1. The Beggar King Summary
Jonathan Miller's 1983 adaptation of The Beggar's Opera and John Gay's original theatrical script of the play are both intriguing works of literature. One of the most controversial aspects of the two works is that Miller's version features the death of character MacHeath whereas Gay's does not. In both endings, however, the beggar makes clear in his final lines that aristocratic men of the era simply were not put to death for committing the same deeds that would lead a commoner to be hanged. "Had the play remained as I at first intended, it would have carried a most excellent moral. Twould have shown that the lower sort of people have their vices in a degree as well as the rich, and that they are punished for them."" This line implies that, although the rich were guilty of their fair share of unlawful acts, they often slid through the hands of the law, leaving the poor to suffer its wrath. In the original play, there is an additional scene which is not featured in Miller's production. In the final Scene 17 of Gay's work, Macheath, who is a man of nobility, rejoices over the fact of his not being hanged, the many women with whom he has had relations, and the accepting of the fact that Polly is his wife. "And (if I may without offense) for this time, I take Polly for mine."" Macheath here formally acknowledges Polly as truly being his own, however he ends his line by stating "As for the rest "But at present keep your own secret-, indicating how much of a chauvinist Macheath really is in light of his womanly affairs. It is through the aforementioned lines that I believe author Gay attempts to drive the fact into the audience's minds that nobility at the time was just as guilty and vile as anybody else on the planet of committing sinful deeds; Gay makes fun of how aristocratic men were blatant adulterers. "But think of this maxim, and put off your sorrow, The wretch of today may be happy tomorrow- this line comes straight from the mouth of a nobleman yet openly vindicates adultery as a common outlet for aristocratic men to forget their worries or "sorrows-.
A Political Satire by Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz wrote The Beggar in a time in Egypt when books or stories of a political nature were put under extreme censorship. ... In The Beggar, Mahfouz expresses his disdain with the current political situation in Egypt by using his characters as symbols of the past, present, and political views of his country. ... In The Beggar, through careful characterization, Mahfouz lets us know that nothing has really changed in the politics of his beloved country even after the revolution. ...
At first, we are introduced to Beggarmaster at the work camp when he arrives to collect his most loyal beggar, Shankar. ... A few weeks after Beggarmaster had rescued Shankar, Ishvar and Om from the work camp, one of his beggar women, Rosey, old and about to die, told him that she was his mother as well as Shankar's. ... It is believed that the infant was further sent for professional alteration (i.e. to make him a cripple) and was later distributed to the beggar women of different neighborhoods, carrying the name, Shankar. ... At the same time I found out, my most loyal beggar, Shank...
In particular, she investigates Fluebert's most perplexing allegorical character, the blind beggar. Within her essay Evans proposes to substantiate the beggar's role by "pinpoint[ing] the beggar's position [with]in the complex network of relationships connecting the characters-(4). ... For Evans, the blind beggar represents a picture of physical decay. ... Finally, Evans questions the beggar's relation to Flaubert's linguistic style. ... I agree with Mary Donaldson-Evans--the beggar's presence is purely metaphorical. ...
In particular, she investigates Fluebert's most perplexing allegorical character, the blind beggar. Within her essay Evans proposes to substantiate the beggar's role by "pinpoint[ing] the beggar's position [with]in the complex network of relationships connecting the characters-(4). ... For Evans, the blind beggar represents a picture of physical decay. ... Finally, Evans questions the beggar's relation to Flaubert's linguistic style. ... I agree with Mary Donaldson-Evans--the beggar's presence is purely metaphorical. ...
In both Simon Lee and The Beggar's Petition the authors fulfill the requirements of the humanitarian poem through the focus on a solitary character in arousing sympathy for both Simon Lee and the beggar. While Wordsworth's plea for sympathy is similarly displayed in The Beggar's Petition, his approach to morality mocks the stand taken by the author in The Beggar's Petition. Wordsworth's Simon Lee graphically illustrates the principles of the humanitarian poem which are also just as evident in The Beggar's Petition. In The Beggar's Petition the author follow...
There I stood, glaring at the foreign street signs, in a city that I'd only dreamt and read about. My heart was pounding against my chest so hard the person down the street could feel my excitement. The first step outside of the hotel made my eyes brighten like the sun's rays, as I gazed out at ...
The country gives me proof and precedent Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices, Strike in their numbed and mortified bare arms Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary.... It is "the country" which provides Edgar with the "proof and precedent" of the Bedlam beggar-the beggar character seems to appear to Edgar from within the physical surroundings. ... Furthermore, the "roaring voices" of the beggars suggests the howling winds of the storm to come. ... Edgar imagines Bedlam beggars who in a literal sense internalize the outside world by striking "p...
These poor countries, much as the beggars in the market, lack the economic autonomy to change their fate. The hungry and the beggar scrounge on the dirty ground searching for scraps. ... It seems that he is comparing the tourists to God just as Christians think of Jesus as their savior, so do the beggar thinks that these rich tourists have the ability to save him from his poverty and suffering. ... The beggar is left to starve and compete with the "starveling dogs" for food. ...