Lady Macbeth is a character in Shakespeare’s Macbeth (c.1603–1607). She is the wife to the play’s protagonist‚ Macbeth‚ a Scottish nobleman. After goading him into committing regicide‚ she becomes Queen of Scotland‚ but later suffers pangs of guilt for her part in the crime. She dies off-stage in the last act‚ an apparent suicide. The character’s origins lie in the accounts of Kings Duff and Duncan in Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587)‚ a history of Britain familiar to Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s Lady
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Oh Laura! What symbolizes fragility better than someone who is crippled‚ and extremely shy? In his drama‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ Tennessee Williams uses Laura’s character flaws‚ such as her disability and shyness to communicate the drama’s theme that fragility hides you from the world. Laura’s physical defect causes her to hides from the life outside her tenement. A comment from Jim‚ about the unicorn figurine‚ describes Laura’s life exactly. “Poor little fellow‚ he must feel sort of lonesome
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Baltus Van Tassel - She was the father of Katrina Van Tassel‚ a contented and liberal-hearted farmer. • Brum Van Brunt - He was considered as the hero of the country round‚ his nickname was Brum Bones. Bones was famous for his skills in horsemanship. Plot • Exposition
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The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James Apparently the fiction of Henry James appears to be about people at the center of high society. On closer examination‚ many of James’s characters struggle to enter high society from less fortunate backgrounds. A repeated theme in Henry James’s fiction is the culture clash between Americans and Europeans. As an American who spent most of his life in Europe‚ he was well-placed to see the contrasts between these two cultures. For example‚ his novels Daisy
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The IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov‚ who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta‚ and so was fairly at home there‚ had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney’s pavilion‚ he saw‚ walking on the sea-front‚ a fair-haired young lady of medium height‚ wearing a béret; a white Pomeranian dog was running behind her. And afterwards he met her in the public gardens and in the square several times a day
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Lady Macbeth Essay I am going to do an essay on a play called Macbeth‚ written by William Shakespeare. The play is a tragedy‚ believed to have been written in 1611-12. The play is about a man named Macbeth whom‚ at first is a kind‚ tender man who later gets tempted by three foul witches to commit a murder in order to become king. Macbeth’s wife‚ Lady Macbeth is thrilled by the prophecies given by the witches and is eager for Macbeth to commit the murder. Macbeth disagrees with his wife greatly
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written in the 1880s and extensively revised in 1908‚ The Portrait of a Lady is often considered to be James’s greatest achievement. In it‚ he explored many of his most characteristic themes‚ including the conflict between American individualism and European social custom and the situation of Americans in Europe. James proclaimed that “The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent reality.” Plot was for him but the extension of character. The novel must show rather
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Fear is defined as a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger. This emotion is expressed immensely throughout the novel‚ The Plot Against America. By reading the first paragraph‚ the reader can’t imagine what horrifying events could lead one to have such a fear. "Fear presides over these memories‚ a perpetual fear. Of course no childhood is without its terrors‚ yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn’t been president or if I
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True Love Blossoms Out of Infidelity Infidelity. Love. Innocence. These are all the things encountered in the story “The Lady with the Dog‚” by Anton Chekhov. The story is about two married people; Dimitri Gurov and Anna Sergeyevna; who have an affair and fall in love. The distorted ethical code portrayed by the main character Gurov is bewildering. True love has altered Gurov’s perception of women‚ and changed his perception on what love really is. The story begins with Gurov alone on vacation
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allowed to speak about‚ and the ways we were spoken of. Having learned our linguistic lesson well‚ we go out in the world‚ only to discover that we are communicative cripples -- damned if we do‚ and damned if we do not. If we refuse to talk “like a lady”‚ we are ridiculed and criticised for being unfeminine. (“She thinks like a man” is‚ at best‚ a left-handed compliment.) If we do learn all the fuzzy-headed‚ unassertive language of our sex‚ we are ridiculed for being unable to think clearly‚ unable
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