1. The Significant Text of Othello
Assignment Compare the ways in which texts offer insights into the human experience. Respond to this statement in relation to the pair of texts that you have studied. Response Texts in time embody ideological concerns of their period, expressing the impact of influential values and human experience on texts. ... These texts in time not only warn previous societies, but through insights into human experience, offer caution to modern day audiences. ... Both Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" share values as texts in time despite contr...
Initial efforts were made by Formalists and the New Critics who assigning primary importance to the text set up the tradition of close reading. ... Similarly Knapp (2004) thinks that in the present age the focus needs to be shifted from what texts mean to what students think about them and how they learn. ... Students are not trained to see how literary texts are contributing in constructing reality through ideological representations. ... As a result students become a storehouse of the information related to certain texts but not critical and creative thinkers and problem solvers. ... Simi...
Scholars uphold works from the Literary Canon with the highest regard and proceed to manifest these works into school curriculum for literary study due to their powerful influential nature and complex ideas embedded in these texts. The Literary Canon allows us to dissemble and delve into a multitude of perspectives enabling us to gain an insightful and critical view upon these widely studied texts. ... The English Canon acts as a guide for scholars as it provides a diverse range of sophisticated texts that are guaranteed to satisfy and enhance cultivated thinking. ... Through these perspe...
In engaging with Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, a Preliminary Extension 1 text, I related Clarissa's re-evaluation of her position as "the perfect hostess"" to the atonement of her quiescent past. ... Margaret Atwood's collection of short "fictional essays ", The Tent and Moral Disorder, became essential texts which inspired the narrative voice of my postmodern narrator. Furthermore, my engagement with instructive texts such as Mieke Bal's "Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative" cultured an understanding of the many aspects affecting the quality of storytelli...
Thus, as texts are a reflection of their context and its values, it is evident that aspects of human nature remain constant irrespective of context. ... Thus, despite the varying values of the text's contexts, the overreaching desire for progress over the natural world remains a constant trait permeating human nature. The ambiguity of human identity is examined in both texts, exposing the ongoing concern of what constitutes being human. ... Thus, as the artificial creations display human traits while mankind diverges away from its humanity within both texts, the existential concerns ...
In the text, "Two Cheers for Brown V. ... Seeing from the first sentence of the text that the initial overall concept of this text is to express Carson overall opinion. As the readers moves forward in the text they start to see how Carson starts to develop this idea by giving the reader a historical look on what actually happened because of the result of this case, and the racial dilemmas that came with it. ... When starting to get deeper into the text the reader starts to see how the author use of supporting facts start to sway the reader to think more deeply as to why it took so long to ach...
The integration of both history and memory is needed, shown by his pledge; "I would give them my knowledge of history; they would give me their memories", the reconstruction begins, inviting the audience to join him on the quest for 'truth', where in the epigram, and integrated throughout the text, the symbol of gates are used to represent the ultimate knowledge of the past, opening "the blessing or the curse". ... Baker includes specific historical statistics, letters and other texts to offer information about an event, personalities and situations. ... This sel...
The carefully constructed sentences lack an explanation of motive, allowing for the interweaving of critical perspectives throughout the text to provide answers for the character's mysteries. ... However he has successfully created an enduring text that audience and directors can still find possibilities in today. "Hamlet" continues to be a text with an interminable amount of relevance to today's society, largely due to it's examination of human condition such as corruption and empowerment, whilst retaining enough mystique to allow future generations to receive a completely uni...
The texts I have covered this year "The picture Of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, "Prize Giving" and "The Glass Jar" by Gwen Harwood and "The Door" by Miroslav Holub all have circumstances which have influenced self change, some positive experiences causing negative change and some negative experiences causing positive change. Circumstances can influence positive change for many, this is especially true for the protagonist Professor Eisenbart in the poem "Prize Giving" the circumstance is the girl shooting the owl, in the Oscar Wilde text "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" it is where Basil Ha...
Literary texts of disparate historical and social contexts commonly encompass the concept of discovery through the significance of an unprecedented setting and the transformative progress of redemption through the revaluation of entrenched values and morals. ... The didactic and instructional tone of the narrator strongly emphasizes the medium to which the text is formed – though the speaker remains distant, Bacon appears to give personal advice. ... Its multifaceted nature is aptly explored in the two texts, William Shakespeare's 1611play, 'The Tempest' and Francis Baco...
