“Whenever I hear someone arguing for slavery‚ I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” Our sixteenth president‚ Abraham Lincoln‚ said this. Isabel makes many important decisions through the novel‚ but a few were when she took the blame for Ruth at the docks‚ saved Lady Seymour from the huge fire in New York‚ and took Curzon with her as she escaped from her evil mistress. To sum it up‚ everything she did was one step further toward getting back to Rhode Island and her dead Momma
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by the gang members likely influenced his death. Not only was cooping a popular practice in Baltimore at the time‚ Poe was found wandering about the streets near a voting poll where cooping was practiced. He was wearing second hand clothes‚ which were meant to pose as a disguise. As stated by the University of Maryland‚ Poe had a long history with the abuse of alcohol and opiate drugs‚ but he hadn’t consumed any alcohol within six months before his death. Knowing his
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The death of jay Gatsby confirms what we already knew. The American dream is nothing but the hope sustained for the hopeless. Jay Gatsby was never accepted by the east egg people because they were old money – meaning that they were more responsible for their wealth and did not throw it around‚ and he was the new money‚ meaning he was more eager to show off the fact that he was rich. Daisy and Tom and those type of people did not understand him because they did not work for their money‚ like he
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away the citizenship of Jews‚ followed by deporting them to ghettos‚ labor camps‚ and eventually death camps. The question still arises‚ though: who was actually responsible for the Holocaust? Many blame it on Hitler and the German government. After all‚ they ordered this to happen by creating the Nuremberg Laws‚ Jewish Ghettos‚ the "Final Solution"‚ and so forth. "The Jews were trapped in Hitler’s death net" (Chaikin 121). Hitler was the originator of the idea of this genocide‚ and he and his partners
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Macbeth‚ Macbeth is a tragic hero who abolishes himself by his own wicked and selfish determinations. At the beginning of the play‚ Macbeth is portrayed as a brave‚ noble hero of Scotland who has fearlessly won the war. As the story progresses‚ Macbeth soon becomes a tyrant king who is willing to kill anyone who becomes a danger to his kingdom. Although Macbeth is influenced by a number of things‚ his deep desire and character persuades his ambition. The three witches who mention the prophecy that Macbeth
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extent is Macbeth responsible for his own downfall? The tragic downfall of Shakespeare’s Macbeth can be attributed to his forceful ambition which leads him to commit terrible deeds‚ selfish greed and weakness that allows him to be easily manipulated. These influencing factors are nourished and encouraged by the three witches and the deceitful Lady Macbeth. Macbeth’s actions of murdering innocent children and women and his damning act of genocide show that he is primarily responsible for his own demise
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Who is responsible for the tragedy in the play? Othello the tragic hero is responsible for his own downfall due to his imprudent choices. It was the wrong choices that made Othello weak. Othello‚ the main character in this play is known for his moral nobility‚ highlighted by the fact that he is of a different race from those around him. Despite this‚ Iago manipulates Othello into believing that his wife‚ Desdemona had pursued a secret relationship and has been unfaithful to Othello. Othello is
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Who or what is responsible for the tragedy in Othello? In Shakespeare’s Othello almost every character ranging from Brabantio to Emilia is somewhat responsible for the tragedy‚ emotions are also at play in the tragedy. Essentially the main person or later referred to as a “devil” is Iago‚ the fiendish manipulator pulling the strings. Throughout the play Iago jumps at any attempt to sabotage Othello and Desdemona’s relationship and quite literally anyone who gets in his way including his own
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Oedipus is a king who suffers from hubris which leads to uncontrolled anger. Due to these two flaws‚ Oedipus kills his biological father and marries his biological mother‚ as the oracle had predicted. By the end of the play‚ Oedipus gouged out his own eyes and lost his position as king of Thebes. There is no way for him to avoid the Oracle. The Oracle only states what Fate had already decided; Oedipus was destined to commit these heinous acts. Oedipus is not completely responsible for what happened
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Muslim general who is married to Desdemona. Desdemona is a fair‚ young‚ courteous woman who also happens to be white. At the end of the play‚ Desdemona is killed by her own husband‚ Othello. Some would say that she is responsible for her own death‚ the following pieces of evidence support this claim. Desdemona is responsible for her own death because she provoked Othello to want to harm her by being inappropriate with another man‚Cassio‚ who is not only Othello’s lieutenant but a man who is already wed
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