of the Banquet Scene in Macbeth” When life turns sour‚ becomes destructive and spins out of control‚ it is a typical human reaction to try to analyze why such things happen. How did things go wrong? Was it an instantaneous turn of events‚ a moral shift from good to bad‚ or an unremitting wearing away of the psychological wires‚ ultimately leading to an emotional short circuit. J.P. Dyson‚ in “The Structural Function of the Banquet Scene in Macbeth” argues that Macbeth‚ during the banquet‚ turns
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Macduff (Macbeth) 1 Macduff (Macbeth) Macduff (Macbeth) Dan O ’Herlihy as Macduff in Orson Welles ’ controversial film adaptation Macbeth (1948) Creator William Shakespeare Play Date Source Family Macbeth c.1603-1607 Holinshed ’s Chronicles (1587) Lady Macduff‚ wife Son‚ (name unknown) Antagonist to Macbeth; kills him in the final act. Despair thy charm / And let the angel whom thou has served / Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped (5.10.14-16) Role Quote Macduff
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In sonnet one hundred and twenty nine by William Shakespeare‚ the speaker uses powerful imagery and a dark‚ ominous tone to convey how lust can seem wonderful at the time‚ but can eventually hurt a person emotionally and lead them to a the point of no return. In the first quatrain of the sonnet‚ the speaker states that “lust is perjured‚ murderous‚ bloody‚ full of blame‚ savage‚ extreme‚ rude‚ cruel‚ not to trust.” (3-4) This powerful imagery from this quotation depicts what the speaker believes
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“Thoughts in the Middle of the Night” by Paul Kelly is about insomnia and the restlessness of one’s mind. The poem conveys the frustrations of the speaker about being unable to find peace and rest. The idea of futility is also tackled in the poem as nothing is changed by the end of the poem. The poet makes use of imagery of the haunting “greenish glow of the bedside clock radio”‚ which sticks out in the darkness. The reader can visualize an image of a person tossing and turning and completely unable
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The description of the setting in this chapter is very different from the previous one‚ but also very similar in other ways. It is different because the mood is generally more threatening and ominous‚ but also because our vision of the characters in it is different‚ and we have fears‚ hopes and general suspense coming from the previous chapters‚ while in the first description it was a completely new setting. It is much more ominous because small bits of the description make a fundamental difference
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Edgar Allan Poe: Reflection of His Pessimistic Moods in His Work Throughout literature‚ an author’s works almost always reflect their mood and character. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer whose short stories and poems reflected his pessimistic moods. One of Poe’s poems‚ "The Raven‚" is about a raven that flies into the home of a sad and lonely man. This poem best expresses Poe’s sense of despair and gloominess because the literary elements used in the poem are a constant reference to
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In the poem “It’s Funny‚” by Juliet Levin (poetrysoup.com) the narrator is struggling with betrayal from the people he/she cares about. The point of view is first person‚ I say this because the word “we” is used a lot throughout it‚ the tone is hurt‚ I think this because he/she cries and hurts about things that they don’t benefit from. Juliet Levin uses symbolism in this text to represent forgiveness and how it can make us weak in times of hardships. The first‚ example of symbolism in this poem
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In the piece “Alone‚” written by Edgar Allen Poe this poem softly scrapes the explanation for his dark perception of his life. This poem begins by telling the reader how he was never like the other children‚ his thoughts were not the same; the reason was because something had clouded and hurt him‚ and though Poe does not explain weather it was physical or emotional inflictions‚ it does explain where his “stormy life” came from. Poe explains his disheartening story through beautiful personification
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The poem “Beat! Beat! Drums!” Written by American poet Walt Whitman is my favorite out of the poem out of the one presented in lesson 13. Already just the way that the poem is structured grabs my attention. One can almost feel the beat of the drums when reading the poem. The rhythm of the drums represents each word‚ and sometimes the beat is fast sometimes slow. I also like the fact that the title is repeated at the beginning of each new passage. The second poem “This World is not Conclusion”
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‘Mrs Faust’ fits in the anthology by‚ in Duffy’s words‚ ‘looking at the more unpleasant aspects of being a woman’ and emphasises the complexity of women. While exploring the wife of Faust‚ a businessman who sold his soul to the devil‚ the poem satirises the way some women drift into a corrupt ‘lifestyle’. Mrs Faust is the first woman in the anthology to be presented as ‘just as bad’ as her male counterpart‚ later echoed in ‘The Devil’s Wife’. These more complex characters allow Duffy to address her
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