Two Shakespeare productions that veer from this common pursuit of love are Macbeth and Love's Labour's Lost, which focus not on the optimistic journeys to secure love, but rather the dark road paved from a mind clouded by love's thick disillusionment. Through the manipulation of stereotyped gender roles and the emphasis on romantic attachment in Macbeth and Love's Labour's Lost, Shakespeare clearly points to love as the root cause and instigator behind the deception and wicked results found in both plays. ... Love in Love's Labour's Lost however, is directl...

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Deceitfulness Equals Justice In Love's Labour's Lost, we are introduced to a king and three lords, who swear upon an oath to study for several years without any distractions. ... The next part of his argument is "for love's sake," which is "a word that loves all men" (4.3.232). By this he means that they should study women for the sake of love because love is returned to them and is the most knowledgeable form of education. ... So for the sake of finishing the equations, please study the act of love. ... Love can be simply erotic love, rather than the love that is the passion...

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In the story Frankenstein and Milton's epic Paradise Lost there are beings of enormous power. ... In Paradise Lost Milton's god is the same God we all believe to be the one creator. ... What though the field be lost? ... Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work inconceivable difficulty and labour. ... I love being able to compare characters from different stories of different times. ...

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Prominent among the criticisms of Blair have been accusations of: betraying Labour values (wags have been pointed out a part anagram of Tony Blair MP reads 'I'm a Tory'): arrogance; love of power; and ideas above his station as a democratic premier. ... With law and order, Blair s shadow Home Secretary, sought to end the perception of Labour as 'Soft on Crime'. ... In education Blair sent his son Euan to the Oratory School, a grant maintained school of the type Labour policy opposed. ... Blair did adapt the dominant political and economic philosophy of the day - but...

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But instinctively I knew I was going to love every hot, sweaty minute of those two weeks. ... I appeared in 4 theater productions, and even earned a leading role as the Princess in Shakespeare's "Loves Labours Lost". ...

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Maud Gonne, an Irish actress, who was a long time love interest of Yeats, married a Major John MacBride leaving Yeats deeply wounded . ... An example is the progression from poetic labour to beauty's labour to love's labour. The poet's labour is to seem smooth in his workings, to seem effortless. ... The poet responds in turn, there have also been lovers who thought love should be worked at also. ... During this period where Yeats" poetry resembled unrequited loves, human nature under went a fundamental change. ...

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But imprisoned for criminal transaction that his partner Werlehad set up, Ekdal lost his freedom and with it his happiness. ... The bird survided the shot and so did Ekdal but they lost their freedom and were forced to live in captivity. This idea is aptly hinted by Gregers when he questions Ekdal: "How can a man like you---a man who loves the open air- live in the middle of a stuffy city, shut in here by the four walls." ... He is ignorant remaining in the dark because the secret that Gina had an illicit love affair with Werele and the result of their relationship is Hedvic. ... Metaphorical...

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During his time with the Chamberlain's Man Shakespeare wrote many plays, including Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, King Joho and Love's Labour's Lost. ... His plays make us laugh, cry; his love quotes inspire it, and it is easy to fell in love with Shakespeare. ... Finally I would like to share with all of you one of Shakespeare's love quotes: "Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares. " ...

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Plus women suffered from rape and violence as a consequence of displaying their free love' attitudes. ... This policy seemed to a brilliant stepping-stone on the way to emancipating women from labour of housewifery. ... This more accurately represents an overwhelming number of women who were unmarried, unemployed and unsupported than a collection of free people in search of true love' and a fulfilled life. ... Traditionally women lost her rights to property in her family home when she entered her husband's household on the provision that she left with a dowry. ... For exam...

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There were gentler gods like love, and marriage. ... He had to complete 12 labours to prove that he was a hero not a villain and to free him from the guilt. He completed all 12 labours and then people thought as him to be a hero for saving people and a whole bunch of impossible tasks. ... Atalanta was very athletic, so she knows that she would win and would not have to marry any of them because the men that lost were then killed. ... Aphrodite the goddess of love favoured him. ...

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With Cassio's reputation squandered - "O I have lost my reputation. ... All the constant declarations of love spoken so openly and as though thoughtlessly throughout the play would be enough to fool anyone, "I think you think I love you...I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness." ... To my mind, this is due to Iago's animal like attitude to love and life. ... If after every tempest come such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death and let the labouring bark climb hills of sea as hell's from heaven. Perpetual love and affection are contraste...

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The settlers needed labour to work on their plantations. This labour was expected to be provided by the indigenous population. ... In order to mobilize the African labour force, the colonial government then introduced a head tax that was payable by all African household heads. ... Any form of education of the African community was intended to produce a low-level, unskilled labour force. ... In addition almost the entire African labour force was unskilled. ...

