In most high school English classrooms‚ students read Romeo and Juliet‚ a tragic love story of two young people from feuding families. For them to be together‚ Juliet is forced to take a sleeping potion from Friar Laurence. The play ends in a drastic way when both characters are forced to end each other’s lives because of the power of love has on each other. A question that appears at the end of the story is who is responsible for the deaths of these two-young people. I think the person who is responsible
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All this administration of agriculture required much more careful planning‚ since each farmer had to produce a far greater excess of produce than he would actually consume. And all the bureaucratic record keeping demanded some kind of efficient system of measuring long periods of time. So the Sumerians invented calendars‚ which they divided into twelve months based on the cycle of the moon. Since a year consisting of twelve lunar months is considerably shorter than a solar year‚ the Sumerians added
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Macbeth is a famous tragic play written by William Shakespeare‚ a well-known English poet and an Elizabethan playwright‚ in the 1500’s. Macbeth tells about the downfall of a war hero who chose an evil path to achieve his ambition. Therefore‚ Macbeth is responsible for his own downfall. Although some may argue that he was influenced by the witches and his wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ however it is his choice to act upon those suggestions‚ which he eventually did. So‚ Macbeth is totally responsible for his
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In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ a plethora of complex internal and external factors are put on an even more complex main character Macbeth. At times‚ his actions are questionable and even revolting; however‚ it’s not fair to say he’s a monster devoid of humanity‚ especially in the time it’s set in. Macbeth started out the Scottish play as Thane of Glamis. He was a capable warrior‚ quite possibly the best. At one point‚ it is said that he‚ “unseamed him from the name to th’ chops‚” (I‚ ii‚ 22) which
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couple’s lives‚ but someone is more at fault than the rest. Not because the person wanted Romeo and/or Juliet to expire‚ but because the responsibility that is put on the shoulders of this man during the events that occurred. Here is why. The most obvious suspect of who is to blame is the Capulet family. Besides Juliet they are all immoral characters‚ hating the Montagues for no apparent reason and only loving materially. The thing is you cannot have a feud without two sides. The reason the Montagues seem
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The Downfall of Othello in Shakespeare’s "Othello" Although one may seem sweet‚ innocent‚ and harmless‚ he potentially might just be hiding the beastly side of himself quite well. Shakespeare’s “Othello” depicts the perfect example of this idea of a “two-faced” man using the main character‚ Othello. Othello‚ a highly ranked general‚ starts out as the nicest and most praised man of Venice through most of the play. However‚ his supposedly good friend‚ Iago‚ has a deceitful plan laid out with the purpose
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The downfall of Oedipus or tragic flaw was when his father sent Oedipus to be killed by shepherd as a infant since the prophecy foretold that Oedipus would murder his father and marry his mother. Unfortunately the shepherd did not killed Oedipus but gave it away to a king and queen who cannot conceive a child of their own. As Oedipus gets older he is told he is adopted. Oedipus travels to Delphi to speak with the Oracle in order to learn the truth about his parents. The Oracle response to his question
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Shakespeare’s play Macbeth follows the tragic downfall of a great man. Macbeth was once thought of as noble and valiant but by the end of the play‚ a dead butcher. The murder of King Duncan marks the beginning of Macbeth’s downfall. This is more a result of Macbeth’s vaulting ambition than his belief in the supernatural. However‚ it is Macbeth’s belief in the supernatural that makes him continue on the path to downfall and ultimately lose all his honourable qualities. In Macbeth the witches symbolise
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People tend to seem good and righteous but may actually be tainted or evil‚ and vice versa. Macbeth a bold “Thane of Cawdor” whose loyalty was to Duncan‚ became as evil and corrupted as the witches he talked to. They told him that he would become the future king and as these thoughts pondered in his head it consumed him by which he made the descion to kill the king in order to obtain the throne. In the play “Macbeth” by Shakespeare the theme “virtue versus evil” is developed through situational irony‚
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