...Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” Opera is a form of musical art in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and music in a theatrical setting involving stories of extreme human situations or stories regarding mythology. One of the most interesting challenges in an operatic composition, is the challenge behind composing music for all the individual characters in the opera and the job the composer has of distinguishing between the different characters through their music. A perfect example of an opera that was executed in a great way amidst these challenges is Mozart's “Don Giovanni.” “Don Giovanni” is an operatic masterpiece full of iconic and mythical tensions that still resonate today. The work redefines the terms of power, seduction, and morality, and the resulting conflict between the aesthetic and the ethical is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment and romanticism. “Don Giovanni” is in opera divided into two acts about a young, arrogant womanizer named Don Giovanni. Don Giovanni is the main character of the opera who takes advantage of any opportunity he can in order to seduce a girl, any girl for that matter. When the opera begins, a masked, Don Giovanni is at the Commendatore’s house with his eye’s set a young girl named Donna Anna who is daughter of the Commendatore name Don Pedro and is betrothed to Don Ottavio. As Donna Anna is attempting to figure out who the masked figure is, she cries for help and her father comes to her aid and challenges Don Giovanni...
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...Padre English 110.02 Dr. H 10/24/2012 Don Quixote By Padre Don Quixote, formerly known at Senor quijana from La Mancha is quite possibly the most scrawniest, dimwitted insane “knight” of all times. Don Quixote starts out just fantasizing and reenacting what he has read in the books about noble knights and valiant warriors. Soon this mere fantasizing turns into an actual reality where Don Quixote actually believes that he is to be a brave and romantic knight. Suddenly Don Quixote is changing his name and his horses name so that he might appear more like a knight to those who he might meet on his many conquests. Courageously, Don Quixote sets out to be a knight and to win the love and favor of his lady. Within just a short time of his journey he stops at an inn where he is “knighted” and bravely stands watch over his armor which is most precious to him. When knighted, Don Quixote surely but steadily journeys a bit more and encounters “villains” and “evil people” who in reality are simple human beings who have done nothing wrong. So distorted is his mind that upon seeing windmills he attacks them claiming that all along they are giants who he must defeat. During one of his many antics, Don Quixote attacks the wrong people and they beat, bruise and bury him in his own knightly...
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...The Mysteries of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza In almost all novels there is a narrator, a person who guides the book from beginning to end. Sometimes there is a voice of reason, a character in the book that gives us the absolute truth and provides the answers to the most puzzling questions. In Cervantes’ Don Quixote, he creates many characters, all of which contrast with our view of Don Quixote. We must figure out who is the most reliable character, and who is the source of fallacy. Can Sancho Panza be that “Voice of Reason”, the character that we can trust to determine what is going on at a given moment in the book? Don Quixote tells us where he is, what he is doing, and what he sees but there is no way for us to know if what he is saying is true or completely fabricated. That is where Sancho Panza comes into play. He guides us through the book giving us his view and take on particular situations and we must read between the lines to get an idea of what is occurring. It is not clear from the beginning of the book whether Don Quixote is mad. It is possible to get caught up in the story and believe that Don Quixote is using his imagination in order to have a little fun. Before Don Quixote employs Sancho Panza there is no one to comment on Don Quixote and give us his or her point of view of reality. The point at which it becomes clear that Don Quixote has absolutely no control over his body is when he knocks a person out and smashes another’s skull in (39). Still we cannot...
