To Sir, with Love

Passionate Shepherd to his Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’sReply” by Sir Walter Raleigh are two of the most well known of pastoral poems and theirresponses. Marlowe’s poem speaks of beautiful things a shepherd will make for his lady love,while Raleigh's response to Marlowe’s is a tongue-in-cheek poem of a woman who rebukes theshepherd’s actions. Of the many responses to Marlowe’s original poem, Raleigh's is the clearwinner. Due to his style, content, and opinion, Sir Walter Raleigh’s “The

The aim of this assignment is to present an exploration and explanation of the process of transformation in and through education. This will be shown by looking at some scenes from the films, Freedom Writers and To Sir with Love. To begin with I want to consider what we understand by ‘education’ Education is an activity we all feel that we know something about, having had personal and direct experience of it. Education has become a large industry employing many hundreds of thousands of people in

The Art of Courtly Love, Consolation of Philosophy, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part 1: Consolation of Philosophy, written by Boethius 1. Boethius was a popular member of the senatorial family. He was a philosopher that agreed with Plato that government should be solely in the hands of wise men. After becoming consul, charges of treason were brought against him. He lived in a time in Roman society when everyone was mainly Christian. He was an Arian Christian and believed that Christ

His Love", Sir Walter Raleigh "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd", and William Carlos William "Raleigh was Right". The way these men use structure and irony to support the central idea of each of their poems. Their views on nature differ, but is interesting to see three different views during different time periods. Marlowe starts, with describing nature as a beautiful thing, and says nature can provide things that someone may want to use. Marlowe’s rhyme scheme, is AA BB and it uses love and nature

becomes a page to Duke Orsino. She ends up falling in love with Orsino. Orsino- A duke in Illyria. Orsino loves Lady Olivia. However, he develops a type of feelings for Cesario but doesn’t know he is actually a woman. Olivia- She is a countess in Illyria. Olivia is courted by Orsino and Sir Andrew Aguecheek. She tells them both that she is mourning her brother’s death and will not marry for seven years. However, when Cesario arrives, she falls in love with Cesario. Sebastian- He is Viola’s lost twin brother

easily fall in love as they are gullible and over-trusting, whereas men are mindless and foolish. In Twelfth Night, the characters who prove this are Olivia and Sir Andrew. Olivia has fallen in love with the fake man “Cesario”, and Sir Andrew is deliberately trying to woo Olivia through foolish and pathetic ways. Twelfth Night demonstrates that women are weak and are able to fall in love easily, due to their gullibility when it comes to love. This was shown as Olivia was able to fall in love with fake

his plays. In the play Twelfth Night, Shakespeare uses Sir Toby Belch as the drunk. Sir Toby only seems to have the capacity for mischief, his intentions are revealed at the end of the play showing the audience the alluring nature of love. In the Sir Toby begins his foolishness by staying up late and drinking. Sir Toby is the uncle of Lady Olivia and his late night mischief is a bad image for the royal family. Maria the head maid confronts Sir Toby about his drinking: “That quaffing and drinking will

creates in the play In a variety of ways. Twelfth Night is a traditional Shakespearean comedy, full of confusion, disguised identity and a ending where most of the main characters marry one another these includes…Olivia, Sebastain, Sir Toby and Maria end up marrying, Orsino, Viola Although the date is unknown when the play was written it was first preferred in 1602. It is not really what we call comedy in relation to what we call comedy today. At the time it would

Why No One Truly Loves Olivia? For one to love someone, one must know someone. In order for love to be truly love two people must truly know and care for each other. There is no such thing at love at first sight or instantly loving someone because a person believe that they are loved. Feeling love after only the first time seeing a person is not love, that feeling is probably closer to lust. Love is an uncontrollable connection that happens between one person and another over time. In William Shakespeare’s

introduces courtly love and chivalry, which are examples of knighthood. Chivalry is knight’s code of honor from the church. Knighthood in medieval times was that you could only inherit nobility. William Thatcher was born a serf, and in medieval times serfs were the working class and could not inherit knighthood or nobility. William not being a knight by law did not stop William being a knight a heart. Count Adhemar was born into nobility, and inherited the knighthood honestly. William and Sir Adhemar are