In the film "Gladiator" with Russell Crowe, what is the role of the people of Rome as a character in the film?

In the movie
"Gladiator" the people of Rome, with the exception of the lavish, rich Patrician, were
thought of as a "mob" of unruly people whose lives are entirely dependent on the
emperor. At the very beginning, Marcus Aurelius makes reference to the massive difference in
social class in Rome, pointing out how there is rich, there is poor, but there is little in
between. 

Lucilla goes as far as saying that Maximus does not have enough in
him to keep such mob under control. That Rome is so unruly and feral that it takes an emperor
willing to use any tactic to keep them in shape. In Lucilla's words, the megalomaniac tendency
of Commodus to make people depend on him for life, food, entertainment, mercy, and discipline is
perhaps all that could possibly keep Rome from imploding.

That is power, the mob is Rome. And while Commodus controls them he controls
everything

Maximus also saw Rome as a mob. He knew what
the weak tastes of the people were. However, rather than wanting to rule them from the top down,
he wished to see a liberated mob that would redefine itself and will allow itself to be ruled
properly. The fact that, in the movie, the people of Rome resonated with Maximus more so than
with Commodus gives us an idea that, as people, they were more powerful than they thought but
were also very much disenfranchised. In not so many words, the people were the handlers of the
power, without them even know it it. They had given all of their power to the
emperor.

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Please identify and explain the major poetic elements that Robinson uses in "Richard Cory." How many important major poetic elements are in this...

As the
previous answer stated,is a major poetic element found in "."  Throughout the
metaphor, Richard Cory is compared to a regal king.  Readers are told that he is "richer
than a king."  Furthermore the people see him as glittering and "imperially
slim."  What's interesting about the metaphor of Cory being compared to kingly wealth is
how it also makes a comparison between wealth and loneliness/depression.  Cory's money
presumably allows him to do many things, but it can't buy him happiness; therefore, he commits
suicide at the poem's conclusion.  

The poem
also makes use of .  Anaphora is a repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines. In
"Richard Cory," the word "and" is used to start 6 lines.  The poem is only
16 lines to begin with, so that means "and" starts more than 1/3 of the lines in the
poem.  The effect is that the poem begins to read like a list.  The narrator tells readers how
great the man is, and he just piles on thing after thing that makes Cory so great.  That really
helps with the poem's shocking ending.  Cory is so great and amazing, yet he still kills
himself.  

As for the poem's structure, "Richard Cory" is a
straightforward poem.  It's made up of 4 quatrains, and each quatrain follows an ABAB rhyme
scheme.  Each line consists of 10 syllables, and those are broken into 5 iambic feet.  That
makes the poem written in iambic pentameter.  An iambic foot is made when an unstressed syllable
is followed by a stressed syllable.  If we use bold text to
indicate a stressed syllable, the first line of the poem reads as follows:

Whenever Richard Cory went down town.

The rhythm and meter is very regular throughout this poem.
 Combined with the regular rhyme scheme, the poem sort of lulls readers into familiar territory.
 We don't expect anything shocking or different by the poem's end.  Then the narrator finally
throws readers off balance with the poem's final line.  

Went home and put a bullet through his head.

It
still follows the poem's rhythm and rhyme, but the line's content is a complete
shock. 

How does Bruno's character grow throughout the novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas?

In the beginning of
the story, when Bruno has to leave his home and friends in Germany because of his father's
promotion, he has a negative, self-centered outlook on the situation because he has no desire to
leave the familiar environment of his home in Berlin and his friends there. However, once he and
his family move out to the countryside, Bruno's natural curiosity leads him to explore his new
surroundings, even though his father forbids it, and this exploration allows him to grow as a
character because he comes face to face with a very different world than the comfortable one he
has enjoyed all his life.

One day, during an exploration, Bruno comes across
a camp that he has seen from his house. It is surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and he sees, to
his surprise, people wearing stripped pajamas inside it. Intrigued, Bruno visits often and soon
becomes friends with a little boy named Shmuel on the other side of the fence. This meeting is a
turning point in the growth of Bruno's character because he becomes more focused on the needs of
his new friend than on his own, and his unhappiness at being far from Berlin fades to the back
of his mind. For example, when he realizes that Shmuel is hungry, he sneaks food to him through
the fence. Bruno's character growth is most strikingly illustrated at the end of the book when
he finds a way to dig under the fence to help Shmuel find his father, a selfless decision that
contrasts strikingly with his self-centeredness at the beginning of the
novel.

