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Homoeroticism and Aestheticism in 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde

could have entirely missed that The Picture of Dorian Gray is a gay book. After all, the protagonist, Dorian, is guilty, among oth...

Eavesdropping in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

In twelve pages the importance of eavesdropping and written communications to these two plays are examined. Three sources are cit...

Comic Effects in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Court are called Algernon" (Wilde 76). Here, Wilde is clearly poking fun at the aristocracys preoccupation with names and appeara...

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde and The Misanthrope by Moliere

This paper contrasts and compares the characters of Cecily and Alceste in five pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

19th Century Comic Techniques of Oscar Wilde

In five pages this essay compares An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest in a discussion of the comic techniques the...

Comparison of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

had previously been reserved only for God. He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufa...

William Butler Yeats' 'The Wilde Swans of Coole'

between what is real and what is a mere reflection is indicated in the line that says, "Under the October twilight the water/Mirro...

Art and Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

for their own sake and not for moral edification, as was the stance popular in the Victorian era. There has been considerable de...

Machiavelli and the Relationship Between Ruler and the Ruled

toy and so she takes him home. The child learns that he cannot get everything he wants and he is well taken care of as his mother ...

An Article on the Influences of Shakespeare Summarized

Rather Dionysus, Falstaff is his "Silenus, the fat, old drunken companion...(who) lends humor to Dionysian celebration" (367). Acc...

Socrates and Machiavelli on Leadership

character of the leader nor of his ability to lead. The book is essentially about how a leader can be at his best. While it is tru...

Comparison Between Niccolo Machiavelli and Martin Luther King Jr.

leadership. Leadership is more than simply doing what the people say they want. It is acting to fulfill the needs of the people in...

Comparative Analysis of 2 Slave Narratives

and sorrow" (Prince; 1). She was soon sold off to a master and then began to learn about being beaten and abused as a slave. Sh...

Parents and Child Protection

At the opening of the novel it becomes clear that Tom Wingo is having some sort of emotional or mental crises. This is brought on ...

Machiavelli's Digressions in The Prince

the most intelligent way to go about ruling a community or a state. But, as indicated in the introduction, there are places where ...

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and the Digressions in the First Eleven Chapters

different ways: either by a prince, with a body of servants, who assist him to govern the kingdom as ministers by his favour and p...

Literature and the West's Medieval and Renaissance Cultures

Dantes (1999) Florentine origin, one first must ascertain the reasons why people are drawn to his work. Is it that poems are enjo...

Government Theory of Niccolo Machiavelli

Concerning war for example, Machiavelli (1515) writes: "With us there is great justice, because that war is just which is necessa...

PR Power

take a proactive approach, taking Harry to a drug centre where addicts were, taking a very different approach than would have trad...

Did Machiavelli Have a 'Prince' of a Life?

but weak, and Medici was allowed to return to power (2000). Machiavelli was dismissed but was soon afterward imprisoned, and sub...

Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince and Human Nature

the ultimate goal or greater good." In essence, he is arguing, according to Oldham, that the end justifies the means and that any ...

Politics, Human Nature, and Machiavelli

a prince should behave and when behavior is justifiable. The author also to an extent addresses the nature of man. At least one ca...

Machiavelli's Beliefs Regarding Fear and Love

seems to possess a great deal of truth. According to Machiavelli, the conventional wisdom is that a prince "should try not to ins...

Prince Arjuna and the Advice of Lord Krishna

Arjuna sees "fathers and grandfathers, maternal uncles, brothers, sons and grandsons, comrades and friends, father-in-laws and tea...

Raphael Hythloday in More’s Utopia

Hythloday understands that princes normally have a nature that enjoys money and war, as stated in the following: "For first of all...

More's Utopia as a Superior Model when compared with Machiavellian Ideals

of all possible worlds, at least as he saw it. Much of The Prince looks at the world through the eyes of the monarch. Machiavel...

The Distinctively Canadian Anne Of Green Gables

souls" (Wittenstein, 1999, p. 26) during World War II. Like Americans and a whole host of other foreigners who come to capture a ...

Power Justification

The ruler was seen as Gods representative on earth and his use of absolute power was justified by his receiving the right to rule ...

Perspective and Wisdom of Niccolo Machiavell

people. Machiavelli contends that every ruler does not want to be mean or cruel leader and rather, they want to be merciful (58)....

Freudian Psychoanalysis of the Madness of Prince Hamlet

out of joint. O cursed spite / That ever I was born to set it right!" (I.v.206-207) The pivotal moment in terms of Hamlets sanity...