worried, he does not realize that he was the one who fundamentally caused the series of events to occur after killing King Duncan. Banquo might decide to keep the information he learned from the witches to himself because if he spoke up people might think that he was a part of Kind Duncan’s murder, because they may believe that he did this just to become king. Also, he probably does not want to sabotage his chances of his sons becoming kings if someone else finds out. 2. Macbeth might be curious about
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war hero turned evil by his ambitious desires and greed. His wife Lady Macbeth is described as a power-hungry woman whose evil thoughts and cruel desires have earned her the reputation of a woman too masculine to fit the description of the fragile, gentle beings that women in those times were thought to be. From the beginning, Lady Macbeth is seemingly blamed for corrupting her once honorable husband. It has been argued that Lady Macbeth convincing her husband to commit murders for power is the sole
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is a catastrophe’. To what extent do you think Eric Bentley’s comment about the dramatic genre of comedy is relevant to Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest? The philosopher and literary critic Sigmund Freud agreed with Bentley’s statement on the dramatic genre of comedy, agreeing that ‘every joke contains an element of seriousness; a joke is never just a joke’. Wilde uses many aspects of comedy to back this opinion. The character of Lady Bracknell was created as a comic tool by Wilde
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book scout gets criticized by wearing what she wants and to other people's point of view she needs to act and look like a girl. Scout struggles with this because she wants to act and look her own way. In To Kill a Mockingbird no one will get in scouts way to be herself. Atticus has to deal with everyone thinking about him in a certain way because everyone is criticizing him for defending a black man. During this book there are a lot of stereotypes that the finches and Tom Robinson has to deal with
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a good thing to be different no matter what anyone says. Everyone’s minds are wired differently. I also think our different minds is what makes us who we are, and what defines us. Not everyone wants to be a doctor when they grow up it’s what we like, and it’s what we chose to do when we grow up because it just matters what you are interested in. The way we act defines us as well. Everyone acts different some people are mean, some are nice, some are short with talk, some are funny, and the list can
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a story. As avid readers, we often remember our favorite stories not based on the story line, but based on the strong characters within the story. In the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” written by Flannery O’Connor, the grandmother is the central character. Posed as a “know it all,” she thinks of herself as a proper lady, honest, wise, and bases her life on the past. O’Connor portrays the grandmother as a very manipulative, highbrow, selfish, ungodly old woman, unlike your typical grandmother
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The Importance of being Earnest - THEMES # Lies and Deceit: The most prevalent reason characters in The Importance of Being Earnest lie is to get out of social or familial duties and, instead, to do something more enjoyable. Not surprisingly, few characters hold honesty in high regard. However, we see how hard it is for characters to set things straight once they’ve lied about them. As the situation gets increasingly complicated, characters must weave more complex lies to get out of the tangles
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wanted her to fix. When Aunt Alexandra comes into the picture, she is not very amused with the way Jem and Scout act like children. She even gets upset with Atticus for raising the kids that way and tells him that he needs to make the kids act like true Finches. Atticus had to sit the kids down and tell them that Aunt Alexandra “‘asked me to tell you you must try to behave like the lady and gentleman that you are’” (Lee 133). Scout rejected that request and decided to not get along with her Aunt because
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white men. These negative opinions had a negative impact on society. Statistics showed that marriage between an Asian man and a white woman reduced greatly, but the opposite was seen in Asian women. Somehow, Asian women were stereotyped only as exotic and passive, which caused a lot of sexual harassment for Asian American women. The media somehow made Asian women seem less human, like they were objects and would be able to be subjected to sexual harassment and
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A Brief Summary of Lucky Dip Lucky Dip is a story about a girl whose life is about to take a major turn-around when she discovers a wealthy man lying dead at night in the shadows of England. As poor and homeless the girl is, she takes the time to think what the best possible thing to do in a situation like that is. Crystal, which is the main character, stumbles upon a dead body at the Trenches, which is horrific part of England that is filled with thieves. Crystal decides to hides near the corpse
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