Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Modern taming of the shrew scene
Act 2, scene 1 Enter Katherina and Bianca [With her hands tied] BIANCA: Sister, don’t wrong me, or wrong yourself, don’t try and treat me like a slave, now hurry, untie my hands, i’ll pull off all my swag,i’ll do whatever you want, I know to respect my elders. KATHERINA: Of all the people who…
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Quotations from today
Quotes showing the feelings of women in both ‘Taming of the shrew’ and Sylvia Plath’s poems: “I’ll see thee hanged on sunday first” – Katherina to Petruchio after petruchio suggest marrying her, suggests that she is prepared for violence with no remorse. “You lie, in faith, for you are called plain Kate, And Bonny Kate,…
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GCSE Practice Work: Shakespeare & Sylvia Plath
How do Shakespeare and Plath show the strength of the feeling of women? (INTRO):In both ‘The taming of the Shrew’ and Poems by Sylvia Plath, we see that the feelings of women are very strong, however, we can see that Shakespeare cannot accurately portray the feelings and thoughts of women as much as Sylvia Plath…
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Katherine vs Petruchio: Behaviour comparison
In the beginning of the play, we see insulting behaviour from both Katherina and Petruchio, this is in the form of a ‘sparring match’ with insults. Petruchio uses various sexual innuendos and normal insults when he is insulting Katherina, for example; when Petruchio calls Katherina a wasp, she replies with “if I be waspish, best…
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Taming of the shrew character description: Katherina
Katherina is one of the main characters in the play, Taming of the shrew, she is described as strong minded, and Very independent, although she is sort after by petruchio, she wants nothing to do with him , she is not easily upset and doesn’t follow the behavior and nature of average women in the renaissance era.…
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Theme Study Journal Entry 6: Charles Darwin(Newspaper Article; New York Times)
This Lengthy article talks about how Charles Darwin is still Influential after 200 years and explores his theory in detail. At First, Darwin’s theory was Largely accepted then challenged, in fact, it has been challenged many, many times, A large amount of people believed that Darwin’s theory of Natural selection between animals was absurd, however, this theory was Accepted by a…
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Theme Study Journal Entry 5: Abraham Lincoln(Newspaper Article; New York Times)
This Newspaper Article talks about Lincolns life from Birth To Death. Surprisingly, Abraham Lincoln was born to a Poor Family in Kentucky, where he was Self Educated, A Self educated Person who grows up to become very powerful is known as a ‘Self Made Man’ because they usually get their authority by themselves, this makes…
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Theme Study Journal Entry 4: Stephen Kings ‘The Running Man’ (Fiction)
The book is set in North America in the year 2025, in Co Op city (Not the real Co Op city) in the Fictional state of Harding west of Detroit, with the state being an Authoritarian police state, the Book follows Benjamin Richards, a Working class man from ‘South of the Canal’ which is Shown in the…
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This is Your Online Domain
Hello and welcome to your personal online journal. This platform has been created to enhance and enrich your learning at the London Nautical School. Its purpose is to provide you with an audience for your work (or work-in-progress) and you have the choice (by altering the ‘visibility’ of your posts) of whether your work…
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Theme Study Journal Entry 3: Eragon (Fiction)
This story is about a young man called Eragon, A peasant farmer’s boy who was adopted by his uncle after his mother died, Eragon is introduced as a normal farmers boy who seems to be an adept hunter, Eragon lives at a farm near the village of Carvahall, The village is described as quite average,…
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