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Back in Shakespeare Essay

Back in Shakespeare’s days courtly love was a fashionable tradition. What happened was the men saw the women as Goddesses but their love was more often unrequited. But the men would send them love letters in the form of sonnets in order to win the woman’s love, however it usually failed leaving the man feeling melancholic. This is the position Romeo found himself in as he was in love with a girl called Rosaline. Montague and Benvolio notice a change in Romeo’s behaviour due to this and Montague explains how he â€Å"shuts up his windows† and â€Å"locks fair daylight out† this shows that Romeo attempts to isolate himself from the outside world and really is depressed. As Romeo enters the scene the audience can see for themselves his state of mind during his conversation with Benvolio. His replies to Benvolio’s comments are short and subdued and he explains, â€Å"sad hours seem long†. We can work out from this that Romeo is not having a good time so our sympathy wins him over and we hope for his luck to change. As we move onto scene 2, we meet Paris, who is a man hoping to marry Juliet and is trying to convince Capulet to allow him to, however Capulet seems to think Juliet is too young for marriage as â€Å"She hath not seen the change of fourteen years†. The possible marriage between Paris and Juliet is exciting for the audience yet it is an obstacle between the forthcoming relationship between Romeo and Juliet. The scene then cuts back to Romeo and his problems with courtly love. Benvolio who is aware of Romeo’s problem tries to be a useful friend by giving him advice. His advice is â€Å"one fire burns out another’s burning†, this is a metaphorical way of putting; you should find someone else and forget about Rosaline. Then as ‘Clown’ from the Capulet family is struggling to read a party invitation he asks Romeo and Benvolio to read the list out for him. Romeo notices that Rosalie’s name is on this list and the pair therefore decide to find a way of going to the ‘masqued ball’ to give Romeo a chance of fore filling his dream of meeting Rosaline. The fact it’s a masqued ball means they can get in whilst in disguise and probably get away with it and this thought enters Benvolio’s head. In scene 3 we meet the Nurse. A nurse is the Elizabethan equivalent to a child minder, however in these days they were hired out commonly by wealthy upper class families and were pretty much part of the family, they would raise the children and even breast feed them when they are babies. This particular Nurse raised Juliet and the two of them are very close. She is a bubbly character who often tells sexual jokes or sexual innuendo’s and tells Juliet stories about when she was younger usually embarrassing her. From seeing the play myself I remember the nurse being an entertaining character and was an audience favourite which was most noticeable by the applause she got at the end. Her sexual humour is shown where she says, â€Å"dost thou fall upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit, wilt thou not, Jule?† This is a crude joke of falling onto her back for sex and most fourteen year olds would find an adult talking to them like this terribly embarrassing yet the audience find it comical and entertaining. Soon after; Juliet discovers Paris’s desire to marry her and to the nurses delight Juliet replies â€Å"It is an honour that I dream not of†. Again the audience are excited by what is now a probable marriage yet it also questions the possibility of Romeo and Juliet getting together. Whilst on their way to the Capulet masqued ball Romeo predicts the future when saying â€Å"for my mind misgreaves some consequence, yet hanging in the stars†, similarly to what it says in the prologue; Romeo is saying he fears an unfortunate accident. The audience therefore semi-expect this to ironically happen. This is meant to create tension especially when he says about an â€Å"untimely death†, which along with the prologue suggests young death. Scene 5 is set in the Capulet household as it is the location of their ‘masqued ball’. A ‘masqued ball’ was a fashionable party to have in Elizabethan times where everyone went disguised in a mask. It was the equivalent to what a fancy dress party is today and this is why the Montague’s were able to get in with little suspicion from the Capulet’s. Party’s are always a popularity and so Shakespeare made this scene a key one in the play for the entertainment of the audience. From what the audience have seen so far, Romeo is a melodramatic isolated character. He has won over our sympathy and as he is one of the main characters we all want to see things turn around for him. The reason Shakespeare presents him as a melancholic lover is to emphasise the artificial nature of his love for Rosaline in comparison to the genuine emotion he feels for Juliet. We witness the two types of love juxtaposed and recognise that his love for Juliet is positive, energising and less of a ‘pose’. But by presenting him in love with someone else