1. Machiavelli, Hobbes, Luther, Locke: A Comparison
This demand was unrealistic, since the exploitation of female slaves was a standard practice for most masters. ... It is believed that she was molested by at least one, if not all three, of the masters she served as an adult (4). ... She takes care to only insinuate her masters' lecheries, but refuses to completely omit them. ... The maltreatment she suffers at the hands of masters' wives points to something deeper than the standard practice of cruelty. ... Rauwerda notes that the Woods' nickname for their former slave was a deliberate joke against her morality. ...
She vividly exposes the implications of what can happen to a society when cultural traits, morality and close family and neighborhood ties take a backseat to the attainment of material things and status become the driving force for people. ... We will see how Willie, an outsider from Putney Wayne with no education and no money, is the one with the greatest amount of character and morality. ... He doesn't have money or a nice house, but he has more compassion and morality than anyone who lives on the hills. ...
Hawthorne wrote in a biography of Anne Hutchinson that "Woman's intellect should never give the tone to that of man; and even her morality is not exactly the material for masculine virtue" (qtd. in Murfin, 275). ... Leland Person, who is a male feminist, talks about how Hawthorne was demonstrating males" constant need to want to have control over women and master them. ...
If happiness for Plato is to achieve justice through maximizing our potentials, and Aristotle wants servants to leave the decision of their future in their master's hands; St. ... While the Greco-Romano has introduced the political and legal concepts, the City of God has led the world into an unusual angle – morality and ethics. ...
Clein speaks of this when she says, "The ideals of chivalry derive from the Christian concept of morality, and the proponents of chivalry seek to promote spiritual ideals in a spiritually fallen world."1 This is true as the reader sees the world in which he inhabits is fully of abandoned virtues and self-proclaimed moralities. ... The reader is able to see through her interaction with Gawain that she's also sort of a conversational master. ...
Confucius' ideas about morality were not abstract, but pragmatic, which meant morality was not determined by absolutes as much as it was by circumstances and relationships. ... The master of Confucius only enlightened the enthusiastic and guide only the fervent. ...
"Are you accusing the world or is the world accusing you? " DOGEN Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) was a Norwegian writer whose work is primarily dramatic. In the entire history of literature, there are very few who have measured up to Ibsen's st...
Like any other occupations, artists ought to care about how his works would affect the welfare of the society and its morality, and even more so because they are seen as the major mediator of culture in societies. ... Freedom is what makes human a master of him/herself, without it, he or she is considered as a slave. ... The devil was the General who slowly gained control of Hoefgen and became his master. ...
Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. It involves a multi-layer relationship between neighbors and other elements in the community, and it is so regarded by the Chinese as the top issue of the morality of human kind. Wedding ceremony is the...
E.E. Cummings and His Works Two women walk past him, conversing with their noses pointed to the sky, in glistening attire, with fur scarves slung around their necks and ornate designs engraved into their dresses. His eyes shift from the gossiping women to a cluster of businessmen laughing whi...
Powerful abbots were advisors to the king as well as being the teachers of conventional morality. ... An individual must curb his sensuous desires and master his body. ... The teachings of Master Kung were made the basis for education. ... Master Kung taught a family-centered ethic. ... Stoic morality was helpful in creating a Christian social ethic. ...
They could only attend the master's schools for boys when there was room. ... The preservers of the old south put the southern lady on a pedestal where she would act as preserver of southern religion and morality and as an inspiration to her husband and children. ...
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...
In the book Amazing Grace, Jonathan Kozol uses his unique ability to express his experiences, to the reader. He arranges the focus of the novel to modify the story. He takes the reader inside the Bronx and shows social injustice. Kozol is able to express the story in such a manner as to enable the reader to imaginatively participate, truly broadening and deepening his sense of the experience. The tools Kozol uses to invoke great emotion from the reader is what makes this book a work of art. ...
The Cold War Tensions with the United States and Russia have been around for quite some time. Russia and the United States were allies during World War II, but soon after they became enemies. After W.W.II, even though the Soviet Union had a strong military, it was encircled by hostile capitalist governments and felt that if communism was to remain strong, it needed to form an alliance with other communist countries. Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ...
Arthur Miller, winner of many literary and dramatic awards, is an incredibly influential force in American drama. His plays deal with issues common to every society. He makes the audience face fault, weakness, and ignorance; subjects we would typical hide from. At the same time he emphasizes strength, human spirit, and familial love. Alice Griffin believes that Miller's plays are important internationally (xii). ...
Many critics regard "King Lear" as the greatest, and most tragic, of William Shakespeare's plays; indeed, some claim that it is the most tragic play ever written. And yet, it is difficult to see why we should regard "King Lear" as a tragedy for the King is basically a pathetic old man, vain and foolish, rash in his judgment and incapable of controlling his emotions. This characterization seems to preclude viewing Lear on the Aristotelian model of a tragic hero, as someone raised above the ordinary level of humanity, except in the most conventional sense of his social status. Moreover, in ...
The beginning chapter sets up the problems of the entire novel with great efficiency. It tells us what is going on at present with Obi's trial and backtracks to the past in order to reveal what kind of man Obi is: an educated man, a young man who is Nigerian but who has studied in England. Most sign...
Evil Macbeth EVIL MACBETH Darkness in our society is indicative of evil. For instance, a black cat, a dark night, a dark place are all symbols of evil. There are only a few good people out there today. In Macbeth William Shakespeare proves to us that there is evil in all of us but in the end the good triupths. In this play the main character Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth represent evil the king and queen of Scotland become murderers and the most hated people. ...