My Last Duchess

British Literature II - Final Exam British Literature is filled with diverse and talented writers who through each period has brought something new to the table. Over the course of the term we have covered the Romantic period, the Victorian Age and the Modern period. Each period has had a hand in developing literature through to the modern age and each writer has influenced the next generation. To best examine each period of literature the paper will be split amongst the three major periods the course

her. Her true identity of hard work reflected in the time she spent helping her ailing mother with chores and meals around the home. Memphis’ mother was terribly sick, for not even a medic could revive her back to her original state. She used the last of the little money that she had left to see if there had been any hope for her dying mother. Unfortunately, Memphis was out of luck. She grieved over her mothers death, saying, “What a horrendous occasion this is.” Memphis’s father was the only family

Melisa Zeng Ms. Rowe IB Native Language 1 22 December 2015 Dynamic Changes | IOP Analytical Paper With modernism as framework, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Elliot, and George Bernard Shaw have all created literary works that marked the new and unorthodox ways of viewing and interacting with the world with the beginning of the twentieth century. The Great Gatsby, The Love Song of J. A. Prufrock, The Wasteland, and Pygmalion portrayed the rejection of principles for religion, tradition, and morality

face                    to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating                    that, if I allowed  it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature,                    my whole soul, my very art itself... Something seemed to tell me                    that I was on the verge of a terrible crisis in my life... I take no                    credit to myself for trying to escape... We were quite close,                    almost touching. Our eyes met again

British Literature II - Final Exam British Literature is filled with diverse and talented writers who through each period has brought something new to the table. Over the course of the term we have covered the Romantic period, the Victorian Age and the Modern period. Each period has had a hand in developing literature through to the modern age and each writer has influenced the next generation. To best examine each period of literature the paper will be split amongst the three major periods the

William Shakespeare’s Richard III is a political work of genius of its time, the way Shakespeare can propagate the tutor dynasty and retell the history of his state in such a compelling way is quite remarkable. The work centralizes itself around the inner workings of the royal court just after the war of the roses and prior to the uprising of the tutor dynasty. The character of Richard III is both protagonist and antagonist in the work, however throughout this paper, we will be commenting on the

morning with a hard lump of anger pressing against my chest.” (2) This refers to her brother Zachary who we find out is known as the “charmer” in the family. In the past tense, we learn how Winnifred looked up to Zachary as a child, she was always eager to help him, she’d say if Zachary said, “‘How be you wash my bike for me, Posie, love?’” I would be halfway to the kitchen for bucket and rags before he stopped speaking. When he said, ‘Go get my baseball, kid,’ I ran and got it.” (2) This quote helps

The flapping of wings of a butterfly can cause tornadoes. Well, this certainly proved true in the early part of the 20th century. A single event was to have catastrophic consequences - a single bullet fired in the balmy summer of 1914 led to the deaths of millions and devastation of a scale never before seen. The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife was critical in setting off the chain of events that led to the First World War. Not only was it a bad day for the Archduke and

The Misogynistic Henry Higgins The key to understanding George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion lies in understanding the power struggle between the “haves” and “have-nots” – specifically the active and intentional disenfranchisement of women at the turn of the 20th century. At the core of Pygmalion there is a focus on the societal inequities of the day, with Shaw presenting society’s treatment of women as property without rights and with little understanding of their surroundings or place in society.

Galileo Galilei was regarded as ‘way ahead of his time’ (ed.Shea ix), as his first biographer, Vincenzio Viviani, wrote in 1654, 12 years after Galileo’s death. Threatened by the Inquisition for daring to contradict the literal truth of the Bible, Galileo’s astronomical discoveries changed the way we perceive the world as well as our place in the universe. His legacy ignited a scientific revolution that inspired all his later great successors, first of Newton. Galileo was continually threatened by