Katherine de Vere
Retired Internal Revenue Service Agent, Los Angeles, California.
I attended Central Washington University, University of Hawaii, Oregon State University, California State University at Long Beach, University of California at Los Angeles, Cabrillo Community College, University of California at Santa Cruz, Seattle Central Community College, Universite de Pau, University of Washington and currently am attending Washington State University, Go Cougs!
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I attended Central Washington University, University of Hawaii, Oregon State University, California State University at Long Beach, University of California at Los Angeles, Cabrillo Community College, University of California at Santa Cruz, Seattle Central Community College, Universite de Pau, University of Washington and currently am attending Washington State University, Go Cougs!
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Doctor Faustus: Wagner, Good Angel and Evil Spirit, I.I.61-94, By Christopher MarloweGo forward, Faustus, in that famous art wherein all natures treasury is contained. Be thou on earth as Jove is in the sky, lord and commander of these elements.
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The Inferno, Canto III, by Dante AlighieriVirgil explain that these souls are the Opportunist: souls in life that were not good or evil, but lived without moral choices; always looking out for their self interest.
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Doctor Faustus: Faustus in His Study, I.I.1-60, By Christopher MarloweFaustus concludes that a physician is merely a mortal man; he ponders immortality, and bringing the dead back to life: then this profession were to be esteemed, held in esteem, valued and respected.
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Abandon All HopeThe Spanish Tragedy and Doctor Faustus have a common link; the immortality of the soul, the mortality of the body; a play within a play, the separation of lovers by death, and females breaking free of their tradition role of passivity.
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The Inferno, Canto II, by Dante AlighieriBeatrice asked Virgil to go to Dante; counsel him for the salvation of his soul. Beatrice disclosed her love for Dante, and the purpose of her journey was to ask for Virgil's assistance: so Dante could make his journey through Hell to her.
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Characteristics of an Epic PoemThe other eight characteristics include a vast setting, invocation of a muse, a statement of theme, the use of epithets, long lists, long and formal speeches, divine intervention in human affairs, and heroes that embody the values of civilization.
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Doctor Faustus: IntroductionFaustus is motivated not merely by self-interest but also by lofty ideals, and the tragedy resides not only in his choice of evil in an effort to advance himself, but in the corruption of those lofty ideals and in the waste of greatness.
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Doctor Faustus: Prologue, by Christopher MarloweCarthaginian general Hannibal, 247 to 182 B.C., was one of the greatest military leaders in history. Hannibal's most famous campaign took place when he caught the Romans off guard by crossing the Alps.
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Destiny is BlindSleep-walking is an action regarded as representing or symbolizing how little cognizance that men have over their actions and motives: how total blindness with regard to our own performance that we actually control.
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Charles Brockden BrownIn Edgar Huntly, Edgar reflects upon '..."How little cognizances have men over the actions and motives of each other? How total is our blindness with regard to our own performances!" (185)
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Bait the HookIn Much Ado About Nothing Benedick performs a soliloquy; alone on stage he relates his thoughts and feelings to the audience without addressing other characters. Other plays by William Shakespeare feature soliloquies.
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SprezzaturaMuch Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, produces the appearance of effortlessness social roles played by Benedick and Beatrice, which may be understood in relationship to Baldassare Castiglione's courtesy manual The Book of the Courtier. -
The Inferno, Canto I, by Dante AlighieriIn the Dark Wood of Error, Dante never saw a wilderness so drear and rank! The Dark Wood of Error gives shape to Dante's fear, who wandered from the True Way. -
Love's FollyThe folly for Benedick is mentioned in The Praise of Folly and the nothings are mentioned in The Book of the Courtier, both potential sources of inspiration for the themes of this play.
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JuggernautDaniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe made contributions to the evolution of John Smith's American Dream. The dream tempts those of few resources with quick profits.
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A Holiday Season Without Envy and the She-WolfDuring this Holiday Season, keep gifts in-line with what others will be receiving; so the She-Wolf and Envy stay locked securely behind separate closed doors. I wish everyone a Festive Holiday Season; peace on earth and goodwill towards man. -
Influence for Social ChangeWollstonecraft, Wordsworth and Jacobs writings may be regarded as a call to action for social change to decrease the dehumanization and devaluation of women, workers and slaves, and thereby, increasing the quality of life for future generations. -
How to Write a Renaissance Commonplace BookThe goal of a virtous defendant in relations to the prosecutor should be to "Bring home for a trophy the head of an enemy he has killed, and hang it over the entrance of his dwelling." -
Cultural Changes: Medieval to RenaissanceThe Medieval period troubled with the deaths from the black plague; peaking in Europe around A.D. 1350, the Holy Crusades, and Hundred Year War. The medieval period was a pious period, while the Renaissance is characterized by human potential. -
Doctor Faustus: Summary and Analysis: Good and Bad AngelsFaustus decides to go forward and to be on earth as Jove is in the sky, lord and commander. Faustus decides to reign as sole king of all the provinces. -
Doctor Faustus: Summary and Analysis: StudyFaustus performs a soliloquy, and considers becoming a physician, lawyer, or deity, but settles on becoming a black magic magician. -
Doctor Faustus: Summary and Analysis: PrologueChristopher Marlowe vaunts his heavenly play. The reader learns about Faustus good and bad fortune. Doctor Faustus excelled in theology, but an error in judgment with his devilish exercise of black magic. Faustus set aside all hope of salvation.
