Walking in the City Old West: The Performing Gamer and Red Dead Redemption
Case study - 18 pages - Literature
In this ethnographic moment, blogger Michael Abbott recalls the first of his many violent encounters with an anti-Semitic shopkeeper in Rockstar Games‘ Western title Red Dead Redemption (2010). He notes the Groundhog-Day-like quality of his experience: every five days, he returns to the...
Hover through fog and filthy air": Scottish Play, Scottish Plague Tim Hamilton *English 764* Fall 2010
Essay - 12 pages - Literature
Macbeth. The very mention of the title of Shakespeare's most supernatural tragedy sends shivers down the spine of all too many theatre practitioners and enthusiasts, with good reason. Since Richard Burbage first stepped onto the stage of the Great Hall at Hampton Court to play the cursed tyrant...
Boston's Faneuil Hall as Contested Performance Space: 1765 to 1776
Essay - 10 pages - Literature
In the fall of 1775 following the Battle of Bunker Hill, the Continental Army had laid siege to Boston. While the redcoats held Boston proper, the Continentals controlled most of the surrounding area: their goal was thus to barricade the half-mile-wide “neck” of land which connected...
"A tale so plausible, so boldly uttered": Reading the Popish Plot in Nahum Tate's The History of King Lear
Case study - 9 pages - Literature
On March 21, 1681, King Charles II appeared before the British House of Lords to deliver a speech regarding allegations of a Catholic plot against him, which had enveloped England in yet another storm of religious furor. An Anglican clergyman named Titus Oates had initially brought the charges of...
Never Let Me Go by Ishiguro - Discuss
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
A dystopia is the idea of an imaginary society ruled by a repressive and controlled state, often in order to reach an utopian goal. It comes from the Greek “bad or hard place”. The society described by Ishiguro uses human cloning in order to heal people, without any regards for ethical...
A Woman's "Complaint": Power and Gender in Andrew Marvell's "Nymph"
Case study - 17 pages - Literature
Andrew Marvell wrote numerous lyric poems throughout his life, but few of them were published until after he died. His contemporaries knew him mainly as a writer of prose and satire, and as a politician and member of Parliament under the governments of Oliver Cromwell and Charles II. Although...
The limits of mankind's understanding: a comparison of Franklin and Swift
Case study - 4 pages - Literature
To compare Gulliver's Travels and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography is to compare two definitive insights into the nature of humanity and humanity's role in the world. Perhaps due to the various and differing social movements of the times and places in which they lived, or perhaps as a result of...
Do we live better than our parents used to?
Case study - 15 pages - Politic philosophy
Our parents, born during The Glorious Thirty, lived the first years of their life in a society still untouched by oil crisis, very prosperous but so rigid and socially unfair. They grew up with the appearance and early spread of HIV, and lived in the uncertainties caused by the Cold War…...
John Stuart Mill: On Liberty
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
In the first chapter of his essay On Liberty, Mill emphasizes on the importance of the civil and social grounds of liberty, as opposed to the « Liberty of the Will ». Therefore his work deals with the opposition between his concept of liberty and the needed authority of the state. At first Mill...
Consider the relationship and struggle between Urizen and Los in Blake's work
Case study - 3 pages - Literature
The recognition of the English poet's literary talent William Blake has been slow and this is to be linked with the novelty of the ideas he developed, but also with the subversive aspect of his reinterpretation of the biblical works, in order to express his views about the world around him....
Discuss the interaction between the translators and their agents, editors and publishers. What effect does such direct contact have on nature and quality of translation?
Essay - 3 pages - Literature
Throughout history the concept of translation and translation in itself has played a major role as it has made the access to important texts easier such as the bible and thus has enabled people to interact more easily. Since the 1970's its role has increased because of the fast evolution of this...
Kurt Vonnegut, Billy Pilgrim and David Irving: Tralfamadorians in Training
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
Where Billy Pilgrim begins, Kurt Vonnegut ends and this is where David Irving intrudes for good measure. However this is what makes the post-modern interpretation of this book so interesting (at least to this author). Certainly, an all pervading odor of fatalism and cynicism colors the work and...
The Mother Tongue (Bill Bryson)
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In the fourth chapter of Mother Tongue (Penguin 31/10/1991), “The First Thousand years”, Bill Bryson highlights the history of the development of the English tongue. In a small area of northern Germany, the country language is very closed to the Old English. This place was indeed the...
Stone of Laughter - Hoda Barakat
Case study - 6 pages - Literature
Many have undertaken the task of writing in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Among them, a few female Lebanese authors have attempted to recount their own experience of the war through fiction. The most renowned are Hanan el Sheykh with her novel Hikayat Zahra and Hoda...
