"Hamlets Character is contradictory". Discuss.
"Hamlets Character is contradictory". Discuss Shakespeare gives Hamlet a very indecisive character in this play. This in turn leads to Hamlet becoming contradictive, more and more so throughout the play. His main problem is that he is more of a 'thinker' than a 'doer'. This causes him many problems throughout the whole play. The first example we get of this comes in Hamlets first soliloquy. Here we find out what Hamlet truly feels about the situation he finds himself in after his fathers death. After initially seeming to be willing to go along with Claudius's and his mother's marriage here we find out how he truly feels. He expresses his disgust at the hastiness from which his Mother has married to Claudius so soon after his fathers death. He also expresses how devastated he is at the death of his father and Claudius taking the crown, which Hamlet believes should rightfully be his. Hamlet once again shows this when he goes with his Fathers ghost. He comes back from this encounter determined to take revenge on Claudius but then passes up many chances to do so in order to make sure that the ghost is telling the truth. Hamlet continues this throughout the play and ironically this leads to him doing exactly the opposite of what the ghost wants by hurting his Mother and not taking revenge on Claudius when he has many chances to. Another appearance of Hamlets contradiction
"It's easy to become a football hooligan!" - Discuss
Year 11 Football/Soccer Assignment "It's easy to become a football hooligan!" By: Akashay Agarwal 11D In our Football Assignment, we have been given the task to research on Football Hooligans, in depth information on Hooligans and use the statistics and information obtained to prove the statement, "It's easy to become a football hooligan". Below are Theories and Research related to Hooliganism: Hooliganism Hooliganism is termed to be a social problem that relates to crowd trouble and conflicts that occur in stadiums, nearby places where matches (esp. football matches) are going on. Certain people in the crowd fight against rivalry team crowd supporters. Being part of football violence, its basic aim is to disrupt the game, spread violence and fear amongst people, take revenge, etc. The game of football has been associated with violence since its beginnings in the 13th Century. During that period of football matches hundreds of players were involved and there were essentially pitched battles between the young men of rival villages and towns - often used as opportunities to settle old feuds (rivalry), personal arguments and land disputes. Who are the Hooligans and their Purpose? Hooligans are people who are in their late teens-twenties (though some might be older, esp. leaders). They are generally people who either earn low wages or are unemployed. They wear exclusive
"Italy remained poor and backward despite all of Mussolini's Attempts to promote economic growth"
"Italy remained poor and backward despite all of Mussolini's Attempts to promote economic growth" Mussolini had inherited an Italy with limited resources. The industrialisation of the north and modernisation of agriculture left the south behind with its mass poverty and lack of education. Mussolini believed in will power as a driving force in society. The battle for the lira, grain and marshes were used to mobilise the Italian people who struggled to achieve these targets. In 1926 Mussolini engaged in the Battle for the Lira. In October 1922, the lira was fixed at 90 to the pound and had been falling rapidly since. The economy was deflated to drive up the value of the lira, however this drove up the price of Italian exports seriously harming the economy. Small firms were taken over by larger ones. This serious deflation caused government imposed wage cuts of 20%. The battles' good intention of returning economic stability was a lost cause that forced the government to devalue the lira in 1936. The battle for grain in 1925 aimed to promote economic growth with autarky to reduce the need for grain imports and make Italy more independent. To make this possible high tariffs were imposed on imported grain and government grants were made available to farmers for machinery and fertiliser. Although cereal production doubled other forms of agriculture were hard hit, which raised
"Italy Unified Itself". To what extent is this statement true?
Bianca Nardi History HL - Mr Nash "Italy Unified Itself". To what extent is this statement true? The end of Napoleonic Italy and the Risorgimento movements demonstrated that the dream of Italian Unity could be a reality. The unification can be seen as the inevitable end to any means which the Italian states could have undertaken politically. Victor Emmanuel's predecessor, Charles Albert, claimed in 1849 that "Italia farà da sò" (Italy will do itself)). To what extent was his prediction accurate? The Risorgimento movements in the Nineteenth Century are characterized by being a national revival which led to the creation of the Italian Kingdom. Revolutionary outbursts against the absolutist rule of restored monarchs were undertaken by different revolutionary groups who had little common aims and lacked organization. Thus, the sole means by which the Italian people could share their ideas was through the secret societies. Of these, the one which stood out was the Carbonari, who had their base in Naples. The secret societies had unclear aims and hadn't the competence to work towards and united Italy. The revolutionaries' main flaw was that they consisted almost entirely of the educated middle class and did not gain popular support which would have been crucial for their success. However, they
"Jurassic Shark" was broadcast as part of a series of related programs and feature films on Channel 5, which was titled the "Terrors of the Deep - Weekend". This essay will focus on the contents of the documentary
Introduction: "Jurassic Shark" was broadcast as part of a series of related programs and feature films on Channel 5, which was titled the "Terrors of the Deep - Weekend". This essay will focus on the contents of the documentary as well as its approach towards the audience. The spirit of the program: By being part of the "Terrors of the Deep - Weekend" it seems unlikely that this documentary was just aiming to attract unbiased hobby-marine-biologists. Since the film "Jaws" 1 at the latest the word shark already attracts attention on its own. So what can the viewer expect when hearing a title like "Jurassic Shark"? The close relation of the name to "Jurassic Park"2 is surely not just coincidental. The one-hour documentary's intention was to inform about the history and evolution of sharks from the Jurassic period until today. Considering this special weekend though the viewer would also be expecting something a bit more frightening than just a normal documentary. Approach: Documentaries have become very popular again over the lost couple of years. This might also be due to the fact that computers have made it possible to give a far better impression of how life may have looked like, in a time that could not be captured by photography yet. "Jurassic Shark" opens with a teaser. It shows a huge shark passing by from the screen towards the endless ocean. The viewer's position
"Lady Windermere's Fan is a moral play about immoral people". Explore Wilde's presentation of attitudes in Act One.
