In the novel, Howard is forced to serve as an U.S. secret Agent by the Blue Fairy, a career that eventually led to his own death. Mother Night represents the fictional memoirs of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American who served as a secret agent for the American Army during the Second World War. Giving that the actual author of the novel served himself as a soldier during the same war, the question of whether or not the author resembles the protagonist in the novel is understandable. Perhaps one of the visions they share is the reality of facts, Mother Night being Vonnegut's only novel that does not feature fantastic elements. Vonnegut wrote "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be," as the final moral for his novel and one thing Campbell and Vonnegut share after all is their vocation and a sentimental attachment for who they really are, not for who they are perceived as being. As far as for Shakespeare, the author is known to have doubled his way with exploring the multiple facets of human nature. Like in Vonnegut's case, love was throughly explored within the depths of Shakespeare's writings, ranging from pure, innocent love to the mature affection and betrayal. In King Lear, the protagonist eventually learns a hard lesson, that the path to knowledge, true knowledge is sprinkled with sacrifices and loss, up to the loss of one's identity. In Vonnegut, identity is lost at the very beginning, being replaced by a different perception of the self to such an extend that the narrator ends up playing his part...
In the former we are directly introduced in the middle of the action, right at the moment when the king offers the kingdom to his daughters. The whole setting of the play is somehow mythical, in a time of kings ruling over their land and knights fighting to protect the land. Shakespeare uses lots of allusions and imagery to convey the audience into this mythical setting: he make references to such stories like "Jack the Giant Killer" and uses the image of some demons and serpents to create the background. The tone of the play is quite humourous and ironic, thus explained by the existence of the Fool. However, the King himself is quite intelligent, even though Shakespeare uses his insanity to address nonhuman objects. Like in many of his other writings, Shakespeare's style of writing is poetic, using iambic rhythms and free verse.
Media and Military Operations Recently there has been much debate about the effect of media reports on military conduct. Most of this has to do with the security that the military needs to conduct their operations and the dangerous are some of the reports that the media sometimes leaks out. A recent article found in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy argued that First Amendment freedom was compromised because
Thirdly, the growing up-to-the-minute exposure of the journalists to the physicality of the war detracted from the big picture and instead exaggerated the importance of singular happenings and specific events. It is in the loss of the big picture that the Bush regime is most able to capitalize on its military's control of the press. While in the 1990s, the President's father struggled with "pooled" journalists and the lack of
New Media Implications The improvement of internet and other technology and its ready availability to more and more people has revolutionized the structure and population of the media around the world. People that would normally be members of the audience have become the creators of news and vice versa. The lines that separate news makers and people that normally would be making news or expected to make news have blurred significantly
Media and Society: The Problem of Too Much Fake News Is the era of fake news becoming too dangerous for our families today? As Jones (2013) notes, communication media in the digital world is a powerful tool that we all must be mindful of lest we risk using it poorly and causing more harm than good. With the recent news faux pas involving a group of high school Catholic boys being
Media If 911 had not happened do you think the Summer of the Shark would have become the Year of the Shark? If not, what do you think the next big story would have been? (search news sites and other online references to find other news stories that could have been big, but were overshadowed by 9/11) The term "summer of the shark" has become a joke to refer to the way
Media Audiences Marxist media theorists discuss the media in terms of their role as 'ideological apparatuses'. Explain the key notions behind this research, paying particular attention to the concept of hegemony and the media's role within it. What is 'hegemony', and why is it important to audience studies? Marxist theorists emphasizes on the role of mass media in reproduction of status quo, however there is no school of thought regarding his theories.
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