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    Shakespeare’s Hamlet depicts the struggle of a graduate student after the sudden death of his father and marriage of his mother, Gertrude, to his uncle, Claudius. In his soliloquy, Hamlet discusses his inner turmoil over the knowledge that his uncle, who has assumed the throne of Denmark, is responsible for the death of his father. Shakespeare utilizes conventional literary techniques such as metaphor, allusion, and repetition alongside his traditional iambic pentameter in order to enhance the meaning

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    In the novel “Lord of The Flies” by William Golding there are a group of young boys stuck on a island with no direction or idea of what to do. On the island they have to find food, water and materials in order to survive. The food on this island is mostly fruit but there are animals they can hunt. There are pigs for example. No one was hurt during the landing of the plane and it is also really hot on the island. There is only the mark of where the plane crashed, no remains were found. Their first

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    Darkness is always associated with evil and to a certain extent deception. In our society, darkness tends to be the primary characteristic of evil. It is also associated with the supernatural, something Shakespeare uses a lot in his plays. William Shakespeare employs the imagery of darkness throughout his tragedy plays, although to different extents. He uses dark images often to describe the horrors and the evils the characters portray, and these intensified internal tragic flaws are typically

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    The issue of race has pushed Americas’ ethnicities apart. William Faulkner has shown the pain that this divide has caused to the people. In stories like “A Rose for Emily,” “Barn Burning,” “Dry September,” “That Evening Sun,” “The Bear,” “Shingles for the Lord,” “The Tall Men,” and “Red Leaves,” Faulkner reveals how the South saw the world during his lifetime. Faulkner writes about the world he sees around him and now it shows his new readers how badly their ancestors treated one another. Faulkner

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    The GreenLeaf, by Flannery O’Connor, and The Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner, are different in many ways but also similar. The books both have similar literary devices being used, the era the books were staged in, and how the authors portrayed southern ideals . Flannery used smiles, such as when O’Connor wrote, “..hand would dangle from her wrist like the head of a broken lily.”, where she compared the hand of Mrs.May and a broken lily’s head. O’Connor also shown symbolism by the bull

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    Macbeth, written by william shakespeare displays a diverse range of themes and topics throughout the play. These themes are represented through a wide range of characters throughout the dramatic text. One that is strongly underlined throughout the whole play is the theme of the connection between ambition and manipulation and one of the main characters; Lady Macbeth. Throughout the sequences of the play, lady macbeth is depicted as a head-strong ambitious woman who challenges her husband's masculinity

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    potential to be a great family after you sit all of the secrets and lies aside. The lies and secrets in this family will either bring them together or tear them apart. Tennessee Williams was born on March 26, 1911. He was born in Columbus, Missouri. Tennessee was the son of Cornelius and Edwina Williams. Williams was raised mostly by his mother, and had a complicated relationship with his father. He says his childhood was “pleasant and happy.” In 1929, he enrolled at the University of Missouri

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    Queen Mary I Comparison Did you happen to know the Queen Mary I and Macbeth have heaps of traits in common? In the play, Macbeth becomes king of Scotland in 1040 after killing the king but he kills him in his sleep and blames the guards for his actions. Shakespeare is the person who wrote Macbeth; he has plenty of plays, but this is one of his best. Mary I becomes Queen Mary I and kills hundreds of people. Although one is real and one is fictional, Macbeth and Queen Mary both have terrible traits

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    blocks and get off at--Elysian Fields!” (Williams 6) Although her exact route is not continuously brought up throughout the text, it has a greater purpose that if not evaluated, can often get overlooked. Desire is defined by dictionary.com as “to wish or long for; crave; want.” The streetcar throughout the text symbolizes Blanches journey of desiring to start over, hence why she gets on a streetcar named desire to get there. The author, Tennessee Williams is trying to show the deeper meaning behind

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    Every day we hear about violence in the news, about terrorists, shooters, and robbers that we do not associate with ourselves. However, hidden within everyone is that innate evil as is shown through Golding’s story. The novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is set on an uninhabited island where a group of young British boys find themselves stranded without any adults. Overcoming their joy, the boys develop a society of sorts, finding ways to survive and get rescued. However, the civilization

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