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Search term: language-manipulation
Select two characters from the works Medea and Pygmalion and compare the means by which these characters are constructed and developed.
... manipulation, she conceals her anger and intent while easily manipulating all the powerful male characters in the play. Ironically playing to parental love she manipulates ... , although sympathetic the nurse's strong language predicts doom and warns of Medea' ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
What consequences of typography did people fear the most? To what extent, in the 15th and 16th Centuries, were these fears justified?
... and Catholic, against each other" (Jowett 47). On a language level, however, he unified the different dialogues in Germany ... the medium" (as well as the 'massage', meaning lulling/manipulating people) can be aptly applied here. The Canadian philosopher ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Why does Agamemnon die? An analysis of Aeschylus's 'Agamemnon' from the Orestia trilogy which examines the multiple causes of his death. Based on a reading of the play in translation.
... unexpected death on his victorious return from Troy. Aeschylus manipulates the original myth in order to accentuate the dangers ... audience are made aware of her intelligence through her eloquent language and her knowledge of the world that would usually ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Ignoble Savages
... sufficient pungency be reached. This demonstrates his ability to manipulate his environment for a positive outcome. However, when I ... This demonstrates that Room Mates are indeed capable of rudimentary language, even if the mastery of syntax and grammar has ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Jack the Ripper
... suggested innovation, and published under the title "The Living Languages" (Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, I89I) a pamphlet expounding ... society. He was a highly socially competent man; persuasive, manipulative and attractive to women. Although he spent so ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
'Medea' as a revenge tragedy. Speech
... Moreover, the conventional revenge tragedy abounds with melodramatic language to create action and tension emphasising the sheer ... fundamental conventions of the revenge tragedy genre yet manipulates and redefines some conventions to reflect their contextual ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Clytaemnestra and penelope - a
... loyal, wise and talented. Clytaemnestra is her opposite: deceitful, manipulative, controlling, assertive and sexually active with others than ... one.' (Aeschylus, page 162, lines 1426-1428) Strong language is used to describe her: 'fell, bestial, corrupt, ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
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