Image-Conscious Characters in British Literature by Gabriella Couloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3 for Brit Lit 1 Winter Exam Paper en-us 2018-12-09 21:26:21 UTC 2024-12-16 09:53:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Satan Paragraph #1 Analysis 2 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/312719246 Satan’s rhetorical questions invite his devilish followers to believe in a narrative where he and his resilient demons will use their past setbacks to overcome future clashes against God. Satan believes the boundless universe provides ample opportunity for battles against God’s creation, but by recognizing a world of limitless opportunity, Satan never caps his personal goals or his ambition and remains in dissatisfaction.]]> 2018-12-09 21:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/312719246 Thesis gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/312719267 Throughout British literature, image-conscious characters design personalities of passionate and powerful individuals so that their peers and followers more readily appreciate them. Satan in Paradise Lost, the Wife of Bath in Canterbury Tales, and Marcus Brutus in Julius Caesar willingly spend energy to carefully craft and preserve reputations as individuals of power, including a charismatic leader, a spirited feminist, and a patriotic Roman. However, by sacrificing their true convictions, Satan, the Wife of Bath, and Brutus remain restless within their lives: Satan’s ambition remains unsatisfied; the Wife of Bath lambastes others with vengeful anger; Marcus Brutus lives in emotional turmoil. As witnesses of each character’s particular journey, readers understand the characters’ respective struggles and develop an appreciation and empathy towards their fellow human beings.

]]> 2018-12-09 21:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/312719267 Satan Paragraph #1 Topic Sentence gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313007953 In order to maintain his reputation as a powerful leader and to control his demonic followers, Satan feigns a sincere love of Hell and hides his deep jealousy of Heaven, a masquerade that never fulfills Satan’s ambitious goals.]]> 2018-12-10 16:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313007953 Satan Paragraph #1 Evidence 2 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313008037 shows Satan's resilience

“What though the field may be lost? . . . And what is else not to be overcome?” (Milton, 3)]]> 2018-12-10 16:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313008037 Brutus Paragraph #3 Topic Sentence gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313008398 The senator and lead conspirator in the assassination plot of Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus, tries to embody the highest ethics of Roman culture, but in the process internal misgivings about his actions uproot his emotional stability. ]]> 2018-12-10 16:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313008398 Brutus Paragraph #3 Evidence 1 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313151816 shows how Brutus justifies his actions & what he wants to be known for  

“. . . all cry, ‘Peace, freedom, and liberty!’” (Shakespeare, 48)]]> 2018-12-10 20:08:27 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313151816 Satan Paragraph #1 Evidence 1 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313151842 shows Satans jealousy

“Satan with less toil, and now with ease / Wafts on the calmer wave. . .” (Milton, 24). ]]> 2018-12-10 20:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313151842 Satan Paragraph #1 Analysis 1 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313153674 Without the watchful audience of his demons, Satan approaches Heaven’s walls in contentment, as Satan now receives some of the paradise he jealously admires. However, in Hell, Satan hides his jealousy of Heaven’s glory and instead acts as a confident, passionate leader without admiration for Heaven.]]> 2018-12-10 20:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313153674 Brutus Paragraph #3 Evidence 2 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313221613 shows how Brutus actually is the opposite of Roman standards

“In this [bowl of wine] I bury all unkindness. . .” (Shakespeare, 81)]]> 2018-12-11 01:00:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313221613 Brutus Paragraph #3 Analysis 2 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313221646 Privately, Brutus caves into despair, an act against Stoicism and Roman society’s standard of quality leadership. Brutus despairs and deeply analyzes his decisions so frequently that he drinks to forget his mistakes.  ]]> 2018-12-11 01:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313221646 Brutus Paragraph #3 Analysis 1 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313221671 Brutus fears that his intentions and actions do not express the values of Roman culture and forces his fellow assassinators to loudly propagate their ethics. In doing so, Brutus reveals that he fears living with a reputation less than the manifestation the Roman values of liberty and courage. ]]> 2018-12-11 01:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313221671 Wife of Bath Paragraph #2 Topic Sentence gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313222010 The Wife of Bath pushes medieval English society's expectations of women to assert control in her life, and while she successfully gains control of her lovers, the Wife of Bath angrily lashes out at others and lives with a foul temper. ]]> 2018-12-11 01:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313222010 Brutus Paragraph #2 Evidence 3 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313224559 shows how Brutus only escapes his emotional turmoil through suicide

“Caesar, now be still, / I kill’d not thee with half so good a will”]]> 2018-12-11 01:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313224559 Brutus Paragraph #2 Analysis 3 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313224590 Shakespeare reveals the desperation and despondency when Brutus ends his life: Brutus kills himself with more confidence than when he killed Julius Caesar with almost sixty other conspirators. In death, Brutus appears to receive peace and separation from Caesar’s memory, yet  in life, Brutus never overcomes his emotional turmoil. Roman society’s expectations of uncomplaining, patriotic leaders consume his emotional well-being and ultimately him.]]> 2018-12-11 01:19:31 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313224590 Wife of Bath Paragraph #2 Evidence 1 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313226217 shows the Wife's flamboyant showiness

"her kerchiefs were of finest weave and ground; / . . . Which, of a Sunday, she wore on her head." (Chaucer, 15).]]> 2018-12-11 01:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313226217 Wife of Bath Paragraph #2 Analysis 1 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313226504  Each Sunday in Church, she dons a ten-pound, bright-red head turban to prove her high socio-economic standing and humbleness. Moreover, the height of the Wife's headpiece blocks other parishioners’ view of the Church service and makes her more important than God. ]]> 2018-12-11 01:31:47 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313226504 Wife of Bath Paragraph #2 Evidence 2 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313227424 shows Wife of Bath's vengeance on the male sex

"Well wimpled, aye, and "I have the power during all my life / Over his own good body, and not he" (Chaucer, 107)]]> 2018-12-11 01:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313227424 Wife of Bath Paragraph #2 Analysis 2 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313228176 The Wife of Bath understandably scorns men’s unfair control of her sex; however, she also professes the right to control her husbands and unfairly gain power over men. The Wife of Bath angrily wishes to wreak vengeance on the other sex. ]]> 2018-12-11 01:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313228176 Wife of Bath Paragraph #2 Evidence 3 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313229191 shows that Wife of Bath now wreaks vengeance on anyone who corrects her

“‘Thief, so much vengeance do I wreak! / Now will I die, I can no longer speak!’” (Chaucer, 123)]]> 2018-12-11 01:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313229191 Wife of Bath Paragraph #2 Analysis 3 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313229595 Impatient anger and vengeance consume the Wife of Bath so much that she loses the ability of verbal speech. By shutting herself up, the Wife of Bath does not provide an opportunity to reconcile with others and enters a bad habit of living in blind, childish temper. While the Wife of Bath appears as a woman of strong conviction, her unforgiving anger prevent her from living happily and she remains furious at any person, male or female, who questions or disrupts her authority and power. ]]> 2018-12-11 01:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313229595 gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313692572 2018-12-12 02:49:19 UTC https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/313692572 Works Cited! gcouloubaritsis https://padlet.com/gcouloubaritsis/pfv740y9ypf3/wish/315163818 Works Cited
  1. Chaucer, Geoffrey. Selected Canterbury Tales. Dover, 1994. Dover Thrift Editions. 
  2. Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. Oxford, 2010. 
Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Penguin, 2000. Penguin Classics.
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