Although Macbeth is ultimately responsible for his fall from greatness‚ the witches’ prophecies and Lady Macbeth’s manipulation assist in his downfall in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. The ultimate downfall of Macbeth would not take place without the initial prophecies of the witches. His demise is outlined in the suggestive words of the witches when they first meet. They entertain the prophecy that Macbeth “shalt be king hereafter!” (I‚iii‚54). The success of the first two prophecies of becoming
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any mortal man ever asks you who it was / that inflicted upon your eye this shameful blinding‚ / tell him that you were blinded by Odysseus‚ sacker of cities” (IX 502-504). He generates rancor in the blinded cyclops Polyphemos at the result of his boastful speech. Eye mutilated‚ arms flailing (Parallel AbP) Polyphemos curses Odysseus saying; “may [Odysseus] never reach that home
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driving force behind the conflict between some of the characters. Othello was never a jealous person‚ until Iago planted the seed that Cassio and Desdemona were having an affair. This consequently led to Desdemona’s and also his own death. Roderigo was so desperately in love with Desdemona‚ he was jealous of Othello being the one she truly loved. Iago launched his plan against Othello because he was jealous that Cassio was made lieutenant instead of him. Jealousy greatly impacts the play by making
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"To w hat extent was Germany responsible for the First World War." There are many different factors that contributed to the outbreak of WWI. The most important of these are imperialism‚ the arms race‚ the alliance system‚ nationalism and the assassination of the Austrian Arch Duke. Although Germany has a share in the responsibility of these factors‚ she was definitely not the lone cause. Many powerful European nations played a roughly equal part in their contribution‚ which consequently started
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Keep Calm and Doodle On In the article “Keep Calm and Doodle On”‚ by Charlotte Hughes and Scott Asakawa‚ it talks about how doodling in class can be a good thing which is something as a society has deemed as a distraction from learning. The researchers found a study that was conducted in 2009 by Jackie Andrade‚ a psychology professor at the University of Plymouth. In her experiment she had two groups listen to the same “mundane” phone message‚ one group was instructed to doodle while the message
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initially comes to the Friar asking him to marry him to Juliet. The Friar’s original reaction was that he would absolutely not marry them. Romeo was being foolish‚ after all‚ he had just claimed to be in love with a girl named
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an unsteady‚ hard man who might persevere relentlessly just to pick up force. His ravenousness to accomplish more power brought about the cruel killings of his ruler‚ closest companion‚ and other pure residents. Inevitably‚ the deeds’ blame he was submitting showed itself as fantasies which added to the destruction of his matchless quality. With him being sufficiently frail to succumb to his wife’s thirst of force‚ and being the one to physically execute Duncan‚ which makes him exclusively in
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into the antagonist. Two key death scenes further this image of Macbeth: the murder and attempted murder of Banquo and his son‚ Fleance; and the murders of Lady Macduff and her son. Macbeth’s ascension to the throne wasn’t irregular for the time: killing the current king to inherit the throne had happened before in Scotland’s history. In 878 A.D.‚ the Scottish king Aedh was murdered by Eochaid‚ son of Rhun‚ who inherited his throne. King Dubh was murdered by his brother Culein in 967 A.D. For the
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I believe Biff’s theory about his father’s death. Willy Loman “didn’t know who he was” as perfectly stated by Biff. Willy Loman was unable to reconcile the truth about himself and that ultimately killed him. The inability to concede to the reality of himself was the catalyst that brought the necessity for Willy to end his life. Yet before he could he had to know that Biff loved him despite knowing the truth about him. Willy Loman lied so much to disguise the actuality of his existence to the
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this was due to a couple of factors the ambition and desire for complete and utter control of fresh territory and their resources Rome main motives for their pursuit of expansion was Status‚ wealth‚ fresh resources. I believe Rome wanted expansion for ego reasons but mostly economic reasons and while pushing their own culture and of course owning more slaves and prisoners. Roman expansion was a complicated situation we can’t specifically point to one single motive‚ but economic gain was a huge
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