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Reflective statement QUESTION: How was your understanding of Cultural and contextual considerations of the work developed through the interactive oral? In our interactive oral we discussed the cultural and contextual considerations of Euripides’(c. 480 – 406 BC) play Medea. We discussed Greek theatre and influential playwrights like Sophocles, Thespis and Aeschylus. Thespis added multiple actors to the originally single person chorus. Similarly in Medea Euripides uses multiple people

Chris Baldick defines rhetoric as ‘the deliberate exploitation of eloquence for the most persuasive effect’. This is certainly seen at work in Coriolanus and Troilus and Cressida, two Jacobean dramas with war and politics at their centre. In both plays, characters attempt to employ rhetoric as a persuasive tool for political ends. In Troilus and Cressida, Ulysses aims to use rhetoric and political machinations to mobilise a war-weary army. On the other hand, Coriolanus’s reluctance to use, and

Benedict XVI in Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) (2009) states that “For the Church, instructed by the Gospel, charity is everything because, as Saint John teaches (cf. 1 Jn 4:8, 16) and as I recalled in my first Encyclical Letter, “God is love” (Deus Caritas Est): everything has its origin in God's love, everything is shaped by it, everything is directed towards it. Love is God's greatest gift to humanity, it is his promise and our hope.” (Pope Benedict XVI Introduction 2. 2009) Caritas is an

The quest narrative: How it functions in Don Quixote and "The Wasteland" "A quest is a journey in the course of which one advances spiritually and mentally, as well as physically travelling miles. The quester leaves the familiar for the unknown. The nature of the goal may not be clear at first and may only become fully apparent at the end of the quest" (Irwin 2011). In Don Quixote, a middle-aged man, driven half-mad by reading tales of medieval knights, attempts to recreate the world of chivalry

The two building I decided to compare were The Uffizi in Florence and Liverpool's Town Hall. The Uffizi, built by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti in 1580 in a pre industrial Florence, was primarily built to house the offices of thirteen Florentine magistrates and guilds in one place , and from this position they would have had authority over the entire Republic of Florence. Whereas the Town Hall built from 1749-1754, during the industrial revolution, was designed by John Wood , but was largely

The country- house poem developed into a literary genre in the early decades of the seventeenth- century. Aemilia Lanyer's, `The description of Cooke- ham', and Ben Jonson's, `To Penshurst' namely represent the small genre which flourished so briefly. These poems are much more than domestic architecture and are more than simple exercises in praising and pleasing a wealthy patron and the readership at large. In country- house poetry, poets use the conjunction of the ideal family (the patron's) and

Over the course of the semester, various types of religions and practices have been discussed. Religion has proven to be one of the oldest of human customs and many a time is formed on supernatural basis. Yet various similarities emerge in its literary usage, customary practices and societal impact. I argue that although religion is generally regarded as a scared aspect of a group and is sometimes used for narrative, explanatory and preservation purposes within these texts; it has been manipulated

Gothic novels generally are tense and effectively establish dark moods as a result of their supernatural and other mysterious elements. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is a great example of what can be achieved through such techniques. Brontë uses gothic techniques in order to create ominous atmospheres and to foreshadow tragic events, among other things. By no means were these techniques implemented merely as a part of the gothic movement. Supernatural elements occasionally appear throughout the novel

Jane Eyre unlike Frankenstein, which calls for a reformation of eastern Near Eastern woman, Jane Eyre calls for a reformation of Western men enthralled by the East by pinpointing the hyper sexualization and inanity of Near Eastern women. The abundance of Eastern imagery and the othering of Bertha allow for a dichotomy between Bertha and Jane to be established that ultimately condemns the Near Eastern influence on the Western home. Jane Eyre begins with Mrs. Reed, a wealthy and punishing aunt, who

Stephanie Justice Renee Beitz AP Language 15 June 2015 Panem et Circenses By virtue of his satirical novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley flips morals and the world as people know it today backwards, and by doing so, fabricates a dystopia sustained by the existence of unrestrained pleasure. Gratification remains constant throughout society, and any rare instance of discord is easily resolved through the ingestion of the drug soma, which provides a spiritual experience in a tablet. The existence