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    Macbeth Assignment Tom Courtnadge Class 10R Ms. Solms English The Witches are The Most Powerful and Catalyst To Macbeths Crimes In this essay I will be discussing whether I believe the witches are the most powerful and catalyst to Macbeths evil doings. I will explain in three reasons what I believe as well as rebuttals to my opinion. I believe that the witches are the most powerful characters in the play and the catalyst of all of Macbeth’s crimes.

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    well-known poems. This opinion in Owen’s time was an anomaly as few people questioned what the Queen and Government decided was the best thing for the country. In Shakespeare’s time‚ when anyone who queried the King risking punishment‚ Shakespeare’s Macbeth; a play about the King going mad and corruption of the throne‚ could lead to problems for the writer. (In fact when Shakespeare wrote plays his whole profession wasn’t respectable‚ with the theatre seen as low entertainment on the same level as bear

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    Macbeth Characterization Graphic Organizer Use this graphic organizer to collect your thoughts about characterization in Macbeth. As you read each scene‚ record what you learn about the character. Add the line from the play that supports your idea. Lady Macbeth   Observations Text Support Looks     Actions  -She talks Macbeth into killing the king.  - What beast was’t‚ then‚ That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it‚ then you were a man; And‚ to be more than what

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    The Catcher in the Rye is about a young protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ who tells the story about his life from a mental institution and how he got himself into that situation. Holden is not as perfect as he wants to be‚ due to his constant lying‚ his tendency to judge others and the negative situations he gets himself in. His inability to recognize that he is a phony and a hypocrite directly contributes to his physiological problems. Holden Caulfield thinks he is perfect‚ but yet he claims to

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    Crazy Holden Caulfield In the United States today‚ a person commits suicide about every twenty minutes (Whybrow). Many of these people end their life‚ due to a mental illness. Extreme emotions and dramatic moods swings are part of being human‚ but at a certain point‚ they can take over someone’s entire existence. Mental disorders are common‚ and often show up in literature to add a deeper layer of complexity to a character. The human psyche is complex on its own‚ so when a emotional disorder is added

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    my belief that Holden also feels the same way. While these boys are very different they are also similar in many ways. Todd chooses to obey his parents and do what they want him to do and follow his brother.

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    critiquing. There is a strong resemblance of Holden Caulfield to J.D. Salinger in which one could say it is quite autobiographical about Salinger’s views of the world. Whereas Holden gave up the dream of ditching society and living by himself away from everyone else‚ Salinger didn’t. After the success of the novel put him in high demand in the public eye‚ he withdrew and lived a life of isolation. Salinger’s early life indeed paralleled that of the character Holden in

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    We can take this chapter as an example of both an indirect and direct characterization taken from the perspective of Holden Caulfield. Holden is a sixteen-year-old student at an assumed boarding school‚ where we are in the first person of Holden which lets us discover his character from his speech‚ thoughts and actions [indirect] and his opinions and descriptions of Mr Spencer‚ his history teacher [direct]. He was sitting in a big leather chair‚ all wrapped up in that blanket … He looked over at

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    seems as though  O.J. fell prey to ambition‚ greed and jealousy‚ just like Macbeth. Having an ambition can be very dangerous to others. Take this case for example‚ innocent people were murdered‚ and at the end of the day‚ O.J. lost his money‚ friends‚ and lots of fans.Was it really worth it? Was the story of Macbeth just a classical Shakespearean play or is it how the society is unfolding as we speak? Through the play of Macbeth‚ the themes of greed or excessive ambition are still‚ very relevant to

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    one type of person in Holden Caulfield. By the end of the book‚ we see a whole new person. How is it that one person can change as much in a short time period? They change by the experiences they go through. Holden went through a lot of experiences in a short period of time especially‚ and also in his past history. In the beginning of the novel‚ Holden has just come back from a fencing game in New York. He has also been kicked out from Pencey Prep. To us it seems Holden is a troubled boy‚ after

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