First she had slept with Proctor, who is a married man, and tried to kill his wife. She asked Tituba to summon spirits to help her kill Elizabeth Proctor. Then after Betty Williams was “sick” they thought it was because of supernatural beings. Soon after Betty awakes and accuses a woman of being a witch all the girls accuse random women. Abby soon starts to lose it after Mary Warren gives Elizabeth a poppet which was found
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William Shakespeare is typically known for his comedies, histories, and tragedies. For example, his most famous tragedies would be Romeo and Juliet. In this case the story is a romantic comedy called, Much Ado About Nothing. This story consists of two love stories, one between Hero and claudio, and another between Beatrice and Benedick. The plot thickens when the Don John, Brother of Don Pedro, attempts to intervene. Trickery and deceit are central themes and somehow leads to love and romance. Trickery
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In William Shakespeare’s last comedic play Twelfth Night or What You Will the concept of creativity and imagination is an essential element to the plot as it is intertwined with love and identity. Few parts of the play are not in some way affected by imagination and creativity. This Shakespearean play depicts situations of deception, love and most prominently foolery all of which are fueled by the creativity and imagination of the cast. Throughout the play the source of a character’s love for another
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Despite the fact that Addie Bundren in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying only has a short chapter in the novel her character proves to be very complex to understand. Regardless of the fact that she is the cause for the series of events that occur it is easy to overlook the corpse of a character that is hauled around for over half of the novel. Perhaps, Faulkner’s choice to grant his audience limited access to background information on the main character is because he actually shows us her past rather
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All hail, Macbeth! In the future, you shall be king! The person who is the most responsible for the murder of Macbeth is Lady Macbeth. She constantly makes Macbeth question himself, his masculinity and his love for her, which causes him to feel the need to prove his manhood and passion to her on a regular basis. While some say that the witches are at fault because they give the prophecy in the first place or that Macbeth is responsible for his own demise because he allows himself to become too
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“Circe, how can you ask for tenderness, you have turned my comrade into swine and now, insidiously, try to blind me” (387-389). In this quote is another one of Odysseus infidelities. Circe who is a goddess and a witch, Turns Odysseus men into pigs. Also, she wants Odysseus to have sex with her. Odysseus agree to have sex with her, only if she vows to not use any magic on him, and Circe eventually turns his men back into humans. Also, he known that this is an another obstacle he has to overcome if
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There is no more powerful drug as guilt, as the very feeling of it alters the personality of men and women resulting in losing one’s self. The Tragedy of Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s play shows how guilt plays with Lady Macbeth’s character as her guilt develop to grow. Her guilt causes her to sleepwalk and talk, deteriorate her mind and leads to her own demise. Lady Macbeth’s guilt start to become more visible in Act 5, Scene 1, line 28. As she begins to roam around the castle with her candle
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Throughout Lord of The Flies, William Golding makes strong use of themes. One of the main themes is fear. The boys are always filled with fear and think that something bad is going to happen to them or others and when they feared things many things followed that taught the readers about fear. One of the messages that the author sends about fear is that it can be purely imagination. In Lord of The Flies the boys fear a beastie which in reality does not exist. Believe it or not, fear can actually make
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In the short story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien there is a lot of guilt and blame among the characters. The guilt leads to the characters to find someone to lay the blame on. The protagonist First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross is one of the main ones to have guilty feelings. The situation in the story that causes the guilt is when Ted Lavender is shot in the head. I am going to tell you who some of the troop members lay the blame on. The first person with the most guilt to lay blame is First
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talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell. The storm of sound beat at them, an incantation of hatred. High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever,” (Golding 180). In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Roger is a malevolent, sinful, corrupt child who murders two kids, including Piggy, and feels no remorse. He perfectly portrays Satan by throwing rocks at little boys, torturing two twins with the names of Sam and Eric, and ending two other
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