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Biography: Christopher MarloweMarlowe's personality was pugnacious and quarrelsome. Marlowe's untimely death came on the fateful day of May 30, 1593 in the tavern with a dagger, spilling his brains out upon the floor.
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Doctor Faustus: Summary and Analysis: Wagner and Robin, the ClownWagner, "Come hither, sirrah boy." Robin, "Boy! O, disgrace to my person! Zounds, boy in your face! You have seen many boys with such pickadevants, I am sure." The Clown, a rustic buffoon, is a highly identifiable character in the Elizabethan theatre. -
Doctor Faustus: Summary and Analysis: Lucifer and the Four DevilsFaustus, "Now that the gloomy shadow of the night, longing to view Orions drizzling look, Leaps from the Antarctic world unto the sky and dims the welkin with her pitchy breath, Faustus begin thine incantations and try if devils will obey thy hest."
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Biography: Edgar Allan PoePoe is the master of mystery and macabre as is reflected with impressive technical skill, craftsmanship coupled with a tormented soul that indulged a vivid imagination. Poe was in Baltimore found delirious near a saloon, and died a few days later. -
Literary Summary: a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, by Mary WollstonecraftWomen are subjugated into subordinate position through flattery, innocent, delicate, feminine, and beautiful, and praised for their "fair defects" of character and revered as "angels" or "girls," rather than being capable, intelligent and mature women. -
Biography: Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft, 1759 to 1797, a slut and radical revolutionary, an atheist, and a pathologically castrating threat to masculine authority. Boy, I like this woman. -
Poetry Analysis: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXXII"The center of all weight" in Dante's cosmology is the bottom of Hell, and is the center of earth. At the center of earth, beneath Dante's feet is a frozen lake. The sinners sit as frogs and croak with their muzzle leaning out of the water.
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Biography: Harriet JacobsHarriet Jacobs' sounds off on slavery, abolitionism, sexual harassment before the Civil War in her singular publication, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl," publication date 1861.
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EtiquetteWomen should always blot lipstick off onto a tissue or cloth napkin. Lipstick is not to be displayed on any glasses or cups. Do not add lemon with your milk in tea because the milk will curdle. Do not clink your silverware to any dishes.
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Literary Analysis: the Grasmere Journals, by Dorothy WordsworthThe old man had a freshish colour in his cheeks, grey hair, a decent hat with a binding round the edge, the hat worn brown and glossy, his shoes were small thin shoes low in the quarters, pretty good, they had belonged to a gentleman.
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Poetry Analysis: Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, by William Wordsworth"That blessed mood, in which the burthen of the mystery," Keats thought that phrase the core of Wordsworth's "genius." "The fever of the world, have hung upon the beatings of my heart, how oft, inspirit, have I turned to thee O sylvan Wye!"
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Poetry Analysis: "Ode, Intimations of Immortality," by William WordsworthThe child is closer to divinity than an adult. The child is "Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep;" shadowing a paper by Coleridge asking how the child is a philosopher?
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Poetry Analysis: "London," by William WordsworthTherefore, the topic of this sonnet is the poet calling to Milton to help England's godly heroes to speak fireside, regain their power in order to be saviors of "Manners, virtue, and freedom."
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Poetry Analysis: "I Griev'd for Buonaparte," by William WordsworthWordsworth contends that Buonaparte was a victim of egregious child rearing; in youth is where we need to train good leaders, who must be wise and good, and tempered of spirit, all attributes that Buonaparte did not possess.
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Poetry Analysis: "It is a Beauteous Evening," by William WordsworthWordsworth paints this canvas with imagery and poetic skill. The Romantics considered communing with nature as close as one could get to God; they saw God in nature.
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Poetry Analysis: "There's a Certain Slant of Light," by Emily DickinsonWinter means death, twilight means dying, Cathedral tunes means religiously, no scar means internal.
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Whirligig: September 28, 2010Social satyre: September 28, 2010: Army wax's civilians, pregnant mother stabbed, AK-forty-seven, Lindsay Lohan, censorship, and Jimmy Carter.
