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    The Deceitful Desdemona Desdemona was portrayed as a woman who was strong willed, innocent, and never conformed to the Venetian society. However, her marriage to Othello made her independent nature diminish into an obedient one to satisfy her jealous husband, as he starts to feed into his insecurities as an outsider, Moor, and nearly twice her age. Iago sees these insecurities and preys on them, stating to Othello that Desdemona has cheated on him with Cassio. Although, Desdemona was not the innocent

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    Would you become deceitful to obtain anything wanted? In The Crucible the characters will do what they want to get what they want. The literary element used to show how people will become deceitful is the use of characterization. The characterization of the characters exhibits how deceitful individuals can become in order to acquire what they want. Many individuals want to secure their desires, so they can become sinister and deceitful. Abigail can be characterized as jealous and envious of Elizabeth

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    Infinitely Deceitful I remember vividly. It was early morning, the 12th of September, Osan AFB, Korea. My grandmother called and told me to turn on the news. I watched the news for approximately 15 hours that day. I repeatedly watched reports about the Pentagon, New York City and the plane that was crashed by a group of heroic passengers on Flight (Flt) 93 in Pennsylvania. Throughout that day, I began to question the details of the reports. Later, I noticed that several reporters who questioned

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    Being a deceitful person can cause tremendous consequences. The determination of your dishonesty will conquer you as a human being in the end, and in time, result in something horrid. This is proven to be accurate in one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, Hamlet. There is a saying by Robert S. Miola that all of us can gain retribution, have deceitful traits, but in the end, will capture us and our actions will ultimately result in chaos. During the play, it will introduce us to different instances

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    Infinitely Deceitful I remember vividly. It was early morning, the 12th of September, Osan AFB, Korea. My grandmother called and told me to turn on the news. I watched the news for approximately 15 hours that day. I repeatedly watched reports about the Pentagon, New York City and the plane that was crashed by a group of heroic passengers on Flight (Flt) 93 in Pennsylvania. Throughout that day, I began to question the details of the reports. Later, I noticed that several reporters who questioned

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    Crystal Sutton Mrs. Kiriluk English 7-8 7 October 2015 Lies and Deceitfulness Written by William Shakespeare in 1599, Hamlet becomes a popular play. The dominant theme throughout the play is untruthfulness. Hamlet is miserable not just because of his father's death, but because he craves honesty while everyone else around him is engaged in deception and manipulation. From the very beginning, Hamlet sets himself up as someone who hates description and values inner truth above all. “No, nor the

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    II Incorporating Mythology, Demonology and Witchcraft into Shakespeare's Text Iago's deceitful language presents us with an obvious example of devilish behaviour. From his first spoken word on stage - ''Sblood' (1.1.4), which is omitted in the folio version of the text in accordance with the censorship of profanities - to his talk of playing the devil, 'When devils will the blackest sins put on, / They do suggest at first with heavenly shows / As I do now' (2.3.318-320). There is no doubt that

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    One might kill another for multiple reasons, such as money, jealousy, or maybe even affairs. But what causes the lovely Miss Emily Garrison to kill the man she was going to spend the rest of her life with. Was it because she was evil or a good person who made a mistake or maybe she was even insane or could it be another scenario? However no matter the situation, Emily’s abusive controlling father and judgmental forceful community gave her the tools to become a killer. Emily Garrison’s father, an

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    The main character, Jay Gatsby, is deceitful because of his environment, and desire to make his dream a reality. One major stable of writing in the 20s is the use of Psychology. Gatsby exemplifies this with his manipulation of his environment. Living in the west egg of New York City, as Gatsby does, makes other rich and wealthy people view someone as associated with crime, detestable, deplorable, or outright unworthy. Gatsby understands this and is deceitful to establish credibility with those

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    The exemplary novels are timeless not only for the stories they tell, but also for the vivid ways in which they depict society at the time when these stories were written. Through the analysis of Cervantes’s Jealous Extremaduran and Deceitful Marriage, one is able to see and dissect the many jobs and roles played by people in society during the 16th and 17th centuries in Spain. In the story entitled The Jealous Extremaduran, Cervantes exhibits the roles of a hidalgo turned indiano, poor aristocrat

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