Literature

The passage from Hamelt  refers to mans nature broadly, and specifically to his own issues. This is made evident, in the line that for some vicious mole of nature in them and again in the line being natures livery or fortunes star In both passages, and actually through out the whole piece, Hamlet is decrying his fact and nature, in the sense, that he is by no means different and is subject to from that particular fault, the dram of evil, doth all the noble substance often dout, to his own scandal. It is apparent with the previous passage that he is talking about himself and his nature as opposed to his character.

Love and Taming of the Shrew.
In Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare is commenting on fact that love can be blind. Though, she is tortured or harassed into submission, which in itself speaks of a blindness, Katherine concludes with giving a well reasoned reply on the merits of being a good wife. In this sense, she is blind to the abuse, blind to the evil that has been done, but, is able to love him as a good wife should. 

Hamlet and Literary critique.
The play Hamlet receives a lot of attention and critique due to its nature. There are so many themes in the play as to make it a virtual treasure chest of literary debate. From oedipal symbolism, to debates on existence to be or not to be there are so many ideas floating around that it makes a prime target for discussion and debate.

Richard III and the nature of evil.
Ill marry Warwicks youngest daughter. What, though I killd her husband and his father This line, speaks to the nature of evil he is ambitious, jealous and cruel. Not one to let evil irony slide, Richard III mockingly speaks the line above, and with such, becomes the personification of evil. Additionally, his physical stature speaks of the nature of evil in the line rudely stampd and deformed, unfinishd, who cannot strut before a wanton ambling nymph In this sense, the nature of evil is deformed and ugly.  As for becoming evil Richard IIIs motivations become clear in the line  I am determined to prove a villain  And hate the idle pleasures of these days.  With this line, it is suggested that the nature of evil is willed, and done so by conscious acts, in which Richard III commits plenty of. 

Midsummer Nights Dream and the Audience. 
Audiences enjoy this play and story because the themes are more or less timeless. For any one who has experienced unrequited love, jealousy, regret  then the play speaks to the soul. (and I am pretty sure we all have had these feelings to a greater or lesser extent.) Additionally, because the play deals with these concepts in a comedic way, it escapes the feeling of preachy- ness that would otherwise accompany a play about the dire consequences of making someone love you.   The line love is sincere, yet deceives and is deceived also speaks to the seriousness of love, though dealt with in a humorous way.  It is for this reason, and the fact that the play is just plain fun, that audiences still enjoy it today. Timelessness of the themes, humorous angle to serious questions,  and a rich dynamic dialog, make this play a favorite in present, and more than likely will  make it a favorite in the future.

After writing about 37 plays and 154 sonnets, the bard of Stratford upon Avon has left a legacy that has been paralleled by none in the history of English literature and influenced the western culture and literature ever after.  His plays have crossed the threshold of brilliance to the unparalleled. In Romeo and Juliet, the genius with his Midas touch has changed the story written by poet Arthur Brooks into something beyond compare. It has changed the poem, the poet and even the characters, to something beyond the mortal realm.  Even though the drama itself is based on many stories and has parallels in many of the works of those times, the play itself is different from others in its characterization, the intensity of action, the extraordinary use of language and above all its richness of themes (Romeo and Juliet).

The theme of light

By the word theme, it is to be understood as something that is recurrent element, which provides for a unifying idea in this particular artistic work. Even though love in its many forms is the main theme of the play, and its popularity too is based on the above theme, there are other themes, which permeate the play, under the skillful hands of the playwright. Five major themes mark the play, Love and hate, the role of fate, the role of women, the passage of time and love against lust. Besides these themes, there are other themes like that of the theme of the light and the dark (Lorcher).Shakespeare presents the theme of light as compared with the dark in his drama with a different perspective, from the traditional.  Light is presented neither as good nor bad.  Dark too is likewise not presented as very bad.  Both have good and bad connotations in the drama.  The theme of light emerges only when we watch out for the references of sources of light like the sun, the moon, torches etc.  The dominating image is light, every form and manifestation of it says scholar Caroline Spurgen. 

