Olivia Benson Essays

  • Olivia Benson

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    City through their lives and the cases they work day after day. In this unit, it is Detective Olivia Benson who has inspired me with her dedication and strength to her job and the real life connections that have been created from this character. Mariska Hargitay, the actress behind Benson, says that Olivia is “an empathetic woman who can respond emotionally to the victims….” As a character, Olivia Benson has spent more than fifteen years in the Special Victims Unit solving sex crimes and crimes pertaining

  • Olivia Benson Gender

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    A Phenomenal Women. Why is Olivia Benson such a masculine character? Tuning into the television show I would determine her character as masculine because of all the hard work she endures on a daily bases. Olivia has to be brave for her victim’s sake because she is fighting crime and saving lives. A women of different traits that modifies her feminism role as a female detective. Olivia Benson has been rated law and order best television show. Dis spit her being a product of rape, she still remains

  • Law And Order: Olivia Benson

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    after Sargent Oliva Benson. To protect her and the integrity of the precinct Lieutenant Murphy is brought in to take over Bensons post meanwhile Benson is put under 24/7 surveillance for her protection. After escaping Lewis visits the prison doctors house after killing her and raping her daughter whom he leaves a message with for Benson he leaves. Benson goes to see the girl in the hospital to see what Murphy told her and along with the details of the girls rape she tell Benson that he took her little

  • Law & Order: Olivia Benson

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    1. The show that I selected was Law & Order:SVU. Two specific characters that play in the show are Olivia Benson and Amanda Rollins. Olivia Benson is the initiator/contributor, providing the best ways or ideas for the groups to help solve the case. She is always providing her team new leads so the team can follow up and get additional evidences or leads. She can help lead her team in the right direction of what case they are trying to solve. Her role affects the group in big ways, such as getting

  • Olivia Benson Related To Psychology

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    In one particular episode, Benson went undercover to find a rapist inside of a women’s prison facility. The male correction officer who was raping these women, ended up groping, physically, and verbally abusing her, as well as trying to force her to give him oral sex. If it wasn’t for Detective Odafin Tutuola, played by Ice-T, who was also undercover in the facility, she would have been raped, and maybe even more. This caused Benson to develop a terrible case of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. She

  • Chris Meloni: Mariska Hargitay

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    Now that Chris Meloni is gone from Law & Order: SVU it looks like Benson and Stabler will never get together. A lot of viewers wanted to see Chris Meloni's character in a relationship with Mariska Hargitay's character. E! Online shared what Chris Meloni had to say about why they never went there in his recent interview on In The Actor's Studio. Meloni and Hargitay worked together on the show for 12 seasons and were obviously very close. Halfway through season 11 of the show Chris Meloni decided

  • Similarities Between Stabler And Olivia Benson

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    protecting victims of sexually based offenses in New York City, detectives are asked to step out of their comfort zone and social norm to protect citizens. The two main characters are Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler. Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler work together as each other’s partners. Both Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler’s characters display masculine characteristics because they are constantly confronted with violent crimes that require them to be aggressive and in control. Elliot Stabler

  • Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

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    Shakespeare manipulates the form, structure, and language to contribute to the meaning of his plays. Form Through the form of dialogue Shakespeare conveys the relationship between characters. For example, the friendship and understanding between Olivia, and her servant Feste, the clown, is shown in their dialogue in Act 1, Scene 5. In this scene Shakespeare shows that both characters are intellectuals by constructing their colloquy in prose. Characterising Feste, Shakespeare gives him the aphorism

  • Wisdom in Twelfth Night

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    vice to be folly" (158). M. C. Bradbook notes that Armin did influence Shakespeare's writing. "From the time that Armin joined the company Shakespeare very noticeably began to give his clowns the catechism as a form of jesting.... Feste catechizes Olivia on why she grieves and proves her a fool for doing so; later, in the guise of the curate, he catechizes Malvolio" (228). Indeed, Shakespeare seems to have utilized this valuable resource for Twelfth Night, creating a broad spectrum of fools in this

  • Disguise in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Twelfth Night

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    access to worlds that might otherwise be denied; for the Duke, he can now "haunt assemblies / Where youth and cost a witless bravery keeps" (1.4.9-10). For Viola, she might "serve the duke" (1.2.51) and thus hopefully keep company with Olivia, who also lost a brother. Disguise is especially appropriate in the worlds that exist in the two plays: they are characterized by excess and inversion of proper order. In Measure for Measure, the Duke leaves his kingdom unexpectedly in the

  • A Comparison of Romantic Love in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, and Twelfth Night

