Download or read book Hamlet s Clashing Ideals written by David Bishop and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy, growing up in Stratford, Shakespeare would have seen travelling players put on some of the old morality plays, where a young man, or in one, “Everyman”, was pulled back and forth by the personified forces of virtue and sin. The tempted young man in those plays knew what the right way was; his only challenge was to resist temptation. In writing Hamlet, Shakespeare created a more complicated character: a young man who isn’t sure what he should do, who has mysteriously mixed feelings about his clashing ideals. The naive young Hamlet starts out full of an angry confidence that he’s on the side of the angels, and that he knows perfectly well what he thinks and feels: “I know not ‘seems’.” Then he’s plunged into a situation where his ideals, of what is “nobler in the mind”, begin to clash. Shakespeare gives Hamlet different roles to play, roles that call for opposing courses of action, but courses that are not obviously all right or all wrong. He’s like an actor in a bad dream, who’s been cast in several parts, and then finds out that more than one of his characters have to be onstage at the same time. Though the part has been played by men in their seventies, Shakespeare casts Hamlet, from the first mention of him as “young Hamlet”, in the role of a young man, with all the sexual and aggressive urges and energies that come naturally to a young man. He makes him, at the same time, a particular type of young man: an idealist, who wants to do what is noblest in the mind, if only he can figure out what that is. As the Prince of Denmark, Hamlet also feels a special duty to preserve “The sanity and health of this whole state.” Besides being a young, idealistic prince, Hamlet shows in his first scene that he’s also a Christian, who can’t kill himself, he says, because “the Everlasting” has “fix’d his canon ’gainst self-slaughter.” The clash comes when Shakespeare then casts this young, idealistic Christian prince in the role of a son, the son of “a dear father murder’d”, whose duty is to take revenge for that “damn’d defeat”--while leaving his mother “to heaven”. As Hamlet the young Christian prince goes off to fulfill his vow of revenge, he begins to realize, painfully, that even he has sin in his heart: he can’t help being contaminated by “our old stock”. Through the central valley of the play, sexual purity appeals to Hamlet as a symbol of moral purity. At least with sexual purity the goal, chastity, is clear. His other ideals, in contrast, turn out to be maddeningly complex and contradictory. He can envision sexual purity but not moral purity. The command to revenge, above all, taints his mind, because it splits apart his ideal of purity, and confronts him with the problem of Hamlet’s clashing ideals. This book tries to show how the Hamlet´s ideals--their impossible attainment symbolized by the impossible ideal of sexual purity--split apart into three. Under the pressure of the command to revenge, what seemed like a single ideal, of what is “nobler in the mind”, splits into three separate, though overlapping, ideals: the heroic ideal, the patriotic ideal and the Christian ideal. The heroic ideal, incarnated by the ghost, stands for family loyalty, honor, and above all, in Hamlet’s situation, for revenge. Clashing with this heroic ideal, and pulling Hamlet away from revenge, the patriotic ideal stands for justice, reverence for the king, and upholding the order of the state. Finally, the Christian ideal sees personal revenge, especially on a king, as a mortal sin.
Download or read book Apartheid s Landscape and Ideas written by Alan Schwerin and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mosaic of intriguing first-hand historical accounts of the country, its people, significant events, and moral and political predicaments have been culled from diaries and correspondence from early missionaries, soldiers, politicians, laborers, and ordinary settlers. These historical documents display the prejudices, fears and character of the sojourners in South Africa. The text presents a unique view of the seeds of the racism that would later constitute the lifeblood of apartheid."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Victorian Literature and the Victorian State written by Lauren M. E. Goodlad and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of Victorian governance have been profoundly influenced by Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault's groundbreaking genealogy of modern power. Yet, according to Lauren Goodlad, Foucault's analysis is better suited to the history of the Continent than to nineteenth-century Britain, with its decentralized, voluntarist institutional culture and passionate disdain for state interference. Focusing on a wide range of Victorian writing—from literary figures such as Charles Dickens, George Gissing, Harriet Martineau, J. S. Mill, Anthony Trollope, and H. G. Wells to prominent social reformers such as Edwin Chadwick, Thomas Chalmers, Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, and Beatrice Webb—Goodlad shows that Foucault's later essays on liberalism and "governmentality" provide better critical tools for understanding the nineteenth-century British state. Victorian Literature and the Victorian State delves into contemporary debates over sanitary, education, and civil service reform, the Poor Laws, and the century-long attempt to substitute organized charity for state services. Goodlad's readings elucidate the distinctive quandary of Victorian Britain and, indeed, any modern society conceived in liberal terms: the elusive quest for a "pastoral" agency that is rational, all-embracing, and effective but also anti-bureaucratic, personalized, and liberatory. In this study, impressively grounded in literary criticism, social history, and political theory, Goodlad offers a timely post-Foucauldian account of Victorian governance that speaks to the resurgent neoliberalism of our own day.