initially, it creates romantic suspense for the audience. When Romeo first sees Juliet, it is described as ‘love at first sight’, this really helps to emphasise how he feels about her. From the audiences point of view, Romeo appears to be shocked by how much Juliet stands out by the way he says â€Å"O she doth teach torches to burn bright†, the reason he says ‘O’ at the start of his speech is purely to emphasise his emotion. The speech as a whole is a type of light imagery and explains how her beauty stands out so much to Romeo. He then goes on to say â€Å"†¦she hangs upon the cheek of night / As a rich jewel in an Ethiops ear†, this is a metaphorical way of saying that she is beautiful, precious and rare to him as is â€Å"Beauty too rich for use†. These are both examples of wealth imagery. The majority of his speech in this part of the scene is imagery and metaphorical to help stress his feelings for Juliet, he also claims she â€Å"Shows a snowy dove trooping with crows†. This is in the category of bird and colour imagery and helps to stand out the point that she really does stand out from the crowd. As explained by courtly love, it was a common thing for men to respect women like they are goddesses, and Romeo uses this kind of ‘holy imagery’ when he says â€Å"†¦touching hers, make blessed my rude hand†. Overall the speech shows strong romantic inte rest due to how Romeo is so intense, passionate and genuine. This is one of the most loving parts of the story; however it is interrupted as the fiery character of Tybalt notices that a Montague is present. He clearly shows his anger by referring Romeo as a â€Å"slave†, which is saying that Romeo is like his inferior. As Capulet enters the scene; Tybalt threatens to â€Å"strike him dead†, however, Capulet bears in mind what the Prince said, in that any more fighting would mean their â€Å"lives would pay the forfeit† and as he wants no violence at the party, he aggressively prevents Tybalt from making any wrong moves. The hatred is then interrupted by the love of Romeo and Juliet as they meet and talk for the first time. Their conversation is set out in the style of a sonnet as of course; these were popular in the Elizabethan and Medieval times. It is very poetic, passionate and filled with religious imagery. The language is intense, memorable and uses rhyming couplets at the end of every other line to help it to sound better and stand out. Juliet is very responsive to Romeo’s requests and appears to want Romeo to kiss her, which was a rarity in the courtly love tradition. Romeo flirtatiously refers to Juliet as a ‘Pilgrim’; this shows how he respects her like a Goddess and this is the start of a large amount of religious imagery. In addition to that, Juliet answers back with her own religious metaphors like â€Å"And palm to palm is holy palmers kiss† this also contains some alliteration due to the repetitive use of words containing ‘palm’. The speech overall is a pattern of Romeo flirting to Juliet and Juliet flirting back, this keeps the flow of the conversation going and on a couple of occasions we witness a kiss. All this comes to a sudden end as the Nurse enters the scene and they discover each others identity. The nurse calls Juliet to go to her mother and when she is gone explains to Romeo â€Å"Her mother is the lady of the house† and of course Romeo realises this is the Capulet house. Benvolio calls Romeo away from the scene explaining â€Å"The sport is at the best† which informs that he knows the best part of the night is over and their identity has been discovered. This means that the Montague’s have to make a swift exit effectively making Romeo and Juliet’s ‘moment’ short with a sudden end. This leaves the nurse and Juliet alone together. Juliet finds out from the Nurse that Romeo is in fact a Montague and is clearly devastated by this when she says â€Å"My grave is like to be my wedding bed† and â€Å"My only love sprung from my only hate. All the way throughout this scene; Shakespeare juxtaposes love and hate. The first sight of love is at Romeo’s first glimpse of Juliet and the whole ‘love at first sight’ event, this is interrupted by Tybalt noticing Romeo and wanting to cause a violent act but he is stopped by Capulet. This allows Romeo and Juliet to have their first speech in the form of the love sonnet although when the two realise each other’s identity, the hate between the two families takes over leaving the audience wondering if the power of their love is strong enough to overcome the hate. In conclusion to the opening act of the play; Shakespeare creates many ‘untied’ ends to the story. This makes the audience want to carry on watching to get an answer to their questions; questions such as will Tybalt fore fill his threat towards Romeo? Are Romeo and Juliet going to die and if so how? Will Paris marry Juliet? And will there be any more fighting? The only possible way for the audience to find an answer to these questions is to carry on watching the play. This was Shakespeare’s objective for the opening act and he has therefore successfully completed it.

