Category: Scientific method

Shakespeare’s presentation of Lear’s three daughters in the play “King Lear” is both interesting and highly effective. Goneril and Regan are the two wicked sisters being both hypocritical and evil in their plot to gradually destroy their father. Cordilia however is presented as the complete opposite proving to be honest and respectful and shows that…

I will be concentrating on the presentation of Goneril and Regan, because Cordelia is more a symbol of purity, innocence and righteousness than a regular character. In Act I scene I Shakespeare present the sisters to the audience through King Lear. First King Lear calls upon Goneril to give him a declaration of her undying…

Ozymandias and Spring and Fall are two poems, which at first glance have little in common. Ozymandias is a traveller’s tale, a story that reminds the reader of something they have read before, perhaps in a children’s book, long ago. This is shown in the first line – “I met a traveller from an antique…

OTHELLO. Explore the relevance of rank and race in Shakespeare’s representation of a tragic hero. The fall of Othello is caused by many collective contributing factors; the most important, I believe, being rank and race and how the other characters in the play, such as Iago, can exploit these factors to influence Othello’s downfall. I…

From the infamous Dutch tulip hysteria of the 17th century to the Great Depression to the dot-com crash, wild bouts of speculation have occasionally inflated financial bubbles that “soaked investors when they burst”. Numerous economists and sociologists have attempted to explain these phenomena using the standard finance theory of expected utility, which has been accepted…

In the Elizabethan times there was a divide between the rich and the poor. The poor fitted into three categories ‘deserving poor’ Deserving unemployed’ And undeserving poor’ – those who turned to a life of crime or who had become beggars. However there were no categories for the rich although access to banquets, feasts, festivals…

In his famous work The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau proposes an absolute rule of the general will (Melzer 1983, p. 633). He argues that the general will ‘is always rightful and always tends to the public good’ and that it can never ‘err’, i.e. that it never makes mistakes (Rousseau 2006, 1762, pp. 30-32). In…

Romeo and Juliet is thought to have been written in 1595. Shakespeare adapted the story; however it is his version that is known to many of us. It is a tragic story of love. The whole episode of Romeo and Juliet’s meeting, falling in love, marriage, and tragic end, takes place within five days. This…

This extract occurs in Act 3 Scene 2 soon after Lear’s two older daughters throw him out of the palace into the storm, depriving the king of warmth and shelter. This results in Lear’s descent into madness as he furiously wanders the countryside in the storm. Shakespeare depicts Lear’s madness by having him ask Edgar…

Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that only the general will, the will of all people together granted sovereignty. In his Book, ‘The Social Contract’, Rousseau highlights the need for a lawgiver. He considers the possibility that that the General will err, if it errs, it would simply not be the General will of the people. “The general…