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    In the play, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Lady Macbeth’s communication is effective for getting what she wants by taking the action in killing King Duncan into her own hands, she portrays her wishes of being more powerful and how power hungry she is/she is willing to do whatever it takes to be queen. Lady Macbeth is taking it into her own hands in killing the King, “The king is coming, and he’s got to be taken care of. Let me handle tonight’s preparations, because tonight will change every night

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    Keats covered many topics in the poems he wrote during his short life but the theme of fantasy being a better alternative to reality was prominent throughout many of his works. To Keats the idea that, “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/ Are sweeter” (Urn 11-12) play a major role in his poetry, demonstrating that for him the idea of what is yet to come is far better than the actual reality of the situation. Through the narratives and stories he tells in his poems, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,”

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    It is out of the ordinary for a woman to set up a murder for her husbands gain. Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is know to be a very mean and cruel character that just isn’t scared of anything by the readers. But as we get further towards the end of the play we see that she starts to show her true colors and state of mind. Throughout the play lady Macbeth’s attitude and bravery changes but at the beginning of the play she starts off with a lot of ambition. She makes all of her plans on killing

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    Throughout the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou, classic storytelling through archetypes is reworked into a more modern time in order to create the unique gem that it is. Archetypes are a general persona of a character that is repeated many times through films and literature, they define the character and give meaning to their roles. Archetypes have been used ever since stories were made, from the Odyssey to even Percy Jackson. Archetypes tend to set the stage for the story, and get revealed throughout

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    Sonnet 6 Analysis

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    Aj Giosa Mr. Foley Sonnet 6 Explication 26 November 2017 Sonnet 6 is notable for the ingenious multiplying of conceits and especially for the concluding pun on a legal will in the final couplet: "Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fair / To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir." Here, as earlier in the sonnet, the poet juxtaposes the themes of narcissism and death, as well as procreation. "Self-willed" echoes line 4's "self-killed," and the worms that destroy the young man's dead

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    The Song Essay

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    sun has to travel to return, his distance seems small and therefore not as bad, and combining his feelings with the relatively small distance, this reassures that there is every chance of him returning. When thou sigh'st, thou sigh'st not wind, But sigh'st my soul away; When thou weep'st, unkindly kind, my life's blood doth decay. When she sighs or weeps, he says he feels worse. This is his way of asking her to not be sad at his leaving and uses the paradox unkindly kind, which means

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    “The Tempest” Final Essay In The Tempest, a major conflict is how Prospero and Antonio fight for power. Prospero was the Duke of Milan before his brother Antonio betrayed him and took his dukedom. In The Tempest you find out that brotherhood means almost nothing. Certain characters will be stomp more than one person to get higher power. The Tempest was one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays because of the unique epilogue . The epilogue is said to be Shakespeare's way of saying goodbye to the theater

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    called him to her home for more than simply introducing him to his son; Jenny was dying, and she called him there to say their final goodbyes. Less than a week later, Jenny had passed, and their lifelong romance came to a peaceful end. O Brother Where Art Thou? is set in rural Mississippi during 1937, at the tail end of the Great Depression. The story begins when three prisoners escape from their chain gang in search of the treasure that Ulysses Everett McGill claimed to have buried before he was sent

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    that a certain basic pattern has developed and been used for many centuries. American scholar Joseph Campbell described this pattern as twelve stages telling the story of the hero, and he gave it the term “monomyth.” The movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou” follows this pattern. Despite some variations on the archetypal hero, Ulysses Everett McGill is still a dynamic hero in his own right, following Campbell’s stages. One of the twelve stages is “crossing the threshold,” when the hero commits to their

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    had to his two undeserving daughters. -Ironically, Lear truly is the fool in this story, and even more ironically the Fool is one of the wisest characters. 3. "That lord that counseled thee To give away thy land, Come place him here by me; Do thou for him stand. The sweet and bitter fool Will presently appear: The one in motley here, The other found out there." (I, IV, 138.) -The Fool is showing the error in Lear's way. He hinting that whoever put such a stupid idea in Lear's head should

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