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When people ask me to give up that's when I try hard.
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Stars
Every night I look for you. Some nights you’re there but there were nights that I couldn’t even catch a glimpse of you. Was it because of the weather that’s why you can’t come? Or was it because of those people who forgot to even look at you once? - MRSA
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Beauty Beyond Borders
Literary Work: The Lady with the Lap Dog | Literary Criticism: Feminist Criticism
There’s more to women than what you know. Don’t limit your views on women into what only your naked eyes can portray in front of you because there’s always a better view behind those walls you’ve built.
In the short story, the Lady with the Pet Dog, the male character, Dmitri Dmitrich, was a married man with two sons and a twelve-year-old daughter. He has a wife that he considered as unintelligent, narrow and inelegant. Because of this, and his unsatisfactory love affairs with others, he thinks lowly of women.
Women might be fragile at times, but they could be tougher than tough without judgments. Like what was written in the story, women were judge before people could even know what’s inside their hearts. They we’re judge even without knowing their stories. Anna, the female lead in the story, was just another pathetic woman for Dmitri, before he genuinely love her. For him, she was just as insignificant as his wife, as his other girls, but not after he fell in love with her. When Dmitri fell for Anna, he realized how shallow his life was before.
The Lady with the Pet Dog was just one of the articles or multimedia that shows discrimination against women. It may be not what the author wanted to portray, but it is all about what readers would say. That’s why we shouldn’t underestimate women come what may because they could be the missing pieces of your puzzle.
Citations: -“The Comparison of the Point of View in “The Lady with the …” N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2017. .
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The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Strangers Aren’t Good Leaders
Literary Work: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli | Literary Criticism: Reader-Response Criticism
Rulers also have rules to follow and kings have bigger crowns to wear. Leaders also have shoes to fill, but they are obliged to not only fill it, they must fit it. We all have different insights in voting or choosing our leaders. We set standards that our leaders need to meet for them to be the dream leader, but still there are chances that we voted the wrong ones. It is us who will suffer for their cruelty. Machiavelli’s The Prince is a political exposition describing the less-than-honorable but all-too-realistic methods politicians use to secure their power.
In Machiavelli’s writings, he paints the efficient persecutor as someone who practices whatever is politically practical, not whatever is virtuous. Acting as someone who has halo over his head, according to Machiavelli, is not a part of a tyrant’s job, but to be the leader that every follower fears. As a leader, it is better to be feared than to be loved, but is it really how everything works? Does fear really overcome love?
There are two types of fear: the fear that you have for the person you love and respect; and the fear that you have for a stranger. Comparing the two, which do you think is a greater fear? Talking about the fear that you have for the person you love and respect, it is like following their orders and doing things for them willingly. In these situations, you do things without hesitations and doubts because you trust the person that you are working with. It is simply because of the love that you have to the certain person.
Fear that you have for a stranger on the other hand is less great than the one mentioned before. You might know this person, but his or her attitude and personality are strangers to you. Following orders from them wouldn’t be as easy as what others think it would be. There will be the presence of doubts and hesitations. You don’t follow orders just simply because you fear someone. It will be harder to create a better place if there is a barrier between the people and the tyrant.
The key to make a better country is the strong bond between the leaders and the citizens. Fear wouldn’t be the greatest catalyst to make a successful leadership, but rather, it would be the hindrance to your aspired success. Others might think that virtue is not important in ruling a country, but this could be the leader’s everything. A leader’s virtue is important because seeing through his heart is like seeing the brighter future of the people under his hands. All of these just simply means that, strangers aren’t good leaders.
Citations: - Cummings, Erica. "The Prince by Machiavelli: Summary & Analysis | Study.com."Study.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2017.
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Dante's Adventure on a book
Literary Work: The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri | Literary Criticism: Psychological Criticism
Every story leads to another story.
Dante Alighieri became well-known for his creation, “The Divine Comedy”, an epic poem that is consists of three sections: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The author’s personal life was said to influence his writings. That could have been the reason for the success of “The Divine Comedy”, the visible connection between Dante and his epic poem.
