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    Cat's Eye Misogyny

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    wearing the “same green wool knee socks” (459) showing how Cordelia manipulative ways have stuck with her throughout her whole life. Conclusively‚ in Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood‚ she uses parallelism and motifs to illuminate the lifelong impact of misogyny has on

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    relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth change throughout the play? In this essay I am going to talk about the dramatic and rapid changes of the relationship between husband and wife‚ Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the beginning of the play the couple share a loving and strong bond; however this contrast to the end of the play as the relationship which once was a strong is weakened as the couple no longer have importance in each other’s life. At the beginning of the play Macbeth displays his love

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    The motif of misogyny occurs throughout the play ‘Hamlet‚’ it is however especially prominent in Act III Scene I‚ lines 135-149. Shakespeare has used negative imagery and language to portray ‘Hamlet’s’ dislike of women‚ for example ‘Hamlet’ in this extract curses ‘Ophelia’ that even if she is ‘as chaste as ice‚ as pure as snow‚’ she will still be looked down upon‚ the imagery of ‘snow’ is often used by authors to represent virginity and is not necessary seen as being negative‚ Shakespeare however

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    Misogyny of Richard III

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    seizes the opportunity to make himself king. He is a Machiavellian figure who will stop at nothing to gain and maintain power. Richard’s extraordinary facility with words enable him to manipulate‚ confuse‚control and corrupt those around him → Woows lady anne‚ have Clarence thrown in prison‚ keep woodvills of his tracks‚ blame the king for clarences death… Shakespear includes in the novel a great number of supernatural elements : margarets witchcraft‚ Clarence and Stanley prophetic dreams‚ the visit

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    Irene Ruddock and Lady Macbeth are different in the way they transform throughout the the play. Lady Macbeth throughout the play changes as she goes from being a cold blooded cruel woman to being a nervous‚ scared and sad suicidal woman. The book starts by Macbeth being awarded the position of Thane of Cawdor‚ but Lady Macbeth wants more‚ she wants to be powerful and rich this is why she and Macbeth decide to kill Duncan."Come‚ thick night‚ and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell‚ That my keen

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    Lady Macbeth is called a “fiend-like Queen”. How far do you consider this to be an accurate description? Shakespeare reflects the beliefs of his age. People believed in a natural hierarchy in the 17th century often called the ‘great chain of being’. This says that God is at the top‚ angels beneath God‚ beneath angels there are humans‚ men above women. There was a similar hierarchy for society. This stated that the King would rule the country‚ men would rule women et cetera. It was seen to be sinful

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    Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ we get the privilege to meet Lady Macbeth who plays a pivotal role in most of the events that occur in the play. We meet her and not think much of her but by the end of the play‚ we dislike her completely. During the play we see her marriage fall apart‚ her mental health deteriorate and whatever good she had in her disappear. We are first introduced to Lady Macbeth at the beginning of Act 1 scene 5 when she is reading a letter sent to her by her husband Macbeth. The letter details

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    Shakespeare’s play Macbeth. Lady Macbeth heavily influenced her husband to do everything she did not have the courage to do‚ or could do not do because she was a woman. In Elizabethan England‚ the only way for a woman to gain any power was through their husbands. Shakespeare very clearly proved this in his play Macbeth when Lady Macbeth manipulates her husband into murdering many people in order for her to gain power. You can start to see Lady Macbeth’s control over her husband‚ Macbeth‚ in the very

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    “How is Lady Macbeth presented as a disturbed character?” In the Shakespeare play Macbeth‚ his wife Lady Macbeth is presented in many ways‚ mainly a controlling‚ cold‚ crazy lady. Here are a few examples of her peculiar behaviour and why she may have behaved this way: Lady Macbeth could be presented as a disturbed character quite early on in the book. In Act One‚ Scene 5 when she has received the letter from Macbeth she immediately starts to plan and take matters into her own hands. She knows immediately

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    Act III we start to see changes in both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the beginning Lady Macbeth had been the brains behind the death of King Duncan. Macbeth was just a puppet‚ getting played by the witches’ prophecies‚ his wife‚ and his own thoughts. We notice how everything is changing among the two. Even though mentally they seem both crazed and distort‚ but there’s some changes that are very different in them. Early in the play Macbeth is known as a loyal warrior. He was the King’s noble soldier

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