The Black Prince
(1330-1376)
The Black Prince was the eldest son of King Edward the 3rd. His real name was Prince Edward Plantagenet and he was born in June of 1330 at the royal palace of Woodstock. The Black Prince grew up to become one of the most famous me diaeval warriors of all time. It is not really known where his nickname (the Black Prince) stemmed from, however, it is certain that it originated about two hundred years after his death. There is no evidence to support that he wore black armor, which seems to have inspired the very famous nickname. He did, however, carry a shield of peace which was predominantly black. This is probably the most likely reason for his nickname.
The Black Prince was an exceptional knight who also had a gift for commanding armies. His skills as a commander became legendary throughout Europe. His most exceptional achievement, which was probably the main reason for his name becoming a legend, was his remarkable defeat of the French forces at Poitiers in 1356 during the Hundred Years War. This defeat also lead to the capture of the French King John the II.
In order to celebrate his many victories the Black Prince would often hold vast celebrations which consisted of tournaments and banquets. These celebrations would often be very expensive and they would draw large amounts of money from his estates. This careless spending of money would usually lead to disorder throughout his Kingdom.
The Black Prince was the King of England from 1327 to 1377. While King he was capable of being very cruel. His cruelties ranged from spending money on parties, which was badly needed by the people of his estates, to the horrible offense of torture. While he was King, at age 31, the Black Prince married Joan Plantagenet who was 33 at the time of her marriage to the Black Prince.
While he may have been able to cheat death on the battlefield he wasn't, however, able to cheat death off the battlefield. The Black Prince caught a disease while in Spain.
Similarly, in “The Masque of the Red Death”, Prince Prospero is confident he can cheat death, but he is in disbelief when a masque figure resembling the Red Death shows up to his masquerade ball in his protected castellated abbey. “The mummer had gone so far as to assume the type of the Red Death. His venture was dabbled in blood and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror” (518). Prince Prospero angered attempts to defeat the masked figure, but “there was a sharp cry and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterward, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero” (519). After Prince Prospero’s death, “was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night” (519). Comparably both Brown and Prince Prospero believed they could overpower the antagonist, which did not occur in either
The most critical issue raised by the North’s victory was the South acceptance of transition of freedom for former slaves. Since most of southern whites did not agree with the idea of freedmen, they created several ways to foreclose the blacks to exercise their rights. The South utilized dirty tactics to preserve the idea of slavery, such as laws as the black codes, lynching and other violent ways promoted by groups known as Ku Klux Klan.
William of Orange once stated, “Spain committed such horrible excesses that all the barbarities, cruelties, and tyrannies ever perpetrated before are only games in comparison to what happened to the poor Indians.” This statement is an example of an attempt to discredit the Spanish. Attempts such as these are known as the Black Legend. The Black Legend was the name given to the concept of cruelty and brutality spread by the Spanish during the 14th and 15th century. This legend demonizes Spain and specifically the Spanish empire in an effort to harm the reputation of them. It was through this propaganda that made other countries look down upon the Spanish empire. The Black Legend threw discredit upon the rule of the Spanish by building biases and prejudices against Catholicism and the Spanish treatment of the natives of South America. The Black Legend mainly exaggerated the treatment of the native people in the regions of the Spanish Empire and non-Catholic people such as Protestants and Jews in its European territories. The Black Legend was an anti-Spanish movement, which was started due to political and religious reasons by Northern European Protestant countries who were Spain’s enemies in order to discredit them.
Who was King Arthur? Most people would tell of a great King; a devoted circle of heroic knights; mighty castles and mightier deeds; a time of chivalry and courtly love; of Lancelot and Guinevere; of triumph and death. Historians and archaeologists, especially Leslie Alcock, point to shadowy evidence of a man who is not a king, but a commander of an army, who lived during the late fifth to early sixth century who may perhaps be the basis for Arthur. By looking at the context in which the stories of King Arthur survived, and the evidence pertaining to his castle Camelot and the Battle of Badon Hill, we can begin to see that Arthur is probably not a king as the legend holds.
Although many laws were passed that recognized African Americans as equals, the liberties they had been promised were not being upheld. Hoffman, Blum, and Gjerde state that “Union League members in a North Carolina county, upon learning of three or four black men who ‘didn’t mean to vote,’ threatened to ‘whip them’ and ‘made them go.’ In another country, ‘some few colored men who declined voting’ were, in the words of a white conservative, ‘bitterly persecute[ed]” (22). Black codes were also made to control African Americans. Norton et al. states that “the new black codes compelled former slaves to carry passes, observe a curfew, live in housing provided by a landowner, and give up hope of entering many desirable occupations” (476). The discrimination and violence towards African Americans during this era and the laws passed that were not being enforced were very disgraceful. However, Reconstruction was a huge stepping stone for the way our nation is shaped today. It wasn’t pretty but it was the step our nation needed to take. We now live in a country where no matter the race, everyone is considered equal. Reconstruction was a success. Without it, who knows where our nation would be today. African American may have never gained the freedoms they have today without the
Harrison is far from ordinary, he is depicted as “exactly seven feet tall...Harrison’s appearance was Halloween and Hardware” (Vonnegut 197). Harrison being so young, he did not accept the handicaps like his father so he was placed in jail until he eventually broke out (Moore 27). The handicaps causes his appearance to be drastically affected, yet he is strong enough mentally to ignore the radios in his ears. Harrison’s strengths allow him to exploit his society 's lack of inequality but he is arrogant in the way he acts in front of the camera, shouting “I am the Emperor! Do you hear? I am the Emperor! Everybody must do what I say at once” (Vonnegut 198). Harrison’s actions bring him down as he becomes power hungry and a would-be dictator. “The Declaration of Independence treats the equal capacity of human beings to make judgments about their situations and those of their communities as the basis for popular government and identifies the people’s shared right to alter or abolish existing political institutions as the only true security for their freedom. And Abraham Lincoln famously summed up the founding as the birth of a nation “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” (Allen). Harrison’s decision to break out of prison to hopefully shed light on the corrupt government was called for because of his God given right. Power and equality should be balanced, similar to American government today, with checks and balances. Checks and balances allow the government to work effectively but are present to “hold the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch more accountable for regulations and their outcomes” (Dudley 1027). Harrison made the mistake of claiming to be the leader of a group of people who had just listened to how he had broken out of prison and was
The Knight served in the Crusades where he fought for his king and the preservation of his beliefs in Christianity. Honor and virtue were reflected in everything he did. The Knight represents one of the most admirable characters in literature and is revered because of what he stands for. Though the Parson did not fight in the Crusades like the Knight, he also served God. The Parson was a man of the church whose beliefs in Christianity were unyielding.
