William Shakespeare's Macbeth is his shortest yet forceful tragedy. This Presentation covers the background of the drama, containing political, historical and psychological overview and some contrasts seen in the play.
Hamlet is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare, considered one of the greatest playwrights in the English language. The play is set in the Kingdom of Denmark and revolves around Prince Hamlet, who is consumed by grief and anger after the death of his father, King Hamlet, and the subsequent remarriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude, to his uncle, King Claudius.
Hamlet is a complex and psychologically nuanced character who struggles with existential questions about death, revenge, and the meaning of life. The play explores themes of revenge, mortality, madness, and corruption, as Hamlet grapples with the decisions he must make and the consequences that will follow.
Throughout the play, Hamlet interacts with a cast of dynamic and multi-faceted characters, including King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Ophelia, and Horatio, each of whom plays an important role in the unfolding drama. Hamlet's relationships with these characters, and his inner turmoil, drive the narrative forward and lead to the play's tragic conclusion.
Hamlet was written during the reign of King James I and the Renaissance and reflects the ideas and values of this time, including a renewed interest in classical literature and a focus on humanistic values. It has had a profound impact on theater and literature, and continues to be widely performed and studied. Its complex characters, timeless themes, and memorable language have made it a classic of English literature, and its legacy continues to inspire new generations of artists, writers, and thinkers.
Pope’s ‘heroi-comic’ epic is a social satire. The action completes in one single day in the life of fashionable recusants of London. Belinda gets up from bed at about noon and spends a few hours in ‘denting and painting’. She has to take part in a card game named ‘Ombre’ at Hampton Court Palace. She along with a number of young men and ladies undertake a boat journey in the river Tames to reach the destination in the north Bank. Ariel, the divine angel guesses some evil to happen on Belinda and engages his troop of Sylphs to guard Belinda’s possessions and honour. An adventurous youth Robert,Lord Petre is determined to steal Belinda’s tempting ‘Locks’ of hair.
William Shakespeare's Macbeth is his shortest yet forceful tragedy. This Presentation covers the background of the drama, containing political, historical and psychological overview and some contrasts seen in the play.
Hamlet is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare, considered one of the greatest playwrights in the English language. The play is set in the Kingdom of Denmark and revolves around Prince Hamlet, who is consumed by grief and anger after the death of his father, King Hamlet, and the subsequent remarriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude, to his uncle, King Claudius.
Hamlet is a complex and psychologically nuanced character who struggles with existential questions about death, revenge, and the meaning of life. The play explores themes of revenge, mortality, madness, and corruption, as Hamlet grapples with the decisions he must make and the consequences that will follow.
Throughout the play, Hamlet interacts with a cast of dynamic and multi-faceted characters, including King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Ophelia, and Horatio, each of whom plays an important role in the unfolding drama. Hamlet's relationships with these characters, and his inner turmoil, drive the narrative forward and lead to the play's tragic conclusion.
Hamlet was written during the reign of King James I and the Renaissance and reflects the ideas and values of this time, including a renewed interest in classical literature and a focus on humanistic values. It has had a profound impact on theater and literature, and continues to be widely performed and studied. Its complex characters, timeless themes, and memorable language have made it a classic of English literature, and its legacy continues to inspire new generations of artists, writers, and thinkers.
Pope’s ‘heroi-comic’ epic is a social satire. The action completes in one single day in the life of fashionable recusants of London. Belinda gets up from bed at about noon and spends a few hours in ‘denting and painting’. She has to take part in a card game named ‘Ombre’ at Hampton Court Palace. She along with a number of young men and ladies undertake a boat journey in the river Tames to reach the destination in the north Bank. Ariel, the divine angel guesses some evil to happen on Belinda and engages his troop of Sylphs to guard Belinda’s possessions and honour. An adventurous youth Robert,Lord Petre is determined to steal Belinda’s tempting ‘Locks’ of hair.
You don’t need a hero to have a story, but if you want to write about heroic deeds you’re going to end up with one somewhere along the lines. Here are 7 types of heroes that you can use to get you started with your story, or modify these archetypes to keep things fresh and original.
Read the full post at: http://www.jsmorin.com/2013/02/7-types-of-heroes/
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The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
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2. Task 1
• Create your own Gothic protagonist. Write a
brief description of someone that you could
imagine as being the main character in a
gothic tale. Include reference to physical
appearance.
• Consider: age, gender, voice, dominant
colouring, profession, nationality, status etc
3. Milton’s Satan as a gothic protagonist
• Critics have often commented on the ways in
which John Miton’s Satan has provided a
model for the doomed central characters of
gothic novels.