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Poetry Analysis: "The World is Too Much with Us," by William WordsworthThe poet would rather be "A Pagan," which is pre-Christian; nature itself is symbolized in Proteus and Triton. Proteus is the shape-changing herdsman of the sea; Triton, usually depicted blowing a conch shell, is a sea deity.
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Poetry Analysis: Westminster Bridge, by William WordsworthWordsworth composed this sonnet on his way to France. He was anxious about his reunion with; and final departure from; his mistress Annette Vallon and daughter Caroline. Is your soul dull? Do you see the majesty?
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Poetry Analysis: Prefatory Sonnet, by William WordsworthWhat do nuns, hermits, students, maids and weavers have in common? They are all imprisoned in their doom. According to Wordsworth, the solution is to find liberty for there is much solace there.
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Romanticism: Characteristics, Authors, and Political ContextRomanticism: Characterstics, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wollstonecraft, Blake, Shelley, Keats, Lord Byron and Polidori. During the Reign of Terror, nearly fourteen hundred people, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, were guillotined in Paris.
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Biography: William WordsworthWordsworth had an unusual fond attachment with his sister Dorothy, who resided with him and his wife. Lord Byron regarding Wordsworth said, "But one feeling -- reverence!" Wordsworth climbed Mount Helvellyn for the last time at the age of seventy.
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Biography: George Gordon, Lord ByronLord Byron the "Don Juan" of the nineteenth century, romanticism. Lord Byron supposedly had two-hundred sexual liaisons during one year in Venice. Lord Byron had a child with his half sister, Augusta, who was married to someone else.
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Characteristics of an Epic PoemDante uses epithets Virgil is "That fountain of purest speech" (77-78), and Dante's "True master and first author" (82). Virgil is also identified as simply, "Poet" (123). God is referred to the as the "King of Time" (117).
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXXIVThe Emperor of Pain juts his upper chest above the ice. Satan has three faces. In each mouth, he chews and rips on Judas, Brutus and Cassius. Under each head two wings rose, each wing was the texture and form of a bat's wing.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXXIIICount Ugolino seized the skull again between his teeth grinding it as a mastiff grinds a bone. Friar Alberigo invited Manfred and his son to a banquet where they were murdered and eaten.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXXIIHell is where the bad salad is kept on ice. Who else winter's here? As a famished man chews crusts'•so the one sinner sank his teeth into the other's nape at the base of the skull, gnawing his loathsome dinner.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXXINimrod, king of Babylon, built the Tower of Babel. The Tower was not built for worship and praise of Yahweh, but rather was built for the glory of Nimrod. This displeased Yahweh. Yahweh is the personal name for God in the Hebrew Bible.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXXThe sinner snapped her teeth as she ran like a hungry swine let out to feed after a night in the pen, and strained her lips apart and thrust them forward the way a sick woman, feverish with thirst, curls one lip toward the chin and the other upward.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXIXHigh Justice, sacred ministress of the First Father, reigns eternally over the falsifiers in their distress. One lay gasping on another's shoulder, "You there who rip your scabby mail as if your fingers were claws and pincers."
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXVIIIA body without a head, that moved along like all the others in that spew and spill. It held the severed head by its own hair, swinging it like a lantern in its hand; and the head looked at us and wept in its despair.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXVIIThe bronze "Sicilian Bull" was used to torture persons. The person was placed inside, and the bull set over fire. As the person roasted to death, their screams passed through tuned pipes and emerged as a burlesque bellowing of the bull.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXVIThe altitude of the North Star is the easiest approximation of latitude. The North Star is nearly directly overhead at the North Pole, which shows an altitude of 45 degrees at North latitude 45, and is on the horizon at the equator.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXVMetamorphosis of Thieves: A Lizard fastens itself to a Thief from crotch to gizzard. The two heads of the Thief and Lizard had blurred and blended. Now two new semblances appeared and faded one face where neither face began nor ended.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXIVThe Thieves are bound in knots through their loins by the coiling of serpents. These serpents make a trail smoke and burn as they waver from side to side. The serpents fly through the air piercing the sinner's jugular vein.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXIIIThe Hypocrites nailed across the road, lie naked fixed there in the path; there the Sinner must feel the weight of all eternity. Meet the two Jovial Friars who burnish robes of lead that are hung like counterweights, fulcrums that creak and groan.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXIIGrafters "like frogs squat about hiding their feet and bodies in the water, leaving only their muzzles sticking out'•so stood the sinners in the boiling pitch; a ripple showed where they had ducked back down beneath the pitch" (25-30).
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXIThe Captain demands, "Keep a sharp lookout on the boiling glue as you move along, and see that [Virgil and Dante] are not molested until they reach the crag where they can find a way across the den."