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    and fickle thing, as demonstrated in the relationships between Duke Orsino and Olivia; Olivia and Viola/Curio; Malvolio and Olivia (she certainly has an effect on men doesn't she?); Duke Orsino and Viola/Curio. However, the characters seem to have a love-hate relationship with Cupid. Within the first line of the play, it is glorified: "If music be the food of love, play on..." (Duke Orsino, I:I). And while Olivia is annoyed with Orsino's affection, she craves Curio's. However, Shakespeare

  • Twelfth Night Essays: Three Types of Love

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    Three Types of Love in Twelfth Night In the play "Twelfth Night," Shakespeare explores and illustrates the emotion of love with precise detail. According to "Webster's New World Dictionary," love is defined as "a strong affection or liking for someone." Throughout the play Shakespeare examines three different types of love: true love, self love and friendship. "Twelfth Night" consists of a large number of love triangles, however many of the characters who are tangled up in the web of love

  • Love in twelfth night

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    Orsino and Olivia. Even though Orsino had not met or even seen Olivia, he was still madly in love with her. Lust is defined as an intense but temporary wanting of a persons attention or love. Orsino tried to capture the heart of Olivia through out the play, and lusted for her because he was attracted by her grieving for her family. It was thought by Orsino that She would have an intense love for him if she loved her family so much. As the play moves forward, Orsino actually meets Olivia but he loses

  • Mark Twain's 'Life On The Mississippi'

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    TWAIN, Mark (1835-1910). A onetime printer and Mississippi River boat pilot, Mark Twain became one of America's greatest authors. His 'Tom Sawyer', 'Huckleberry Finn', and 'Life on the Mississippi' rank high on any list of great American books. Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on Nov. 30, 1835, in the small town of Florida, Mo. He was the fourth of five children. His father was a hard worker but a poor provider. The family moved to Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi, when young Clemens

  • White Oleander

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    her desires, Astrid is relocated to the racially “opinionated” turquoise home of Marvel where she is exposed to the influence of the sophisticated Olivia. In her time of need for something beautiful when her own beauty has been marred by the Starr’s jealousy, Astrid idolizes the woman next door who is, in her eyes, perfect. She comes to depend on Olivia as a staple in her life, someone who will be there to teach her the things a woman should know. However, contact with her idol eventually leads Astrid

  • Irony as an Instrument

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    am and Olivia is woken up by a wetness between her legs. She looks down and finds that the wetness is actually her water that broke. She anxiously wakes up her husband John, and the two of them quickly gather their things. After nine long months of waiting, John and Olivia are finally on their way to the hospital to welcome their first child into the world. The two have already chosen Jacob Alexander as the baby's name and have the nursery ready for him at home. Once at the hospital, Olivia and John

  • The Fools in Twelfth Night

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    The Fools of Twelfth Night It is not unusual that the fool should be a prominent figure and make an important contribution in forming the confusion and the humor in an Elizabethan drama. In William Shakespeare's comedy, Twelfth Night, Feste the clown is not the only fool who is subject to foolery. He and many other characters combine their silly acts and wits to invade other characters that either escape reality or live a dream. In Twelfth Night, Feste, Maria and Sir Toby are the fools that

  • Anasazi

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    civilization of he Ansazis disappeared. Many historians, anthropologists, and archeologists have come up with possible evidence of why or how the Anasazis disappeared. There are many possible theories that could explain their disappearance, but according to Olivia Leigh, author of “The mystery of the Anasazi", says that they fall into three basic categories “The drought theory, The conflict Notion, and the Alien connection.” The theory that an entire civilization was wiped out or forced to leave because of

  • Misperception and Deception in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

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    humor; it is used to explore characters and relationships; it develops a strong connection between the main plot (with Viola, Orsino, Olivia, and the others) and the sub-plot (involving Sir Andrew, Sir Toby, Malvolio, and Maria). The following piece from Twelfth Night proves how Shakespeare successfully communicates these elements. The scene involving Viola and Olivia outlines this; the essence of the play. ('I prithee, tell me what thoust think'st of me.') 'That you do not think you are not

  • Feminist Performance and the Silence of Isabella in Measure for Measure

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    ” Alan Sinfield presents the argument that the female figures in Shakespeare’s plays are not really “characters” at all, since they do not possess continuous and psychologically consistent interior lives. Although such roles as that of Desdemona, Olivia, and Lady Macbeth are written so as to suggest the presence of uninterrupted interior consciousness, this impression collapses under the pressure of the plot’s movement toward closure, which reveals the figures to represent nothing more than a “disjointed