Henry Purcell's Fairy Queen: A Case Study

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is a comedy that contains a lot of aspects. They communicate in one way or another to the audience, depending on how we (the audience) analyze what Shakespeare is trying to convey. Many authors have published articles that treats the subject based upon one aspect of the play. One important element of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the disparity that is distinguished between reality and a world inhabited by fairies and other magical beings and forces.

Charles II was a constitutional monarchy of England in 1661. Charles was only about 12 years of age when the Civil War began; surprisingly two years afterwards he was given the honor to be appointed as the nominal commander-in-chief in western England. A civil war burst violently between Parliament and Charles I, for his presumptuous claim of divine right to rule. However due to the unexpected parliamentary victory, prince Charles II was immediately forced into exile.

Charles I son of James VI of Scotland tries to enforce the Divine Right of Kings but faces opposition from Parliament this begins the English Civil war. Charles I then makes several mistakes including marrying Henrietta of France, who was a Catholic yet England was Protestant. All mistakes have consequences and King Charles first consequence was a strained and wounded marriage to his wife Henrietta. Charles often got into trouble, and one of the times was when he tried to impose a new prayer book in Scotland. This angered the Scots and they went to War against England. Due to all this, the country split into two factions and civil war ensued. These trying times brought along the Irish opposition, who tried to seize the English government. Charles was eventually put on trial and charged with multiple counts of treason punishable by death and was later executed.

‘Ozymandias’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ are both poems about the pride of men and how it always leads to ruin. ‘Ozymandias’ looks at the pride of men as opposed to Nature, and declares it a foolish notion, mocking humanity as whole. ‘My Last Duchess’ looks at the pride of men in contrast to emotions and portrays it as a dangerous force, describing pride as an insinuating sickness of the mind.

Minerva Mirabal was the leader and the voice of the butterflies before their murders on November 25, 1960. Minerva was the leader of the group because of her extroverted attitude and her disgustion of oppression. Minerva consistently portrayed the image of the butterfly to the public despite the struggles she had going on in her personal life. From a young age, Minerva’s identity is rooted in her struggle against oppression. Throughout her life, she transforms her identity into a national symbol. Minerva evolves as a person throughout In the Time of the Butterflies, but her morals and values persist throughout her life.

In today 's society a “fairy” is thought of as a tiny, sweet, playful person with wings and magical dust. This was not the idea of a fairy for people in Elizabethan England. A fairy in that time was a “..life-sized creature, fiendish and malicious..” There wasn 't only one model of a fairy: there was the mermaid who would send sailors to their deaths; giants and hags; fairy aristocrats who spend their time dancing, hunting and feasting; and the ordinary goblin. The main concern of a fairy is the workings of the household. During the night, fairies would inspect the houses and reward the well-kept houses by helping with chores and bringing good luck. Fairies could be won over by leaving out food and drinks for their nightly visits. Houses

Since the new millennium has started, a new trend has taken over people's’ lives, specifically little girls’ lives, and this new trend is princesses. Both the articles, “The Princess Paradox”, by James Poniewozik and , “Cinderella and Princess culture” by Peggy Orenstein elaborate on the issue of princesses in today’s society. In Princess culture, Orenstein talks about how much cinderella and princess them goods: movies, toys, and dresses, hinder the growth of young girls and almost sees no good in them. Poniewozik in Princess Paradox, takes a different approach than Orenstein and talks about how princesses aren’t exactly a bad thing for young girls.Although, both articles address the issue of princesses, Orenstein completely dismissing the

In almost every Count that has ever been reigned in the middle ages, there is no leader like Count Charles, who takes a risky approach to governing a land with the idea of religion as an important aspect of his position. Count Charles, aka “Blessed Charles the Good” is well known for feeding the poor, promoting peace and security, but religion is definitely a big influence to his reign as the Count of Flanders. At first, before doing any research on Count Charles’ religious ruling, I would already believe that Charles is a spiritual nobleman that everyone would admire because of how devastated Flanders felt when they heard about his death in 1127. Fortunately, my thoughts on Count Charles

6. Take a single act from the Marriage of Figaro and, using particular examples, show how Mozart structures the act in terms key, form and texture. How does the opera critique the social order of the time?

The book presents an adventurous journey of Redcrosse, one of the Knights in the poem. The hero together with his chum Una gets separated in the forest after Archimago, one of the forest’s evil residents deceive Redcrosse in a dream. The ace later lands in the house of pride where he tints his virtue and remain helpless for a while. Even so, he later recoups his lost grandeur after killing the dragon. The paper describes the twelve steps of the hero’s journey.

Discuss the imaginative response to the figure of Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene Book III.

1) In the passage Anne contrast the carnal reader and the courtly readers. First she contrasts that the courtly readers where they believe the only thing they were allowed to do with books were to read them. Courtly readers never leave their bookmarks when they were done. While in the other hand, Fadiman believe in the carnal love, the carnals readers had more privilege and use to leave romantics mementos.

In 1430 I was called a living Saint, now I’m called schizophrenic. But you can call me Joan of Arc.

Catherine of Aragon was born on December 16, 1485 in Alcala de Henares, Spain. She was born to Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon. She had four siblings: Juan, Isabella, Maria, and Juana. Before Catherine’s second birthday, she was arranged to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales. He was the son of Henry VII. Following this event, Catherine was declared to become queen and took the throne in England.

King Charles of England came to power when his father James I died. While he was ruling, he restored freedom of religion for the Catholics and the Irish, and dissolved Parliament. When the second Scots war broke out, he had to call Parliament again. Parliament passed the grand Remonstrance, which condemned the king’s policies. King Charles and