Honour

The term “honour” is defined as “high respect, esteem or reverence, accorded to exalted worth or rank” (Green lecture). The concept of honour plays a very important role in the William Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado About Nothing. As the play progresses, one begins to discover that the concept of honour and how one goes about defending one’s honour differs substantially between genders and thus, honour is “gendered” (Green lecture). Therefore, through analysis of the play, this essay will discuss…

Option 3: In Hanife, how does Soysal deal with the issue of “honour killing”? Hanife (2010), is one of the famous short stories of Sevgi Soysal who was a Turkish- German female writer and was imprisoned for political reasons, during a military coup in Turkey in 1971. Soysal deals with the issue of honour killing by examining the different perception of honour and its importance and the place of women in the view of society, through the symbolism of the images such as the poplar tree and the…

it has. Many students had believed it was just more rules to abided by however, after reestablishing the purpose many were able to see that it was to help the students for the future. (Source B) Because the honour system is not just another list of regulations, everytime they write their honour sentence they are reminded to be truthful and…

Honour killings differ from other crimes such as plain homicides, psychopathic murder, revenge killings and domestic violence, as they have a complete different motive, they are instead based on codes of morality, ethical values and fundamentalist religious dictates. An honour killing is the murder or homicide of a family member by the other members in the family, because of the perpetrators beliefs that the victim has either brought shame or dishonour to the family. Most commonly, honour…

“Statement - All representations of people and politics are acts of manipulation” Every day as we step into the vast world of literature, we are constantly subjected to acts of manipulation. Our views are constantly shaped in a way the composers want it to be shaped. To put this more into perspective, we only need to look as far as the texts that I have been analysing in school of late – William Shakespeare’s dramatic play, ‘King Henry IV, Part 1’ and the RSC’s play within a play production.…

There is no honour in murder”, Dexter Dias and Charlotte Proudman argue that people should not be using the term ”honour killing” because it has nothing to do with honour. According to the UN population fund, 5000 fall victim of honour killings anually. Even though something has to be done about honour killings, changing the word used to describe it will not change much. In my experience, the meaning of the term honour killing has always been very straight forward…

Lowry. Both Phillip Noyce and Lois Lowry similarly demonstrate that sameness is bad. Phillip Noyce honours the original text to a great extent with his close adaptation of the novel. Both Noyce and Lowry explore the meanings behind the text and aim to educate the audience about freedom of choice and how a utopian world is unachievable. In the film version of 'The Giver,' the director Phillip Noyce honours the original text by showing the worst of sameness. In the film, Phillip Noyce…

strong regard for the law and thus leading a life of honour. Inclusion of repetitious dialogue in “Just let me do my job” is evident throughout the film to indicate Loki’s personal awareness of the significance of lawfulness and holds an esoteric meaning that Loki is determined to follow the law where possible, as result of his occupation. Comparatively, Villeneuve’s construction of opposing persona, Keller, is used to emphasise the appraisal of honour via lawful compliance. Keller’s lack of…

TORONTO- It’s been two years since National Day of Honour was declared on May 9th, 2014 to honour and remember Canada’s mission in Afghanistan and to remember those who were killed and wounded during this time. Canada’s mission in Afghanistan was to join the NATO alliance force to invade Afghanistan to protect the citizens of Afghanistan from the terrorist group called “al-Qaeda”. After 9/11 in 2001, the prime minister at the time, Jean Chretien, declared that Canada would join this mission in…

In the words of the lead actress- Kirron Kher, Khamosh Pani “deals with women and how few choices they have in life. How all their choices are related to the men in their lives-whether their fathers, or their brothers or husbands, ultimately their sons. They are answerable to all of them…they seem to be the keepers of their morals and their values.” The nation is the sentimental, ideological and collective sense of belonging towards a territory by a group of people who have a shared history and…