In what way does Jocasta's pride affect her life ?

When one thinks
of ' (the Greek title is Tyrannos), one usually
hears questions raised about Oedipus' pride. This question, however, wonders about the pride of
Oedipus' mother/wife,(also spelled Iocasta).

I would say that it is somewhat
mistaken to talk of Jocasta as a person having pride. At one point late in the play, Oedipus
thinks that it is possible that he will be discovered as being the child of parents who lack
nobility. Jocasta, who at this point now realizes that Oedipus is about to discover his true
identity, begs Oedipus to end his investigation.

Oedipus presses on, however,
and he thinks that Jocasta does not want him to inquire further into the matter because Jocasta
is worried that Oedipus will find out that his real parents were slaves. Oedipus tells Jocasta
that even if he is found out to be of humble origin, "you will still have your noble
lineage" (Ian Johnston translation). Twice, between lines 1070 and 1080, Oedipus suggests
that Jocasta's concerns are due to the pride in her noble heritage.

Oedipus'
assessment of Jocasta's pride is mistaken, however. It is not her pride, per
se, about which Jocasta is worried, but rather the fear that Oedipus will find out
his true identity. Once Jocasta realizes that Oedipus is on the verge of discovering his true
identity, Jocasta rushes out and hangs herself.

Some sense of pride may be at
work here, as Jocasta cannot allow herself to live to witness Oedipus' discovery of the truth;
but pride is not an issue that Sophocles highlights with respect to Jocasta, except the mistaken
pride that Oedipus imagines she has when she begs him to stop trying to find out who he really
is.

In A Midsummer Night's Dream, why are Oberon and Titania fighting over an Indian Boy?

Oberon and
Titania, king and queen of the fairies, both want a young Indian boy to be part of their
entourage. Titania wants the child, who is half mortal, half fairy, because she promised his
dead mother, her friend, that she would raise and care for the child. Oberon wants the child so
that Titania won't lavish so much attention on it. As Puck puts it:

And jealous Oberon would have the child

Knight of his train,
to trace the forests wild.

But she perforce withholds the lov¨d
boy,

Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all her joy

Matters come to an impasse. Oberon thinks Titania should obey him
because he is her husband. She believes she should honor her promise to her friend. Their
quarrel affects the weather:

Contagious fogs, which
falling in the land

Have every pelting river made so proud

That they have overborne their continents.

The ox hath
therefore stretched his yoke in vain,

The ploughman lost his sweat, and
the green corn

Hath rotted ere his youth attained a beard.

To gain the child, Oberon is willing to play a trick on a Titania,
putting a love potion in her eyes so that she falls in love with the first creature she sees,
which happens to be Bottom. Bottom is also enchanted, so that he has an ass's head. Titania
eventually capitulates and gives up the boy, so that peace is restored. 

What are the similarities between monarchy and democracy?

A true
monarchy and a democracy are more notable for their differences than for their similarities.
Democracy means that citizens make decisions for their nation or elect politicians to make these
decisions on their behalf (as in representative democracies). These government officials and
politicians serve limited terms of service before stepping down or being reelected. Monarchies
are usually ruled by a dynasty of rulers who come to power through the right of heredity.
Monarchs serve for life. In an absolute monarchy, the people have little, if any, say.

There are, however, constitutional monarchies in which the monarch has limited power or
merely serves the function of a figurehead. In this case, the country functions as both a
democracy and a monarchy. In this type of monarchy, people elect representatives to a
legislature in much the same way that people do in a republic. Both systems have courts to
settle legal matters. In a representative democracy, judges are elected by the people or
appointed by elected officials. This is true in most constitutional monarchies as well. In more
traditional or absolute monarchies, judges are appointed directly by the monarch or the monarch
serves this role themselves.

As you can see, there are some similarities
between a constitutional monarchy and a representative democracy. An absolute monarchy is
another matter altogether, as there are few, if any, similarities to
democracies.

How does Jane Austen employ irony at different levels in Emma?

is
shown whenconsiders her attraction to Mr. Churchill. She is such a match maker toward Harriet
that it is ironic she can't tell when she herself is in love.

This irony is
compounded with her indecision in how to respond to the news of Mr. Churchill's secret
engagement...