"Lady Windermere's Fan is a moral play about immoral people". Explore Wilde's presentation of attitudes in Act One. Oscar Wilde wrote Lady Windermere's Fan, it was first performed in 1892 for a Victorian audience. As it is a comedy of manners, his portrayal of different characters is satirical. When he wrote this play, his ideals were to criticize the attitudes that the upper social class attached to morality through the presentation of different characters within the play. Members of Victorian society could relate to at least one of the characters, which would allow them to self-reflect and maybe change their ways. Ian Gregor states the play is concerned with "the hazards of precipitate and inflexible moral judgement. The subtitle of the play; "A play about a good woman" immediately shows us that the play shall revolve itself around the theme of morality. This is evident in Act One where attitudes are being explored through Lady Windermere's conversations with Lord Darlington, the Duchess of Berwick and Lord Windermere each in turn. Wilde presents different interpretations to morality through these characters's varying social position and their particular social mores. He is challenging the principles that distinguish between right and wrong held by this social milieu. In Act One, Wilde exposes different issues concerning morality and how different characters view
"Lea Anderson draws her influences from many sources to create work which challenges stereotypes." To what extent is this seen in the work you have studied?
"Lea Anderson draws her influences from many sources to create work which challenges stereotypes." To what extent is this seen in the work you have studied? Lea Anderson is choreographer for two dance groups; The Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs. For the majority of her dances Lea will begin by creating a scrapbook on a topic that has interested her in day-to-day life, for example something she has seen in the street or on an advert. She will begin to build up her ideas in a scrapbook, collecting from magazines and newspapers things that are related and linked to her original stimulus. The next stage is to take her ideas to either of her dance groups. Lea will go about creating the dance in a workshop fashion whereby her dancers produce the dance going off the given stimulus. Lea then pieces together the various sections to form a dance. Lea's work is based on stereotypes. Stereotypical characters are those, which people expect to see, it is a general perception of society. She uses various ways in which to portray her thoughts about stereotypes, often gender based. Her thoughts being that male and female should not be treated differently but as one. She portrays this constantly throughout her work by using male and female stereotypes. Take for instance Perfect Moment; the dance uses both groups, the Cholmondeleys and the Featherstonehaughs. Anderson uses
"Legal control of multinational corporations: problems and prospects".
LAW 410 ASSIGNMENT 2 Suggested Topic #25 "Legal control of multinational corporations: problems and prospects" The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails, and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. (C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters) As the name "Multinational" suggests, today's corporate giants are no longer shackled by the constraints of international borders. Previously the bulk of world production occurred within national boundaries, but in recent decades trade and production has become increasingly globalised, and corporate activity has diversified and multiplied. The market is now global, as is capacity for production. Legal and political framework is traditionally based on the nation state, however economic activity is no longer such, and it is this mobility of capital that threatens to undermine the power of national governments to deal with traditional economic and social issues1. Critics charge that the ability of multinationals to manage production on a global scale and leap national borders in search of lower costs and
"Like all traditions, the Olympic movement is a mixture of adoption, adaption and invention" (Tomlinson and Whannel) - Outline how these elements can be traced in the development of the modern Olympic Games.
"Like all traditions, the Olympic movement is a mixture of adoption, adaption and invention" (Tomlinson and Whannel) Outline how these elements can be traced in the development of the modern Olympic Games. Over the years the Olympics has adopted and adapted different aspects of the ancient Olympic Games, as well inventing new events and proceedings in order to bring the games into the modern era. When De Coubertin first started to try and re-build the Olympics he didn't want them to be the same as the ancient version but there are still many parts of the games that involve some of the old aspects. When Tomlinson and Whannel mentioned adoption in their statement, they were probably talking about how some of the Ancient Olympic ideas where accepted and approved by the new International Olympic Committee. This is why a few of the Olympic events can be traced back to the Greeks, because they were seen fit to be included in the new Modern Games. Adaption can be defined by those events which the IOC saw had some potential to develop into something that would be related to the Olympics for years to come, so instead of getting rid of them completely they simply changed (adapted) them to fit with their own ideals. If the IOC hadn't adapted some of the Ancient Olympics there would not be much for them to work with and it would have made it hard for them to create such an event. De
"Linda: I don't say he's a great man... He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being... Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.
"Linda: I don't say he's a great man... He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being... Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person. Using two or three critical views as a starting point, write an analytical response to the character of Willy Loman in the play. Towards the end of act one, Linda says that Willy is 'just' a common man, but that he still deserves sympathy when something terrible occurs in his life. Simultaneously Arthur Miller speaks through this character to persuade his audience that Willy's fate is vitally important, in spite of his humble status. The implication that Miller is making is that if a person doesn't receive the human dignity they deserve, they can be viewed as fundamentally tragic. Critics have asserted a range of interpretation's of Willy's character, from Gassner's positive assessment that Willy's "battle for self-respect... [,his] refusal to surrender... [and his] agony... gives him tragic status", to the more negative views of, say, Driver, who believes "It is in the lack of penetration that Miller fails us... we must settle for no more enlightenment... than pathetic Willy has." Miller clearly wanted the audience to feel sympathetic towards Willy. To achieve this he advances three main criteria for tragedy: That Willy is a common man, that he loses dignity and that society is to blame for his
