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- 9811: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Contrast In Human Mentality
- ... on Hermia's future in their society. Unfortunately Hermia is smitten by Lysander and vice versa. Although her father may have made his decision with every good intension, keeping with the traditional customs of his day, and even perhaps taking into consideration such things as attractiveness, he failed to foresee the desires of his daughter. The young Lysander, who like most young men, cares little for the rules of society, is ...
- 9812: Macbeth: A Noble and Highly Respected Figure In Ducan's Reign
- ... even his closest friends fears the worst. A flaw in Macbeth's character is how he is easily led astray. The main influential party in this is the weird sisters. "So foul and fair a day I have not seen." (Act 1 Scene 3) says Macbeth after he won the battle, but met the witches (fair and foul). Banquo realises there is evil occurring when Ross delivers the message that Macbeth ...
- 9813: Macbeth: Superstitions
- ... they believe in witches, ghosts, destiny, and the foretelling of the future. This essay will investigate superstitions and how they are used in the play Macbeth. Witches were believed by many people in Shakespeare's day. The supernatural was believed by everyone from the educated to the non-educated. When something was not explainable they would relate that problem to the supernatural, even though today that same problem was explainable in ...
- 9814: The Cause of Macbeth's Ruin
- ... with the witches he is told to beware of Macduff by the apparition. Up to this point Macbeth is suspicious of Macduff. He feels that he is plotting against him and has a "servant fee'd"(Act.3,Sc.4,Ln.132) in the home of Macduff as a spy. After finding out from the apparitions that Macduff will be indeed a real threat, Macbeth has his whole family brutally slaughtered ...
- 9815: Macbeth: Macbeth - A Tragic Hero
- ... heir to throne, "(Aside) The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies."(1.4.48-50) Less than a day has passed, and already Macbeth is beginning to believe in the words of the witches, Satan's representatives on Earth. Despite centuries of tradition that tells Macbeth that witches are evil, and therefore lie, he ...
- 9816: Ulysses S. Grant
- ... Confederates back in great disorder. After many more decisions and battles Grant was ready for his final push. Sheridans victory at Five Forks (April 1, 1865) was the beginning of the end. The next day when Grant the Confederate right, Lee was obliged to abandon Richmond and Petersburg and march West, hoping to join the army of General Johnston. Grant cut off his retreat and a series of running battles ...
- 9817: Macbeth: Witches Influence on Macbeth's Decisions
- ... Also because Macduff does not attend the banquet and flees to England, Macbeth, in anger, decides to have his family murdered. Later in the play Macbeth says to Lady Macbeth, "I am in blood / Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er." This remark paints the image of Macbeth swimming in a sea of blood, having proceeded so far that ...
- 9818: Macbeth: Macbeth Is More Guilty By His Actions Than Lady Macbeth Is By Hers
- ... so that he would be happy and be King. She was also excited about becoming a Queen so she pushed Macbeth forward and did not let him back down from doing what he said he'd do. Macbeth had a good chance of becoming King if Duncan was out of the picture, so Lady Macbeth helped stage a plan so that Macbeth could kill him without being caught. Lady Macbeth wanted ...
- 9819: Macbeth: Lady MacBeth
- ... that if she was MacBeth and did not jump at this perfect opportunity, that if a child, being fed at her breast, where as Duncan is, king, she would tear it from her and "dash'd the brains out" to have the opportunity MacBeth does. This shows how mad and sadistic she was. She had absolutely no self- conscience, and thought nothing about the wrong they were soon to commit. Later ...
- 9820: King Lear: Searching for Vision
- ... they choose not to contribute to this "ego trip", they are banished. In fact, he threatens to kill Cordelia if she is found in ten days. Lear says, "Upon our kingdom; if, on the tenth day following, Thy banished trunk be found in our dominions, The moment of thy death. Away! By Jupiter," This shows that at the beginning of the play, King Lear feels that his image is more important ...
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