Recently I read one of the Hans Christian Anderson's short stories, The Emperor's New Clothes. This Danish writer in his story made such a good picture of foolish kings and governors that now-a-days are much more before.
Many years ago there was an emperor who was so excessively fond of new clothes that he spent all his money on them. He cared nothing about his army, nor for people and his country, except to showing off his new clothes. One day two swindlers came to castle and said to emperor that they can weave the most beautiful stuff imaginable. Not only were the colors and patterns unusually fine, but the clothes that were made of these stuffs had the peculiar quality of becoming invisible to every person who was not fit for the office he held, or if he was impossibly dull. Emperor thought that those must be magnificent clothes, besides he should be able to discover which men in his kingdom are unfitted for their posts. Therefore he ordered to those two swindlers to make it ready for next month ceremony.
Two swindlers asked such a huge amount of pure gold thread, fine silk and expensive cottons. They started their work in a separated room. They did put up two looms and all the time they just pretend to make such a fine stuff. The day and night they were busy with empty looms, but time to time they asked precious materials for emperor's new clothes.
After a time, emperor sent his old minister to see what's going on. The poor old minister went there but he could not see any thing. Firstly he was worry that he could not see that stuff, but when two swindlers asked about clothes, he answered that it's magnificent. Two swindlers started to describing great patters and originality of colors and old minister paid great attention on them. After that when he back to emperor, he just repeat all swindlers words. After some times again one another person was sent to that room, but the same story happened. After all in occasion day emperor and a number of his courtiers, among them, the two faithful officials who had already seen the imaginary stuff, went to visit new clothes. No one could see the stuff, but every one was pretend to see something. Emperor himself could not see any thing but he put on that invisible stuff and finally in the street one innocent boy shouted that emperor has no clothes!
Throughout history, the idea of what a ruler is has evolved. In ancient societies the style of leadership evolved from royal leadership to politically appointed emperors. Inheritance of a throne and kingship subsided after Alexander the Great’s world domination. Instead, leaders came to power through political and military prowess, and if their leadership was unsatisfactory they would usually be overthrown. With the evolution of leadership throughout ancient times, came the evolution of art portraying the rulers of the era. The personality and authority portrayed in portraits, employ different means of expression. In the ancient Egyptian sculpture of King Menkaure and his Queen, a tetradrachm coin of ancient Greece depicting Alexander the Great, and the portrait sculpture of the emperor Philip the Arab from Rome, it is evident that portrayal of ancient rulers in art evolves in accordance with the political climate.
The narrator begins the story of his realization of his invisibility at the end of his high school days, as an intelligent and diligent student in an unidentified southern U.S. state in the early part of the 20th century. Upon giving an excellent speech about the role humility plays in progress, prominent members of the community invite him to recite the speech once again "at a gathering of the town's leading white citizens" (17). At the meeting, though, the high-ranked members of the community force the narrator and other black boys to participate in what the narrator terms a "battle royal," in which they fight each other and attempt to pull fake plastic coins from an electric rug. The narrator proceeds to win the "battle royal," and presents his speech to the wealthy men (17). Throughout the delivery of his speech, they mock and harass him, failing to see who he really is. The school's superintendent then rewards him with a scholarship to college. Because of the great reward and the doors the reward opens up, the narrator accepts the subhuman treatment as normal. Still a weak character, he allows people to...
would change became reality. This was a threat to the power of the king. The different
Christopher Priest’s novel of the everyday miraculous, The Glamour, deals with invisibility so as to intertwine plot and story in a way that seems relatively straightforward at the beginning, only to turn into a tangle, a conundrum, at the end, much more so than the flashier (hence, more reassuring) experiments of the nouveau roman or overtly experimental fiction.
“The Clothing of a Slave.” Think Quest. Oracle Foundation. n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2013. .
My family always sewed one yellow bead somewhere on our regalia. But we always hid it so that you had to search really hard to find it” (Alexie, 2003, para.8).
War and political strife will always leave a mark, no matter who, what, or where it makes contact with. In the novel, “When the Emperor was Divine”, the family depicted were heavily affected by Executive Order 9066 and the prejudice of Japanese-Americans, and were sent to internment camps for the remainder of the war. When they were finally released from their dreadful camp, their lives had profoundly changed, and their situation became something that could not be reversed nor forgotten. In the pre-Civil War days of America, many African-Americans were victims of the legalization of slavery in the South. They were often abused and mistreated, and forced to work without pay. In the film “12 Years a Slave”, a free man, Solomon Northup, was kidnapped and sold into slavery. His life took a change for the worst as he
Compassion, like generosity is also admired. But a ruler must be careful that he does not show compassion unwisely. A new ruler has to be cruel initially, because being a new ruler is full of d...
A state takes on the aspects of its rulers, this is one of the fundamentals of leadership, but what if the leader is flawed and corrupts the aspects of the state, the state will take on those traits as well. The works of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World both showcase rulers that are deeply flawed and because of those flaws they are cast down from leadership having maimed their country. A state without a ruler who acts as a moral compass is predestined to fall into chaos and be opposed by the people, ultimately the only way of restoring balance to the nation will be a change in leadership.
...t has replaced the centuries old monarchal system of governance throughout the world. I do not mean to say that those who boast of having a democratic system in their countries should first look at their past, which is bleak all the way. The point is that the transformation of monarchy into th republic governance is only a recent phenomenon.
Presenting Emperor Hirohito! Emperor Hirohito was born on April, 29, 1901, in Tokyo Japan. He was the first son of Crown Prince Yoshihito (later Emperor Taisho) and Princesses Sadoko. Hirohito was given an imperial education at the Gakushuin School, and separated from his parents when he was very young, as it was custom. Latter he was conditioned to become emperor at a special institute for the crown prince. Then on November 2, 1916 he was formally given the title of crown prince at the age of fifteen. Soon after, during 1921 Hirohito became the first crown prince of japan to study and travel abroad.
Louis XVI and Charles I did a poor job ruling their country by starting wars and overspending to live extravagant lifestyles. These two monarchs were incompetent and tyrannical leaders whose actions and decisions led them to their own downfall. Similarly, Louis XVI and Charles I had once
Revolutions of experienced and knowledge empowered people have overthrown incompetent leaders. Kingdoms have fallen after efforts to stay true to old customs and traditions, ignoring the new ideas and knowledge that the world was providing rivals.
The daily life of a tailor has been interesting. What kind of clothes did normal people wear? In the 11th through the 14th time periods their clothing was very different from our time right now. It all depended on where they stood on the social pyramid of people.
...ething which is supposed to make them rich and full of life, and end up dead from events that have to do with the gold. This tale ends in a short sermon, asking God to forgive the mistakes of good men, and warning them about the sin of greed, before inviting the congregation to offer their wool in return for pardons.