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XXThe sinners face was reversed on the neck, and they came on backwards, staring backwards at their loins, for to look before them was forbidden. The tears that burst from the sinners eyes ran down the cleft of their buttocks.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, Dante Alighieri, Canto XIXShe was born with seven heads, and ten enormous and shining horns strengthened and made her glad as long as love and virtue pleased her spouse. The seven heads are the seven sacraments; the ten horns, the ten commandments.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XVIIIDante saw "Long lines of people in a river of excrement that seemed the overflow of the world's latrines. Among the felons of that pit one wraith who might or might not have been tonsured'"one could not tell, he was so smeared with shit" (112-117).
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XVIIMeet Geryon the mythical king of Spain. Geryon, a giant, with three heads and three bodies. The guzzling Germans, the heavy drinking of the Germans, which was proverbial in the Middle Ages and dates back into antiquity and still applies today.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XVIThese sinners have committed the sin of Sodomy. However, there are no actual documents attesting to their sin. Obviously, Dante knew something intimate about these specific sinners, Tegghiaio Aldobrandi, Guido Guerra, and Jacopo Rusticucci.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XVSodomites: Servant of Servants sent from the Arno to the Bacchiglione where he left his unnatural organ wrapped in cerements. Virgil utters a proverb: "Bene ascolta chi la nota," Well heeded is well heard.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XIVThere are three classes of sinners suffering differing degrees of exposure to the fire. The Blasphemers are those who were violent against God. The Sodomites committed violence against nature. The Usurers who were violent against art.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XIIIThe Wood of the Suicides: "Who through all their wounds blow out their blood with their lament." The Harpies are hideous birds with the faces of malign women. The Harpies feed upon the damned, damaging their leaves and limbs until their wound bleeds.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XIIVirgil and Dante evade the Minotaur. Below Virgil and Dante see the River of Blood. Here are punished the Violent against their Neighbors. The sinners wallow in the boiling river of blood forever. The Centaurs patrol the river.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XIThe Violent and Bestial, and the Fraudulent and Malicious, respectively. "The stink thrown up by the abyss so overpowered [Virgil and Dante] that [they] drew back, cowering behind the wall of one of the great tombs" (3-6).
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Medieval to Renaissance Cultural ChangesChanges occurred earlier in Italy than in France and England: Find out why? Writers, such as Dante, began to write in the vernacular language rather than Latin. The Renaissance was the rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto XCanto X, Circle Six, the Heretics: In this circle of Hell, Dante meets an old adversary, Farinata Degli Uberti, a great war-chief of the Tuscan Ghibellines. Dante meets a friend, Guido Cavalcanti's father, Cavalcante dei Cavalcanti.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto IXThe Infernal Furies, symbols of Eternal Remorse, appear, and they call for Medusa to change Virgil and Dante to stone. The Heavenly Messenger throws open the Gate of Dis. The Sixth Circle is comprised of the Heretics.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto VIIIPhlegyas, the Boatman of the Styx, howls with rage. Dante's enemy, Filippo Argenti is a loathsome spirit mangled by a swarm of muddy wraiths. The Rebellious Angels refuse to let Virgil and Dante to pass.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto VIIThe Fourth Circle of Hell: The Hoarders and Waster, the Wrathful and Sullen. Meet the Dame of Fortune, cross the Marsh of Styx, and approach the infernal city of Dis.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, Dante Alighieri, Canto VIThe Third Circle of Hell are the Gluttons. Cerberus is a ravenous three-headed dog of Hell. In the third circle of Hell, is Ciacco, The Hog, a citizen of Dante's own Florence.
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Poetry Analysis: Satyre I, by John DonneLet is all be said, excluding the limp wrist, regarding are gay friends these stereotypes go back more than four hundred years. In this Satyre, John Donne, highlights and embraces the gay gender. John Donne, a man before his time.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto VThe Second Circle is the sin of the Carnal. Minos blocks the entrance, and assigns to each soul its eternal torment. In this circle are the sinners of the She-Wolf, the sin of Incontinence, sexual passion.
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Doctor Faustus: Two Scholars and Wagner, Act I, Scene IiTwo Scholars fear for Faustus, and Wagner is the commedia dellarte which gives him a license to mock virtually everything.
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Vocabulary for Renaissance LiteratureIambic Pentameter, Blank Verse, Idealist Mimesis, Realist Mimesis, Neoplatonic, Indulgences, Excess Merit, Psychomachia, mythopoesis, double predestination, Petrarchanism, Petrarchan conceit, Providence.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno, by Dante Alighieri, Canto IVDante wakes to find himself across the Acheron. Virgil and Dante cross the first circle of hell. It is in the first circle of hell where virtuous pagans reside. Those virtuous pagans are Homer, Horace, Ovid, Virgil and Lucan.
