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Macbeth: Macbeth's Ambition, Courage, And Moral Cowardness Leads To His Death
Number of Words: 461 / Number of Pages: 2
... He wanted to protect his ambition, by killing the king, and now
he killed Banquo, due to the prediction of what the witches said about Banquo's
son becoming the king. Macbeth wanted to ensure that he would reach his
ambition without problems.
Macbeth, who now no longer needed any encouragement from Lady Macbeth,
started to leave her in ignorance of his plans. Near the end of the play, Lady
Macbeth sleepwalked and had a dream about the killing of Duncan and Banquo. She
died because of all this pressure and her guilt about the murder. Soul of
Macbeth have been destroyed since Macbeth ...
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The Rise And Fall Of Lady Macbeth
Number of Words: 726 / Number of Pages: 3
... She is obviously a very bitter female,
frequently referring to her role as a woman, both physically and emotionally in
negative ways. In the above quote, Lady Macbeth is commenting on her husband's
lack of gall, stating, that quite frankly, she would make a better man than
he.
Although still a very strong woman, we see the first signs of weakness
in Lady's Macbeth's character in Act II, Scene ii, 12-13. She says, “Had he
not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done it.” She is giving an excuse
for not killing Duncan herself. As you can plainly see, this is not the same
Lady Macbeth ...
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The Epilogue Of The Tempest By William Shakespeare
Number of Words: 551 / Number of Pages: 3
... Shakespeare himself is saying. "Now that my charms are all o'erthrown, and what strength I have's mine own" means, now my plays are over, and it's no longer my characters speaking. The "Island" or stage Shakespeare is on is now "bare" and it is time for "you" the audience to release Shakespeare and his actors from this play with the "help of [y]our good hands." Shakespeare was not only being released for the performance of the play, he was being release from his career as a playwright. But there are more reasons to clap besides the obvious reason that the play is over, Shakespeare could not allow his ...
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The Glass Menagerie: Ignoring Problems Of The World
Number of Words: 634 / Number of Pages: 3
... are going to receive any, Mother. What! No one-not one? You must be joking!” (35). Amanda is constantly trying to set up a caller for Laura everywhere that she goes. For Amanda it becomes and obsession. She also is upset that when they finally do get a caller that it has been the first one to the house “It’s a terrible, dreadful, disgraceful that poor little sister has never received a single gentleman caller!” (74). Finally when Amanda gets her wish she makes Laura so nervous that she becomes ill. When a mother’s crazy attributes and fantasies make her children ill she is putting her own dream ...
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The Tempest: Calibans Instincts
Number of Words: 753 / Number of Pages: 3
... animal instincts are Shakespeares response. From the beginning of the play Caliban is molded as a monster. The son of the evil witch Sycorax, Caliban is Prosporosą servant. It is not that Caliban is a monster as much as Caliban is simply animalistic. Once Caliban tried to rape Miranda, Prosporosą daughter, Prosporo lost hope of taming Caliban and started treating him more like the animal he truly was. It seems that in this one act of Calibans he revealed to Prosporo the animal instincts still imprinted in Caliban. This is Shakespeares overall theme for Caliban in The Tempest.
Caliban acts in th ...
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Julius Caesar: Brutus' Mistakes
Number of Words: 419 / Number of Pages: 2
... noble Brutus said “Our course will seem to bloody.” That was not his
only mistake with Mark Antony he also let him speak at Caesar funeral. He was
warned by Cassius, but Brutus ignored him as usual. When Mark Antony spoke he
got crowd on his side and they killed all the conspirators except for Brutus
and Cassius (they excepted the angry mob and left Rome). This was some more
trouble that was caused by Brutus.
In the war Brutus makes another dumb decision. He wanted to go into Rome and
take it over, but Cassius wanted them to wait for the army to come. Of course
they follow Brutus decision and they ...
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The Sistine Chapel
Number of Words: 679 / Number of Pages: 3
... to Charles Symore the author of the book Michelangelo the Sistine ceiling "the ceiling tells the history of the creation of the world, the fall of humanity, and the flood" .On the Wall above the altar is probably the most famous painting in the chapel and it is called the last judgment, a painting over 50 ft tall and 30 ft wide. Michelangelo worked on the last judgment for an entire 5 years. According to Michael Hirst the author of A gloriouse Restoration"This chapel was also decorated by many of the great artist's of the time which include Sandro Botticelli, Luco Signorelli, and Perugino. All of ...
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The Crucible: A Review
Number of Words: 426 / Number of Pages: 2
... race, as a whole, really this
close to the swamps and oceans from which we pulled ourselves? Has
evolution really just played some sort of immense prank on us, bestowing
upon us the gifts of reason and judgment, but blurring them with prejudice
and blind hatred? (Too many question...Not enough answers... Isn't that
always the case?)
The Crucible is an incredible book, through the medium of a
historical event it manages to shine a light into the cold, dark, depths of
human existence. Anyone who is willing to put forth the time to read and
truly understand is in for quite a shock, the truth.
As for ...
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The Crucible: Hysteria And Injustice
Number of Words: 1630 / Number of Pages: 6
... to innocent people if they are
driven by something wrong.
II. Plot:
The plot begins with the inciting incident where Rev. Parris finds his
niece Abigail Williams and his daughter Betty along with his slave Tituba doing
some dance in the forest. Right when he finds them, Betty becomes sick and
won't talk or open her eyes, about this time other people's daughters become
sick too. Rumors spread that witch craft is involved in Betty's illness and the
development of the plot begins. Important to the major development of the plot
is the fact that in the forest, Abigail and the others were just pla ...
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Hamlet: To Kill Or Not To Kill
Number of Words: 477 / Number of Pages: 2
... this seemed to be the moral thing to do. He would wait until Claudius had sins on his soul. Why put a killer in heaven. Claudius quickly learns that Hamlet wants to have a fencing match, so Claudius decides to place poison on end of Laertes sword. Nevertheless, this was not enough, they also poured a cup of poison that Hamlet would drink, to insure that he could not escape death.
Claudius felt no need to cause a scene and possibly ruin the whole plan, so he let his wife, Hamlets mother, drink the poison. This proved a loving relationship. This is where in my mind, he gathered the strength to kill his ...
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