It is not because the torches have confused him that Romeo bursts out O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.  This is because his darkness and the melancholia associated with it disappear in her brightness. Because in the first scene, Romeo is presented as a dejected lover, who is still suffering from the after effects of his failure with Rosaline. Moreover, Montague worries his sons habit of avoiding the sun.  At this point, he and Benvolio, both speak in sad terms about Romeos habit of shunning sunlight. However, this sad mood is reversed when he rediscovers his sun in the balcony of the famous balcony scene. It is the East, and Juliet is the sun  arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,.  . We see that, Juliet is associated with sunlight and brightness by Romeo.  The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars and her eyes in heaven  would through the airy region stream so bright  that birds would sing and think it were not night. Clearly the dream of a lover, but so filled with light and love as compared with his love for the darkness and avoidance of sunlight. Indeed, we find matters lighted up by the presence of light in the play. The theme of light is not only used in the sense of good but also as a sensory motive.  It is that Romeo believes that beauty creates its own light.  So, he describes her as an angel emanating her own light in the second scene of the second act.

In yet another splendid comparison, Juliet equates Romeo to a light that is capable of outshining the king of heaven himself.  She says in the second scene of the third act that the night could take Romeo and cut him into little stars.  If this happens, all the world would love the nightand pay no worship to the garish sun.  Romeo is on the verge of immortality here. She even imagines Romeo to be carried on the wings of the night, like white snow on ravens back. To her, he is the day in night. In another scene, where she compares the bearers of the news about her lover, we find yet another use of the imagery of light. They should be ten times faster than the sunbeams driving back shadows over lowering hills.  Thus, Juliet compares the messengers to light, driving back shadows. Further, Juliet compares her relation with Romeo, with radiant light. Compare this with the words uttered by Romeo when he sees the dead body of his beloved in the grave. He says, This vault is a feasting presence full of light in Act V. Her very presence transforms the grave and the occasion is filled with joy and light (Mabillard).

Juliet compares their fast moving affair to the lightning.  Even though lightening is glorious in the black background of the sky, it also disappears as fast as it comes.  Even though the world around her is dark and controlled by those around her, the lightning could light up her sky.  Evidently, it is good and bad at the same time. The brief light cannot continue forever. Its extinction is foreseen.  When the morning approaches and the parting of the lovers are imminent, the arrival of light is given a negative role. It is no longer friendly to the lovers. More light and light more dark and dark our woes cries Romeo.  Their love is doomed with the light and the dark reversing the roles traditionally allotted to them.  Finally, when the lover are parted by death, the prince says, the sun for sorrow will not show his head, indicating that darkness has triumphed over light. And it is dark in the morning, befitting the mournful occasion.

 Even though the expertise of Shakespeare as a poet, in this play is evident, some experts have considered the references to light awkward.  They think that the theme is not consistent despite the above said points. Either way, the drama and its characters have attained immortality, with a simple whiff of magic from the master craftsman (Light and Dark).

In the texts The Snake by D.H Lawrence and Fish Story by Rick Bass several ideas and styles are apparent from the use of alliteration as in  Softly drank through his straight gums into  his slack body silently which gives the reader the hissing sound of a snake to  along a reddish gravelly rutted road on the way to nowhere which plants in the readers mind, such words as remote, rare and reclusive. However, though these alliterations help to flush out the story and themselves could be held up to the light of analysis they, themselves do not answer the question How do people in these stories react to creatures of nature In the following, I will show that the various reactions can be summed up in two words Fear and Awe. These two concepts run through out  both the poem and the short story as to play the most important themes in both.   

    Fear by anyones definition comes in many different shapes and guises. In the poem the snake the telling passage is the voice of my education said to me, he must be killed, for in Sicily the black, black snakes are innocent and the gold are venomous. In this passage, it is clear that the persons reaction to a creature of nature is fear, in the sense that we often hate what we fear and in a most extreme way would want to kill what we fear.  Later, in the poem, the idea of fear is revisited in the passage was it cowardice that I dared not kill him Was it perversity, that I longed to talk to him  Here we see, the persons reaction to the initial want of killing,  has turned in on itself to a fear of killing. It is with this, that fear is clearly shown to play a role in the poem the snake by D.H. Lawrence. 

    In the Fish Story, fear takes on a slightly different form. Fear in this story is more related to the loss of the fish, as opposed to a direct fear of the fish. In the line theyre just going to kill it he said, its mine, give it to me and Ill let it go, I swear I will, he said. Give it to me or Ill beat you up  Here there is a dual concept of fear fear of losing the fish, fear of disappointing his father, and fear of being beaten up. Shrotly after the above passage we see another example is the dialog between the boy and the other boys mother who says drunkenly thass a big fish, she said, yes maam I said quietly, I dreaded that she was going to ask for the fish back. My boy and my old man caught that fish, she said, youll see. Gonna have their pictures in the newspaper

The rest of the dialog continues in this vein, where the boy becomes increasingly fearful, that the mother is going to either ask for the fish back or just take it.  It is with these examples, that the concept of fear in association with The fish story and specifically fear of losing the fish is made apparent.

