John Chabala‚ Period 5‚ La 11H 12-19-14 Abigail Williams Author Millers play The Crucible. A small town in Massachusetts (in 1692) had a horrific event over a huge witch trial where over 24 people were killed; this eventually became known as the famous “Salem Witch Trials‚” the person who started the horrifying event was named Abigail Williams. As one of the main characters in the play‚ she is a very attractive young lady. However‚ her outwards personality seems to be bitter‚ spiteful and vengeful
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Machiavelli/Macbeth Essay In The Prince by Machiavelli he describes three different ways that a Prince can acquire the throne; these include good fortune‚ merit‚ and crime. In Macbeth by William Shakespeare the reader can conclude that Macbeth obtained the throne through crime only. He does this by influence from the three evil witches‚ betraying his loyal king‚ and setting up the guards. To begin with‚ in Macbeth three witches come to visit Macbeth and Banquo. Well they are there they inform
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to find an appropriate treatment. William Carlos Williams embodied this essence. To have experience‚ to have lost himself in the minds of his patients has given William Carlos Williams the ability to love and care for his patients‚ which is seen throughout his poetry. As many of us know‚ life as a physician is hard. Williams explains a time where he “couldn’t keep his eyes open a moment longer.” However‚ seeing his patient rid the weariness he had felt. Williams states his patient “called for attention
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William Gerald Golding published his first book in 1954 at the age of forty-three. He had a late start‚ but that did not hinder his writing ability. Golding grew up in Cornwall‚ England and joined the British Royal Navy at the age of thirty-nine. Consequently‚ he was in World War II and witnessed the D-Day invasion at Normandy‚ which destroyed his optimism and scarred him for life. William Golding was a well achieved and admired person in British literature‚ and his life experiences‚ including
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Wayne Booth was one of the most influential critics of the twentieth century. He made an impact in American Literature through the combination of the study of literature with the study of rhetoric. His plan was to use a form of rhetoric to persuade an specific audience of a particular argument. Booth would describe his form of rhetoric as the art of persuasion‚ which he would describe as a triangle with 3 different factors. These factors would help anyone put their point across in the right way of
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Bible in question was the official Bible of the State of Tennessee‚ and that this was the King James Version. The defense attorney‚ Clarence Darrow‚ asked where were they to find an expert on the Bible who was acceptable to the court; Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan interjected “I am an expert on the Bible.” This was unheard of‚ a counsel for the prosecution offering to be a witness for the defense! After 8 days of trial‚ in which the jury heard no defense and nothing from neither the defendant
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WILLIAM BLAKE William Blake was born in 1757‚ the third son of a London tradesman who sold knitwear. Blake lived in London which dominated much of his work. He was a British poet‚ painter‚ and engraver‚ who illustrated and printed his own books. He spent most of his life in relative poverty. He was very influenced by his brother’s death which he claimed he saw "ascend heavenward clapping its hands for joy" who died of consumption at the age of 20. He uses the illustrations and engravings in his
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A Southern Setting William Faulkner is a great American Southern writer of modern times. He has won many awards including the Nobel Prize for literature. Although Faulkner stories are different‚ all of them took place in the South. In “A Rose for Emily” there are three things to show this story takes place in a small Southern town: elements of setting‚ social structure‚ and the characters’ name and title. The first thing that shows the story takes place in the South is elements of setting
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British poet‚ who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style‚ Wordsworth focused on the nature‚ children‚ the poor‚ common people‚ and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from "emotion
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Chart Outlining Incidents of Dramatic Irony Example of Dramatic Irony from Acts I & II|CharactersInvolved|Sympathy? Antipathy?|Reason your sympathies lean as they do|Evidence – Lines and Explanation of Effect| Everyone in Denmark thinks King Hamlet died by a snake bite ‚but the audience knows HamletIs aware of his father’s real cause of death.|Hamlet|I feel sympathy|He found out the murderer of his father and he must have felt sad and mad.|Prince Hamlet saw the ghost of his father‚ the old king
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