The consequence of corrupting power does not only affect the monarchs‚ but also their families. The families of three monarchs committed suicide and abandoned them as they are ashamed of those princes. Macbeth does not believe in the ties of loyalty and brotherhood which causes his soldiers and subject not to put faith in his master. When MacDuff’s and Malcom’s armies came to attack his castle‚ Macbeth’s soldiers refuse to stay loyal to him as they cannot feel attached to him. The soldiers who once
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Everyone knows someone who is completely self-centered and thinks the world revolves around them. In Oedipus the King‚ Jocasta is that person. The play‚ Oedipus the King by Sophocles‚ was believed to be written in 430 b.c.‚ and is set in the royal palace of Thebes. Jocasta is an important character in this play and is a mother and a wife to Oedipus. Jocasta constantly shows hypocritical‚ selfish and cowardly behaviors that inspire hatred from the audience. She is self-righteous and fearful in all
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“A Rose for Emily” is written by William Faulkner‚ an American author‚ in 1930. The story is based on the town’s knowledge and opinion about Miss Emily Grierson’s life. Critics like Cleanth Brooks Jr. and Robert Penn Warren from “Understanding Fiction” believe that Emily’s madness is derived from “her pride and her refusal to submit to ordinary standards of behavior” (400)‚ which consequently lead to the story’s ultimate gruesome ending. In Brooks and Warren’s analysis‚ they made two key points
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The General pretended to sleep‚ hoping no one was watching her. She knew McKenzie’s men were angry with her‚ but they weren’t looking at the whole picture. She slid from her bedroll and snuck around the trees to where the horses were tied up. In the darkness it was hard to see‚ but she finally located her horse and led it away from camp. “And just where do you think you’re going?” A voice sounded loudly behind her. The General clenched her heart as it pumped wildly and spun around‚ staring
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Fulgham in THE RUSSIANS ARE A ROTTEN LOT says that prejudice and assumptions accumulated from the lack of perception and truth about ones humanity leads to the choice of separation‚ and in some occurrences‚ war. The author begins the editorial by reciting a version of the bias news that would have been heard by Americans‚ and others opposing Russia‚ during the Cold War. By strongly stating‚ “the Russians are a rotten lot‚ immoral‚ aggressive‚ ruthless‚ coarse‚ and generally evil‚” the reader is indirectly
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The importance of perseverance and doing the right thing even in difficult circumstances is the theme of Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. One of the main characters‚ Kady‚ perseveres through the mess around her and sacrifices numerous things for the greater good. The book setting is mainly in a cramped space ship on course to a warp station and the sci-fi plot carries the theme throughout the story. The symbols in the story‚ death‚ illness and the artificial intelligence‚ as well as the
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As usual with Marissa Meyer‚ this book is great‚ even better than her last one. It really goes in depth into the villain of the series. Marissa Meyer does an fantastic job of making you pity‚ Levana‚ the villain. All Levana ever wanted was love‚ and she’s never received it. Especially not from her family. Her craving for this drives her to do horrible things‚ such as killing her own niece. I was slightly surprised that she wasn’t the one who killed Chanary‚ her sister. She supposedly died of a lung
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Charles Darnay’s return to France is an example of fulfilling his fate‚ he’s acting as a representative of the St. Evrémondes and when he arrives in France‚ he’ll be considered an aristocrat and treated as such. Darnay renounces his family title and property‚ as he tells his uncle years before the revolution‚ that they have been “reaping the fruits of wrong” (94). Another reason why he does this is because he feels that he is “bound to a system that is frightful…responsible for it‚ but powerless
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In most of The Epic Poem of Gilgamesh‚ the twelfth tablet does not exist in most of the epic. This section is not included in some translations and versions. The authors of this epic poem added this tablet to this poem‚ but the reason why is still not found. It does not keep up a correspondence with the rest of the poem and this tablet also disagrees with some events that are a main focus. In The Epic Poem of Gilgamesh Tablet XII‚ Gilgamesh drops a stick through a small hole in the floor of the
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Heraclitus said “We can never step into the same river twice‚ for different water is ever flowing” (12). The river which Heraclitus refers to‚ is a metaphor for time. Time continues on regardless of life‚ always changing. Although it may seem impossible to go back in time – impossible to step into the same river – there are times when moments in time seems to repeat themselves throughout history. Ovid refutes this maxim through the use of a common storyline throughout several of his stories. Many
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