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Literary Analysis: the Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli and the Jew of Malta, by Christopher Marlowe"The Jew of Malta" is an attestation as to why the rights of one cannot be given up for the rights of the many. Otherwise, under the guise of majority rules, society is allowing governmental abuse of power for the victimization of our minorities.
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Literary Analysis: Comparison of Salve Deus Rex Judaeurum, by Aemilia Lanyer and Doctor Faustus, by Christopher MarloweScenario to Lanyer's "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" and Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus:" Scenario: God creates a square room, places humans in it, and commands them not to sit in the corner. Consider the adequacy or inadequacy of this scenario.
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Poetry Analysis: Comparison of Love Poems by Francesco Petrarch, Sir Thomas Wyatt, and Henry Howard, the Earl of SurreyPoems: "The long love that in my thought doth harbor" and "Love, that doth reign and live within my thought" Both of those sonnets are based on Petrarch's poem #140 in his Rime. Which is superior as a translation?
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Literary Analysis: Comparison and Contrast, Michel De Montaigne and Sir Francis BaconEssay: Compare and Contrast the Authors nature and value of the human experience, reason and induction.
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Renaissance Commonplace BookHow to make a Commonplace Book based on quotes from the 16th century, reflections and conclusion.
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Summary: the Jew of Malta by Christopher MarloweA sixteenth century tragedy of a Jew based on Machiavelli: On cruelty and mercy and whether it is better to be loved than to be feared or the contrary.
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Huckleberry and IMichel de Montaigne essay "On Experience" primary point is--a person must know what agrees with him and what does not. Lucanus, Seneca and Cicero weight in on that topic.
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Poetry Summary: the Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Canto IIIAbove the Gates of Hell it reads, "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." Dante views the torment of the Opportunist including Pope Celestine V. The laws of Dante's Hell is the law of symbolic retribution; as the sinners sin so they are punished.
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Poetry Summary and Analysis: the Inferno, Canto II, by Dante AlighieriDante despairs along the journey and Virgil explains how Beatrice descended from Heaven to help Dante. Beatrice is the symbol of Divine Love, who sends Virgil to lead Dante from error. Virgil, Reason, must lead Dante through the Bowels of Hell.
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Poetry Summary and Analysis: the Inferno, Canto I, by Dante AlighieriThe three beasts foreshadow the three divisions of Hell, which are Incontinence, Violence, and Fraud. The Leopard represents Fraud. The Lion represents Violence and Ambition. The She-Wolf represents Incontinence.
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Biography: Dante AlighieriDante Alighieri, Italy's greatest poet, Felon for grafting, and exiled from Florence. Otherwise, Dante would have been burned at the stake. Dante writer of "The Divine Comedy" which include the "Inferno," "Pugatory," and "Paradiso."
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Art's Essential ElementD.H. Lawrence versus Edmund Spenser: Essential criticism of the morality of art. What is art? Is a work of art diminished if it does not include the essential criticism to which it adheres?
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Edmund Spenser, the Faerie Queene, Book One, Canto Two, First StanzaEdmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book One, canto two, first stanza: The Northerne wagoner with his seven fold teame behind the stedfast starre. In ocean waves yet never wet. Redcrosse envious that night.
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Internal Revenue Service Versus Joe StackLife is not fair. Joe Stack rest in peace. Joe Scaduto get's out alive.
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Love's FollyLove's Folly: Desiderius Erasmus, "Praise of Folly," and John Donne, "Satyre I"
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Doctor Faustus: Summary and Analysis, Faustus, Valdes and Cornelius, Act I, Scene I, Lines 95 Through 160Faustus asks Valdes and Cornelius for counsel. Faustus explains that he has decided to "Practice Magic and concealed arts." Faustus will need "The Hebrew Psalter and New Testament."
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Poetry Summary: Caedmon's Hymn by CaedmonThe fall of the Roman Empire was in 450 AD. The germanic migration of people to England started in 400 AD. By 600 AD, nearly the Eastern Coast was composed of Angles, Saxons and Jutes, and the Britons were on the Western Coast of England.
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Poetry Summary: Battle of Maldon, 991 ADIn 991 AD., Anglo-Saxon warrriors battle Vikings. Errors committed by warriors may include hubris by Byrhtnoth and comitatus by the retainers. Ancient heroic Germanic battle demeanour includes decapitation and other traditions.
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Summary: Stanza 15, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightKing Arthur calls rider a fool, and grabs the gisarme. The rider is pleased with his wine. Gawain accepts challenge to game of beheading.
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Summary: Stanza 5, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightKing Arthur refuses to eat, and demands a tale of derring-do. King Arthur's point of pride. The tales must be of champions of chivalry achieved in arms with life left open to chance.