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...Don Quixote was the most influential wok of literature to develop from the Spanish Golden Age and the best known work of Spanish literature in England. Don Quixote was a fictional character by Miguel de Cervantes who was considered Spain’s greatest writer. Published in two volumes a decade apart, Don Quixote contains romance, adventure, humor, aspiration and philosophy. Cervantes himself states that he wrote Don Quixote in order to undermine the influence of those "vain and empty books of chivalry.” I believe Cervantes wanted to take the knight idea to a different approach. Don Quixote was an important book for many reasons, but mostly because it was the first book to bring reasonable real-life consequences into the world of literature. Don Quixote is very different to other literature of previous time periods such as The Iliad, The Odyssey, Beowulf, Inferno, etc. It was an important development in literature and shows us readers that the reality of existence consists in accepting all the impact of experience. The popular literature at the time was romance. Cervantes work influenced the creation and transformation of literary genres. Don Quixote introduced the contrast between romance and reality. Alonzo Quixano who later changes his name to Don Quixote, was a wealthy man who spends all his days and nights reading books about medieval knights and dragon-slaying. Don Quixote is a sweet old man under a delusion that he...
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...Don Quixote Opposing Roles in Don Quixote: How Conflicting Characters Develop and Enhance Themes in Literature Don Quixote tells the story of Alonso Quixano, a Spanish gentlemen who is obsessed with reading books of chivalry. He sells most of his land to buy more books and spends his entire life reading them, often neglecting to eat or sleep. He decides to become a knight-errant himself and finds a horse, a squire, and a lady to honor (although she has no idea). Throughout his adventures he is brought home by some of the men in the village who hope to cure him of his insanity. Don Quixote has little understanding of reality and often mistakes mundane things like windmills for more fantastical things like giants or castles. The main purpose of Don Quixote is to parody the popular ideas of romance and chivalry. Cervantes highlights the humorous relationships between chivalry and everyday life and the various exaggerated characters are used to illustrate these themes. Cervantes attacks the nobility, classism, chivalry, and the misguided romantic notions of the time with his satirical story of an insane man in search of justice and glory. Cervantes also develops the idea that the old chivalric code is outdated and no longer necessary as no one but Sancho even begins to understand what Quixote is attempting to do. The use of exaggerated and opposite roles is used in Don Quixote to highlight and develop the various themes. Don Quixote is an idealist, or a madman depending on which...
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...In the film “Don Giovanni” (1787) also known as the second opera in the Da Ponte Trilogy one is able to come up with a scenario. Throughout the film I was able to come up with observations. First and foremost the audience gets introduced to Don Giovanni. With this in mind he is the main character and focus in this opera. From seeing Don Giovanni he has an appearance of rich, attractive, and prince charming look too him. Throughout the play Don Giovanni’s actions gives the audience a look at how selfish, twisted and dishonest this man turns out to be. By watching the film it is evident that this is a film within a film. With that being said Leporello (Don Giovanni’s servant) is watching Don Giovanni throughout the opera. Leporello the servant appears to do whatever he is told. While Leporello watching Giovanni he notices the seducing Giovanni has performed towards Commendatore’s daughter (Donna Anna). During this opening scene Giovanni tries to take advantage and attempts to rape Donna Anna. Giovanni tricks Donna into thinking he is Don Ottavio the person whom she is engaged too by wearing a mask to hide his identity. When Donna recognizes that it might not be him she calls for help and Commendatore enters the scene. At this point both Giovanni and Commendatore fight, ending with Commendatores death. In the next scene Don Giovanni overhears a female singing. This quickly grabs Giovanni’s attention causing him to approach her and hoping to seduce her. When he gets close...
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...Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain. Obsessed with the chivalrous ideals touted in books he has read, he decides to take up his lance and sword to defend the helpless and destroy the wicked. After a first failed adventure, he sets out on a second one with a somewhat befuddled laborer named Sancho Panza, whom he has persuaded to accompany him as his faithful squire. In return for Sancho’s services, Don Quixote promises to make Sancho the wealthy governor of an isle. On his horse, Rocinante, a barn nag well past his prime, Don Quixote rides the roads of Spain in search of glory and grand adventure. He gives up food, shelter, and comfort, all in the name of a peasant woman, Dulcinea del Toboso, whom he envisions as a princess. On his second expedition, Don Quixote becomes more of a bandit than a savior, stealing from and hurting baffled and justifiably angry citizens while acting out against what he perceives as threats to his knighthood or to the world. Don Quixote abandons a boy, leaving him in the hands of an evil farmer simply because the farmer swears an oath that he will not harm the boy. He steals a barber’s basin that he believes to be the mythic Mambrino’s helmet, and he becomes convinced of the healing powers of the Balsam of Fierbras, an elixir that makes him so ill that, by comparison, he later feels healed. Sancho stands by Don Quixote, often bearing the brunt of the punishments that arise from Don Quixote’s behavior....