Arthur was the first born son of King Uther but was advised to stay hidden until the need of his reign. However, when the King died, there was much controversy over who would be the next King. Merlin, a magician who knew of Arthur, set a sword in stone that read, "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone is the rightwise born king of all England." When Arthur unexpectedly stumbled across the sword and pulled it out, he humbly took his place as King of England.
In his works, The Stranger (The Outsider) and Myth of Sisyphus, Camus addresses the consciousness of Meursault and Sisyphus through their fate.
to be like. In the film, when George can’t remember his son’s death, it isn’t because he isn’t smart enough it’s because the oppression of the handicaps is That bad. No shave eyebrows rubber nose, glasses physical description of Harrison changed his Looks more heroic than silly in the movie. We think of Harrison as a sacrifice to break free from the government. The Dancer takes off her own handicaps instead of
his powers to his son Edward the Black Prince just two weeks before Philip of Valois
In the final pages of his article McCloskey refuses to accept the possibility that evil, which he never really defines, would be all around him and yet he would go on living knowing that God is ultimately responsible. He feels there is no true comfort in that. Instead he suggests, it is far easier and comforting to accept the evil in the world as a part of life and take on the responsibility of comforting one another. It appears then, that if atheism is more comforting for McCloskey that he would be more prone to agree with Paul Tullich who is mentioned in William Lane Craig’s article, “The Absurdity of Life Without God.” Tullich basically accepts that he will live, he will die and then he would cease to exist. However, Craig feels that if there is no God and there is no immortality then life itself is absurd and every individual would be without significance, value or purpose. Overall, McCloskey’s claims and objections lack convincing propositions and therefore have not proved the nonexistence of God. On the contrary, while there are many questions to be asked and answers that cannot be irrefutably given, the arguments of theism are sound and
The characters become carnivalesque through their own dualism. Dostoevesky creates certain characters as paradoxical. In particular, Prince Myshkin from The Idiot is carnivalesque because he is a paradox. Prince Myshkin is the representation of a Christ-like figure as well as a clown. He has no ability to place himself within society and does not know how to navigate society’s complexities, however, he feels the urge to help others. Even though he wants to be alone he still courts Aglaia. Throughout the novel Prince Myshkin consistently struggles with the internal divide between being saintly as well as a buffoon. This even comes forth in his speech, after part one in the novel; Prince Myshkin loses the ability to tell stories. At point even
The tone of The Little Prince is often lonely and fragile-sounding, much like the little prince himself, when he ventures into the world of adults in an attempt to understand them. The writer emphasizes, throughout the story, that loneliness is what isolates the adults rather than children because they are unable to see things with their minds, hearts, and imagination. Both the protagonist (the little prince) and secondary protagonist (the narrator) lead lonely lives because of this isolation due to the differences between the minds of children and adults. "So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to," writes the narrator, before his plane crashes in the middle of the Sahara. He explains this in the first few chapters - living his life alone - because this 'world of grownups' does not understand him and wishes for him to talk of their idea of 'sensible' and 'practical' things. This made him very lonely, not so much in a physical sense, but so that he could never really find anyone to relate to. The narrator explains that after flat responses to his imaginative observations to things, "'Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and gold, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.'" In one of my magazines is an article called, "Popularity Truths & Lies," where popular girls talk about their social status. In large, red print, it says, "Lie: Popular girls are never left out or lonely." The girls then go on to explain how sometimes, they feel as if they are making so many friends only because of their popularity. They say that it's great to be popular, but difficult to find someone that really wants to befriend them for true qualities rather than social status. The situations between the narrator of The Little Prince and these popular students is that it seems that they would never be isolated (popular students from their admiring peers and the supposedly sensible-minded narrator from the adult world) - physically, at least - but inside the kind of friend they are really longing for is someone to understand and honestly talk to in order to end the abstract barriers between these worlds of people.
Every human being is born into a race and a culture. These are what separate one person from another. Is it possible to fit into a place where you don't belong? Your culture and race does not make you who you are, but they do play an important role in molding you. They can limit our beliefs in ourselves and which tasks we find important to learn how to do. With all of these afflictions, we do seam to be on a train with a one way track. Our lives appear as if they are set before us, just waiting for our shoes to fit the roles described therein. Natives have there roles which are separate and different from the foreigners, but how far do they differ?