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- 3641: Macbeth
- ... soldiers and heavily armed soldiers 5. all's too weak: all his efforts were inadequate IMPORTANT QUOTE FROM THE SCENE: "No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death And with his former title greet Macbeth." (Lines 63-65) Act 1 Scene 3: The Witches talk about the dreadful things they can do to men. As Macbeth and Banquo enter on their way home ... shut up ... content: gone to bed completely happy 3. Tarquin's ravishing strides: Tarquin raped Lucretia in the night (mentioned in Shakespeare's poem The Rape of Lucretia) 4. knell: bell sounded to announce a death IMPORTANT QUOTE FROM THE SCENE: *Macbeth's entire speech (lines 33-64) is important. These lines emphasise the internal conflict that Macbeth is experiencing about the murder and they show how he has to convince ... to the scene of his crime. A loud knocking is heard and Macbeth is led out by his wife to wash the blood off himself and to change his clothes. IMPORTANT TERMS: 1. quenched: put death out to sleep 2. possets: bedtime drinks 3. multitudinous: extensive 4. as pictures: look the same. IMPORTANT QUOTES FROM THE SCENE: "To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself. Wake Duncan with thy ...
- 3642: The Art of Rock and Roll by Charles Brown
- ... equal strength in all instruments and vocal aspects of the band unit, and settles into a very acceptable level of musical competence. Heavy metal became more mainstream in the 1980's. The terms Thrash/Speed/Death came later on in the heavy metal period. Thrash was heavy metal instrumental style with neo-punk lyrics. Speed metal is the evolution of mainstream American heavy metal, incorporating long melodic phrases and fast tempos. Death metal is a particular style which is defined by its lyrics with words like death, hell, blood, etc. Chapter seventeen moves onto punk, new wave, and alternative music. Punk is a term applied to a child or teenager who acts in a antisocial way. Punk was a form of ...
- 3643: The Call Of The Wild: Summary
- ... law of club is quite simple, if there is a man with a club, a dog would be better off not to challenge that man. Buck learned this law after he was beaten half to death by the man who had the club. no matter what he tried, he just couldn't win. Buck was sold off to a man who put him in a harness connected to many other dogs ... downed dog and make quick work of it. All of these unspoken rules had turned Buck into the Best dog to ever roam the Klondike. Buck did eventually fight Spitz and send him to his death. After all of the transformations and cruelty he had been through, you would think that Buck would never be able to trust another human. He was being starved to death by a gold seeking group who had not brought enough food for the dogs. When Buck could finally not move another step, a man from the group started to beat Buck. As the blows ...
- 3644: The Diary Of Anne Frank - Book
- ... is a lot of missing information. She is trying to say that there must be critical facts that are not shown in the book due to that fact that it was rewritten shortly before her death and the fact that it was translated into different languages. She reviews it as a great source of actually living the Holocaust through the eyes of Anne Frank but also to be in tuned that ... Diary of Anne Frank is the part where the book talks about how Anne Frank talked to her friend Hanneli Goslar across a barb-wired barrier at the Bergen Belsen concentration camp shortly before her death. This book achieves much of its greatness through the specific details it brings out. In my opinion she re-wrote her diary with posterity in her mind. The literary work follows with the family ... missing links will never be distributed for the simple fact that maybe the facts were in the original copy of the diary and not the rewritten version that Anne Frank created very shortly before her death. Also, her father was the one that found her diary. Many believe that he might have edited the diary too. Many believe that because of the rewritten version, the missing pieces of the diary ...
- 3645: Huck Finn Grows Up
- ... New York. Graft and corruption were at an all time high while black rights sunk to a new low. Even after experiencing freedom during the Civil War, their hopes of immediate equality died with the death of Lincoln. Groups like the KKK drove blacks down to a new economic low. What time would be better than this to write a book about the great American dream, a book about long held ... shows how Huck believes that Jim is his equal, and not a subordinate. The scene in which Huck matures the most because of the King and the Duke is when the group hears of the death of Mr. Wilkes. This man, who had a substantial amount of money, had willed it to not only his relatives in America, but also his brothers in England. The King and Duke pretend to be ... feud, Huck learned just how bad war and hatred could really be. This was amplified when the Grangerford family member that he had come to know well, Buck, was killed in the feud. His timely death made Huck realize that there really shouldn t be something silly enough to make a child no older than himself become a crazed murderer. He was mature enough to realize that Buck s statement, ...
