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Mary Maloney is a vicious murderer who killed her husband, Patrick Maloney, in cold blood. This woman is guilty of second degree murder. The murder was intentional, it was not premeditated. Some would say because she is pregnant and how Patrick treated her when she was pregnant she should get a second chance because of her hormones. This doesn’t give her an excuse at all she should at least get sent to jail.

In the Shakespearean play written by William Shakespeare, Macbeth, seems to be corrupted by guilt and this appears to destroy his inner peace. Macbeth’s character change seems to develop during the middle and after he murders King Duncan. Macbeth develops from a very noble and honest man into a very evil man. This is because he is destroyed by guilt through killing King Duncan. His mind and inner peace are completely destroyed by this traitorous act that he now is a completely different character from what he was at the start of the play. Macbeth is completely damaged by his mind and corruption of his thinking.

Macbeth Macbeth tells the story of a man named Macbeth and his struggle for power. He and his friend Banquo are told by three witches that Macbeth will become King and Banquo’s children will become king as well. Macbeth, content with his prophecy, goes home to tell his wife. Lady Macbeth, his wife, tells him that he should just go kill the king and take control of Scotland on his own. Hungry for power, he kills King Duncan, frames Duncan’s chamberlains for the murder, and takes his throne. He then feels threatened by the others in line for King, so he tries to kill banquo and his son. Banquo is killed but his son escapes. Macbeth continues to indulge in murdering people who are a threat to his tyranny.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest The novel, “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,” by Ken Kesey illustrates society on a small scale. The story, narrated by Chief, a patient, starts in a mental ward that is run by Big Nurse Ratched. The policy is the law and no one can change it, only abide by it. The patients are being oppressed by Nurse Ratched, though they don’t realize it until McMurphy shows up. The patients do as Nurse Ratched says because they fear her wrath. Throughout the novel, the character Randle Patrick McMurphy represents the rebellious people in the oppressive society. As the story progresses, McMurphy commits many rebellious acts. He brings the patients together and they fight against the society, which is represented by

In the play Macbeth the protagonist takes all the spotlight and leaves Macduff in the dark. If someone was to pay close attention they could see how big of a hero Macduff was. Macduff Thane of Fife played a really important part in the story, he was the first one

The bloody rise and tragic downfall of Macbeth’s power in medieval Scotland is the outcome of a prophecy told by three Witches who foretold Macbeth’s rise to power. Throughout the play, Shakespeare suggests that immoral actions come from the loss of moral boundaries and outside influences. He also illustrates that corrupt actions come from greed and can stain one’s conscience with guilt.

Many people who have read William Shakespeare’s Macbeth know that Macbeth is the tragic hero in the play, but there another character stands out as a much greater protagonist. Macbeth is the type of character who turned from a loyal warrior to the king into a violent, tyrannical, and conflicted person as he progressively commits crimes inside the kingdom without anyone’s notice, except for one person, who is Macduff. Macduff doesn’t have any flaws and remains sinless and heroic throughout the play. As Macbeth progressively gains power and prestige in exchange for the lives of his king, his friends, and his countrymen, Macduff meanwhile goes through great personal loss in his attempts to stop Macbeth’s tyrannical ruling and to restore justice and freedom to Scotland. It is ironic how Macduff acts so much more nobly than his king. Throughout the tragic events that have occurred in the play, Macduff serves as a heroic figure through his demonstrations of intelligence, loyalty, and righteousness.

In William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, different characters deal with the guilt they feel in different ways. Lady Macbeth’s guilt pushes her into madness, and while Macbeth’s guilt does the same, it also pushes him to commit further atrocities. However, Macduff uses his guilt over his family’s death to avenge them. Although the ways in which Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, and Macduff deal with their guilt differ, all of their guilt catalyzes many deaths, including those of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Guilt and accountability therefore are key elements of Macbeth.