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Summary: Stanza 4, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightAt King Arthur's Court, New Years Eve Celebration with Queen Guenevere. New Years Day festivities include exchange of gifts and kissing. Did people in the Medieval period wash their hands before eating?
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Poetry Analysis: the Broken Heart, by John DonneWas this poem used to elicit sympathy from the beloved that denied him love? The poem consist of two significant caesuras. The poems imagery includes the black plague, gun powder flask, fish of prey, empty room and shattered mirror.
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Summary: Stanza 3, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightKing Arthur lay at Camelot at Christmastide. Camelot was located in southwest England or southern Wales. At Christmastide, the knights and guests feast for fifteen days, have jousting tournaments, and carol-dancing.
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Summary: Stanza 2, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightBritain was built by barons, stout-hearted courageous boys. Britain was referred to as the "merry land." King Arthur is introduced as the most courteous of all British Kings.
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Summary: Stanza 1, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightThe fall of Troy and King Arthur. Antenor the traitor impeached for his deceitfulness and treachery. Rulers of West Isles were Aeneas decedants.
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Summary: Introduction, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightManuscript lost for 400 years in British Library: A Celtic Arthurian poem in the English language. The poem is regarding King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table.
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Summary: Stanza 15, Sir Gawain and the Green KnightKing Arthur stands up to the rider and grabs his gisarme. The rider dismounts. Gawain accepts the rider's challenge to Christmas game of beheading.
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Doctor Faustus: Summary, Act I, Scene Ii, Wagner, Good Angel and Evil SpiritDoctor Faustus listens to the Good Angel and Evil Spirit. Faustus debates the pros and cons of the Book of Blasphemy versus the Book of Magic. Doctor Faustus wish list of all that he desires.
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Poetry Analysis: the Sun Rising by John DonneTension may be interpreted as the stress between that which is grounded, West Indies spices and gold mines; by that which is elusive, to shine in this bed is to shine throughout the world.
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Film Review: "12 Monkeys," Directed by Terry Gilliam, Screenplay by David and Janet PeoplesThe premise for "12 Monkey" is "5 billion people will die from a deadly virus in 1997. . . . The survivors will abandon the face of the planet. Once again the animals will rule the world."
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Poetry Analysis: "The Flea" by John DonneA love sonnet with erotic joy, trinity and "wooe" is me. This pampered flea swells. Does the poet succeed in "wooing" his lover?
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Poetry Analysis: "The Indifferent" by John DonneAccording to the poet, this poem presents a fact of life: persons who will insist on being "true" in their love-sex relationships are destined to be so in all cases to persons who will repay their constancy with falseness.
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Book Summary: Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, Faustus in His Study, Act I, Scene IFaustus defines the profession of law as that which is befitting a slave, unworthy of a free man, belonging to the serving class, lower order. Law is unscholarly, ill-bred, ungentlemanly and unrefined. Law is base, vulgar, rude and sordid.
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In the Late 1890's, We Knew Carbon Dioxide Causes Global Warming, Climate ChangeA Swedish chemist, Svant Arrhenius hypothesized that an increase in carbon dioxide could alter the atmosphere. Arrhenius believed that if humans cause gases to accumulate at faster-than-normal, increasing the temperature of the earth.
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Book Summary: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Chapter 15Stanza 14: Guests astonished, the rider rolled about his eyes bending his bristling brows and wagged his beard. The rider poses several cynical and sarcastic questions for the Knights of the Round Table.
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Film Review: a Man for All Seasons, Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Based on a Play by Robert BolteSir Thomas More, Chancellor of England, Cannonized Saint, Betrayed by Richard Rich and Beheaded by Government.
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Medieval and Renaissance: Changes Include Gutenberg Press, Romance and HumanismMedieval Period was between the classical and renaissance. The term Middle Ages and Renaissance was developed by Giorgio Vasari. Middle Ages comes from Latin, medium aevum while Renaissance is from French, and means rebirth.
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Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, ProloguePoet will not vaunt verse at Lake Tasimene, where Mars did mate, in dalliance of love or courts. Know the good or bad fortune. Studied in Wittenberg, Germany, PhD in magic. Excelled in theology until heavens conspired overthrow, and fell to his death.
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Book Summary: Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe, IntroductionFaustian Bargains, Authoriship Issue, Renaissance Man, Faustus; Christopher Marlowe, Spy for England.
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Film Review: Gigi, Directed by Vincente MinnelliGaston, the most eligible and finicky bachelor in Paris offers a home, motorcar, servants and the latest fashions to Gigi, but that is not what Gigi desires, who blooms before are eyes from girlish gawkishness to glamor.
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Book Summary: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Chapter 14The rider calls Knights of the Round Table "beardless children." The rider will not fight such immature young blood, but rather proposes a Christmas time game, the beheading game.