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...2. Don Quixote de la Mancha The narrator designating these synonymous titles of lunacy to Don Quixote is in sound observation. Throughout the text he repeatedly exhibits his knowledge and research of the figure thus demonstrating his ability to derive to this credible form of judgment. Don Quixote very well can be deemed “a madman” and “crazy,” but the complexity of the character and his story forbids the reader from making a declaration in haste. Quixote’s existence in the socio-economic structure of imperialist Spain is one that draws empathy. Our hero assumes the role of knight errant to assimilate himself in a nostalgic past time: that of idealized collectivity. By doing so he sets to restore old-fashioned values in contemporary society for which he believes has been curdled and immoral in practice. The noble task, a primitive one, is juxtaposed with the modern ideology of the time and it is from the linear relationship between the two that the existential struggle of Don Quixote can be understood in its proper place. An important point to bring up at conception before the analysis goes deeper is the disposition of Don Quixote de la Mancha before he became a knight errant. His name was once Alonso Quijano, a retired respected farmer who was intelligent, decent, and perfectly rational. As an avid reader of books of chivalry he “went so far as to sell acres of arable land in order to buy [these] books of chivalry to read (Chapter 1, pg. 20)” and “when his mind was completely...
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...The Adventures of Don Quijote of La Mancha was written by Miguel De Cervantes, while he was in jail in 1605 and 1615. Here is his story. Alfonso Quijiano, or Don Quijote was an older man from Spain, he was a mad man, who read a plethora of books and then decided to go on crazy adventures to assist the helpless. He was eager to become a knight just so he could win his love, Delcinea, who was really Aldonza Lorenza. On Don Quijote’s adventures, he brought a squire along to assist him, his name was Sancho. He only followed Don Quijote because he promised him an island, all to himself. Sancho rode his fearless donkey, Dapple; Don Quijote rode his faithful steed, Rocinante. Together they endured many adventures. Along his chivalric travels, the...
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...When taking a look at both Don Quixote and I was the Enemy of the People, we are able to find certain similarities and differences. One of the main ones being that the main characters in each of the works are sent on an adventure or journey, willingly or not willingly. In Don Quixote, we are first presented with a wealthy old demented man that has been driven mad over the years. The elderly man then, with inspiration from one of his books, sets off into the world on his broken-down horse in a quest to hopefully find a maiden and to become an official knight. He states his urgency to take off on his adventure in the quote, “These preliminaries settled, he did not care to put off any longer the execution of his design, urged on to it by the thought of all the world was losing by his delay, seeing what wrongs he intended to right, grievances to redress, injustices to repair, abuses to remove, and duties to discharge.” He has changed himself from a static character that stayed at home and read books all day to a new man with a certain cause in mind (even if he is in a fantasy world)....
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...In his prologue, Cervantes claims that Don Quixote is an attack on chivalry, but fails to mention that Don Quixote is also a satire of misogyny. In Chapter VI of Don Quixote, Cervantes uses juxtaposition, allusion, and omission of words to characterize the niece and housekeeper as devils to parody chivalry’s chauvinistic tendencies. Cervantes portrays the niece and housekeeper to be in direct opposition of the priest. Thus, Cervantes not only contrasts their beliefs about burning the books, but also their piety. While the priest believes that some of the books should be “pardoned” and “saved”, the women are “anxious” and “delighted” to “joyfully” throw the books in the fire (Cervantes). The demeanors of the priest and the women are juxtaposed,...
