Philip Sheridan

Shakespeare and Sidney: A Dialogue of Limited Desire In perhaps the most famous and well-known of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, the speaker opens this poem with a question: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (1). It is a typical sonnet in that it has a rhyme scheme, is 14 lines long, and in iambic pentameter. On the surface, this is simply a praise of the beauty of the speaker’s beloved; he is not like the unpleasant heat of the summer, he is agreeable and eternal. This subject shall never fade

psychological and emotional tension involved in the persona of the ‘woman poet’ energizes the imaginative and linguistic fabric of their compositions. Jane Holland’s “Pulse” shows the gender-negotiation and pluralism we emphasize: “I am not a woman poet./ I am a woman and a pot,/ The difference is in the eyes”.In the ‘difference’ on which Holland retorts the female ‘eye’/’I’ overwrites the disempowering effect of the male gaze traditionally inscribed in lyric poetry. Jackie Kay enforces the point:

The paternal relationship analysis in King Lear King Lear is one of William Shakespeare’s four great tragedies, many scholars and critics acclaimed it as his greatest work, and they also interpreted this masterpiece from different points of view. This play illustrated Shakespeare’s interpretation of parent-child relationship and the conflict between nature law and patriarchal. King Lear is a social philosophy tragedy of Shakespeare. It does not simply describe parent-child relationship, but is a

In Malcolm Gladwell’s “The Power of Context,” includes a series of short anecdotes in which are all defined by environment and how society shapes mankind. While reading these short stories Gladwell put into the novel, the audience can conclude that the rules of society have the power to shape a person or community. When reading “The Power of Context,” the reader must be able to grasp the understanding of how environment can affect an individual. One would say nature is the setting in which a person

1. Topic and Hypothesis: The Stanford Prison Experiment is the topic that is under discussion. It entails the study of prisoners that were in a make-believe prison. It is common knowledge that when one is in prison, they lose freedom and there are rules that they have to conform to under the stewardship of the guards who look after them round the clock. The hypothesis that Dr. Zimbardo had is that anonymity, depersonalization and dehumanization of prisoners promotes their submissive and docile nature

authority. It represents the possibility of a kind individual in society to turn and become ruthless to the juniors whenever he rises to any form of power. The story based on the experimental research done by college students under the supervision of Philip Zimbardo at Stanford prison experiment to depict how human behavior can suddenly change to the level associated to that of evil. The Lucifer effect changes the way of reasoning of the reader since it shows how a human character can change. This thesis

Sir Phillip Sidney's Sonnet #47 from Astrophil and Stella Sir Phillip Sidney's Sonnet # 47 from Astrophil and Stella The sonnet is a short concise form of writing and it takes a great mind to master it. By mastering it, I mean to be able to say so much in what seems like so little space. Sir Phillip Sidney comes as close to mastering it as anyone else in his time or any other does. As the opening line says, this is about a betrayal. Strangely enough, the last line of the sonnet ends with

Philip Zimbardo is an emeritus professor at the Stanford University and has spent the past 50 years studying and teaching psychology. With a Ph.D. from Yale University, Zimbardo specializes and focuses on several areas such as terrorism, madness and evil. Zimbardo is most well known for the infamous Stanford Prison Study that was carried out in 1971. The experiment tested college students and their tendency to attribute the causes of their behavior to personal factors and the chances of underestimating

The pastoral was initially originated by the Greek poet Theocritus and the Latin poet Virgil, who wrote poems about the shepherds (‘pastor’ is Latin for ‘shepherd’). In Shostak’s book Philip Roth: American Pastoral, The Human Stain, The Plot Against America, the traditional pastoral is described as: ‘a deliberate conventional poem expressing an urban poet’s nostalgic image of the peace and simplicity of the life of the shepherds and other

Despite its first performance being in 1608 where women were not allowed to take part in theatre, William Shakespeare’s King Lear is arguably dominated by the female characters. The story focuses on a king who is driven into madness and decides to handover his power to his two eldest daughters, Regan and Goneril. These two daughters are exceptionally important to the development of the play since it can be argued that they are the ones commanding a fair share of the events that take place. This can