There are many riveting characters in The Crucible by Arthur Miller; Abigail Williams being one of them. Abigail is a fast‚ lying‚ and a cunning girl. She is promiscuous as in fast because she has been seeking John Proctor’s love and expressing her love for him since they had a one night affair. She says "Give me a word John a soft word" (Miller‚ 1953‚ p.1219). John seems to not feel the same way towards her as she feels toward him‚ so he pulls away. Despite John’s feelings she continues to pursue
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Whos Got The Power? It is very easy to see that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are a political power couple‚ Macbeth is the Thane of Glamis and Cawdor. He is also in the running to be the next king of Scotland‚ but is this a case of smoke and mirrors? Could it be possible that the real power player is Lady Macbeth‚ But do with the fact she is a woman she manipulates Macbeth in to doing what she wants? Macbeth’s ambitions are very similar to Lady Macbeth’s ambition‚ but there is one key difference “This
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Who were the Vikings? What do we know about the Vikings? What are the myths and how do we know the truth? Where were the Vikings first discovered? Were the Vikings known as pirates? These are some of the questions that interest me about the Vikings and I plan to find the answers to these questions and many others. My goal in this paper is to learn more about the Vikings to research them and become familiar with who they were‚ how they survived and to learn what they would want us to know about them
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On October 18th‚ 1926‚ a person was born who would change the face of the music industry for decades to come. Chuck Berry‚ born Charles Anderson Edward Berry‚ was considered to be one of the most popular and influential performers of the 1950’s‚ 60’s‚ and 70’s. Even more so‚ he would go on to be known by many as the father of Rock n’ Roll. He had a new distinct sound that people really enjoyed as well as his clever lyrics that made people connect to the songs on a deeper more personable level. Throughout
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to hold the throne. Macbeth kills two guards outside of Duncan’s room to prevent them from pointing fingers at him and his best friend Banquo in fear that Banquo’s kids will become kids (another magical prophecy). Finally‚ he kills
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“Who peynted the leon‚ tel me who?” (The Wife of Bath Prologue line 857).This quote is describing how the lion is metaphorically representing a person in this case women and the who men. Men are the individuals who painted women into their image of how they want them to be. This is what exactly The Wife of Bath is trying to do. According to Mary Carruthers’ article The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions she states how Alisoun has often been characterize as attempting to do away with authority
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There are more than 130 ancient pyramids in Egypt‚ but the three pyramids at Giza dwarf the rest in comparison. Historians and archaeologists have been deeply fascinated by these structures for centuries. Many theories have been proposed in regards to who the people to construct these towering monuments were. A popular theory stemming from the Bible is that Israeli slaves‚ kept in harsh conditions by the pharaoh’s men‚ were forced to haul the giant stones used to construct the pyramids. The scale of
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Who wants to be a Filipino? If you were to be reincarnated and given the choice‚ would you opt to be Filipino again? It was in 1998‚ at a Forum of students of top schools at the University of Asia and the Pacific‚ that I raised this question. As expected‚ everybody‚ except me‚ gave a resounding yes for an answer. Hypocrites! I could see from the way they talked‚ from the clothes they wore‚ from their ideas of what was good and beautiful‚ that even in this lifetime they were dying to camouflage
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audience or influence the way their characters or audience react to their writing. In Macbeth‚ Shakespeare creates three of his antagonists as witches. Due to their mysterious aura to the characters and audience‚ they are able to interact in different ways and influence others. Shakespeare uses humanity’s fear of the unknown to create a lack of trust between the audience and characters and the witches and uses supernatural elements to influence the characters to make amoral
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A passionate‚ self-willed and persistent character yet an in-valid. Vincent Freeman‚ a character in Andrew Niccols film “Gattaca” achieves more‚ whilst being imperfect whereas the perfect not so much. Gattaca focuses on the perfection and the high expectations but not so many achieve as much as Vincent does. In the film‚ Anton Freeman‚ his younger brother has several rounds with him in the game ‘Chicken’ and Anton would win all the time‚ a sudden change occurs where Vincent comes out on top. Throughout
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