To consider the impact of guilt across the play Both “Macbeth and “An Inspector Calls” by William Shakespeare and J.B. Priestley both explores the impact of guilt on their characters. For Shakespeare whose novel was set in Medieval Times and written in 1606 Jacobean Times, he writes the play for King James 1 of Scotland in order to gain patronage from King. However, Priestley (a socialist) whose novel was 1912 and written in 1945 (the end of WW2), he focuses on a capitalist family in Brumley just to promote the view of socialist to the audience in 1945. Despite the differences of the play, the overall impact of guilt are the same in both play but used in different ways. In this essay I will be focusing

In Macbeth, Act 4: 2, we can see that Macbeth has reached a point in his life where he will do anything and kill anyone to ensure his stature in the kingdom is protected. We analyzed this when he first murdered King Duncan and then had Banquo, his best friend, assassinated. With his constant homicides come sleepless nights and hallucinations of ghosts. Eventually, his wife goes crazy because of her guilty conscience of provoking her husband into committing the murders, and dies right before the battle between Macbeth and Macduff occurs. One chief motive behind Macduff’s purpose to destroy Macbeth is what act 4: 2 is about. Macbeth has Macduff’s family, and all who were in his home, slaughtered. This engages Malcolm, who was suspected of his

In the article “Feeling Criminal in Macbeth” by Kevin Curran, the author explains that the character Macbeth, from Macbeth by William Shakespeare that “Macbeth’s murderous thoughts are shaped by physical, sensual interaction with the objects of the material world” (Curran). The author is attempting to prove that the murder of King Duncan “was a sensible crime not because its practical or judicious (it’s neither), but because it’s born of the senses and experienced as sensation” (Curran). The character Macbeth in the play Macbeth gets a prophesy from three witches which state that Macbeth is “Thane of Cawdor” and “king here-after”. The prophesy sends Macbeth into a state that he feels the need that he has to try and fulfill these statements

Chiara Maddison The essay titled “Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Séverin” by Robert Darnton discusses a massacre of cats that, according to the worker Nicolas Contat, took place in Paris in the first half of the 1700s. Contat’s writes about two apprentices, Jerome and Léveille. They had poor living conditions, were given food scraps to eat, and they had to deal with the master and their superiors. On top of all this, during the night stray cats would howl, keeping them awake. One day Léveille decided to crawl along the roof until he got near the master’s bedroom and began to howl with the cats. The aster and his wife became convinced that they were being bewitched and ordered the apprentices to get rid of the cats. They chased cats of rooftops, hit them with iron bars, and trapped them in sacks. They also performed mock trials where the rest of the workshop would join in and hang the cats with a noose. Although to us this seems like a horrific act of violence, the workers turned it into a celebration. These different views of the same event exist because of the different societies. The hatred these workers had for the bourgeois, popular celebrations, and the things that cats symbolized all contributed to the humor of the cat massacre. We must first understand these to be able to understand the cat massacre.

Macduff had such a strong sense of loyalty to his country that he would do absolutely anything, which will lead him to be at fault for the death of those he loves. He wants to be the best thane that he could possible be to protect and serve the country he loves and the king he will always love beyond his death. He promised the blood oath to Duncan and will do anything to make sure it is honored in respect to him and his memory. However, achieving this means becoming a trader. He has to travel to England to talk to Duncan's son, the rightful king, to try and bring him home and retain the crown he was born into. This means leaving is family totally vulnerable and unprotected against Macbeth and his wrath. Without him there, Macbeth has his 5

Guilt is the gut punching feeling inside in which you feel you could’ve done something to prevent an action that has gone wrong. We feel so powerless to stop it and eats us on the inside until we finally do the right thing. The play Macbeth, reveals how in the end your guilt will overpower your conscience and will eventually lead you to your greatest downfall. The theme of guilt as revealed in Macbeth, continues to relate to modern society. The guilt in Macbeth compares to many situations with society, for example, a murderer and suicidal people.

At a point in someone’s lifetime guilt will push them over the edge and drive them crazy. It could just be a mild deed like lying to you parents about sneaking out at night or an extreme deed like robbing or even murdering a person. In the play