To Sleep Perchance, To Dream: Shakespeare's Use Of Dream and Sleep Motifs To Create The Gothic Reality Although Shakespeare's contribution to the Gothic novel was acknowledged by Horace Walpole in the preface to the Second Edition of "The Castle of Otranto," "shelter[ing] my own daring under the cannon of the brightest genius in the country" (Walpole 13), the extent to which the Gothic sensibility informs so many of Shakespeare's plays has only recently been conceded by many mainstream scholars. This is hardly surprising considering Gothic fiction's entr...

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Othello is a fundamentally different character to all others in the play [1]. He is an outsider to Venice and therefore an outsider to the customs and society of Venice. In one way this is good for him. He is a renowned strong general who is much in demand from the Venetians. Rather than fight the w...

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81 But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, 82 Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, 83 I am no prophet -- and here's no great matter; 84 I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, 85 And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, 86 And in short, I was afraid. 87 And would it have been worth it, after all, 88 After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, 89 Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, 90 Would it have been worth while, 91 To have bitten off the matter with a smile, 92...

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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from." T.S. Eliot Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), was an early twentieth century poet, dramatist, publisher, playwright and literary and social critic", one of the twentieth century...

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Hemingway's style appealed to the newspaper writer because it was the same type of writing he was used to using - short, sharp and functional. ... In Act II, Scene II of Hamlet, while delivering a report to the king and queen, Polonius delivers the following: "This business is well ended. ... (Hemingway, Short 192) Kathleen Morgan tells it plainly: "Hemingway ruthlessly pares unnecessary words from his sentences...Hemingway avoids the lengthy simile...Hemingway's working vocabulary is colloquial and economical...Hemingway limits himself for the most part to words that are simple,...

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Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in small Serbian hamlet near the Austro-Hungarian border. ... Unfortunately Telsa's high school career was cut short due to a bout with Cholera that nearly killed him. ... Unfortunately the experiment was cut short when Tesla blew out the generator at the power plant. ...

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Psychological Critical Theory's definition is a work of literature has done something valuable if it shed light upon the human mind, for example: Hamlet, Crime and Punishment, The Fall. ... He wrote unoriginal poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall democrats rewarded him with the editorship of various short-lived newspapers. ...

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D-Day, June 6 1944. Air-Power: Significant or not? A private who was aboard one of the first few gliders to reach Normandy expresses his feeling: I experienced an interesting psychological change in the few minutes before and immediately after take off. As I had climbed aboard and strapped myself into my seat I felt tense, strange and extremely nervous. It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I would wake up from this unreality and find that I was back in the barrack room at Bulford Camp. ...

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Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane • "For what profit a man, if he gains the world and loses his own soul?" Matthew 16:26; Mark 8:36 CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles's greatest achievement--and a landmark of cinema history. Every moment of the film, every shot, has been choreographed to perfection....

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In some schools - for example, Tower Hamlets - most bilingual children will speak the same language as a mother tongue, whereas in others 40 different languages or more may be spoken. ... NALDIC state that in 2012 the local authority areas with the highest proportion of EAL learners were Tower Hamlets (74 percent) and Newham (71 percent). ...

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Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. African American literature, has its origins in the 18th century, has helped African Americans to find their voice in a country where laws were set against them. The position of African Americans in the leading society of the United States of America has not been an easy one. African Americans needed to find a new identity in the New World and were considered an underclass for a long time. In literature, African American writers have been telling the story of their...

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Don Quixote TIME: In the spring of 1580 in Spain. However bookkeeping was a complicated and arduous procedure and Don Miguel Cervantes was twice imprisoned for owing money to the treasury from a shortage in his accounts. Cervantes disagrees whether or not the Seville prison was the proper place...

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In short, in the view of most critics, at the beginning of the play Lear is simply mistaken in both his attitudes and his actions, and the course of the drama should in effect teach him the. error of his ways. ...

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The scale of the problem is rather simply expressed by the following government statistics referring to the gap between the most deprived areas and the rest of England: In the 10 per cent most deprived wards in 1998 44 per cent of people relied on means tested benefits, compared with a national average of 22 per cent; In the 10 per cent most deprived wards in 1998 over 60 per cent of children lived in households that relied on means tested benefits; In 1998-99, the employment rate in Tower Hamlets was 55 per cent, compared with 74 per cent nationally; The domestic burglary rate in North Manch...

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