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    John Milton’s Negative Portrayal of Monarchy in Paradise Lost In Paradise Lost, Milton argues against monarchy by portraying it in its purest form using the kingdom of heaven. Heaven is portrayed in Paradise Lost as a blatant monarchy. As with all monarchies, heaven does not offer true political freedom as it is ruled by one monarch, God. Milton portrays heaven to be a true monarchy and visibly displays the shortcomings of such type of government. He does this in various ways by comparing societies

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    As our world evolve to a more civilize period, peoples ideology of the world are also evolving, which helps structure the civilization in a certain way. Civilians slowly became more aware of life problems, as a result, they put effort to find peace through the work of art. Some people might question, How can that solve daily life issues or what does it take to better the society? Well, the Europeans had adapted the Neoclassicism and Romanticism form of art belief, in order to find the answers that

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    Name Tutor Course Date Power and Greed In any given society power and greed are often noted as societal factors that tend to exist together such that one of them influences the other. In William Shakespeare 's play, "Measure for Measure" the two concepts have been clearly depicted through Lord Angelo and the Duke 's action of using their power to win the love of Claudio 's sister, Isabella. Based on the theme of this play, one can argue that leaders sometimes use their power to influence the lives

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    Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams explores the battle between reality and illusion. He gives us a vast mixture of characters that all have their own way of viewing their reality. Will they live in the world of magic and ‘what ought to be’ in order to escape what is real, or will they live in the harsh and brute reality that life has in store for them? The most stunning example of living in ‘what ought to be’ can be seen in Blanche. Through Blanche, Williams explores the notion of living in

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    When people think of parodies, they think of music videos, movies, and skits that are made for the purpose of making fun of an existing music video, movie, or skit that was created under a serious context. The definition of parody is “the imitation of an artist, writer, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comedic effect.” Parodies are all very different in content, but the basic formula to make one is the same and all parodies aim to have the same goal: to make people laugh. In video parodies

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    In the play Hamlet written by Shakespeare, a young prince is trying to avenge the untimely murder of his father. Later on, Hamlet pretends to be insane, when finding that his father is dead and then uses others to get what he needed. As this happens a girl about Hamlet’s age struggles with Polonius her father and Laertes her brother. Poor Ophelia is unable to fight back all those against her as she slowly goes insane. Ophelia has the idea that she doesn’t like to be undermined and tries to create

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    Introduction First, the counseling approaches that were addressed, focused on the inner and sexual life of clients. These Freudian and psychoanalytically based notions examined a patients past and early childhood experiences. They explored unconscious and repressed material and allowed the patient to relive their experiences and talk comfortably about them. The psychoanalysts looked at humans as automatons, going forward in a hypnotic way of living, driven hopelessly by deterministic forces. Almost

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    stories give the main character a few good attributes; this lends itself to the reader finding compassion and perspective for the character. Some Southern gothic authors are William Faulkner, who wrote "A Rose for Emily", and Flannery O 'Conner, who wrote "Good Country People" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find". William Faulkner 's "A Rose for Emily" is an example of Southern Gothic literature. It covers many prospects of Southern Gothic style writing, like an old unlit home, afterlife, unidentified

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    In Act III scene 7 of Shakespeare’s King Lear, Gloucester returns to his castle after secretly guiding Lear to safety. Gloucester hoped to avoid any confrontation by Cornwall and Regan, but his son Edmund, betrayed him and revealed the information. When Gloucester finds Regan and Cornwall, they accuse him of being a traitor. They are both enraged that he has disobeyed their orders by helping Lear who was just kicked out during a terrible storm. After some interrogation by Regan, Gloucester justifies

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    William Shakespeare, a late sixteenth-century iconic poet, and playwright, once expressed, “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” Every cause has a ripple effect, and Shakespeare came to the realization that it is not some higher figure or celestial object that controls our fates, but rather our decisions that morph us into the individuals we become. Similarly, The Other Wes Moore written by Wes Moore, features an identical theme regarding choices and how they affect our

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