- 3646: Mark Twain
- ... pen name. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Samuel was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835. He accomplished worldwide fame during his lifetime for being a great author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death on April 21, 1910, his great literary reputation has further increased. Many writers such as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner have declared his work-especially Huckleberry Finn- a major influence on 20th-century American fiction. Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi river. After the death of his father in 1847, Twain joined his brother Orion's newspaper, the Hannibal Journal. During this time he became accustomed with much of the frontier humor of the time. From 1853 to 1857, Twain ... works, but they were not some of his best. To help his situation, he commenced a world lecture tour. Even though his financial situation rapidly improved, much stress and sorrow came to Twain following the death of first his daughter, in 1896, then his wife in 1904. His writings in the late 1890's and 1900's became increasingly gloomy. One of his accomplishments during these years is "The Man ...
- 3647: A Midsummer Night's Dream: Resolution
- ... great will have no other effect than to drive Hermia to suicide when she confronts Lysander and is mysteriously and continuously turned away. With Lysander's own sword, she cuts herself down and bleeds to death at her lover's feet. Confused by the act and possibly shaken back to reality by it, Lysander awakens from his daze and sees his love dead, his own sword plunged through her body. Disoriented ... and not remembering what happened, he concludes that he is indeed the killer and so takes his own life. Demetrius, out of sadness and the fear that he will be blamed for his rival's death, flees in terror from the city never to be seen again. The final fate goes to Helena who, overcoming the death of her friend and coming to terms with the knowledge that she will never see Demetrius again, joins a convent and lives out the rest of her life in seclusion.
- 3648: The Great Gatsby - Analysis Of
- ... this stage, the East had become for him the "grotesque" stuff of his nightmares. This return home tells the reader many things about Nick. Nick is adversely affected by the events of that summer: the death of a woman he met briefly and indirectly, who was having an affair with his cousin's husband and whose death leads to the death of his next-door neighbor. The only genuine affection in the novel is shown by Nick towards Gatsby. He admires Gatsby's optimism, an attitude that is out of step with the sordidness of ...
- 3649: The Character of Macbeth
- ... his wife, but he was already ambitious, and they only increased this by making his ambitions seem like they could be reality. The war hero becomes a murderer and then dies a shameful and violent death. Shakespeare creates an atmosphere of evil and darkness mainly through his language, although scenes containing violent actions or the witches are often played in darkness. Shakespeare uses poetry (verse) as opposed to prose, as poetry ... are afraid of him and his tyranny. He has realised that he has paid a heavy price to become king, and now he is not sure if it is worth it. Macbeth's wife's death sets him brooding on life's futility. His speech: She should hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle, life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.' (5:5 L16-25),shows him ...
- 3650: 1984: Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... World War II . The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having bad thoughts about the government of Oceania, a crime punishable by death. This is the gem in Orwell's collection of novels against totalitarianism. This paper will show how George Orwell wrote 1984 as a political statement against totalitarianism. 1984 is about life in a world where ... point where he rebels against the government in small ways. Winston's first act of rebellion is buying and writing in a diary. This act is known as a thought crime and is punishable by death. A thought crime is any bad thought against the government of Oceania. Winston commits many thought crimes and becomes paranoid about being caught, which he knows is inevitable (Greenblast 113). He becomes paranoid because he ... community groups. Winston is obsessed with the past, a time before Oceania was under strict dictatorship. He goes into an antique shop and buys a shell covered in glass which is another crime punishable by death. He sees the same woman following him. Many thoughts race through his mind "I wanted to rape you and then murder you afterwards. Two weeks ago I thought seriously of smashing your head in ...
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