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Managing Environmental Issues - 1335 Words

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Where Have You BeenWhere Are You Going By Joyce Oates Free Essays

1. Examine the plot of your essay. Explain the basis of reasoning. We will write a custom essay sample on Where Have You Been?Where Are You Going By Joyce Oates or any similar topic only for you Order Now The story begins by portraying Connie’s character. She is rebellious, self-centered, romantic, seductive, but lacks experience. Her life was portrayed as a girl whose only confidence was rooted from her charm and beauty. Her normal life circles around facing the mirror and making herself beautiful, being scolded by her mother, being compared to his sister, a father who don’t took time for her, and hanging out with her best friend. She loves to watch movies and listening to music. She meets boys but the story did not clearly portray of her having a boyfriend. That was once the constant life she had, then one day everything has changed. A stranger came in to their house when she was left alone. The stranger uttered promising words about escaping the cruelties she had at home and discovering the world where she could do everything she desires. She was fighting at deep inside at first. In the end she turned out to become a victim of a demonic character who seduced and threatened her through her weakness. . Explain the theme and historical content of the article The theme of the story tackles on abuses on women’s rights. The story also portrayed most problems associated with young ages like being unable to speak freely, and the lack of experience as a basis of making logical judgment. The historical content is closely associated with Women’s Movement. It was also based on a story about a psychopath on his early thirties known as â€Å"The Pied Piper of Tucson. † He loves to seduce women and then murder them. Most of her victims were teenagers in the Tucson area, for some reason they kept his secret, deliberately did not inform parents or police. Oates has been very particular in devoting some of her writings for supporting Women’s Movement. This is the response of many crusaders to rampant cases of abuses and violence – physically, emotionally, sexually against women in the past years. It was intensified in the year 1960s and early 70s and has become subjects of many debates and literature writings concerning giving equal rights and opportunities for men and women. The movement is fighting for giving women equal employment opportunities with men, freedom to speak for themselves, and balance of power in handling their relationships with families. Most of her writings were fictional portrayals of real situations and cases occurring between sexes being women as the subject of violence. Critics believed that Oates occupies a controversial position in tradition of feminist literature. She portrays most of her female characters as fearful, reliant and passive – for instance, Connie was portrayed as a young girl who has lived in the shadow of her mother’s improper upbringing. She was always scolded by her mother and being compared to his older sister in her habitual characters and actions which her mother emphasized as indecent. That kind of situation was very miserable that she’d wished she’d died as a way of departing from it. She lives in fear and was unable to overcome it. Being portrayed as young at age clearly shows women’s weakness that had turned them submissive and disregarded in most cases. Her mother as supreme over her portrays her position that is always searching to be heard. Being a victim of emotional abuse she ended up thinking of what is life outside her away from the family she hated. The whole story itself shows women as powerless against abusers. The story ended has a hanging ending, although she has escaped the cruelties at home but ends up at another abuser’s hands. While most critics have negative perceptions of her ideas about dependency of women, there are still who have defended the feminist sense in her writings. In fact, in her later works she was able to portray power of female bonds and their journey towards self discovery. 3. Offer support or criticism to the essay of your own thought. Offer support (at least TWO references). The story calls for awakening. We should not abuse every authority we have because our actions have direct effects on people around us either physically or mentally. It has rooted deep influence on its readers that it has become one of the most widely reprinted stories that have appeared on many short story compilations. In 1972, Walter Sullivan noted the story as â€Å"one of her most widely reprinted stories and justly so. † Awakening is, in the story’s final lines, moving out into the sunlight where Arnold Friend waits: â€Å"My sweet little blue-eyed girl,† he said in a half-sung sigh that had nothing to do with [Connie’s] brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him—so much land that Connie had never seen before and did not recognize except to know that she was going to it. http://www. usfca. edu/~southerr/works/film/smoothtalk. html). For Connie, it was an awakening of what is life out of home? And what is life in the real world. When treated on our present society, there are lots of individuals who became members of cruelties by those who consider themselves powerful and strong. The wise have fooled many people by their promising words and threatening. Just like how Arnold’s friend uttered promising words and threatening to force Connie to go with her. All throughout the story, there lines were temptations have succeeded over Connie. She never listen to her mom, but instead rebel inside and wished she and her mom would better die. Her young mind’s desire of having fun, and her ignorant desire for romance, and be able to grow old for her to escape from being tightened have exposed her to the world of the more experienced individuals. That is how Arnold’s friend met her and have started to desire for her young and desirable charm and beauty. It happens in real life; teenagers became victims of rape cases, involved in addictive vices, and do unlawful actions. The ethos of her writing was showed using real life figures: a mother, a sister, a friend, and the seducing old friend. Oates portrayed that everything that happens in our life has direct connection with the people around us. What we do and what they do have vice-versa effects on one another. The Logos of her writing was showed by presenting the demonic old friends method of seducing Connie in a logical way. He spoke of anything that Connie desired and feared that led Connie to surrender in the end. The Pathos of her writing was showed by using thrilling situations like the scene where Connie was left alone in the house and then Arnold’s friend suddenly came to threat and seduce him. Connie has appeared pitiful and powerless compared to the older stranger’s actions. How to cite Where Have You Been?Where Are You Going By Joyce Oates, Papers

