Vladimir Nabokov´s Pale Fire, first published in 1989 is considered to be one of the first Post-modern novels in the English speaking world, primarily because of its narrative structure; the novel is written as a poem with 999-lines by the fictitious writer John Shade. ... It can further be reasonable to suggest that, like Nabokov´s other works, Pale Fire is somewhat autobiographical; the lonely Charles Kinbote talks about, in suspiciously intimate detail, a certain king, Charles the Beloved, who is supposed to have ruled over the "distant northern land" of Zembla from 1936 until...

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Marie Axton equates this resurgence of the theory of the king's two bodies as "an attempt to deal with paradox" . Presenting similar paradoxes in The Old Arcadia, Phillip Sidney not only weaves a subtle yet extravagant tapestry of blatant flattery and cautionary advice, but also literalises the "heart and stomach of a king" in the cross dressing Cleophila. ... John Knox's The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women likened the political state to the human body. ... In accordance of the body politic as a concept which embodies "kingship", rather than the act...

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King to remove Rustin from his staff. ... Although Rustin struggles with the political and spiritual consequences of his homosexuality, his biographer John D'Emilio states that Rustin had remained "unusually open" about it. ... King in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 which started when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in 1955 that led to a US Supreme Court case Browder v. ... King had begun preparations to create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ... Prior to the March on Washington, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond pain...

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In the Punjab, Sir John Lawrence was also able to preempt major trouble through forced disarmament and exemplary punishment for conspirators. ... However, the unshakable self-confidence of the British ultimately served them well in the Mutiny, as soldiers like John Nicholson led suicidal charges and the civilians in the Lucknow Residency largely maintained their Victorian dignity on the understanding that victory and revenge was only a matter of time. ... Despite the wishful thinking of Bahadur Shah's proclamation of August 1857, which implied the unity of the rebels against the British...

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Arguably the defining moment that commences Macbeth's obsession for power occurs in Act 1, Scene 3 when the witches relay their prophecies to both him and Banquo, naming him "Thane of Glamis," "Thane of Cawdor" and "King Hereafter." ... The attachment psychologist, John Bowlby, suggests that an individual's relationship with their primary attachment figure forms an internal working model for all future relationships, thus forming a comparison level of what to expect from others. ...

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This was not the only factor that proliferated his films in to Western cinema, his films often featured Western components and literature; such films as Throne of Blood and Ran features the story of Shakespeare's Macbeth and King Lear, essentially Kurosawa created versions of the Western classics with Japanese components, while exploring truth and perception simultaneously. ... Kurosawa's original screenplay became instant classics, allowing renowned western directors such as Martin Ritt, John Sturgess and George Lucas to draw inspiration and to base their films on those of Kurosawa&...

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If one may imagine an eighteenth century John Huss, it is impossible to imagine anyone with sufficient passion to burn him. ... They postured a little as republicans, and sneered at the divine pretensions of monarchy; but the republicanism that appealed to Voltaire was the crowned republicanism of the Britain of those days, in which the king was simply the official head, the first and greatest of the gentlemen. ...

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