"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralp...
Major themes in which Samuel Beckett illustrates is religion, eternal return, and metamorphosis or lack there of. ... Instead, they heed the cries of desperation and seize the opportunity to immerse themselves in a game of suffering that does nothing but increase their own.The scene in which the suffering protagonists deliver blows to another defenseless creature projects a bitter irony: sufferers promote suffering in their search for salvation"(Karic 239). ... In Friedrich Nietzsche novel Thus Spake Zarathustra, it deeply explains the themes of free-will, religion, eternal return, and me...
Introduction In this comparative study I will examine the representation of the magical creatures in two adaptations of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream: the eponymous video registration of Benjamin Britten's opera performed at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1981, conducted by Bernard Haitink, produced by Peter Hall and designed by John Bury, and Michael Hoffman's film adaptation of Shakespeare's play of 1999. I have chosen these two productions because they belong to two different cultural domains. Hoffman's film is a Hollywood product, intended for a broad...
