... and more closely linked to the tradition. Eliot goes on to claim the necessity of a tradition in literary criticism aswell, “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of aesthetic, not merely historical, criticism.” He goes on to analogise the poetic process to the scientific experiment. Whilst it is tempting to see this as a negation of the creative process. El ...

... on his foe. Beowulf’s honor is apparent again when he describes the contest between himself and his boyhood friend Breca. Beowulf and Breca were in the midst of a swimming competition on the open sea. Breca couldn’t keep up with Beowulf, but being the honorable warrior, he refused to leave his side. Beowulf fought off monsters in the oceans deep, protecting Breca from the “grisly sea beasts.� (430) Beowulf’s morality came also in the form of loyalty to people and his word. Loyalty to his father remained throughout the epic. On numerous occasions he boasted of his father, Ecgtheow, who “was famous ...

... battles with the local school, she took her case to court. The school said the books were appropriate for the children to read, and if parents did not agree they could transfer their children to another school. Both sides had different organizations backing them. The case gained national attention. The federal court sided with the school district in the end, but Vicki Frost did raise attention on how schoolbooks are chosen for our public schools. The book by Stephen Bates brings up a very controversial issue, should parents be able to control what their children read in public schools. Bates does not critic ...

... It was two a.m. and the bar is supposed to close at three. This young man throws the old man out of the bar just so he can go into bed with his wife. The young man has absolutely no respect for the older man who is deaf. He yelled at the old man saying, "You should have killed yourself last week." The waiter treats him like an obstacle as if he is slowing down his life. The second waiter introduced is a middle-aged man. He does not say much, but it seems as though that this is because he does not want to get in a fight with the younger waiter. All he does is ask the young waiter questions, as i ...

... girlfriends possessed head to chopping off his own possessed hand, he never seems timid around danger. To accurately compare these two films, it needs to be known that “Evil Dead” and “Evil Dead2” are the same movie. “Evil Dead2” is not a sequel to “Evil Dead” but rather a remake of the original. The original let the impression of Ash being killed at the very end of the film. The remake, “Evil Dead2”, allowed the making of the sequel, “army of darkness”. In “Evil Dead”, Ash, his girlfriend, and 3 other friends rent a run-down cabin i ...

... as the wearer of robes not belonging to him. He is wearing an undeserved dignity, which is a point well made by the uses of clothing imagery. The description of the purpose of clothing in Macbeth is the fact that these garments are not his. Therefore, Macbeth is uncomfortable in them because he is continually conscious of the fact that they do not belong to him. In the following passage, the idea constantly reappears, Macbeth’s new honors sit ill upon him, like loose and badly fitting garments, belonging to someone else: New honors come upon him Like strange garments, Cleave not to their mould ...

... recording. The RIAA, which represents the major recording companies, would have you believe that the sharing of music online is destroying the music industry (The Internet Debacle), yet there are several artists including Janis Ian, Limp Bizkit, Offspring, and Public Enemy who see it a different way. Indeed, music distributed within the internet community allows people to sample available music in order for them to decide what to purchase in the real world. First I’d like to look at the legality of downloading copyrighted music. Obviously it is not legal as the courts have shut down Napster for this very ...

... of the conversation, in Act III, Eliza is speaking with pedantic correctness of pronunciation and great beauty of tone. “How do you do, Mrs. Higgins?[she gasps slightly in making sure of the H in Higgins]....� Eliza starts to go off and loses control of her emotions later on during the conversation when she misconstrues the remark of Freddy Eynsford Hill. She starts to get like her old flower girl self and gets so comfortable that she doesn’t even realize it. Henry jumps into the conversation and stops her and she finally realizes what happens. The Eynsford Hills still seem a little bit puzzled b ...

... “The angel of death has spoken,” said Ahmad's interpreter, referring to the spiritual woman’s prediction. The female soothsayer commanded: “The party must be thirteen, and of these one must be no Northman, and so you shall be the thirteenth.” Ahmad was chosen as the thirteenth warrior and the band traveled north towards Rothgar. They encountered a small hut that was ravaged by these monsters, and all of the men inside were decapitated with their heads missing. After seeing the brutality by these creatures, the thirteen warriors quickened their pace towards Rothgar. Upon ar ...

... and physical courage, and should be able to sacrifice everything in the name of love. Sydney Carton has been presented as the worthless human being. He was always drunk. He did not acquire any high social position. He was always alone and lonely. Nobody loved him and nobody respected him. “I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me� said Carton (page 99). However, Sydney Carton did never cause any harm to anybody, but actually helped the people around him. Sydney Carton was physically identical to Charles Darnay. When Darnay was being prosecuted for treason against the English government, C ...