r b Sign In Sell Your Art Top of Form Bottom of Form etchagirl › Portfolio › Wake Up Call (a ghost story in about 500 words) Wake Up Call (a ghost story in about 500 words) The lake closed over her nose and mouth as Sara sucked in a lung-full of cold‚ black water. On her next breath‚ she opened her eyes and saw the red LCD shining: 12:02 AM. Again. Three nights in a row‚ same dream‚ same time. Sweat dripped from her hair and drenched her nightgown. Sara stumbled to the bathroom‚ turning
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doesn’t seek revenge until the end‚ when Hamlet finally acts‚ and kills his father’s murderer. Hamlet is delayed in seeking revenge by a number of factors throughout the play. He needs to know if the ghost is telling the truth before he seeks revenge. He fears the horrors of purgatory warned by the ghost. He also needs to get himself together before seeking revenge‚ and he procrastinates through discovering that revenge is easier said than done. Throughout the play‚ Hamlet is shown to be unstable.
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the series of previous events‚ or whether he feigns his madness. The first line of the play- ‘who’s there?’ immediately creates a sense of the unknown‚ and this is supported by the fear of a potential invasion from Norway on Denmark at the time the play is set. The first sign of Hamlet’s madness is evident when the Ghost departs after speaking of the terrors of hell. It is clear that Hamlet is extremely disturbed by the visit from his father‚ from the beginning of his first soliloquy Scene 2‚ Line
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tempts both characters. Macbeth is approached by three witches who induce him to kill the king and everyone who threatens him. Likewise‚ the ghost of Old Hamlet‚ who confirms Hamlet’s suspicions of foul play in his father’s death‚ urges Hamlet to pursue Claudius. These external forces prompt an internal battle to fulfill the requests of the witches and the ghost‚ which drives both Macbeth and Hamlet into question of their lives‚ ultimately leading to their deaths. The struggle to satisfy their internal
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Black is an entertaining‚ unusually literary ghost drama. It features wonderfully discomfiting sound effects‚ super-serious characters to raise the level of terror‚ and a ghost of dreadful countenance‚ with nothing the least bit friendly about it. The novel was written by Susan Hill‚ she wrote this novel because she was inspired by the traditional English classic ghost stories‚ specially the Victorian ghost stories. She was quite sure what kind of ghost story she wanted to write as she did many researches
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new ways of thinking about mortality and transcendence. Using the Ghost‚ Hamlet contains references to this idea in connection with death and mortality as the great equalizer‚ and in particular explores the idea of death as an “undiscovered country” in an era considered the Golden Age of Exploration. Shakespeare‚ like other dramatists‚ combined new Renaissance thinking on the transformation of matter with traditional Christian
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The first theory is that there is a ghost and it was awakened by the old man who broke into tomb awoke the ghost of Mackenzie. After Mackenzie died the site was just a graveyard of a past war. Nothing unusual was happened until he broke into this site. While breaking the other tombs and caskets nothing happened. Only when he
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curtains and falls asleep instantly. Scrooge sees what he could become and this is the very base in which all the other spirits build upon. They show Scrooge sadness‚ and death and Marley shows what he could very well could become. Then the Ghost of Christmas Past goes to Scrooge and takes a more subtle approach than others and shows kindness but makes its point very clear. It shows Scrooge his childhood friends at his
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for Sri Lanka. While the Tamil Tigers (the insurgents) were considered terrorists in 32 countries across the globe‚ the Sri-Lankan government forces were also accused of abusing human rights. This is the backdrop of Michael Odaatje’s novel‚ Anil’s Ghost as he carefully uses the compelling protagonist‚ Anil Teressa to illustrate the social‚ cultural and political realities of the civil war era. Anil Teressa‚ a Sri Lankan expatriate and
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thinks‚ rather than taking action. When Hamlet meets the ghost of his dead father King Hamlet‚ the ghost reveals to Hamlet that his Uncle Claudius is “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life‚ now wears his crown”‚ but Hamlet is reluctant to believe it. Even though Hamlet promises that he will revenge for his father “O cursed spite/ that ever I was born to set it right”. Yet‚ Hamlet does not take action after the meeting with ghost; instead‚ he plans a play “The Mouse Trap‚” in order to expose
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