The text presents a society in which the stringent regulations of femininity and sexual chastity were upheld, and in so doing, traces the logical consequence of a belief in and implementation of arbitrary societal constructs that at their very foundation are contrary and illogical: the creation of heroines driven to extreme acts of violence that must be considered heroic rather than repugnant as they are a defense of those same societal constructs upon which the value of a female is precariously balanced. ... Thus, the text reveals the paradox: sexual chastity was not a measure of how truly v...
Per the text Human Resource Management (2013), the authors' state some of the advantages and disadvantages of various performance evaluation techniques in Chapter 9, Exhibit 9-13 (p.275) as follows (marks of positive [+] and negative [-] have been added. ... As stated in the paragraph preceding Exhibit 9-13 in the aforementioned text, the authors write: "Untrained raters or raters who have little talent or motivation to evaluate well can destroy or hamper any evaluation technique. ...
When writing a poem, an author often uses allusion to enrich the text - calling on noteworthy figures, ideas, or events that emphasize the poem's deeper meaning. This use of allusion is often double-sided, with allusion being used positively as a more direct comparison, as well as in the form of irony, helping the reader draw out the meaning of the text through understated contrasts. ...
A good example of the former concept however, is found within Holly Goldberg Sloan's 'Counting by 7s', a fictional text depicting an orphan genius girl, twelve years of age, whose surrogate parents are killed in a car accident. Through the varying exploration of varying personal, social and cultural barriers to belonging, the two texts explore the potential of familial bonds as well as connections with the wider world; concepts which are portrayed through various literary devices and modes of voice. ... The depiction of Anh's relationship with his father within the prologu...
According to Richard Sharpe (2012) "Reception theory is a version of reader-response literary theory that emphasizes the reader's reception of a literary text" and is broken down into three types "Preferred, negotiated and oppositional reading". These readings identify the way in which different audiences can or cannot relate to the encoder's message within the text. The preferred reading will be those who can successfully decode the text and will believe in the intended dominant, hegemonic message that has been created by the institution; for instance, consumers who...
The most important thing is dependent on the text, in order to be able to read and absorb the essence of the book records the ancient sages thought, combined with the reality of life, so that fine tradition continues to flourish, we must first have a basic appreciation of classical reading and writing skills. ... "Teaching method, but is not fixed, the use of teaching methods, live is not live, it is different depending on the student's grade is critical texts, and different social background and educational goals of different disciplines, take a different teachings." ...
Text, and the communication of it, is intrinsic to many theatrical genres, making the breakdown of the language used integral to understanding the meaning of performance as a whole. ... For example, Shakespeare's London was a direct representation of life in Jacobean/Elizabethan England in terms of the ideology inflicted upon the characters and expressed through the text. ...
Throughout the semester, I've used rhetorical analysis by implementing two different methods, which include the standard/basic appeal towards rhetorical analysis; it requests writers to consider the total overall communicative goals within a text and how some parts of its parts are in relation. ... It has been referred as a strategy for realizing various controls of text that define organizational discourse. ...
Instead, he believed that schools should use those texts which had the "soundest and truest values" rather than those in the best Greek and Latin. ... An English schoolmaster named John Brisley and a Bohemian educational reformer named John Amos Comenius both despaired that the students at the lower levels of education could only write Latin and had little understanding of the meaning of the texts or practical uses of learning. ...
The texts of Ancient Greece and Rome, translated into several languages, gave the world some of the most important political institutions because they were disseminated far and wide by the work of translators who spread the idea to various corners of the world. ... The lack of translations, of works of literature, spiritual texts and treatises, and other published material alludes to the fact that Western societies have closed themselves to that part of the world, "including movements and societies with potentially dreadful political implications made even more menacing by the general lack of...
During Mao's cultural revolution the Red Guard attempted to destroy all forms of Confucian texts and tradition, but during Hu Jintao's tenure as China's sixth president, the government took a different approach toward Confucianism. ...
During the 1920's much of the laws regarding the separation of state and church were not as fined tuned as they are today due to the lack of cases regarding that issue, had they been the man referenced in the Scope trails would have a better case seeing that he was bound by his profession to teach the subject matter that had been in that text book. ...
One of the causes of the Renaissance was the declining credibility of the Catholic Church and the subsequent emergence of secular curiosity. The Black Death which resulted in the deaths of innocent children was something the Church failed to explain or provide support for in a time of emotional turb...