Download or read book Women as Hamlet written by Tony Howard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of actresses playing the role of Hamlet on stage and screen.
Download or read book Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky written by Olga Tabachnikova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening and always enigmatic. Although recognizably European, Russian culture also has mystical features, including the idiosyncratic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism. Historically, Russian irrationalism has been viewed with caution in the West, where it is often seen as antagonistic to, and subversive of, the rational foundations of Western speculative philosophy. Some of the remarkable achievements of the Russian irrationalist approach, however, especially in the artistic sphere, have been recognized and even admired, though not sufficiently investigated. Bridging the gap between intellectual cultures, Olga Tabachnikova discusses such fundamental irrationalist themes as language and the linguistic underpinning of culture; the power of illusion in national consciousness; the changing relationship between love and morality; the cultural roots of humour, as well as the relevance of various individual writers and philosophers from Pushkin to Brodsky to the construction of Russian irrationalism.
Download or read book Heroism and Genius written by William J Slattery and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every chancellery in Europe, every court in Europe, was ruled by these learned, trained and accomplished men the priesthood of that great and dominant body." — President Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom With stubborn facts historians have given their verdict: from the cultures of the Jews, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, and Germanic peoples, the Catholic Church built a new and original civilization, embodying within its structures the Christian vision of God and man, time and eternity. The construction and maintenance of Western civilization, amid attrition and cultural earthquakes, is a saga spread over sixteen hundred years. During this period, Catholic priests, because they numbered so many men of heroism and genius in their ranks, and also due to their leadership positions, became the pioneers and irreplaceable builders of Christian culture and sociopolitical order. Heroism and Genius presents some of these formidable men: fathers of chivalry and free-enterprise economics; statesmen and defiers of tyrants; composers, educators, and architects of some of the world's loveliest buildings; and, paradoxically, revolutionary defenders of romantic love.
Download or read book William Shakespeare His work written by John Andrews and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains sixty original essays by historians, scholars, critics, writers, and actors, which provide a variety of perspectives on the world, work, and influence of sixteenth-century playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Download or read book The Banner of Gold written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book From San Francisco Eastward written by Carolyn Grattan Eichin and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2021 Willa Literary Award in Scholarly Non-Fiction Finalist for the 2021 Will Rogers Medallion Award in Western Non-Fiction Carolyn Grattan Eichin’s From San Francisco Eastward explores the dynamics and influence of theater in the West during the Victorian era. San Francisco, Eichin argues, served as the nucleus of the western theatrical world, having attained prominence behind only New York and Boston as the nation’s most important theatrical center by 1870. By focusing on the West’s hinterland communities, theater as a capitalist venture driven by the sale of cultural forms is illuminated against the backdrop of urbanization. Using the vagaries of the West’s notorious boom-bust economic cycles, Eichin traces the fiscal, demographic, and geographic influences that shaped western theater. With an emphasis on the 1860s and 70s, this thoroughly researched work uses distinct notions of ethnicity, class, and gender to examine a cultural institution driven by a market economy. From San Francisco Eastward is a thorough analysis of the ever-changing theatrical personalities and strategies that shaped Victorian theater in the West, and the ways in which theater as a business transformed the values of a region.
