are married to a king‚ both have some influence over that king‚ and both are culpable of their final fate. While Lady Macbeth is a much stronger woman she just as Gertrude is married to a dishonorable man. Along with the similarities their differences are easily seen. Because each is married to a dishonorable man each is trapped by her position.Lady Macbeth creates a monster in Macbeth and his ambition leads to the eventual break-up of their marriage and her suicide.Gertrude though much more passive
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Satire of the Knight in Prologue and Knight’s Tale Satire. Satire is a biting literary tool‚ one that Geoffery Chaucer used liberally when he wrote his Canterbury Tales. Webster’s New World Dictionary says that satire is "the use of ridicule‚ sarcasm‚ etc. to attack vices‚ follies‚ etc." Using that definition‚ I think that all of the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales are satirized to some extent; some of the satirizations are more subtle than others. The Knight is one of the pilgrims
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Colin Flynn Rinaldi Western Civ 12/20 Lucretia Paper Roman culture was largely based on the citizens’ honor. Honor was one of the most important aspects of a Roman citizen’s life. Honor was very important to Roman society. Lucretia displayed her honor in two ways‚ first she served Sextus Tarquinius and his men‚ and then she killed herself after being raped by Sextus Tarquinius‚ the son of the king. “I will absolve myself of blame‚ and I will not free myself from punishment. No women shall
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shameful action. Furthermore‚ he was trying to cover his serious sin by convincing her that everything was normal and that he loved her. He promised to propose her whenever she got to her legal age. Time passed by‚ she grew up and realized his evil intention and felt hurt and violated. She refused his proposal when he came back to fulfill his promise. She rejected his evilness and wanted to stay away from him. The story presents an unbelievable life event in the childhood of an innocent girl who was
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vengeful‚ and sarcastic tones. Through his use of personification‚ both repetition and sarcasm‚ and personal pronouns‚ Antony successfully ventures to persuade the fickle denizens of Rome that Caesar was not only erroneously accused of ambitious intentions‚ but wrongfully murdered as well. To begin‚ Antony uses personification in order to connect with the plebeians and bring their emotions about Caesar’s death back to life. A prime example of this is when Antony tells the plebeians‚ “I come not
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Reading Brutus: Marcus Brutus is by definition‚ an ‘honourable man’‚ yet the play Julius Caesar poses the question; how can such an honourable man commit such a dishonourable act as murder? This ambiguity is tracked throughout the play as Brutus‚ a man who is constantly ‘with himself at war’ (I‚ ii‚ 51) attempts to convince himself that he acts ‘for the good of Rome’ (3‚ ii‚ 45). But the question is not whether Brutus has managed to convince himself of his nobility‚ but whether he has managed
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Is Brutus a villain or a hero? Is Brutus the noble man Anthony describes‚ is he really a dishonorable man‚ or was he just a mistaken man? Was Brutus the most noble roman of them all or was he a hateful and abominable roman.How could Brutus be so ceasar closes friend Caesar when he was alive now have two different judgments. In the play “Julius Caesar” Caesar the most beloved general in Rome is killed by the conspirators.Along with the conspirators is his friend Brutus. While most conspirators
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Honor Being one of the central themes in Othello and Hamlet‚ honor is used in very strange ways by Shakespeare. He has a way of showing how his characters can be very honorable or have a lack there of. He displays how honor is interwoven with personal integrity and how acts of attempting to keep a reputation can be confused with the acts of personal integrity. Lastly‚ he also displays how honor relates to the foresight seen by his characters. Honor can be connected to almost any actions made by
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If one has not heard the title “Woodstein”‚ then I sincerely doubt that they have read a newspaper in their life. This team consist of two journalist-one named Bob Woodward‚ and the other Carl Bernstein-at the peak of their career at the Washington Post. These two young journalist were paired together to cover an attempted break in at Democratic headquarters stationed at the Watergate Hotel in 1972. This usual routine story escalated into one of the most influential stories in America’s History‚
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found a muse in God and in the dawn of creation; rather than in earthly matters. John Milton’s intention while writing his epic was not to make Satan a hero‚ however‚ many people perceive such an idea. Instead‚ he simply wanted to display his optimistic view of life; the fact that goodness is not goodness unless it resulted from a struggle to overcome evil. Thus‚ Milton focuses Satan and his dishonorable deeds in order to highlight God’s kindness and goodness. Moreover‚ “Paradise Lost” includes Satan’s
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