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Film Review: Dead Ringers, Based on Novel by Jack Geasland, Directed by David CronenbergTwo twin gynecologists engage in the Dance of Death as they seduce female clients, and perform sugeries using new tools for mutant women that were developed by a disturbed mind.
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Book Summary: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Chapter 13King Arthur salutes rider, and invites him to join celebration. The rider declines, pontificates the achievements of Arthur and his court, explains he has come in peace and asks for a game. Arthur accepts the rider's challenge.
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Film Review: Harvey, Based on Mary Chase's Pulitzer Prize Winning Play, Directed by Henry KosterElwood P. Dowd, played by James Stewart, his best friend is a "pooka" named Harvey, a six foot six invisible rabbit.
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Book Summary: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Chapter 12The guests in the hall stared at the rider and horse in green hue. The guest marveled at that apparition for the color was greener than grass. The guest decided it was a phantom and faerie, and wondered who would be so bold as to champion this question.
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Film Review: Hud, Based on a Novel by Larry McMurty, Directed by Martin RittThe debate: Who do you trust? The Department of Agriculture, ethics, or your own self interest. Tension revolves around one governmental entity, and two persons, Department of Agriculture, father and son, respectively. Who do you think wins?
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Book Summary: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Chapter 11The rider hurtles in the hall without defensive gear, but has in one hand a holly bob, and in the other a gisarme as long as an ell, decorated with lace, tassels and buttons. The rider astentatiously prances about the hall, demands to see the Sire.
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Film Review: Hulk, Directed by Ang LeeAng Lee's Tension with Success: Tension between low art form of B Movies against high art form of Opera transforms Hulk.
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Book Summary: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Chapter 10Medieval, 14th Century rider's hair and beard, horse's hair, mane, tail and foretop twin. The horse's hair was adorned with green, gold, dazzling stones, bands and bells.
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Film Review: Rear Window, Based on a Short Story by Cornell Woolrich, Directed by Alfred HitchcockThe entire film is filmed through the rear window of L.B. Jefferies apartment, except when the dog is found dead in the courtyard. Where does Hitchcock appear? Hitchcock can be found winding the clock in the composer's apartment.
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Book Summary: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Chapter 9Green Knight dress and attire includes mantle with ermine fur lining, hose, boots, gems and silk. Symbolism of butterflies, birds and gems. Green Knight and horse exactly matched.
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Film Review: Them!When Disney viewed "Them," he was so impressed by a brief but brilliant scene by Fess Parker, he cast Fess Parker as Davy Crockett. The entrance to the ants' nest is along the concrete spillways of the LA River between First and Seventh Street Bridges.
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Book Summary: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Chapter 8With each flourish of the trumpets, the next course was served. The unknown rider breaks down the hall-door. The rider appears to be a giant, whose back and breast are grim, but waist becomingly small. The giant, gear and all were green!
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Film Review: Laura, Based on Novel by Vera Caspary, Directed by Otto PremingerFilm Noir Classic from 1944, Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb, Untangle this Murder Mystery by Midnight.
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Book Summary, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Chapter 7Passus I, Stanza 6, Lines 107 through 129: King Arthur speaks, Sir Gawain, Guests position at tables, Flourish of Trumpets, Bagpipes and Drums Proclaim First Course, Feast of Fine Foods, Beer and Wine.
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Book Summary, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Chapter 6King Arthur's boyish disposition, point of pride, refusal to eat, demand for marvel tale, chivalry and jousting, and tradition to welcome in the New Year: Passus I, Stanza 5, Lines 85 through 106.
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Book Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Passus I, Stanza 4, Lines 60 Through 84Medieval New Years Celebration, Feast, Exchange of Gifts, Table Setting and Adornments, and Queen Guenevere, the most beautiful woman in the world.
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Poetry Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Passus I, Stanza 3, Lines 37 Through 59Poetry Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Passus I, Stanza 3, Lines 37 through 59, Camelot at Christmastide, full fifteen days of feasting, jousting and dancing.
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Poetry Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Passus 1, Stanza 2, Lines 20 Through 36Poetry Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Passus 1, Stanza 2, Lines 20 through 36, Building of Britain, King Arthur, Tale of a miracle, derring-do
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Film Review: Unforgiven, Directed by Clint Eastwood, Winner of Academy Award for Best Picture in 1992Film Review: Unforgiven, Directed by Clint Eastwood, Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for 1992, Nominated for five other Academy Awards.
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Film Review: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Directed by Frank CapraFrank Capra's finest film. American history before entry into WWII. France rave reception of film. Senator grafting conflicting with young idealist.
