Yuran Liu English 1A Professor Wills Justice The Statue of Lady Justice is often placed in front of a courthouse. Lady Justice has often been described wearing a blindfold and holding a scale and a sword. The blindfold represents that justice is measured without favor or identity. The balance represents fairness and equality. The sword represents punishment. Lady Justice symbolizes that all people are equal in the eyes of the law. Some people wonder what is justice and who makes the laws of
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Circus Lady Circus lady is a play by Jason Miller. The play takes place in an apartment in a Puerto Rican ghetto in Bronx‚ New York. The apartment faces the streets. The apartment is really messy‚ and everywhere lays clothes‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ and empty TV-dinners. The furniture is dirty‚ and covered in dust‚ and a smell of pet shop is filling the apartment. There are cockroaches everywhere. It is actually one of the first things we read‚ so we have already some pictures in our heads.
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from me‚ I still see nobody. I’m started to get extremely curious as Macbeth continues to shout at an empty chair. “If thou canst nod‚ speak too. If charnel houses and our graves must send” As Lady Macbeth attempts to control her husband‚ I start attempting to piece everything together. Lady Macbeth claims that her husband has had
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Comp 111-B 81 Foley No Resurrection Sylvia Plath’s poem Lady Lazarus‚ signifies her struggle with life through suicide and resurrection. While the tone of the poem is quite morbid‚ the theme of death throughout the poem is portrayed in a positive manner. Some may argue that the poem illustrates resurrection‚ but in actuality‚ it depicts the writer’s wishes to be dead‚ and a lack of wanting to try and make life work. The author makes many references to killing herself and it comes across
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How do the writers present the narrator of the poem‚ Lady Macbeth and Macbeth as being disturbed? 1. It also mentions the beauty of the poisons and the death and how the narrator wants to see the woman painfully die in front of her husband. This links to Macbeth as they find the preparation of the persons death as well as the final act of killing them‚ a big thrill. The idea of pain and terror excites them and they feel that what they are doing is for the ’greater good’ of themselves so to say
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"The Lady or the Tiger" is a story describing the rejected relationship of the semibarbaric king’s daughter and her lover. The semibarbaric princess had fallen in love with one of the king’s courtiers. After the king found out about their hiddent relationship‚ he cast the youth in jail‚ awaiting for his trial in the king’s arena. The king’s trial was where the youth had to go to an arena. He had to pick between two doors‚ behind one‚ awaited a tiger‚ behind the other‚ a lady. If he picked the door
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Reading Response/Analytical Task Explain how the writer‚ Angela Carter‚ has created the gothic in the text and how she has subverted (to do the opposite of) it? How effective is this text? In the story ‘The Lady of the House of Love’ Angela Carter uses gothic elements like using the themes of supernatural‚ a prophecy‚ setting‚ a damsel in distress and tyrannical figure. The theme of supernatural/inexplicable events is very prominent in this story. The protagonist is a vampire who is a creature
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Lady Macbeth’s Influence On Macbeth In the play The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ many characters played a role in the murder of King Duncan but Lady Macbeth is responsible for it all. In the beginning of the play Lady Macbeth reads Macbeth’s letter. After she reads the letter she looks up and essentially says‚ “I am worried that you don’t have what it takes to be the King. You lack what it takes; you want to be in power but you cannot get the things done that are called for. Hurry
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover‚ written by DH. Lawrence was first published in 1928. The novel follows around the protagonist of the story‚ Lady Constance Chatterley. The story is about how this woman‚ who is trapped in a loveless and almost sterile marriage‚ finds emotional and physical love with the gameskeeper of her husband’s estate. As a story about the relationships between men and women‚ I find this book a very nice read‚ but with Lawrence also using this novel as a way to show his readers the
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“What had he done to make him fly the land?" [repeats‚ louder with cracked voice] “What had he done to make him fly the land?" (page no.) And what did I do to make him flee this land? [shaking head‚ is emotional] Fearful of Scotland’s happening and future. Oh‚ Scotland. Your monarchy so heinous‚ so damned‚ so feared that your men are fleeting images of the past. Gone with the wind that was a torrent of darkness among the blustery trees. Gone without a thought of kinship; to family nor duty. I should
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