February 18, 2013 Duty is a Four Letter Word with a Three Character Meaning In William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, the Bundrens sacrifice a great deal to lay Addie in her final resting place at Jefferson. They obediently follow her burial orders despite the hardships along the way because of the...
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R. D Macbeth Essay 21-1-2013 William Shakespeare portrays a tragic downfall of a king through his ambition to become King and human weakness in the murder of Duncan. Shakespeare develops the play Macbeth by showing the changes in him and the effects his demise has on others. The tragedy Macbeth by...
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As I Lay Dying by Faulkner is a strange work with a changing perspective that can leave the reader confused, and a story that can leave a reader with an uneasy feeling. In the action of the novel, Jewel risks his life to save his mother’s casket, the Bundren family is forced to sell almost all of...
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In the beginning of Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, the title-character was a noble general of King Duncan of Scotland’s army, greatly respected by all. However, after meeting three witches who prophesied that he would become king, Macbeth, not seeing how that was possible, as Duncan was king...
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Macbeth and Deception Throughout the first three acts of the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare, the character Macbeth uses deception to his advantage in many ways. Three notable times are when he uses deception to make it easier for him to kill Duncan, aid in framing the guards for Duncan’s...
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Many of the tragic pitfalls of Odysseus and his men were from their own weaknesses to women. The temptations that the crew submits to always either anger the gods or distract them from their goal- returning home. In The Odyssey, by the legendary poet Homer, Odysseus and his crew desire to complete...
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“The Journey to a Tragic Hero” An Essay Exploring Macbeth’s Journey to Becoming a Tragic Hero A Tragic Hero is someone who is important within his society. He has a tragic flaw which continues to grow and overcome his own personal virtues, as he continues into his downfall and the destruction of...
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Pankaj Selvam English 10 Honors Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth Chosen Monomyth: The Odyssey 1. Hero introduced in his ordinary world Odysseus is a strong ruler of Ithaca (Greek city-state), however lacks experience in war. He is also the son of Laertes 2. The call to adventure He wins the Trojan war...
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Paragraph V: Evaluation But my mother is a fish. Vernon seen it. He was there. “Jewel’s mother is a horse,” Darl said. “Then mine can be a fish, can’t it, Darl? ” I said. Jewel is my brother. “Then mine will have to be a horse, too,” I said. “Why? ” Darl said. “If pa is your pa, why does your ma...
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How does Lady Macbeth incorporate the role of a femme fatale? Gothic literature was introduced by Horace Walpole in 1764 with his novel The Castle of Otranto. This makes Macbeth retrospectively gothic as it was written in the 1600’s. It includes some of the main features of the gothic genre such as...
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Joel Schain Period 2 3/28/10 Book 9: In the Eyes of Polyphemus This morning was like any other day. I got up to see the sun rise, and then I went into the forest to find something to eat for breakfast. Most days were quiet in the land of the Cyclopes. All you could hear were your own thoughts, and...
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The novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is filled with moments of great heroism and with struggles that are almost epic, but the novel’s take on such battles is ironic at best, and at times it even makes them seem downright absurd or mundane. The Bundren family is on a mission to bury...
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Macbeth Questions – Act III Osato Agbaire 1. “The Mysterious Killer” 2. Macbeth didn’t kill Banquo mostly because he didn’t want to have to go through that guilt that and pressure that he went through when his wife was forcing him to kill Duncan. In the first act, he was having second thoughts and...
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Reflective journal 1 The Odyssey Date due MB and ME: 23rd January 2014 at 8:30am – via Blackboard – – Submission to VeriGuide – Choose ONE of the following question groups and write a short essay, about 400-600 words in English or 700-900 characters in Chinese. (* A question may break down into a...
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As I Lay Dying Journal Question #8 17 November 2009 In Chapter 24 of As I Lay Dying, Vardaman simply states “My mother is a fish. ” At first, this may seem like a child’s ridiculous association of his mother’s death with the death of a fish. However, this connection allows Vardaman to overcome the...
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As Circe tries to seduce men and turn them into pigs, Penelope stays loyal and obedient to her husband. While Soorpanaka tries to steal a woman's spouse and sleep with him, Sita refuses to leave her husband's side. These traits show the major differences between temptresses and ideal wives in The...