Work Life Flexibility Will Replace Work Life Balance

Question: Write about the Work Life Flexibility Will Replace Work Life Balance. Answer: Introduction The report will discuss in detail about the significant consideration provided especially when the employers of all kinds actually consider or sometimes reconsiders working practices flexible by nature. There is also a consideration from managers who are also focus on flexible working arrangements. The concept of flexible working defines any kind of working arrangement that provides a certain degree of flexibility on how long and where the employee can function. The present stator right is based on request which is also based on flexible working that can assist flexible working environment with familiar kind of workplace along with arrangements with right options in employment sector for a very long time and it also assist managers to meet the varied needs of the customers as well as the staff (Demerouti et al., 2014). It is important to understand that the different stakeholders have different expectations like customers expect to have goods as well as services that are present outs ide the traditional working time. Then there are employees who want to accomplish a good balance between the home and work life. Employees also want to accomplish a good balance between the work as well as the home life. Body Implications for Employees There are so many kinds of employees that have the right to actually ask for flexible working time and under new policies it is mandatory for everyone who previously was only available for people who have small children or people with special needs. It is also advisable that present set of new rules will also assist the management to properly handle the present flexible working requests in a right manner and the employees also manage the specific set of life situations (Allen et al., 2014). According to many authors the flexible working helps in keeping more people in long term employment and it also helps the organization to retain more staff. It is important to understand that it is now time to bring more working practices that are updated as per the needs as well as choices of youth and modern families. It is also expected to have a flexible working specifically which is interesting for old workforce since the approach is based on retirement and to people who are young or the peop le who may need to study while working. The practices based on flexible working can do more amount of harm and it is not good to workers since it also encages a culture which promotes always on and to varied young people who require studying while working. In reality, the concept of flexible working can be more harmful since the concept motivates an always on culture that can have a heavy psychological toll on the mind of the people (Kulik et al., 2014). Working from or away from the organization can also sometimes isolates the employees from social network and many career options while looking or grazing for an instinct that is actually quite dangerous and secrete stress hormones at a very high level. Flexible working based policies can also raise the amount of risk for poor working culture and also create a lot of resent among the co-workers while it also blurs the line that exist between the work and home life. Companies as well as the government will have to respond by motivating the concept of working and also working from home along with flexible hours and part-time contract and time off to look after the family and recently with experiments in shutting down the emails at the working time. There is a specific issue cropped up where people were grazing through proper work by refreshing emails and also taking some right kind of calls external of the office hours with recent work found on somebody who have performed a work in high stress. If there is constant stress on the work with worrying about the system as well as the systems that never really get appreciation from the baseline so people are unable to recover in right manner (Kossek et al., 2014). The studies also suggest that people might want a quick method to properly relax as well as they also tend to depend on wrong substance like alcohol. There is time for many personal hobbies and exercise along with right kind of eating habits that are squeezed out by the work as well. Another important concern is the influence of the new base for technologies that make flexible working possible for the workers and also found that an adult spend more time using the right technology than sleeping every day. The nature of the work has become more intense with the advent of new technology and also forces people to function in a faster manner and also multi-task (Kossek et al., 2014). The research is also based on finding or rising the level of presentation for instance when people are working while being ill. It is always important to understand that more amounts of control as well as autonomy is an effective process which helps in reducing the level of stress however not every working practice have the proper solution. Good level of management is also seen as very significant. At the same time, there are concerns related to work life balance which is prevalent the average working hours are completely declined in a consistent manner for last one decade. At the same time there are number of working based couples that are growing or have a piling pressure on the household in order to retain time for caring different obligation as well as domestic time (Johns and Gratton, 2013). The conclusions changes on the scale of overall issue in finding the right kind work life balance and the office of National Statistics found more than half of the worker from British background that actually meet the balance of work as well as leisure time and there are more than a quarter of people who are not sati sfied. The HRM Implications How Might HR Have to Operate Differently? Companies are always under a lot of stress as well as pressure to produce right goods and services of the right kind of quality and that too at the right prices and when customers actually require them and in order meet the rising demands, there are times where new methods of working have to be based on making best utilization of resources as well as