Derek Paravicini

Omeros and St Lucia      Derek Walcott’s Omeros is an epic story which fits well into the classical tradition. Its numerous echoes of Homeric writing combined with the use of characters’ names from Homer’s stories are clear evidence to the fact that there is a major parallel to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. There is no debate in this obvious fact. Omeros and Derek Walcott’s writing, however, are much more than a mere reproduction

Parfit, the Reductionist View, and Moral Commitment ABSTRACT: In Reasons and Persons, Derek Parfit argues for a Reductionist View of personal identity. According to a Reductionist, persons are nothing over and above the existence of certain mental and/or physical states and their various relations. Given this, Parfit believes that facts about personal identity just consist in more particular facts concerning psychological continuity and/or connectedness, and thus that personal identity can be

Hamlet Transcendent Themes in a Disinterested Age Modernized versions of classic performances often run into the issue of being simply too long for a modern audience to sit through, with the dangers of audiences simply being too bored in an age where the average movie is about 110 minutes. By making decisions that appeal to the visual side of Hamlet as opposed to altering the auditory work in any way Kenneth Branagh succeeds in maintaining both artistic authenticity and audience in a way that

The number and variety of religion has so many numerous beliefs and religious practices that people have a hard time to decide exactly on one religion. The main religion that people know and believe is Christianity which practices the belief that there is a god and Jesus Christ. Religion is not really about demanding and making rules on people for what they should do. It is more of different people believing in what they want and then what they want to do with it. Religion is a common thing that

Honking, train tracks, and heckling woke me up. I was in the city that never sleeps. Today was an important day for everyone here, the Yankees were playing. However It was not just a regular game in the season, it was Derek Jeter’s last home game. Countless stories that I’ve have heard about this place were true. The people are loud mouthed, there is no parking, and it smells like pee everywhere. Bronx, New York is truly a place one needs to visit. After my father and I paid twenty dollars for

Like any other human Hamlet has experienced the loss of his father. Although the loss of a loved one is a very common feeling that every person will experience, Hamlet had lost his father and his mother even though she was still alive. She betrayed his by marrying Hamlet’s father within the same week as his father, her husband, passing. Also Hamlet had to watch his uncle become the new King. Hamlet despite all the negative surrounding him experienced some of the same feelings that anyone going through

or popular. For example, in the music industry, the main purpose is to stand out. One of the music bands that always stand out are Iron Maiden. Derek Riggs, the artist of most of the band’s artwork, created the famous album artwork: Life After Death in 1985. Many people can see the relation of the dark theme album to the band’s dark, heavy rock music. Derek Rigg was inspired mainly by the main mascot of the band, which is a skeleton, named Eddie. It is presumably rising from the death, or from its

Over the years, many different directors have tackled the action packed film Hamlet, each adding their own special twists to the story line. Most importantly, the famous To be or not to be soliloquy. Throughout this scene, Hamlet is struggling with the idea of suicide and is contemplating if life is worth all the pain he has been facing and is working up the courage to avenge his father's unkindly death. Of the three versions studied, Kenneth Branagh’s was superior in expressing the overall intentions

Within this passage of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," Hamlet alludes to a romanticized definition of a perfect king within Elizabethan society, and by comparing Claudius, a man who is the exact opposite of Elizabethan ideals, the audience of Elizabethan times would feel the same disgust as Hamlet when faced with Claudius being crowned king. Within Elizabethan society, murder, or simply any crime, was deemed not honorable. Alternatively, duels were considered the formal and just way of resolving wrong doings

There are often times in film and literature where a character reaches the “point of no return.” That is the point when their actions force them to either give up or resolve themselves and move forward. In Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, King Claudius reaches his “point of no return” when he allows his wife to drink the poison he originally set to kill his own step-son. The main plot of Hamlet deals with a young man’s journey to avenge his father’s murder by killing the perpetrator