    Awe, though some would say closely akin to fear, I believe in these stories plays its own special thematic importance. In the poem the snake, awe takes the shape of  self-recrimination as in this passage and immediately I regretted it, I thought how paltry how vulgar what a mean act I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education  It is clear, that the person interacting with a creature of nature has put the creature above himself, or as the previous passage denotes, that he is below the creature. It is in this sense, that the things we are awed  by are somehow above us in station, above us in the sense that we feel inadequate. A slightly more direct passage for he seemed to me again like a king, like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld, now due to be crowned again In this passage we see the actual veneration of the snake to King status, which brings with it all the awe and respect that royalty implies. 

    In the fish story awe plays its thematic role in two ways the size of the fish and the want of the fish. In the line Throughout the afternoon, some of the adults who were showing up wandered over to examine the monstrosity. The monster size of the fish is made obvious. In addition to this through out the story, the very way it is written, holds the fish up to be something more than just a big fish. Several aspects of this are made apparent, the fact that two attempts were made to get the fish back and this gift from the belly of some beast from far below.  It is with these passages that make it clear awe does play a significant role in the fish story.     

    Awe and Fear play roles in both of the stories The Snake and The Fish Story. It is with the previous examples, that the case has been made, that these two concepts, though, surely not the only ones, are some of the main concepts in both of the stories. It is of note, that the richness of both stories as far as metaphor and style are concerned actually make it difficult to focus on two main themes. The interaction and reaction by the main characters to creatures of nature is as myriad as arguments posed However, it seems to have been made apparent that these two concepts play a vital role in answering the question. Unfortunately, because the richness of the stories, other concepts which are important, can not be delved into here, as they do not pertain directly to the question posed. It is a shame. As a concluding aside, I would like to briefly mention some ideas that do not directly pertain to the question. These ideas are Sexual metaphor, as apparent in snake and the fact that the boy spends the whole day hosing down the fish.  Granted, this idea does not directly relate to interaction, but rather, is a deeper reading of the stories, it pertains in the sense, that both stories have been given a fair amount of consideration and thought.

I believe that crime as it occurs in the everyday life of people should not be considered as the norm but should instead be considered as an exception to what is happening in our lives. Although it is inevitable to eliminate crime, it is still something that the authorities, or people in power or those in government should address to be able to eliminate them or be kept in a minimum.

I am of the opinion that it is very dangerous to accept crime as a norm because this would leave an impression that it is alright to commit crimes since it is the concept that it is a way of life or something that happens on a daily basis. In my opinion, the correct frame of mind is to accept that crime happens everyday but there should be means and ways that must be developed in order to help prevent the happening thereof. If it were otherwise, the children or the youth would be very much affected. This is for the reason that the children or the younger generation should be guided accordingly. The values and character of every person, especially the young ones would be corrupted. The commission of crimes affects the lives of both the victims and the accused in a negative way. A criminal is regarded as a sick member of society who needs help. Most probably a criminal commits a crime for a number of reasons, one of which is poverty. The crimes of theft, robbery and other like crimes are committed due to lack of financial resources for a person to survive. Therefore, if there is a goal of totally eliminating crimes, I believe that there should be adequate programs that are to be implemented by the government in order to solve the root of the problem.

I agree that the commission of crimes disrupts public peace and order and destroys the lives of many individuals. Thus, it cannot be said that we, the people, should just accept what is happening and consider crime as a normal aspect of life.

The fictional world depicted in the literary works brings forth the thinking and actions of the characters in setting which is created by the authors. The settings can be real, imaginary or illusory. In some works, the illusory world is incorporated with the real world. The novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes is one such literary work, in which the author has depicted the illusory world along with the real world. The protagonist of the novel, Alonso Quixano is so fascinated by the illusory world depicted in the books of chivalry that he fails to realize that this world exists only in the books. Alonso Quixano, a middle-aged man living in La Mancha, regards himself to be a knight named Don Quixote de la Mancha. He acts and behaves like a knight whose sole aim is to restore order in his chaotic world by making people to live in accordance to the chivalric code.  In the end, Don Quixotes realizes the difference between the real world and illusory world of his imaginations owing to the efforts of his squire, Sancho and gives up his knight-errantry.

