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Words are used for communication, and the meaning behind a word is for expression. Humans created languages, word forms, and symbols to understand different individuals. Along with the human history, languages are not just for communicating the daily bases. Instead, people use words, languages, and symbols to pass their own thoughts and beliefs to the others. For example: William Schwenck Gilbert used the operetta The Mikado to criticize the English society and beliefs. The Mikado is the musical comedy theater, as we know it was made popular by Gilbert and Sullivan. The Mikado reflects sharply in its mirror both English sentimentality and English acquiescence of brutality.
One of the faulty logic of the false dilemmas that when the Mikado declared each judge must be his own executioner he meant the executioner had to cut his own head off. This declaration of execution represents English acquiescence of brutality and the unreasonable laws and culture. William Schwenck Gilbert plays wording nicely on making jokes to the Japanese, but indeed to the English people.
In The Mikado, the sparking lyrics and the vagaries of love set in a fanciful Japanese society. For example: KO-KO (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) is engaged to YUM-YUM (Ward of KO-KO). Even YUM-YUM doesn't like KO-KO, she can't refuse him because of in Japan girls do not arrive at years of discretion until they are fifty- from seventeen to forty-nine are considered years of indiscretion (Gilbert, 1885). Usually, people don't marry to their own daughters, but the English aristocrats do- they only allow to marry their own family members enable them to keep their pure blood relation, that is English sentimentality. <...
Soaps but more importantly music videos can be said to interrogate the cultural construction of gender and representations of identity. The video suggests a set of images to the viewer and usually these are a blurring of gender and identity. Music videos predicate on the representation of female gender experience. The two interrelated sign syste...
I am going to prove that in the play Macbeth, a symbol of blood is portrayed often(and with different meanings), and that it is a symbol that is developed until it is the dominating theme of the play towards the end of it. To begin with, I found the word "blood", or different forms of it forty-two times (ironically, the word fear is used forty-two...
The In Greek mythology the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus played a major role in everyday life. The Greeks respected them and thought of the gods as all mighty. In Ancient Greece the people honored and believe in the deities. Myths, poems, and epics tell the stories and beliefs referring to the gods and goddesses. Many...
Louis Hector Berlioz was born on December 11, 1803, in La Cote-Saint-Andre, a very small town in the east of France, fairly close to Grenoble, and a little further from Lyon. His father was a very respected doctor, an openly declared atheist and also a music lover. His mother was a Catholic. He was brought up under strict Catho...
establishes our place in our environment. It is a very fine line between what we see and what we know , and it is almost impossible to distinguish fully where one starts and the other begins. 'Margritt' comments on this through his work 'The Key of Dreams' What we know or what we believe to know affects how we see things. When we you use the expr...