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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616), English playwright and poet, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists. Hundreds of editions of his plays have been published, including translations in all major languages. Scholars have written thousands of books and articles about his plot...

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This ideal is played upon in the poem in such a way, that the character Ulysses is seen as exposing the feelings felt by the people in the Victorian societies of the time, during which the Industrial Revolution was directly exploiting labour and causing many labour riots and mass frustrations to occur. ... These intentions can be based to some extent on the loss of power, with regard to Ulysses' lost ability of power and that of the power taken away from Tennyson and society by the Industrial Revolution "leaving both with a sense of oppression being felt. ... His character may be ...

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Victor is extremely loved by his parents and they bestow upon him a wonderful and educated life as a child. ... The task consumes him, and he rejects his family and his upbringing that are so full of love and contentment. ... Victor asserts, "I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit"(39). ... He expresses a love for the beautiful sights and smells of nature before his despair, but later he says, "Winter, Spring, and Summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves - sights which before always yielded me supreme delight"(4...

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(Cole, 1996) As far back as the middle ages the higher classes are known to of resisted physical labour. Zuboff argues that they saw labour associated with slavery and a punishment for their sins To Karl Marx, "in Capitalist societies all companies needed to be profitable," the profit would then be invested back into the company for continued growth and profitability. ... He believes that Capitalists try to control the labour process. ... Braverman accepts that in all societies there is a "division of labour". ... The Taylorist tequiniques are only effective in unskilled labour and perfo...

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'Wild Swans at Coole' provides a poignant reverie on the poet's own transient existence and his growing awareness of the passing of time, setting up a seemingly irreconcilable gap between the beauty and vigour of lost youth and the imperfections of aging. ... Despite his understanding of time as corrupting a 'childish day', and the own unfolding 'tragedy' of his own life, Yeats' search for some justification for his existence leads him to a consideration of the philosophies of the Ancients, 'Plato', 'Aristotle' and 'Pythagor...

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Jason Compson chooses not to love or to marry to anyone. He earns love from only his mother. ... Earnshaw love Heathcliff. ... Compson hopes Jason will own the store one day, Jason is bitter about having lost his bank job and being forced to work in the farm-supply store. ... Jason rejects not only household love, but romantic love as well. ...

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Love And Marriage In 18th Century Our aim in this paper will be to analyze and discuss the different ways in which love and marriage were dealt with during the eighteenth century and to what extent these two terms were linked together or considered as opposite. ... (p.42) Nevertheless, the reader should not be mistaken by generalizing marriage as a term opposed to love. ... The young lovers are truly in love although they are still conditioned by money in a way. They have to hide their love from Mrs. ... However, the lovers proclaim several times their love disrega...

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Neglect and love are two feelings that everyone in the world has felt, the latter being one much more desired. ... This whole scenario once again makes the reader sympathize with Heathcliff because the person he loves breaks his heart and marries someone else. ... He then takes Cathy, who just lost her father and her husband, and makes her work for him as one of his servants. ... To make matters worse, the one person he truly loves neglects him because he is different, and because of this he because a cruel and immoral person. ... They feel bad for his rough childhood and his inability to ...

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I, like an usurpt towne, to' another due, Labour to' admit you, but Oh, to no end, Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend, But is captiv'd, and proves weake or untrue, Yet dearely' I love you, and would be lov'd faine, But am bethroth'd unto your enemie, Divorce mee, 'untie, or breake that knot againe, Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I Except you' enthrall mee, never shall be free, Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee... "The sexual imagery, seemingly so out of place in a 'holy' sonnet, is there precisely because Donne recog...

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There are hints of the agitation for independence in India, of the Labour Party's activity and women's drive for social and political equality. ... Had not that, after all, been love?" ... Septimus, a man, whose sole is destroyed by the war, and whose mind is injured much more then the body, is lost in world, that seems extremely hostile to him. ... But a certain shallowness doesn't prevent Clarissa from the true love of life and from embracing of the present. ... This strained feeling of the joy that life is (even though she is unwilling to see the tragedies that life is fu...

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Troilus's Love For Cressida In the Shakespeare play Troilus and Cressida, Troilus seems to think that he is very much in love with Cressida. ... Here Troilus is saying he is madly in love with Cressida and he tells why. ... He is a lot like the King in Love's Labour's Lost. ... Saying when a man finds out who I am, he may not love me. ... All these feelings of love he says he has for her are not true. ...

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Eliot's most famous works included The Waste Land (1922), "The Love Song of J. ... His early works, like "The Love Song of J. ... In a way, Eliot used amusement to confront important social problems, such as his poem "The Love Song of J. ... Unfortunately, by the time Eliot wrote on cultural issues, beginning in the 1930s, we had lost so much of our inheritance that we no longer recognized our condition (Keep). ... It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour," Eliot writes. ...

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