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¶ … Obscurity of Real Feeling and Intentions in King Lear and Hamlet
"Nay madam, I know not seems," says Hamlet to his mother Gertrude. (Act 1.2) By this he means he is not pretending to mourn his beloved father. Hamlet's mourning suit of inky black fabric truthfully expresses his feelings. However, Hamlet does deploy language later in the play to both obscure and reveal his true feelings. After he learns the truth about Claudius, he pretends to be mad to apparently divert suspicion from himself. However, although his madness is a simulation, he often uses the cover of madness to tell the truth, such as when he calls Polonius a fishmonger, or a pimp, as Polonius 'pimps' his daughter Ophelia for his own political gain.
In contrast, Claudius' display as a king is always a lie -- he pretends to love Hamlet in Act 5, even while he has arranged the entire play to kill his stepson. Much like Lear, when he was king, Claudius never reveals his true self in public. Lear only learns the value of truth telling after he spends a night on the heath during a storm. After being stripped of his power, he begins to understand the naked truth of the human condition. He also understands the value of his daughter Cordelia's brutal honesty and the honesty of his loyal fool.
Edgar's final statement in the play "King Lear" affirms the idea that one should speak as one feels, not what one feels one ought to say, because he has seen Edmund trick his father through lies, and through flattery, much like Lear's older daughters flattered him. Leadership, says the king-to-be, is about being honest and not simply rewarding shows of loyalty. Both Edgar and Hamlet assume personas to protect themselves, but with the aim of preserving their fathers and protecting the real truth. Their personas of madmen are humble, like the loyal Kent's assumption of the persona of a commoner as he follows Lear. But this shows again how ostentation of verbiage, which Lear values at the beginning of his tragedy, means little. Actions mean all, and language can be too easily deployed to obscure the truth of actions, so one must always be wary.
Moreover, a prosecution of the core leadership of an organization under RICO charges is likely to produce revelations concerning the relationship between leadership and other members who are either guilty of racketeering or some lesser scope of individual crime. This is to say that RICO was essentially designed to push the door open on the activities of such typically obscured enterprises in order to systematically disrupt its initiatives and
" (Gibbs 226) Alvardo de Campos is a naval engineer by profession and while his earlier writings are positive, his work develops characteristics of existential angst. Furthermore, what is intriguing is that all of these fictive authors created by Pessoa interact with one another and even translate each other's works. (Gibbs 226) One critic notes that "Fernando Pessoa invented at least 72 fictive identities. "His jostling aliases...expressed his belief that the
Business Leadership Analysis: Richard Branson Introduction Richard Branson rose up from obscurity in England to become one of the most revered business leaders in the world. From a small record shop in London to an independent record label that signed revolutionary bands like The Sex Pistols and the Rolling Stones, Branson’s company Virgin became a brand dedicated to doing things differently. The inspiration for Branson, whether it was selling music or selling
Madame Bovary's entire experience is by way of approaching her own obscurity, and indeed her own demise, and her death as an individual. The essay by Elisabeth Fronfen is, for the most part, very perceptive and the analysis she offers is razor sharp; when she asserts (411) that Madame Bovary's reading "consumes the life of the reader, who reads instead of living," she hits the literary mark with thorough
The fact that a novel in the sentimental and seduction genre attained such heights of popularity is, in the first instance, evidence its impact and effect on the psyche and minds of the female readers of the novel. As one critic cogently notes: Why a book which barely climbs above the lower limits of literacy, and which handles, without psychological acuteness or dramatic power, a handful of stereotyped characters in
Again, the press is not aware of all that goes on in the White House behind closed doors. Just because the matter was not publicly mentioned again in a direct fashion, does not mean that it was dropped. My team and I have continually discussed the best course of action for fostering trade with Tunisia and setting a much stronger precedent in the Middle East. The WSJ has actually