Download or read book Reason and Being written by Boris G. Kuznetsov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Kuznetsov was a scientist among humanists, a philosopher among scientists, a historian for those who look to the future, an optimist in an age of sadness. He was steeped in classical European culture, from earliest times to the latest avant-garde, and he roamed through the ages, an inveterate time-traveller, chatting and arguing with Aristotle and Descartes, Heine and Dante, among many others. Kuznetsov was also, in his intelligent and thoughtful way, a Marxist scholar and a practical engineer, a patriotic Russian Jew of the first sixty years of the Soviet Union. Above all he meditated upon the revolutionary developments of the natural sciences, throughout history to be sure but particularly in his own time, the time of what he called 'non-classical science', and of his beloved and noblest hero, Albert Einstein. Kuznetsov was born in Dnepropetrovsk on October 5, 1903 (then Yekaterinoslav). By early years he had begun to teach, first in 1921 at an institute of mining engineering and then at other technological institutions. By 1933 he had received a scientific post within the Academy of Science of the U. S. S. R. , and then at the end of the Second World War he joined several colleagues at the new Institute of the History of Science and Technology. For more than 40 years he worked there until his death two years ago.
Download or read book Shakespeare Out of Court written by G. Holderness and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest) as dramatizations of the Renaissance court in its developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to disclose its most characteristic gains and losses. For these plays do not simply celebrate Tudor and Stuart rule: they scrutinize it too, in the centre of its institutional theatre of power, the court. This book shows how, if the plays came into the court, the court also came into the plays, with its most salient features - its competitiveness, its inner tensions and its contradictions, its language, its cultural life and its entertainments - exposed to the scrutiny of an art-form that proved itself to be a new mode of historical understanding.
Download or read book Brigid Brophy written by Richard Canning and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores all aspects of Brophy's literary career, alongside contributions on animal rights, vegetarianism, anti-vivisectionism, humanism, feminism and sexual politics, not only celebrating Brophy's eclectic achievements but fully reflecting them.
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Untouchables Ancient Medieval and Modern written by Raj Kumar and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book entitled Encyclopaedia of Untouchables, Ancient, Medieval and Modern compiled in 2 volumes witnesses to the fact that how the Brahminical ideology used to behave with the poor people of the Father which is totally unbearable to a normal person, even though they used to clean the cities, latrines, skin of the dead animals which were owned by the Brahmans. Hence, the Dalit literature is not a simple literature, it is associated with a movement to bring about a change in the society by working personally to realize the basic facts of the life, but Brahmans are only the philosophers of their literature, working for their personal benefit not for others. It has established its own strong tradition with anti-caste or untouchables thinker like Buddha, Ved Vyash, Valmiki, Qutab-ud-Din Aebik, Balban, Balban, Firoz Shah Tuglaq, Barani the great writer, Amir Timur, Sultan Sikandar of Kashmir, Zain-ul- Abidin, Mirza Haidar Dughlat, Babar, Ravidas, Akbar, Guru Nanak, Kabir, Phule, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, many more as its sign posts.
Download or read book Kentucky Justice Southern Honor and American Manhood written by James C. Klotter and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When attorney John Jay Cornelison severely beat Kentucky Superior Court judge Richard Reid in public on April 16, 1884, for allegedly injuring his honor, the event became front-page news. Would Reid react as a Christian gentleman, a man of the law, and let the legal system take its course, or would he follow the manly dictates of the code of honor and challenge his assailant? James C. Klotter crafts a detective story, using historical, medical, legal, and psychological clues to piece together answers to the tragedy that followed. “This book is a gem. . . . Klotter’s astute organization and gripping narrative add to the book’s appeal. . . . [He] has written a fascinating book that will be of interest to a wide audience.” —American Historical Review “A moving story well told, it does force the reader to reflect on our own era and consider whether we value leaders who respect the rule of law or those who believe that honor demands swift and bloody vengeance no matter the costs.” —Ohio Valley History “A rich and compelling work that offers fresh insights into the tense interplay among religion, law, and honor in the American South.” —Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Download or read book Art World written by Fred Wellington Ruckstuhl and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