• In Book 1 of his epic poem Paradise Lost
(1667), Milton describes the fall of Satan and
his fellow rebel angels, cast out by God from
Heaven into the terrible darkness of Hell.
4.
5. Satan reflects on his terrible fall
Now the thought
Both of lost happiness and lasting pain
Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes
That witnessed huge affliction and dismay
Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate.
At once, as far as Angels ken, he views
The dismal situation waste and wild.
A dungeon horible, on all sides round,
As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames
No light; but rather darkness visible
Paradise Lost, Book 1, lines 54-63
6. Milton stresses the degree to which, however defiantly
he acts, Satan is subject to God’s power
So stretched out huge in length the Arch-Fiend lay,
Chained on the burning lake; nor ever thence
Had risen, or heaved his head, but that the will
And high permission of all-ruling Heaven
Left him at large to his own dark designs,
That with reiterated crimes he might
Heap on himself damnation, while he sought
Evil to others, and enraged might see
How all his malice served but to bring forth
Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy, shewn
On Man by him seduced, but on himself
Treble confusion, wrath, and vengeance poured.
Paradise Lost, Book 1, lines 209-20
7. Characteristic features of the gothic
protagonist
• Some degree of tragic stature
• Of high social rank
• Somehow foreshadowed by doom
• A tendency to be influenced by past events
• Sharply contrasting qualities within the character
• The possession of considerable powers
• A striking physical presence
• A strongly sexual element
• Driven by siome all-consuming passion
• A connection with the exotic
• An occasional association with what is bestial or non-
human
9. The Byronic hero or antihero
• The Byronic hero is an idealised but
flawed character exemplified in the life and
writings of English Romantic poet Lord Byron.
• It was characterised by Lady Caroline Lamb,
later a lover of Byron's, as being "mad, bad,
and dangerous to know".
• The Byronic hero first appears in Byron's semi-
autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe
Harold's Pilgrimage (1812–1818).
10. Characteristics
The Byronic hero typically exhibits several of the following traits:
• Arrogant
• Cunning and able to adapt
• Cynical
• Disrespectful of rank and privilege
• Emotionally conflicted, bipolar, or moody
• Having a distaste for social institutions and norms
• Having a troubled past or suffering from an unnamed crime
• Intelligent and perceptive
• Jaded, world-weary
• Mysterious, magnetic and charismatic
• Seductive and sexually attractive
• Self-critical and introspective
• Self-destructive
• Socially and sexually dominant
• Sophisticated and educated
• Struggling with integrity
• Treated as an exile, outcast, or outlaw
11. Romanticism
• Caspar David
Friedrich, Wanderer
Above the Sea of
Fog,38.58 × 29.13
inches (98 x 74
cm), 1818, Oil on
canvas,Kunsthalle
Hamburg
12. Romanticism
• Romanticism (or the Romantic era/Period) was an artistic, literary and
intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th
century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial
Revolution.[1] In part, it was a revolt against aristocratic social and political
norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the
scientific rationalization of nature.[2] It was embodied most strongly in the
visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on
historiography,[3]education[4] and natural history.[5]
• The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source
of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as
trepidation, horror and terror and awe—especially that which is
experienced in confronting the sublimity of untamed nature and its
picturesque qualities, both new aesthetic categories. It elevated folk
art and ancient custom to something noble, made spontaneity a desirable
characteristic (as in the musical impromptu), and argued for a "natural"
epistemology of human activities as conditioned by nature in the form of
language and customary usage.
13. • Romanticism reached beyond the rational and Classicist ideal models to elevate a
revived medievalism and elements of art and narrative perceived to be
authentically medieval, in an attempt to escape the confines of population
growth, urban sprawl, andindustrialism, and it also attempted to embrace the
exotic, unfamiliar, and distant in modes more authentic
than Rococochinoiserie, harnessing the power of the imagination to envision and
to escape.
• The modern sense of a romantic character may be expressed in Byronic ideals of a
gifted, perhaps misunderstood loner, creatively following the dictates of his
inspiration rather than the standard ways of contemporary society.
• Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und
Drang movement, which prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment
rationalism, the ideologies and events of the French Revolution laid the
background from which both Romanticism and the Counter-
Enlightenment emerged. The confines of the Industrial Revolution also had their
influence on Romanticism, which was in part an escape from modern realities;
indeed, in the second half of the 19th century, "Realism" was offered as a
polarized opposite to Romanticism.[6] Romanticism elevated the achievements of
what it perceived as heroic individualists and artists, whose pioneering examples
would elevate society. It also legitimized the individual imagination as a critical
authority, which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art. There
was a strong recourse to historical and natural inevitability, a zeitgeist, in the
representation of its ideas.