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Poetry Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Passus I, Stanza 1, Lines 1 Through 19Poetry Review: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, Passus I, Stanza 1, Lines 1 through 19
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Introduction: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, 14th Century EnglandIntroduction: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain-poet, 14th Century England, Manuscript lost in the British Library archives for nearly four hundred years.
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Film Review, Apocalypse Now, Inspired by a Novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Directed by Francis Ford CoppolaFilm Review, Apocalypse Now, Inspired by a novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, War Film, Vietnam War
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Literary Summary: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1208 Through 1217Literary Summary: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1208 through 1217, 14th Century, Adultry and Seduction
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Film Review: the Picture of Dorian Gray, Based Upon the Novel by Oscar Wilde, Directed by Albert LewinFilm Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray, based upon the novel by Oscar Wilde, directed by Albert Lewin, dramatic horror film, starring George Sanders and Hurd Hatfield
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1178 Through 1207Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1178 through 1207, 14th Century, medieval seduction and adultry
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1167 Through 1177Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1167 through 1177, 14th Century in England, deer hunting
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1160 Through 1166Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1160 through 1166, 14th Century in England, deer hunting
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Film Review: the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Based on a Novel by Douglas AdamsFilm Review: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy based on a novel by Douglas Adams
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1150 Through 1159Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1150 through 1159
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1124 Through 1149Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 3 Lines 1124 through 1149
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Film Review: Zorba the Greek Directed and Screenplay Adapted by Michael Cacoyannis Based on a Novel by Nikos KazantzakisFilm Review: Zorba the Greek directed and screenplay adapted by Michael Cacoyannis based on a novel by Nikos Kazantzakis
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 1105 Through 1125Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 1105 through 1125
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 1079 Through 1104Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 1079 through 1104
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Film Review: Falling Down Directed by Joel SchumacherFilm Review: Falling Down directed by Joel Schumacher, Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 1046 Through 1078Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 1046 through 1078
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Film Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Based on Tennessee Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize PlayFilm Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof based on Tennessee Williams 1955 Pulitzer Prize play
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 1 Lines 444 Through 490Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 1 Lines 444 through 490
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Film Review: Videodrome by David CronenbergFilm Review: Videodrome by David Cronenberg
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 1020 Through 1045Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 1020 through 1045
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 995 Through 1019Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 995 through 1019
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 970 Through 994Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 970 through 994
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Film Review: the Brother from Another Planet by John SaylesFilm Review: The Brother from Another Planet by John Sayles
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 928 Through 969Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 928 through 969
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Literary Summary and Analysis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 763 Through 784Literary Summary and Analysis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 763 through 784
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 740 Through 762Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 740 through 762
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Literary Summary and Analysis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 713 Through 739Literary Summary and Analysis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 713 through 739
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Literary Summary and Analysis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 670 Through 712Literary Summary and Analysis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 670 through 712
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2, Lines 590 Through 618Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2, Lines 590 through 618
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Literary Summary and Analysis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 566 Through 589Literary Summary and Analysis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2 Lines 566 through 589
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2, Lines 534 Through 565Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2, Lines 534 through 565
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2, Lines 516 Through 535Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2, Lines 516 through 535
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Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2, Lines 491 Through 515Literary Summary and Analysis: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 2, Lines 491 through 515
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Poetry Summary and Analysis: Sine Qua Non by A.E. StallingsA.E. Stallings is an author of a poem entitled Sine Qua Non. The title is in Latin, and translates to "without which not" which means something that is indispensible, necessary.
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Poetry Writing and SentimentalityIn literature, artistic merit is distinguished between "sentiment" and "sentimentality." The word "sentiment" refers to the emotional import of a passage as distinguished by chosen words.
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Poetry Summary and Analysis: Dover Beach by Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold (1822 to 1888) is considered one of the most significant writers of the late Victorian period in England. Initially, he established his reputation as a poet of elegiac verse.
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Poetry Summary and Analysis: A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John DonnePoetry summary and analysis of A Valediction Forbidding Mourning by John Donne, including forms, devices and themes.
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Medieval LiteratureThe Medieval Ages spans twelve hundred years beginning with the collapse of the Roman Empire, approximately 350 AD, and ending with the Renaissance Period, approximately 1550 AD.
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Literary Analysis: White Heron by Sarah Orne JewettSigmund Freud outlined a theory of psychosexual development with five distinct phases. One of the phases was the genital stage which begins at puberty.
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Historicism and Literary Study"Historicism" is an area of literary study in which literary scholars try to see intersections between history and literature. They want to know to what extent we can see history reflected in literature, and how much literature can reflect history.
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Literary Analysis, Invisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe novel presents a weltanschauung of the author's view of the historical situation and material circumstances of black people in America.
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Literary Summary and Analysis, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Part 1, Lines 1 Through 443The poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" begins with the fall of Troy by the treacherous knight Aeneas, who was a traitor to Troy.