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Brittany N. Rice February 27, 2009 English 204 As I Lay Dying Animals In Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, he used animals to symbolize characters. The Bundren children are obsessed with animals throughout the novel. Vardaman is convinced that his mother is a fish, Darl declares that Jewel’s mother is a...
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Lucas Xavier Self-Destruction There are seeds of self-destruction buried in all of us that will bare only misfortune if allowed to grow. Macbeth’s guilty path to his des Integrity is define as many things, value, honor, morality, and so on. These principles are the gears that run society...
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Andre 1 Hannah Andre Mrs. Rollings Honors English 10 Period 3 13 May 2011 Darl’s Epilogue Darl chases the patterns on the white wall with his numb fingertips. He is alone. He shivers as he lies on the cool pavement exhausted thinking to himself with a smirk scrolled across his face. And I’m the...
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Shakespeare’s Macbeth explores the notion of villains through its key characters and throughout the play the audience is left wondering who is actually the ‘real’ villain. Lady Macbeth seems to portray certain characteristics of a villain and appears to have evil intentions and Macbeth is also...
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An Enduring Tale Thousands of years after it was written, people continue to read The Odyssey not only for its thrilling adventure, but also for its invaluable dissection of inherent human qualities. In his epic poem, The Odyssey, Homer addresses intrinsic characteristics of humans that man has...
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What does Cash’s list of the 13 reasons for beveling the edges of the coffin tell us about him? In the novel As I Lay Dying, Cash has to build a coffin for his dying mother. He decides to bevel the edges, and he makes a list of thirteen reasons for doing so. This action tells a lot about his...
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Is Lady Macbeth more ambitious than Macbeth? Lady Macbeth has more ambition than Macbeth. When Lady Macbeth has received the letter from her husband, Macbeth, telling her about the three witches’ prophecies and the future king Macbeth, she decides to make it come true immediately. Macbeth who is...
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Odysseus' Cunning In Homer's epic novel The Odyssey, Homer depicts Odysseus as a character of great intelligence and cunning. Throughout the many dangers and hazards he encounters, Odysseus shows, in many ways, his ingenious slyness. Odysseus' cunning is shown in many examples, such as...
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Macbeth is a play full of darkness, evil, and tragedy. It is the story of a man who goes against his conscience and commits a horrible deed which leads to his destruction and loss of everything he has around him. This includes the relationship he has with his wife, Lady Macbeth. In the beginning...
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The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou? O Brother, Where Art Thou is a parody of The Odyssey written and produced by the Coen brothers. This movie shows a more modern 1930s look at The Odyssey written by the Greek poet Homer. The Odyssey describes the adventurous, but dangerous return of...
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Macbeth Essay Macbeth’s ambition is the sole cause of the whole tragedy. Do you agree? From reading the novel Macbeth it is evident that Macbeth’s ambition is one of the sole causes of the whole tragedy but not the only sole cause. Though he has thought about murdering Duncan, his only motive for...
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5th period As I Lay Dying - Vardaman Vardaman Bundren is the youngest of the family, between the ages of ten and thirteen. At first, we think that Vardaman’s character is illiterate just because of his age, however, throughout the novel we learn that it is just the way he is. His character...
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The Dunsinane Inquirer BANQUO SLAIN! This morning, our beloved Banquo, friend of the king, was found dead. His body, bearing a slit throat and twenty deep lacerations to the face, was discovered by a farmer from the area. The farmer discovered the body outside of his Salmon farm roughly a mile...
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The Odyssey Moral Values The Odyssey by Homer uses Odysseus’ 10-year journey home from the Trojan War to illustrate some of the most important moral values of book. The moral values in the story include loyalty, compassion, self-control and perseverance. Each one has a tale or two associated...
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As I Lay Dying In William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying it shows Darl's change from sanity to insanity as the novel unfolds. No one knows of this change until it is to late for them or Darl to do anything. Darl finds that his hold on reality starts to loosen as he figures out to himself that his...
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We first see Macbeth after battle as a strong, brave man who is unafraid by the thought of killing. Some would say he didn’t have a conscience, but after the meeting with the witches, Shakespeare makes Macbeth so full of guilt and despair it turns him mad. After the murder of Duncan, Shakespeare...
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Emma Cochell 1* Mr. Lewis English 9HA 05/06/13 Similar Stories Have you ever heard of ''The Odyssey,'' or seen the movie ''O Brother Where Art Thou? '' Well, these two stories are actually similar, and many characters a relatable. A few characters in ''The Odyssey,'' a narrative poem, that are...