The prominent author was actually born to a family of moderate wealth that was involved in the complex Florentine political scene. He was arranged to a woman chosen by his family, but Dante was in love with another woman named Beatrice. The latter actually had a big part on his writings that I will discuss later.
All of Dante’s work on “The Divine Comedy” was done after his exile. Dante’s personal life and the writing of “The Divine Comedy” were greatly influenced by the politics of late-thirteenth-century Florence. Specifically the struggle between the church and the state for temporal authority. The pope, as well as a multitude of other characters from Florentine politics, has a place in the Hell that Dante depicts in Inferno—and not a pleasant one.
As I’ve said earlier, Beatrice, the woman that Dante truly loved, had a great influence on his writings. Dante and Beatrice wasn’t able to be together because Dante was arranged to another woman, but he continued to yearn for her even after her sudden death. In Dante’s Paradiso, Beatrice was his guide going to heaven. Actually, Beatrice’s character was referred as the backbone of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
It was indeed true, that to make a good work, it must be taken from the heart. Your story doesn’t only move you, but it also moves other people. It takes good and bad memories to make the best stories. You may have your own inspiration, but you could be people’s inspiration. A writer that relates his life, and create another story out of it, wasn’t only a good writer, but also a smart one. That was what Dante did in writing the epic poem “The Divine Comedy”, the greatest literary work written in Italian.
Citations: - Delahoyde, Michael. "Psychoanalytic Criticism - Washington State University." N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2017. - "Dante." Biography.com. A&E Networks Television, 14 Dec. 2016. Web. 25 Mar. 2017. -"Inferno." SparkNotes. SparkNotes, n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2017.
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The Fire Thief was a Hero
Literary Work: Prometheus by Aeschylus | Literary Criticism: Archetypal Criticism
In the story, Prometheus, the fire thief, meets the requirements of an archetypal hero. Just like other hero myths, Prometheus share some structural similarities to other mythical heroes like unusual strength, rapid rise to prominence and triumphant struggles with the forces of evil. In this literary work, his character was describe as a titan who have authority, and someone that is wise. Prometheus was also describe as someone who loves man more than the Olympians.
The titan has extraordinary capabilities. He was tasked to create man. With the help of Athena, the man that he shaped out of mud was given life. The hero, also wanted to create man that is upright like the gods and to give him fire. Prometheus developed hatred towards the Olympians, who had banished most of his family to Tartarus, a place, which is according to Zeus in the Iliad, as far as beneath Hades as heaven is above Earth, and according to Greek mythology, it is the place of the dead.
Prometheus was referred as the fire thief. He was a fire thief for the Olympians, but a hero for the mankind. The hero that brought back fire for man after Zeus took it away from them. Enraged by what Prometheus did, he decided to punish both man, and their hero, Prometheus. That was when Pandora appeared in the myth. She was the first woman. Pandora was stunning, but she, along with her jar, symbolizes the downfall of mankind.
For Prometheus’ punishment, he was seized by Force and Violence, both are Zeus’ servants. He was chained into a rock, and was tormented day and night. In this part of the story, another important character of a hero myth was seen. Heracles was a mortal. He was the strong figure that will perform the tasks or struggles that the hero cannot accomplish unaided. Heracles was the character in the story that will save Prometheus from danger. There was also the presence of Chiron the Centaur, an immortal who agreed to die for the hero. They were the reasons why Prometheus, the fire thief, got his way out of the torment.
Citations: - Archetype - Examples and Definition of Archetype. (2015, March 11). Retrieved March 25, 2017, from https://literarydevices.net/archetype/ - Hunt, J. (2011). The Legend of Prometheus - Mythology. Retrieved March 25, 2017, from http://www.bing.com/cr?IG=4FB78C593017481698C85FE83C3F6627&CID=3827B40AC3D769AB37E9BE5AC2E6689E&rd=1&h=xB3TNFIu1Gt7JAUJmHI-n06Kh-izIv-oce25NEY8_UE&v=1&r=http%3a%2f%2fwww.prometheas.org%2fmythology.html&p=DevEx,5053.1
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