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ENGL 454 Death and the King’s Horseman 1. Why is ritual important in the play? Ritual is a significant in the play because it is the presentation of cultural beliefs of the Yoruba community. Ri tuals are performed to create a transition from life to death, making it the central theme of the play. The Yoruba community honours the dead as they offer them guidance and companion. The European are however not pleased with the culture of rituals as they see it as ungodly and this is why they are obs...

DIVINE JUSTICE IN THE DUCHESS OF MALFI In the play, the Duchess of Malfi, revenge tragedy is significantly exposed through the text. Ferdinand is obsessed with her sister, the Duchess, and when he finds out that she has been engaging in sexual relations with another man, rage fills him, and he plots for her death. Ferdinand orders for the sister to be strangled by Bosola, and alongside her death, her maid and is also killed. After the death, Ferdinand is filled with guilt which drives him crazy....

AESTHETICS AND MORALITY IN THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GARY Wilde, through his literal text, The Picture of Dorian Gary, the author shows the superficial nature of society through the character of Dorian Gary. As a painter, the play starts with basil painting the picture of Dorian, and it comes out as a very beautiful portrait; and Dorian cannot help but admire his beauty and youth on the canvas. Lord Henry Wotton realizes the beauty that Dorian possesses, and he tells him to keep on searching for new...

SOCIO-POLITICAL OPINIONS IN ACT 3 SCENE 2, DUCHESS OF MALFI In act 3 scene 2, of the Duchess of Malfi, there is dramatic and intense shift of moods within the characters. The scene take place in Ma lfi, where the duchess, Antonio and Cariola are inside Duchess’s bedroom. Antonio and the Duchess are flirting with each other, and they then proceed to talk about marriage and sex. Antonio and Cariola goes into hiding leaving the duchess talking to herself, and then Ferdinand enters. Ferdinand give...

WORD FORMATION PROCESSES In the English language words are formed differently to form distinctive meanings. The process is called word formation and it is through this that creation of new lexical units is achieved. The process that are involved in word formation include; affixation, derivation, zero derivation, compounding, acronyms, alphabetisms, clipping, blending and backformation. Through the processes, new English are formed. In the compounding process, words are formed from joining up of ...

DISFIGURED: ON FAIRY TALES, DISABILITY, AND MAKING SPACE Amanda Leduc, in her text, On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, writes to challenges the norm of fairy tales where the beautiful pe ople are seen to have a happy ending. In his text, she seeks to have all bodies celebrated, unlike in fairy tales where the possession of two legs makes one beautiful. She backs her theory with the example of the ogre that never gets the princess showing the problem with beauty standards. Fairy tales ...

BOOK REVIEW: THINK AND GROW RICH Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is a motivational book that explores the ways in which a change of mindset creates a definite plan of achieving goals. In chapt er 2, the author explores the topic of desire and he explores the topic through Mr. Edwin C Barnes, desire of burning bridges to move forward with life. Mr. Barnes worked for Mr. Edison and all this time, he considered himself a partner at his company. He has already established a dream and would push...

In a number of recent studies on grammaticalization, it has been argued that the Lehmannian parameter of scope decrease does not work, and that instead scope increase is involved. In this paper I will look at a classic case of grammaticalization, that of the English modals, and suggest that the scope increase observed here can be seen as a case of scope stability provided one takes other constructions involving modals into account