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
The Epic of Gilgamesh is among the earliest of all known works literature in the world. The poem tells the story of King Gilgamesh of Uruk who is thought to have reigned around 2700 BCE. Uruk is believed by some to be the origin of the name of modern day Iraq and was located in southern...
Eternal recurrence as the ultimate test of life-affirmation
Case study - 13 pages - Philosophy
What is life-affirmation? To be sure it is the heart of all of Nietzsche's books (dare I say even of every word?). It is a holy Yes-saying to life, to one's world as it has been, is now, and as one will make it. The one who affirms life is not passive, but rather is alive and passionate; she...
Commentary about: The Tiger, poem by William Blake
Case study - 1 pages - Literature
This poem in verse comes from the collection Songs of experience. The poem is entitled The Tiger and it was written by William Blake in the 18th century, more precisely in 1794. This written document deals with a tiger which symbolizes all the creator's work at the time of Genesis. So, there...
Testaments betrayed by Milan Kundera
Book review - 6 pages - Literature
« We don't give a damn about testaments» declares Milan Kundera in Testaments betrayed. Why Max Brod has not respected Kafka's testament? Why has Vogel accepted that people make alterations to his friend Janacek's work? Kundera highlights the growing disrespect to the wishes of the authors. The...
"The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven", Sherman Alexie
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
In The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in Heaven, Sherman Alexie paints through twenty two short stories a dark picture of Native Americans' today's situation in the United States of America. Published in 1993 by The Atlantic Monthly Press, this book describes the current conditions of livings in...
Nietzsche and Freud on the "Oceanic Feeling"
Essay - 8 pages - Philosophy
It is indisputable that Nietzsche was a major influence on Freud's theories on psychoanalysis. Specifically within Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, and Nietzsche's essay “Schopenhauer as Educator,” there are clearly shared opinions on, for example, the necessity of examination...
Waxing historical
Essay - 10 pages - Philosophy
To say the very least, the period of German history dominated by the Nazis is a difficult one to study. For the historian, this period, located comfortably between the years 1933 and 1945, provides also one of the best tests of the his job, bringing up questions as large and elemental as that of...
Two Truths in Nietzsche's On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense
Case study - 6 pages - Philosophy
A common criticism brought against Nietzsche, especially regarding his essay On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense, is that Nietzsche seems to wholly refute the idea of an objective truth and to simultaneously express his own ideas and opinions with a confidence and assertion as if to suggest a...
A sociological account of a 'day in the life' of a drug
Case study - 5 pages - Philosophy
He saw her across the room. Even through the dim lighting and stuffy haze of his own muddled thoughts recognized her. Even though she was clearly one of those group, social druggies, surrounded by other exceedingly loud or exceedingly companionable, rosy-faced drunks, and completely on the...
Film as permission to realize again the fantastic
Case study - 6 pages - Philosophy
The concepts of “fantasy” and “reality” when placed together are often recognized as two parts to a single dichotomy. The separation is easily continued to include such corresponding pairings as childhood-adulthood, idealism-realism, and also genius-science. The total result...
Once upon a time, women in fairy tales
Case study - 15 pages - Literature
The release of Rapunzel in December 2010 tackles the issue of the female condition by re-interpreting and modernizing a classical fairy tale. In the original one, the heroine is a princess, whose hair are three-meter long, locked in doorless tower. She is victimized and passive, undergoing the...
The Dark Virgins
Case study - 2 pages - Literature
For ages now, the great Rache tribe has cursed the dwellers of Raginpoo forest. Whenever there's a commotion or a calamity in the village, they would blame the Raginpoo people right away without even knowing the truth about the said people. One day, Reug and Delash, the two sons of the wise...
Defining the intimacy between the work of English poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Shakespeare
Course material - 7 pages - Literature
William Shakespeare is a world-renowned poet and playwright who has brought the narrative stories into a different level of genius he so cleverly crafted through the sublime musings he got from his views on the society, love, and the likes. On the other hand, Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a poet...
Shakespeare - The tempest art and nature
Case study - 5 pages - Literature
The Tempest by William Shakespeare pursues the idea of a celebratory exploration of the nature of theatrical art. More than this, the whole play is set on a duality between art and nature, sometimes combining and sometimes contrasting each other. Art would be defined as grace, civility and...
Paper about the major themes of the book "The Canterbury Tales"
Book review - 5 pages - Literature
Written in the late 14th century, during a period in history when England was experiencing a political and social turmoil, the Canterbury Tales are Geoffrey Chaucer's most celebrated literary work. At that time, a schism was beginning to develop with the Christian church. The significance of...
Gandhi, 1982, by Richard Attenborough
Book review - 3 pages - Literature
As you might know, India became a British colony in 1857. The histories of Gandhi and India are linked together since he fought for the independence of India. Therefore we decided to study the film Gandhi, produced by Richard Attenborough. He is a talented actor, director and producer who was...
