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the helpless victim who invites him in by committing the sin of vanity and lust. The main protagonist Connie, is a young girl in the stage of adolescence and rebellion, who struggles to escape her reality while portraying herself as a beauty queen. Ultimately, this makes her more susceptible to evil’s manipulations. Connie places great importance on her physical appearance. She can be described as shallow and narcissistic because, “she had a quick, nervous giggling habit of craning her neck

himself to dictate and lead to his demise. Shakespeare personifies the witches- supernatural beings with no agenda, feared greatly during the creation of Macbeth as the evil embedded within human nature, and characterizes them as vile “hags” and “fiends,” as well as employing pathetic fallacy to establish the tone and atmosphere as dark, with “thunder and lightning,” and doom

Regina v. Dudley and Stephens There have been many criminal cases in the history, which brought controversy, whether murder could be justified under different circumstances. One of the famous cases tells a story of four shipwrecked men, which were lost in the high seas. The story was named "The Lifeboat Case", regarding the tragic and life-changing decision that was made in extreme circumstance. Four seamen, Thomas Dudley, Edward Stephens, Brooks and seventeen year old Richard Parker were in high

believes they are destined for. She is more willing to get blood on her hands, even in the most literal sense, so Macbeth will become king and she be the queen of Scotland. To make sure the king's assassination will not trace back to Lady Macbeth and her husband, Lady Macbeth says to her husband, " Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are only like pictures. It is the eye of childhood that's afraid of a painted devil. If he bleeds, I'll smear the faces of the grooms with it, because it must seem

He'd like to be face to face in battle with Macbeth immediately. In this passage, Macduff, admits that he will seek revenge for his family. Malcolm says "come, go we to the King. Our power is ready. . . Macbeth is ripe for shaking." (4.3.277-9) Malcolm is summoning

The Renaissance play The Tragedy of Macbeth, written by William Shakespeare, truly demonstrated a compelling tale of greed, power, and jealousy. The play revealed the turn of a good nobleman into a powerful and greedy king. It showed audiences how one crime led to another and eventually to a gruesome melee. Throughout the tragedy there appeared to be a reoccurring theme stated finest as appearances are deceiving. The audience is first introduced to the theme in the first scene of the play where the

Chapter Thirty-One Dungeons, Smoke, and Mirrors The king’s knuckles whitened on the arms of his gilded chair. “Make the monsters,” Orrin’s eyes danced with rage, “sit there.” The gruesome wizard and his sidekick shuffled over and plopped down on three-legged stools in the center of the dungeon floor. Argos appeared and squatted behind Raven and Frey, wrapping chains around their wrists and ankles. “That ought to hold them.” He stood and looked at the king. “But if you require me, I will be waiting

from him being very lonely. In the novel, Grendel said “Why can’t I have someone to talk to…Hrothgar has people to talk to” (Gardner, 53). Grendel didn’t have anyone he could just talk to about everything and that frustrated him. To him, it seems like everyone has someone, except him. Another example that shows that Grendel’s loneliness and lack of communication causes him to be violent is in Beowulf when the epic explains: “So Grendel waged his lonely war, inflicting constant cruelties on the

In William Shakespeare's tragic play, "Macbeth", there is blood, power and greed; all of which can be read with literal and metaphorical interpretations. They intertwine at different points in the story and have different effects on each of the characters including: Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Malcom, and Macduff. These three ideas create a cycle throughout the story, particularly for Macbeth, as greed leading to the spilling of blood, which can give someone power is ultimately his demise. When Shakespeare

An ode can be defined as a "ceremonious lyric poem on an occasion of dignity in which personal emotion and universal themes are united" (Ode, 2012). While hip-hop is known for its violent, masculine, and often, misogynistic lyrics, "Dear Mama" (1995), the first single from Tupac Shakur's album, Me Against the World (1995), can be considered to be a modern ode. Tupac Shakur, also known as 2Pac, one of hip-hop's most influential rappers, intended to pay homage to his mother through this song and frequently