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...Three works of literature, labeled immoral, unfit to read and even satanic, completely criticized for their use of vulgar language and “blasphemes” way of speaking their mind. What critics fail to see is the true creativity of the humor in Candide, the morality and kindness in Huckleberry Finn, and the passion of Don Juan. All three of these great works of literature have suffered the injustice of biased criticism and have been rejected from public schools, which wastes their educational potential. Candide has been place into the index of prohibited books, Huckleberry Finn has been banned almost every public school, and Don Juan has succumb to a similar fate. What people don’t understand is that these novels and works of poetry can show us more about how humans treat each other, how realistic some ridiculous things can be, and how we can understand ourselves. Candide is a novel written by the French writer Voltaire, it’s about a germen man by the name of Candide who goes on quite a journey meeting a variety of people, constantly running into political and religious figures with bad results. Meeting up with old friends and characters he believed dead, the novel consists of unrealistic situations in a comedic fashion but in the end, through all the hell he can say let’s just forget about it and move on in our life. This story can give you a real life perspective and show you that life shouldn’t be taken seriously, if a guy like Candide can go through what he did without a thought...
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...DON DON The Case of a Slovenian Gazelle This case study was written by Maja Makovec Brenčič and Monika Lisjak, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, as a part of the Leonardo da Vinci project “Moving towards the case method”. It is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a management situation. 1 There was an atmosphere of tension before the management meeting at DON DON headquarters on 24 February 2005. The board members and regional sales managers were impatiently waiting to discover what was on the corporate agenda of Aleš Mozetič, the cofounder and chairman of the board of directors of the DON DON company. When Mozetič, a young, charismatic, and very ambitious manager, rushed into the room, the tension reached its peak. He briefly greeted the small group of highly committed managers and then energetically started his speech: Dear colleagues, we have been in the same boat for a long time. Most of you have known the DON DON company since its earliest stages of development, when my sister and I started the business. I still remember the excitement and the enthusiasm when we returned from visiting our relatives in Canada in 1993 and announced to our parents that we would enter the doughnut business . . . and the fervour while setting up machinery for baking doughnuts in the family garage. This was followed by a phase of intense work to open the first plant in Škofja Loka...
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...Character Biography: Don is a (presumably) white male in his late twenties, living in a large city similar to New York City sometime in the late 1900’s, either the eighties or the nineties. Without any strict background given throughout the play, it can be assumed that he is college educated based on his connections with Jack and Phil and the time period and works in a job that pays enough for him to afford to live in the city, though he is most likely living out of a studio apartment, and not the penthouse of a hotel. Don is college buddies with Jack and Phil, most likely having met Phil through Jack, who seem to have been childhood friends. They often go out to party, which includes escapades of drinking alcohol and doing drugs, including...
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...DON DON Reflection Strengths and weaknesses Major strengths : Brand name “TVOJIH 5 MINUT” : differentiation compare to the other company in the market who keep the corporate name brand. Big experience in the pastry production ; they always continue to develop and research for improve the quality and the production process. Annual growth rate : average of 62% between 1998 and 2003. Flexibility confer by the size of the company (medium size). Present in the healthy food segment which increase every years. Same for the bakery products. Leading position in the fresh sweet pastry segment. Constant analysis of the different market opportunity and customers needs and wants ; “sophisticated IT system” Important communication with merchandiser-distributors. Nice profit margin on sales ( 3 times more than the average of the bread industry) Major weaknesses : Loss of the 2 cofondators of the company which can involve a loss of the original spirit and vision. Franchising who can be bad for quality Lots of long terms liabilities and high debt ration ; maybe it will be difficult to find new liquidity for investment. Major part of the production is in the western Slovenia Sources of competitive advantage The IT system of Don Don is one of the major advantage of this firm. They can use that in order to take better decision and understand better the consumers. They also be able...
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