Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his story “My Kinsman, Major Molineux,” successfully put forth a moral meaning for the term ‘shrewdness.’ Hawthorne takes the literal meaning – the ability to judge very well and make good decisions- and mixes it so well with his protagonist that we can take out a meaning for our own. Although the story, at…
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Citizen Kane: Happiness and Money
Directed by Orson Welles, Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles wrote the screen; Citizen Kane is a mystery drama of the life of the publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane. It is a window to a world of wealth, power and ambition which will end someday when the ‘master’ is dead. The last word of Charles Foster…
Read MoreDesire as a theme in ‘The Book of Courtier’ and ‘Dr.Faustus
Throughout the Renaissance, we see the concept of being a courtier emphasized in all areas, more specifically in Literature. While Thomas Hoby translated the “Book of Courtier” in the late 1500s, Christopher Marlowe’s “Dr.Faustus” was published during the first half of the Elizabethan era in the 1600s. Despite the fifty years difference between the two…
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