accusing others to save her own name‚ or take others down with her. Abagail’s active motivation is her desire to pursue Proctor. Her ultimate objective is to throw Proctor’s wife‚ Elizabeth‚ under the bus so that she is convicted and sentenced to death‚ making her one less obstacle to overcome. This motivation seems pretty extreme‚ so it may lead to the idea that the play is not really about the Salem Witch
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Blanche‚ drunk‚ sits alone in the apartment. Mitch‚ also drunk‚ arrives andrepeats all he’s learned from Stanley. Eventually Blanche confesses that thestories are true‚ but she also reveals the need for human affection she feltafter her husband’s death. Mitch tells Blanche that he can never marry her‚saying she isn’t fit to live in the same house as his mother. Having learnedthat Blanche is not the chaste lady she pretended to be‚ Mitch tries to havesex with Blanche‚ but she forces him to leave by
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“Proceed no further in this business” but his “vaulting ambition” gets the better of him. Macbeth is to blame for what happens after he kills Duncan‚ without him seeing the ghost of Banquo and shouting it out and also without him overreacting at Duncan’s death there would have been little suspicion of his involvement with the murder‚ without Macbeth’s ambition and conscience the play wouldn’t have taken the path it did.
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Gatsby’s Sacrifice Spring 1996 The truth was that Jay Gatsby of West Egg‚ Long Island‚ sprang from his platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God-- a phrase which‚ if it means anything‚ means just that-- and he must be about His Father’s business‚ the service of a vast‚ vulgar‚ and meretricious beauty. So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent‚ and to this conception he was faithful to the end (99). James Gatz was already "about
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and would eventually be a part of the downfall that Winston faces. Another reason why I chose this quote is because of the words that Winston places in O’Brien’s message because he couldn’t be farther away from being on his side. O’Brien is the one who ultimately serves to torture Winston after he has been brought in. To me this quote expresses Orwell’s
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he has the ambition to gain the crown but “without the illness should attend it. She exclaims‚ That he would be great‚ that he would have a high position. Macbeth possessed all the traits that Lady Macbeth wished he didn’t have. He was a smart man who possessed a solid moral compass and did not relish in doing wrong. She claims that she is more daring than he is which is saying that she was more of a man than he was.
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A tragedy without meaning Othello’ is not‚ as the very genre of tragedy seeks to imitate action and life‚ both of which have an inherit meaning. In some ways‚ Shakespeare’s work can be considered didactic as in the case in classical tragedy‚ the hero’s falls arises as fault of a hamartia on his part‚ a fault which plagues humanity. In fact‚ throughout the work‚ Othello is revealed to have many more faults and weaknesses than a man of his stature should posses‚ providing a reason for his downfall
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What factors contributed to the downfall of Othello? Othello’s downfall was a resultant of a combination of interdepended factors. Especially Othello’s inherent flaws of jealousy and gullibility nurtured by his trusted ensign‚ Iago‚ were an important factor leading to the cause of his downfall. His interactions and relationships with the numerous characters throughout the play were also specifically important. In addition‚ Othello’s insecurities about his obvious differences also play an important
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reach out for a better future while the two children lack motivation. In this play‚ she would be considered the character with the least fault of their poverty. Tom is the character most blamable for the poverty that the family lives in since he is an adult and the man of the house. The character that is the most responsible for the poverty that the family in the film‚ The Glass Menagerie‚ faces is Tom the son. He is a young
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Who is Ultimately Responsible for the Tragedy of Macbeth? Macbeth was always a loyal man to his King‚ but when he knew he had the chance to get the kingdom he always wanted‚ he knew that he had to do everything he could to get it. In this play‚ Macbeth shows how he was weak‚ and let people control his actions. His actions and his led to his death‚ which left the people who changed him ultimately held responsible for his death. The three people that were held responsible for the
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