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In the novel, As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, two characters, Darl and Jewel Bundren, each cope with their mother’s death and deal with their isolation from their family by expressing their feelings in deeply emotional behavior. Darl, the second eldest sibling out of five, questions his...
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Macbeth’s murder of Duncan has horrible consequences both for Macbeth himself and for Scotland. In Shakespeares famous play, Macbeth, the themes of murder, guilt, ambition and the ruthless pursuit of power is explored. He does this through the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth who are tied...
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Women in the odyssey are portrayed in different ways, depending on whether they are mortal or divine, although there are many similarities. Major goddesses such as Athena are portrayed as being a watchful protector, whereas lesser divine women like Calypso and Circe are seen as being more seductive...
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In Act III of Macbeth, Shakespeare uses animal motif extensively to convey to the audience Macbeth’s thoughts and also to reflect the progress of the plot in general. In scene i and iii of Act III, horses are mentioned repeatedly. Before delving into these scenes, it is important to note the role...
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In his book, As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner pioneers new and interesting literary forms. His most obvious deviation from traditional novel writing was the new style of narration in which he used all the main characters as the narrator at one point or another. This allowed the reader to gain...
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Initially, Lady Macbeth is just ambitious, but when she reads the letter from Macbeth about the prophecies she contemplates murder. She only cares about ‘the future in the instant’. This means that she doesn’t care how she achieves greatness, but uses her cleverness to convince Macbeth to kill...
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.What is an Invocation? .Who is the narrator speaking to in the first stanza? How does Homer establish the .significance of the story he is about to tell? Cite text to support your answer. Where is .Odysseus when the story begins? How long has he been there? What has . happened to Aegisthus and...
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?Theme of perseverance and determination Since it takes determination in order to persevere, I have chosen to put both characteristics into one theme that I believe was evident throughout the epic. Had Odysseus not personified both of these traits at all times, there would have been no epic...
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As I Lay Dying: Styles Used By William Faulkner Deborah Whelan -Darl's Section (p. 128) Most authors have certain styles that result in bringing across certain ideas. In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner uses a subtle and discreet narrative manner to bring forth important pieces of information that...
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Macbeth is the shortest tragedy ever to be written by William Shakespeare. He wrote this play for King James I, who was a largely active supporter of the theatre. The king watched many productions and soon Shakespeare’s company was called ‘The King’s Men’. In honouring the king, Shakespeare used...
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Irony creating elements of surprise Irony is often used by authors to create an element of surprise or humor and to increase and enhance their work. Homer, author of The Odyssey, is one of the many authors who use this literary technique well. In The Odyssey, Homer has presented irony to create an...
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8. Reread the account of Liberty 5-3000 on page 38-39 and on 44-45. What character traits are revealed in this brief description? Note: Liberty is smarter than the other women as Equality is smarter than the other men. “ Liberty understood our thought, for they lowered their eyes for the first...
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Ruiz1 Daisy Ruiz Mrs. Atkins English 10H: Period 2 14 May 2013 Lady Macbeth William Shakespeare, in the play, Macbeth explains that Lady Macbeth hates her weak self. “Make thick me blood. ” (1:5:44). Lady Macbeth wants to feel no emotion; she wants to stop being a woman and become a more dominant...
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Anthem Quotes Essay The book Anthem by Amy Rand is the first person story of Equality 7-2521, a man raised in a community where all men are equal and everyone is brother to their fellow man. But Equality 7-2521 was not the typical person, for he was very intelligent, and always felt that there was...
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Passage Analysis of Macbeth – 1. 3. 125-142 Hadi Abdul This passage in Macbeth is important as it shows the feelings the three witches’ prophecies caused to Macbeth and is important because it seems from Macbeth’s reaction, these feelings will play an important role in the rest of the play. “Two...
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Graphic Organizer | Cause| Effect| Effect| Macbeth’s desire to become king Act 1-5Act 1 | The witches first prophecy come true, Macbeth became Thane of Cawdor and more hooked with the second prophecy on becoming king. Soon Macbeth sends a letter to his wife telling her about the prophecies...
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Romeo and Juliet, the dramatic love story everyone knows. Many times the play by William Shakespeare is compared to the movie produced by Baz Luhrman. Most always when movies are compared to the books, the books are better, but not quite in this case. Yes, the play is very good as well as the movie...
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