Nov
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Filed Under (Second Paper: Shakespeare) by Jessica Roch on 25-11-2010

Shakespeare’s Comedies:

– General information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespearean_comedy

http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl339/plot.html

– A Midsummer Night’s Dream:

Complete work: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/MND/Q1/scene/#tln-

Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream

Quotations: Egeus: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/MND/Q1/default/#tln-48

– The Taming of the Shrew:

Complete work: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Shr/F1/default/

Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Taming_of_the_Shrew

Quotations: Baptista Minola: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/Shr/F1/scene/1.3#tln-350

– Twelfth Night:

Complete work: http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/Texts/TN/F1/default/

Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth_Night

Elizabethan Era:

– Background information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabethan_era

– Society:

Patriarchal Society: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy

http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/academic/eng/lfletcher/tempest/papers/KMartin.htm

http://elizabethan.org/compendium/41.html

Marriages: http://elizabethan.org/compendium/10.html

http://elizabethan.org/compendium/9.html

Women: http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/women/

http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/society/huswifery/duties.html

Men: http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-family-life.htm

Children: http://elizabethan.org/compendium/40.html

References:

Koci, Katherine; Feminism in a Patriarchal Society: http://uafortsmith.edu/Applause/FeminismInAPatriarchalSociety?skin=text

Pettit, Leann; A look at male gender roles in Shakespeare’s Renaissance:

http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/academic/eng/lfletcher/shrew/lpettit.htm

Elizabethan women: http://www.elizabethi.org/uk/women/

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Nov
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Filed Under (Second Paper: Discurs Polític) by Jessica Roch on 25-11-2010

William Golding:

– Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Golding

– Web page: http://www.william-golding.co.uk/

Novels:

– The Lord of the Flies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies

Complete work: http://www.zbths.org/165310818145034323/lib/165310818145034323/_files/LOTF.pdf

– The Inheritors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inheritors_%28William_Golding%29

– Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincher_Martin

Free Fall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Fall_%28Golding%29

The Spire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spire

Darkness Visible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_Visible_%28Golding%29

Historical background:

– Second World War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

– Democracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

– Fascism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

– The Allies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II

– The Axis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_powers

– Post-war: http://www.britannia.com/history/nar20hist5.html

– The Blitz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz

Concepts:

– War: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/

– Beast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies#The_Beast

– Freedom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_freedom

References:

– Amal Gedleh, William Golding Symbolism in Lord of the flies; M.U.A. High, Scarborough, Ontario. January 2009: http://www.literature-study-online.com/essays/golding-lord-of-the-flies.html

– Frost’s Meditations: The Lord of the Flies http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/april2007/lord_flies.html

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Nov
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Filed Under (Second Paper: Shakespeare) by Jessica Roch on 25-11-2010

After paying attention at the relationship between men and women in Shakespeare’s comedies, we can observe that what makes innovative the Shakespearean plays was the way in which he presented women. It is the female characters’ behavior the fact that forces the conflicts and the happy endings.

But, why did Shakespeare change the stereotyped image of women in his comedies? Although his works are framed by the patriarchal society ideals, the behavior of women is not the supposed one. Maybe it was a technique to catch audience’s attention and provoke laugh since, for them, the presented situations in which a woman rebels against the male authority could be considered absurd. However, Queen Elisabeth herself was a symbol for women’s freedom, and it is possible that Shakespeare wanted to show Elizabethan society that women could have a place in the social life.

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Filed Under (Second Paper: Discurs Polític) by Jessica Roch on 25-11-2010

As a conclusion we can say that William Golding was very concerned with the reality in which he was living. He used his novels as a mechanism to encourage people to think about what was happening in the world and why did that happen. He, clearly or not, showed his opinions and ideas and used them to recreate characters and situations that allow people to understand the world in which they were living during and after the war.

Golding is one of the several authors that through history have used their writings as hidden criticism to the politics and society. Thus, we cannot separate the fact that politics and literature are elements that grow together in both ways: as allies or as enemies. It is our work to discover where is really the truth and our responsibility to learn how to read a book not superficially but taking into account all the factors that it involves.

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Nov
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Filed Under (Second Paper: Shakespeare) by Jessica Roch on 25-11-2010

shakespeareIn the following paper, we are going to analyze the characteristics of William Shakespeare’s comedies and, particularly, the way in which the author presents men and women as well as the relationship among them. For this purpose, we are going to use as example three different comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew. In the three plays, we can see how Shakespeare presents us men and women following, in general terms, the stereotypes of the Elizabethan era, the historical background in which they were conceived. But he went a little bit further since many of the situations that we are shown wouldn’t be accepted by the patriarchal society of the time.

So, in these three works, we can find different characters with similar behaviors: rebel women as Titania, Olivia or Katherina, who try to be independent and decide about their own destiny; and authoritative men, as Oberon, Orsino or Petruchio, who try to control the women (daughters, lovers, wives…) that surround them.

Taking this into account, what we are going to examine is how the relationship between men and women was depicted by Shakespeare’s hand and how the author seems to give another perspective to the stereotyped image of submission that women had in his time.

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Nov
25
Filed Under (Second Paper: Discurs Polític) by Jessica Roch on 25-11-2010

goldingWilliam Golding was a brilliant British author who wrote a great amount of novels. His most famous work is The lord of the flies, but he wrote many other great fiction novels which deserve to be read and analysed. In many of them we can clearly see how Golding is depicting many aspects of the social and political reality of his time. He used his literature to show what he understood about the time he was living. His own experiences and ideas are exposed and they influenced in a subtle way all his writings. Our purpose in this paper is to show these elements among the different novels of the writer.

Thus, we are going to work on The Inheritors, Pincher Martin: The Two Deaths of Christopher Martin, Free Fall, The Spire, Darkness Visible and, of course, on the already mentioned The lord of the flies. Golding also wrote other fictional and non fictional novels as well as some essays, but what we want to show is how he used the literature as a critical weapon against the reality in which he lived. He disguised reality in different situations in order to present the readers a general idea: there is nothing as simple as it seems.

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