In pursuit of an adventurous world, Don Quixote travels to seek his illusory world in the real world surrounding him. He assumes that the people and the objects in the real world are equivalent to the characters and the objects presented in the world of chivalry. Don Quixote believes that he is a knight and attempts to locate his companions among the ordinary people surrounding him. After acquiring all the things possessed by a knight, Don Quixote thinks about his lady-love. So then, his armour being furbished, his morion turned into a helmet, his hack christened.. look out for a lady to be in love with for a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul. (Cervantes 47). For his Princess, he chooses the daughter of a farmer, Dulcinea del Toboso. It is in the imaginary world of Don

Quixote that Dulcinea is portrayed as the Princess. The real Dulcinea is never presented in the novel. The words and thoughts of Don Quixote make the reader to imagine Dulcinea as the Princess. For what I want of Dulcinea del Toboso she is as good as the greatest princess in the land. For not all those poets who praise ladies under names which .to imagine and believe that the good Aldonza Lorenzo is so lovely and virtuous. (Cervantes 48).  Although Don faces mockery wherever he goes, he ignores them and continues behaving like a knight. When Don Quixote enters an inn, he is ridiculed by the landlord for his behavior. The landlord told all the people who were in the inn about the craze of his guest, the watching of the armour, and the dubbing ceremony he contemplated. (Cervantes 53).  The real world contradicts with the thoughts and attitudes of Don Quixote but still he persists with his belief in the illusory world.

    It is only due to the efforts of his squire, Sancho that Don Quixote comes out of his illusory world. After a bout of severe illness, Don Quixote gives up his name of Don Quixote and his belief in the illusory world. He also disowns his books of chivalry and is repentant for his behavior as a knight in the past. My reason is now free and clear, rid of the dark shadows ofignorance that my unhappy constant study of those detestable books of chivalry cast over it. Now I see through ..me no time to make some amends by reading other books that might be a light to my soul. (Cervantes 105). He realizes his ignorance in believing in the illusory world of the books. The character of Alonso Quixano undergoes a significant change towards the end of the novel. Initially he comes across as an insane person who under the influence of books of chivalry regards himself to a knight but as he begins to comprehend the difference between the illusory world of the books and the real world around him, he relinquishes his life as a knight and expresses his regret for living in an illusory world.

My experience interpreting the text is just like the feeling I get from reading any other work that I have done. I always get a little embarrassed when I read my own work. I always think that I could do better than what I have written but then, it does not really show in my revisions. I get embarrassed because in some instances I do not believe that I have really written the paper that I am reading I would often say to myself,  Really, I wrote that  in disbelief of either the cockiness of what I have written or the arrogance of the text. Writing the interpretation makes me feel more embarrassed because I have to admit the mistakes I have done and how I feel about my own writing.

    Interpreting the text is not really hard. It would not be my own work if I encounter a great deal of difficulty in interpreting it. Probably the only real problem that I have encountered in interpreting the text is that I had difficulty initially in recalling the exact thoughts that ran through my mind when I was writing the paper. I knew what I was trying to say with the paper but how I got to write those words is a different matter.  I needed to recall these because it is important in interpreting my previous work. I was able to recall some of the thoughts through deep recollection of what I have been doing at the time that I was writing the paper.

    The concept introduced in class that I use in the paper is definition and exemplification.  First, I defined the different kinds of lawyers and the particular work that they do. Contract experts, business organization lawyers, real estate lawyers, taxes and licenses, and intellectual property lawyers to name some. I then defined briefly what each of these lawyers do. I then presented the demographics of lawyers in the country how many lawyers are there, and the number of law students becoming lawyers each year.

    Brainstorming, drafting, revising, and peer reviewing were definitely useful in completing the final paper. Brainstorming paved the way for the paper to be conceptualized, drafting materialized the whole thing, revising allowed me to spot and correct the mistakes that I have made and peer reviewing allowed me to consider the suggestion of my peers and realize even further the mistakes that I have committed.

