YoW – Prac Essay #2 Geraldine Brooks’ Year of Wonders is a bleak exploration of human suffering and cruelty. Discuss. Geraldine Brooks’ compelling novel‚ “Year of Wonders”‚ explores the various facets of human behaviour invoked when experiencing a traumatic and deathly event; the bubonic plague. The negative side of human nature is revealed when the villagers collapse under the pressure of the plague and begin to lose themselves within their scapegoating‚ greed and witchcraft. Untimely deaths rack
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The story of English--from its start in a jumble of West Germanic dialects to its role today as aglobal language--is both fascinating and complex. This timeline offers a glimpse at some of the key events that helped to shape the English language over the past 1‚500 years. To learn more about the ways that English evolved in Britain and then spread around the world‚ check out one of the fine histories listed in the bibliography at the end of page three. The Prehistory of English The ultimate origins
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Feminism in Literature Overview Feminism has gradually become more far-ranging and subtle in its attacks on male-dominated society. Many injustices still need to be corrected‚ but equally necessary is a more down-to-earth‚ tolerant and compassionate view of fellow human beings. Introduction Many feminists dislike theory. Sharp intellectual categories‚ argumentation‚ seeming objectivity‚ and the whole tradition they grow out of are just what feminists are seeking to escape. And if their reasoning
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Portrayal of women in the middle ages: By the Middle Ages‚ it was commonly accepted that Eve was principally to blame for the disobedience that led to the fall of humanity. Greek ideas had replaced Jewish in Christian thinking‚ including the notion that the soul was good but the body evil. Heretical though this might have been‚ it didn’t stop sexuality being regarded as somehow evil. One of the few recorded medieval women writers‚ the mystic Margery Kempe‚ aspired to celibacy even within marriage
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In Aphra Behn’s short novel Oroonoko‚ she tells the tragic love story about the grandson of an African king who falls in love with a girl named Imoinda‚ the daughter of the king’s top general. Unfortunately‚ the king also falls in love with Imoinda who demands that she becomes his wife. Imoinda‚ who shares her feelings with Oroonoko spends time with him instead of the king‚ the king eventually discovers their love. Enraged‚ the king sells Imoinda as a slave while Oroonoko is taken by a brutal slave
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Against these we have juxtaposed the very reverse‚ in characters such a Joss Bont‚ his wife Aphra and the self-serving nasty piece of work that is Colonel Bradford. Joss is all about himself and Aphra not far behind him. He has a suspect history with Anna‚ who had suffered at his hand for years‚ before the story opens‚ and he deals the same treatment out to his other children‚ when it suits him
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History Of Slavery An evil of civilization Slavery enters human history with civilization. Hunter-gatherers and primitive farmers have no use for a slave. They collect or grow just enough food for themselves. One more pair of hands is one more mouth. There is no economic advantage in owning another human being. Once people gather in towns and cities‚ a surplus of food created in the countryside (often now on large estates) makes possible a wide range of crafts in the town. On a large farm or
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Oroonoko is an African prince who befriends Alpha Behn. Oroonoko is a hero because he is Eupopean-like. “He was pretty tall‚ but of a shape the most exact that can be fancied; the most famous statuary could not form the figure of a man more admirably turned from head to foot. His face was not of that brown‚ rusty black which most of that nation are‚ but a perfect ebony‚ or polished jet. . .His nose was rising and Roman‚ instead of African and flat.” Alpha Behn alos‚ says that Oroonoko is a hero because
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* History of Drama * Spanish Period 1. Tibag * “to excavate” * St. Helena’s search for the cross 2. Lagaylay – Pilareños of Sorsogon get together during Maytime 3. Cenaculo – passion and death of Christ a. Cantada – chanted like pasion b. Hablada – rhythmic measure of words in a deliberate manner * Spanish Period 4. Panunuluyan – Mary & Joseph searching for refuge before Christ’s birth - presented before 12mn on Christmas eve 5. Salubong – during easter
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King Lear If I were to stage a performance of King Lear‚ I would attempt to cultivates more sympathy for the unruly royal father. When I first read this play‚ I judged King Lear harshly for making one foolish mistake after another. I viewed his treatment of Regan‚ and Goneril as sufficient evidence for his eviction. King Lear was neither intelligent or moral. He was simply an outdated‚ foolish‚ and hostile old man. However‚ after digesting the play I have found the folly of my ways. Since the
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