"Hamlet" SYMBOLS

A short memoir of 9/11 « The Invisible Man (Originally sent in an email to friends and family, 9/11/02) Friends, I think it would be nice to memorialize the events of September 11, by sharing our personal experiences. Here’s mine. I was on the subway going to work. On this particular day, the subway stopped at Times Square (42nd Street) and an announcement was made, no downtown service. I walked out of the station and started down Seventh Avenue. When I reached 22nd Street, I turned east (my building is between Sixth Avenue and Fifth Avenue). The World Trade Center appeared at the end of the avenue. Although I was mesmerized by the sight of the fire, I rushed to my office. Here was an even better view of the buildings, nearly unobstructed. I stayed on the roof for another 45 minutes, watching the second tower fall. At the time, my niece’s husband, Chris Williams, was staying with me. Like this: Like Loading...

Possible essay questions - Hamlet from Crossref-it.info Related Products <A HREF=" Widgets</A> What does Shakespeare suggest about the role of women in Hamlet? Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard Voices in Time I want to share with you something I’ve learned. I’ll draw it on the blackboard behind me so you can follow more easily [draws a vertical line on the blackboard]. This is the B-E axis. Now let me give you a marketing tip. Another is called “Boy Meets Girl,” but this needn’t be about a boy meeting a girl [begins drawing line B]. Now, I don’t mean to intimidate you, but after being a chemist as an undergraduate at Cornell, after the war I went to the University of Chicago and studied anthropology, and eventually I took a masters degree in that field. One of the most popular stories ever told starts down here [begins line C below B-E axis]. There’s to be a party at the palace. And when she shows up she’s the belle of the ball [draws line upward]. Now there’s a Franz Kafka story [begins line D toward bottom of G-I axis]. It’s a pessimistic story. The question is, does this system I’ve devised help us in the evaluation of literature? His father has just died.

Women In Hamlet I pictured Ophelia to myself as the motherless child of an elderly Polonius. His young wife had first given him a son, Laertes, and had died a few years later, after giving birth to the poor little Ophelia. The son takes much after his father, and, his student-life over, seeks his pleasures in the gayer life of France; fond of his little sister in a patronizing way, in their rare meetings, but neither understanding nor caring to understand her nature. The baby Ophelia was left, as I fancy, to the kindly but thoroughly unsympathetic tending of country-folk, who knew little of "inland nurture." When we first see her, we may fairly suppose that she has been only a few months at court.

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Literary analysis: Hamlet, by William Shakespeare - by Shane Bombardieri by Shane Bombardieri Created on : June 14, 2008 Last Updated : October 18, 2009 In Shakespeare's classic play "Hamlet," it is difficult to avoid questions on gender as we live in a society today which places extensive importance on equality of males and females. A feminist reading of Ophelia is sympathetic towards her and would condone her faults and put them down to external influences and emotional burden. "A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting The perfume and suppliance of a mini No more" It is not until later on in the play that the audience realises that this metaphor of transitory love that fades with youth is also foreshadowing of Ophelia's fleeting life. Of all the flowers that Ophelia is associated with, violets are the most prominent. A feminist reading of this particular conversation would produce a different meaning.

Guardian book club: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid | Books The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a small book that took a long time to write. When Mohsin Hamid came to discuss it at the Guardian book club, several readers mentioned the protracted gestation of his fiction. "Presumably you're working on your next novel – is that also taking you seven years?" asked one reader, drily. Yet the catastrophe, and this response, were, Hamid acknowledged, inserted into a narrative that was already formed. Hamid also denied one reader's description of The Reluctant Fundamentalist as a book with a political thesis, yet readers did take it as the analysis of attitudes and beliefs that might shape political events. A canny reader spotted that the name of the character who gives Changez the final push away from America is an allusion to Hamid's main literary source. The novelist told us that Camus's The Fall had inspired him to cast the book as a dramatic monologue addressed to an unnamed listener: "I found it so formally helpful."

Writer’s Digest - Writing Prompts Write a scene that includes a character speaking a different language, speaking in a thick accent, or otherwise speaking in a way that is unintelligibe to the other characters. (Note: You don't necessarily need to know the language the character is speaking—be creative with it!) Describe a character's reaction to something without explaining what it is. See if your fellow prompt responders can guess what it is. Write a story or a scene about one character playing a prank on another. Writing Prompt: Write a story that involves confusion over homonyms (words that have the same spelling but different meanings) or homophones (words that sound the same but are spelled differently). For World Storytelling Day, share the best story you've ever heard or told by word of mouth, or have a fictional character recount their favorite story. You're making your way down a cobbled street when a stocky, red-bearded man beckons you into an alley. Consider your handwriting, or a character's handwriting.

Review: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid The Reluctant Fundamentalistby Mohsin Hamid192pp, Hamish Hamilton, £14.99 The janissaries of the Ottoman empire were captured Christian boys trained to fight against their own people, which they did with singular ferocity. This interesting class of warrior is described during a business lunch to Changez, the young hero of Mohsin Hamid's second novel, at a moment of crisis over his own identity. Born in Pakistan, educated at Princeton and currently the hottest new employee at a New York firm specialising in ruthless appraisals of ailing companies being targeted for takeover, Changez recognises himself in the description. "I was a modern-day janissary," he observes, "a servant of the American empire at a time when it was invading a country with a kinship to mine ..." The richest instance of the latter is in the way it plays with the idea of fundamentalism itself. This precise, rather classical orchestration of symmetries and reciprocities is both a strength and a weakness in the book.

7 steps to creativity - how to have ideas A guest post by Simon Townley of WriteMindset As a writer, having ideas is one of the most important parts of your craft. But often it seems like one of the most difficult and challenging parts of the whole process. How do you keep ideas flowing? Some people like to wait for inspiration to strike. Luckily, there is a formula for producing ideas on a consistent basis. But if you need to produce strong and creative ideas regularly as part of your writing career, then it pays to know the formula, and how to use it. First of all, what is an idea? “An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements.” So how do you combine old elements into new? “The capacity to bring old elements into new combinations depends largely on the ability to see relationships.” Young says the ability to see relationships between facts is the most important factor in coming up with ideas. How do you cultivate it? There is also a formula, however, a five step plan which Young outlined in his book.

A Doll’s House: Context Henrik Ibsen, considered by many to be the father of modern prose drama, was born in Skien, Norway, on March 20, 1828. He was the second of six children. Ibsen’s father was a prominent merchant, but he went bankrupt when Ibsen was eight years old, so Ibsen spent much of his early life living in poverty. From 1851 to 1864, he worked in theaters in Bergen and in what is now Oslo (then called Christiania). At age twenty-one, Ibsen wrote his first play, a five-act tragedy called Catiline. In 1858, Ibsen married Suzannah Thoreson, and eventually had one son with her. Ibsen’s early years as a playwright were not lucrative, but he did gain valuable experience during this time. Ibsen followed A Doll’s House with two additional plays written in an innovative, realistic mode: Ghosts, in 1881, and An Enemy of the People, in 1882. In his later work, Ibsen moved away from realistic drama to tackle questions of a psychological and subconscious nature. A Note on the Title