Jayanthi 1! Sishir Jayanthi Mrs. Eve Itaya H. English 10 P.2 14 February 2015 Mental Deterioration Shakespeare uses the motif of mental deterioration to convey the point that achieving one’s ambitions through malicious deeds can cause psychological collapse. Psychological deterioration through wrong doings is first evident before Macbeth murders Duncan. “Is this a dagger I see before me” (cite). Macbeth questions himself‚ before he is about to kill Duncan; it could be interpreted that whilst the
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The State of Mind: Symbolized Motifs and Symbolism in “The Great Divorce” Everyday there is a sun. The sun rises and the sun sets. When the sun rises there is a beautiful glow to it yet very few watch it rise because it is so early. But when it sets many people think of it as the end of the day and fantasize on its romanticism into the night‚ pondering on achievements throughout the twenty-four hour time period. The sun is a symbol of life. Much like the sun‚ the symbols in the Great Divorce are
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Motif Analysis: Blood Blood is everywhere in Macbeth. The very first scene of the play starts out with a captain speaking of the blood spilled at the battle between the Scots and the Norwegians. Those this is the first instance of blood; blood plays a much bigger part in Macbeth. Blood stands for the guilt that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth feel throughout the play. While Lady Macbeth is planning the murder of King Duncan‚ she calls upon the spirits of murder to‚ "make thick my blood; / Stop up the
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Michaela Barney Mr. Ried AP English 21 October 2011 Douglass: Motif of Animals In today’s society‚ almost all people are seen the same way‚ people have faults about them and have different traits‚ but all are considered human‚ men and woman are able to hold the same positions and jobs‚ and people of all races are able to live together in society. Frederick Douglass was born‚ and raised‚ a slave in the 1800s; life was very different‚ African Americans and white Americans were not
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General George Washington had long since retired public life when he was elected the first president of the United States. Based on the account of “The Reluctant President”‚ Washington was most likely to be a humble and fair president. He consistently resisted praise or grandeur celebration on his behalf‚ readily defended his motivations as president‚ and took care to set a clear precedent for the future. Washington was quoted as saying‚ “after this is over‚ I hope you will give yourself no further
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The fall of a King with a Bloody Past In the play Macbeth‚ Shakespeare uses the motif Blood‚ to describe the theme of moral ambiguity. Through a series of prophecies‚ Macbeth kills and lies his way to being King of Scotland. The theme moral ambiguity is shown when Macbeth is being rewarded for his bad deeds. At the same time the people Macbeth is attacking are being punished for doing the right theme. Moral ambiguity supports the phrases fair is foul‚ and foul is fair. In the end Macbeth has done
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Pride and Prejudice Themes and MotifsTHEMES Class Class is the target of much of the novel’s criticism of society in general. Austen makes it clear that people like Lady Catherine‚ who are overly invested in their social position‚ are guilty of judging that a person’s social rights are strictly defined by their class. Other characters‚ like the stuck-up Mr. Collins and the scheming Caroline‚ are depicted as thoroughly empty‚ their opinions and motivations completely defined by the dictates of the
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homosexuality‚ but Rubin also suggests that “homosexuality does more in ‘Paul’s Case’ than describe its protagonist’s nature” (Anders 54). What are Cather’s reasons for writing in Paul’s potential homosexuality? Rubin offers insight in The Homosexual Motif in Willa Cather’s “Paul’s Case.” Cather illustrates “the tragic consequences of the conflict between a sensitive and hence alienated temperament‚ on the one hand‚ and a narrowly ‘moral‚’ bourgeois environment‚ on the other” (Rubin 131). He then mentions
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Blood Throughout Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”‚ the motif of blood is a reoccurring motif. Blood is used everywhere in Macbeth‚ the beginning in the battle field scenes all the way to the very end. The words ‘bloody’ and ’blood’ are repeated on almost every page. This draws importance to the motif. The motif of blood plays an important factor in the framework of a major theme. It leads us into the theme of guilt‚ which is how Macbeth and his wife Lady Macbeth feel throughout the whole play. It also
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For my essay I chose to describe the light and dark motifs in "Romeo and Juliet". A motif is a term used to describe a passage in literature that has more than one universal meaning. It is used when a character or narrator is comparing one thing to another. For example the light motifs represent light things such as goodness‚ while dark motifs represent dark things such as death. One light quote from the story is during the balcony scene when Romeo is talking about Juliet. He says "It is the East
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