationship with a character who is already in a marital bond, i.e., cuckolding is a fetish for Alisoun in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue as well as for Nicholas and Absolom in the Miller’s Tale. That is, Alisoun’s pursuit of her lover Jankin while being married, promotes the idea that having a third partner amplifies one’s sexual life, meanwhile, Nicholas’s and Absalom’s quarrel over (a different) Alison encourages the idea that engaging with a married someone enhances the gratification of adultery. In other words, marriage is not portrayed as a scared bond, but as a device to fulfill a pilgrim’s sexual fantasy; and, this new fantasy is what the pilgrims try to make a trend throughout England. Note that I will be using the name, “Alisoun,” to represent the wife from Bath, and I will be using the name, “Alison,” to portray the wife in the Miller’s Tale.

During 2000, the New London city passed a growth program that, in the expressions of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, was considered to bring forth an approximate of about 1,000 employments, to augment tax as

main way to catch a criminal was to catch them in the act or to have a

As the daughter of Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet, Juliet is forced to obey her parents and marry a gentleman named Paris. Unfortunately, Juliet refuses to do so and chooses to be with the love of her life, Romeo Montague. As written, Lady Capulet suggested that Juliet marries Paris because of his good looks and money. Though marriage never crossed Juliet’s mind she still took it into consideration up until she laid eyes on Romeo Montague, the son of her family’s worse enemies, and fell madly in love with him. Juliet was so in love she prepared to disobey her parents and marry Romeo in secret, choosing him over her family. After their marriage, Lord Capulet demanded his right as Juliet’s father to marry Paris, just as Juliet refused to marry

Satire, or the use of exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody to draw attention to and criticize the flaws of individual people or society as a whole, was used centuries ago and is still used today because of a satirist’s ability to creatively address issues they see. Throughout A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens effectively uses satire to encourage social reform in a society he saw was in dire need of it. Describing Darnay’s first trial, Dickens uses incongruity when comparing blue flies to the mob that has gathered to watch his trial. After the Attorney-General had stopped talking, “a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become” (Dickens 69). A crowd of people is not the same thing as a swarm of flies, but by juxtaposing these two things, Dickens draws attention to the crowd’s tendency to act like a swarm of flies- obnoxious and unable to think for

supposed to be engaged to Nym at some point in time, but ran off with

Henry V is a wise and loyal king, changing from a wild youth to a mature king. He is described to be an intelligent, thoughtful and an efficient statesman. He thinks carefully whether to invade France or not which represents his responsible character. King Henry gives a very strong speech which gave courage and confidence to his army that they could win the battle. This character describes him to be a king of great ability to fight and having good administrative skills. Throughout the play Henry’s nature is religious, merciful and compassionate.

Wilde’s poem, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ details the prisoner narrator’s first-hand experience in the prison and provides an account of a condemned man’s last days before being hung. The emotional nature of the poem allows the prisoner to express how he feels about the events he sees and the significant impact this has on him. ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ is likely largely biographical and details Wilde’s own personal experience of being in prison. Largely, the poem explores themes of punishment, retribution, forgiveness and societal influence. Initially, the poem appears to be clearly about attacking the judicial system, however others would argue that the prisoner’s personal experience is more important because it evokes more feeling for readers and is more influential as changing societal views on prisoners compared to being an attack on the judicial system.

Shakespeare and Browning both present the theme of desire through their central characters. Lady Macbeth (and Macbeth) is motivated by the desire for ambition and authority in ‘Macbeth’ whilst in the Browning monologues; the monologists are driven by the desire of power and control in ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and revenge in ‘The laboratory’. All of which seem to have fatal conclusions as a result of each of their desires. As the texts were produced over 400years ago, audiences may have found the works of Shakespeare and Browning highly thought-provoking and entertaining whilst contemporary audiences finding the different aspects of desire relatable to modern situations. Lady Macbeth’s need for authority in her famous soliloquy ‘unsex me

Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, is acknowledged by many as the first gothic novel. It was the first of it’s kind and many of the conventions used by Walpole, which put it in a literary genre of it’s own, were continued by authors such as Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. Many of these defining characteristics can be seen within the very first few pages of the text and for the purposes of this essay, to identify some of these conventions used and the relevance of this text to modernity I shall focus this analysis on the passage between pages twenty-four and twenty-six from the Oxford World’s Classics edition.

“In roughly built playhouses and cobblestone inn yards, an extraordinary development took place in England in the 1500s.” (Yancey, 8). At that time, an opportunity combined to produce literature achievement never before witnessed in the history of drama and theater. The renaissance, helped spark this movement by inspiring scientific and artistic creativity throughout the land. Models began writing dramas that portrayed life in both realistic and imaginative ways. This created work later captured the attention of the world that changed the English drama. The many aspects of Elizabethan theater helped to shape the acting and theater world forever.