    I learned, upon close examination of my own work that as a writer, I still need to improve my writing. There are still a few grammatical errors even though they are few and far in between. For example I wrote  ...the number of woman lawyers in America has dramatically increased.  The word  woman  should be pluralized (women). Another instance is when I wrote  ...one must past the required examination...  the right word to use in place of  past  is pass. Past is referring to a time that has already passed while  pass  is to attain a certain score to qualify for a particular requirement. As a reader, I realized that I have improved my reading skills since first learning the language. Years ago, I would not have noticed immediately the mistakes that I have mentioned but now I can easily spot them.

    Spotting mistakes is just one of the criteria that I consider when assessing my writing skills. The opinions of others also matter to me. I have improved my writing skills through relentless reading of anything I can get a hold on to books, magazines, newspapers, anything. Based on my progress, I guess that it is really true that reading is the best way to learn how to write.

Ludwig Van Beethoven has indeed a great influence to the development of the 19th century music. In fact, it can be said that much of his contributions in music were indeed monumental, and that his passionate intensity and brilliant design when it comes to music brought the art into an all new level (Mcgrath, 2008). 

    Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany on December 16, 1770. He was probably baptized the following day as a Roman Catholic, as it was customary during that era, most children were baptized the day after they were born. His first musical teacher was his own father, Johann van Beethoven. By the time that he was nine years of age, he had already outstripped his fathers knowledge in music. He was then transferred under the supervision of Christian Neefe who was then an organist in the Bonn Court. Neefe gave the young Ludwig conservative but thorough training in music (Classical Net, 2009, n.p.). Around that time, he was also already developing much of his musical career (Classical Net, 2009).

Then in 1792, he moved to Vienna, Austria wherein he had private musical lessons with Viennese master, Franz Joseph Haydn, who terminated him of the lesson because of his unorthodox way of making his music. His career is usually divided into three groups which encompass his early, middle, and late periods. The early period consists of his emulation of the masters that include Mozart and Haydn. However, he was also trying to expand what he can do with his skills and capabilities. It was also during the early period that his works on the first and second symphonies can be found, as well as the most famous compositions Pathtique and Moonlight. The middle period, which was during his late twenties, he was diagnosed to be deaf. This is the period where most of the large-scale compositions that express struggle, bravery, and heroism can be found. His great compositions of the classical period can be found in this time of his life. His great opera, the Fidelo, was also created at this time with seven piano sonatas, including the Waldstein, and Appassionata. His late period started at around 1816 until his death in 1827. During this time, his compositions were marked with great knowledge and wisdom of music. The people admired his great work in terms of the wide extent of the depth, intense and high personal expression and the experimentation with forms (Beethoven, Ludwig Von, n.d.). The Missa Solemnis was also created during this time (Beethoven, Ludwig Von, n.d.).

    With all of his great works, it can be inferred that he had a wide influence in the development of music throughout the 19th century. It is interesting to note as well that the 19th century was the start of the Industrial Revolution wherein the use of metals began to become prominent. Since then, even musical instruments has been transformed. The keys and the valves of the piano were significantly developed, and these improvements led to increased reliability and easiness in terms of playing the instrumentsthey became capable of making more grandiose and beautiful sounds that were restricted in the classical period. Hence, at the rise of the Industrial Revolution and the growth of its products, composers like Beethoven saw that the compositions that they can make will no longer be restricted (Wright, 1996). It can be likewise said that his musical styles aided in the innovations on the forms of music that preceded his time. Since Beethovens works or compositions started during the late classical era and the early Romantic era, he was then viewed as a transitional persona of that time. In fact, it was Beethoven that further developed the music of his great predecessors, Haydn and Mozart. He wrote the sonatas longer and gave them more ambitious movements. The symphonies that he composed was also radically altered and developed in his time and throughout the 19th century. Beethoven transformed it to a rigidly structured four-ordered-movements from the classical period to a more free flowing piece that could sustain scores of movements as needed be (Beethoven, Ludwig Von, n.d.).

    In conclusion, Ludwig van Beethoven was indeed a great influence to the development of the 19th century music. This arises from the fact that at such a young age, he manifested a great flair for music. He was mentored by the most notable names of his time and learned from them to such a great extent. When he was already on his own, he devised and composed many great works of music that transcended into the contemporary milieu. He was able to fully explore the music and went beyond the restrictions and limitations with the aid of the products of the Industrial Revolution. He saw that music should not be confined and should be explored so that it can be heard and appreciated by the people. Beyond doubt, this man was a genius of his time that not even deafness can hinder his magnificence in music.