staff. The flexible patterns of work can also assist to deal with pressure by increasing the present labor along with improvement in customer services. A manager, organization is all about the motto based on duty of care in order to save the employees from the risks to the health as well as safety. The risk can also be based on stress which is because of the working for long time to health and safety of the workforce (Johns and Gratton, 2013). Such risks might also be based on the stress caused by working for long hours or struggle to create a balance in work as well as home life. Flexible work culture can actually assist to improve the level of health as well as well-being of employees and at the same time it is based on the extension which in reality reduced the absenteeism rate with increased level of productivity and increase engagement of employees along with high level of loyalty. Flexible working and many attached arrangement are already utilized in many sectors of employment like part time work which is used in restaurants, warehouses, shops and many other kind of places (Coenen and Kok, 2014). The concept of flextime is usually used in offices which based on culture for the staff below the level in public as well as private sector and service based organization along with annualized time period and which is often utilized in manufacturing as well as agriculture based big variations in demand all across the year. With any kind of modification in perspective along with working practices, there can be a challenge that requires basing on actions taken before anything else (Sandberg, 2013). The issues that management can implement on flexible working practices are discussed below: - Potential and operational level challenges in making suggested modification Additional pressure places on other workers who are not requesting flexible working Negative influence on customer services as well as overall quality of work Resistance to change from managers Challenge in scheduling the work with many work arrangement to be based on considering the additional costs Expected challenges in interaction with the workforces Reduction in flexibility of employees While such limitation may actually infer that it is impossible or not right to change the original proposed because of right consideration and there are many times ways to solve the challenges faced by the company and managers. Implications for Leaders and Managers The main role of the employers or the manager is based on striking the right balance which is recognized as being a critical process with majority of respondent reporting about the overall attitude of the manager that works like a obstacle in order to attain right balance. With any support from management, the requirement for right balance can modified with employee based phoning as well as also agrees that the child is not well and requires some amount of care. This is also perceived as the need to hide other accountabilities as well which is mainly driven by lack of principles or policies introduced by the company (Csikszentmihalyi, 2014). Polices are to cover many unplanned situations but in many cases it is also related with to fear of reprisals if there are any commitment issues. People in workforce who feel more about this are able to be more forthright and honest about the absence. A lot of attention is given to role and significance of communication with considerable number o f management that highlights the significance on being more open and honest discussion with employees and which also enable them to be more engaged with the members of the team on a more personal as well as work basis. This is why, respondents also reports about the active discussion on challenges and about the work life balance with the tram and were also kept in the loop specifically when the team members are facing challenges at home. Employees also suggest that there must be very open as well as flexible work arrangement with so many people being happy for the staff to work from home and other people actually adopting a calculation by solutions based approach rather than calculating the attendance. There is also a limited number of referred associated with role that play with setting the tone right for what can be acceptable and also active management of the work-life balance and with one respondent understanding that the refusal to surrender to the pressure specifically for selves and also making sure that that it can be evident (Csikszentmihalyi, 2014). People who actually faced challenges are heavily centered on the fact that the overall pressure of workloads is usually made it challenging for people to work in working hours and which make sure the right balance. There is a respondent who noted that people actually sometimes have right deliverable that is based on a team along with impossible delivery related dates and the result of the same are based on additional time at work. There is other highlighted dilemma as well and flexibility to assist one member of the staff it is important to ask or sometimes expect other people to work for long period of time specifically if there is any kind of pressure in order to meet the deadlines (Ammerman and Roof, 2014). Conclusions and Recommendations In the current world it is very common for the workforce to have so many competing accountabilities in the life of people. There are certain examples related to responsibilities that are away from the work that can be based on: Commitment as well as care that consist of children or elder people Education based commitment that can restrict the presence at times of the week or month or year. Duties as well as interest which is outside of the present work Need to be present for the religious base of observances Employees wanting for a great sense of well being with decreased level of stress and a poor balance that exist between an work commitment of employees and their other accountabilities that can lead to stress and high absence and low level of productivity (Todd and Binns, 2013). Staffs that have better work life balance usually have a great sense of accountability along with ownership and control of the present work life. If a manager assists the employees to strike a right balance with the work as well as home life, it can be rewarded by rise in loyalty as well as commitment (Todd and Binns, 2013). Reference Allen, T.D., Cho, E. and Meier, L.L., 2014. Workfamily boundary dynamics.Annu. Rev. Organ. Psychol. Organ. Behav.,1(1), pp.99-121. Ammerman, N.T. and Roof, W.C., 2014.Work, Family and Religion in Contemporary Society: Remaking Our Lives. Routledge. 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