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Both playwrights’ characterisations of female protagonists are accentuated by the characterisation of their antithetical character foils. In Antigone, Sophocles uses Ismene – the ideally orthodox incarnation of ancient Greek women – to emphasize the unruly nonconformist in Antigone. In Hedda Gabler, Ibsen utilizes the conventional, compassionate and womanly Thea to play up the androgynous, callous…

Presumably all that Mary Shelley imagined when she first conceived the plot was a scientist chap who makes a man-creature-thingy which then goes around wreaking havoc and murdering all and sundry. The elaborate sub-plots, characters etcetera were all developed as she wrote. I may be wrong, but I doubt it. And where does all this…

Eva Smith is a representative of the lower class and how it reacts to the upper class. She is very strong-willed as she demonstrates through all of her involvement with the Birlings and Gerald but the upper class don’t like this which is why she is so unfortunate. With Mr Birling she stands up for…

The Hobbit:Overview & ReviewCHARACTER INTRODUCTIONBILBO BAGGINS: The Hobbit who led the Dwarvesto the Lonely Mountain to reclaim their treasure from the dragon Smaug. He found the One Ring in Gollum’s caveGANDALF: The Wizard that accompanies Bilboand the dwarves on their quest. He is well versed in magic spells and oftencalls upon them to save his…

Fisher’s pedagogical concern clearly represents an advancement in the practicality of grammars, when compared to those of Lowth (1762), Priestley (1761) and Ussher (1785), which did not discuss teaching techniques, as “the only important thing was the content, not the form” (Rodriguez-Gil, 2006: 20). Despite this, children had a tendency to merely memorise lists of…

There are many different sides to the discussion on moral and ethical uses ofcomputers. In many situations, the morality of a particular use of a computer is up to theindividual to decide. For this reason, absolute laws about ethical computer usage isalmost, but not entirely, impossible to define. The introduction of computers into the workplace…

The Symptoms and the Treatment of DepressionDepression has been a part of our lives for as long as humans have been on the earth. Everyone has had days when nothing was going right. But it all depends with an individual how to handled this adversity and how depressed that person becomes. Depression is considered to…

During World War II, Canada was at war with Germany and Italy. Canada was fighting to protect the lifestyle that its citizens had become accustomed to. The soldiers in WW II gave their lives for the good of their great nation. Canada was also facing a major threat in the Pacific. The threat was the…

The specific objective of this major essay is to clarify and summarise the controversial debate concerning the ethical decency of embryonic cloning for therapeutic purposes. This is the form of cloning that is supposedly beneficial to a barrage of medical applications. We will identify the key opposing ethical perspectives such as those of the justification…

The Reformation of European religion in the 16th century cannot be generally attributed to the secular spirit of the Italian Renaissance. Although the peasants saw bishops and abbots as part of a wealthy and oppressive ruling class and rebelled against the Roman Catholic Church for reasons primarily pertaining to the lavish adornments used by those…