Division III

In Act 2 Scene 2 of Macbeth, Macbeth returns to Lady Macbeth after killing Duncan. He is traumatized by what he had done and tells Lady Macbeth of his fears about the guards awaking. In Trevor Nunn’s Macbeth there is almost no set or props, which makes the choices of the actors even more vital in being able to express what Shakespeare wanted conveyed by the characters. In Trevor Nunn's adaptation of Macbeth, Sir Ian McKellen’s use of volume and tone in his portrayal of Macbeth conveys Macbeth’s…

“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”, Eleanor Roosevelt. Throughout the story, the characters puts responsibility into their own hands and have guilt eat at their souls. Lady Macbeth is equally responsible as macbeth of the murder of king Duncan. “When Duncan is asleep...who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?(pg Act 1,scene 7,pg3) She makes the entire plan up to…

Surviving Tabora Home was a peaceful place for most of us, but in my ride there was no place to call home. So don’t be afraid as I tell you my journey… no wait wrong word I would say, nightmare. It all started like this, I saw the orangish, brown rust tint of the letter T bulging out of the sign as we rumble down the road. ‘KAMBI TABORA’ which means ‘camp tabora’ in english which is a popular town overtaken by those republicans. Bump, rattle shake are the only noises we hear when we enter…

What Is the one thing you’ve always wanted? What extents would you go to in order to obtain it? How far are you going to let your ambitions take you. In Williams Shakespeare's play Macbeth, unchecked ambition is a reoccurring theme that causes much turmoil. Characters like Macbeth and Lady Macbeth often have to make decisions based on morals and their ambition for power. We will see how Macbeth's ambitions will lead to murders, suicide, and guilt. In this story, Macbeth’s ambitions lead him to…

The Assassination of JFK was hugely significant to New Zealand as where the events that followed it. The significance of the event can simply be determined by the importance of the event. And how people perceived the event. Internationally, New Zealand’s people saw that the assassination of JFK as huge event that deeply affected people at the time. Some accounts, record information such as “the importance she felt… that she was able to follow an world event for the first time”. This account…

In this essay I set out the background of the Battle of Hastings and discuss whether three of the criteria of what constitutes a just war were met. Background The Battle of Hastings occurred on the 14th of October, 1066, and was fought between the Normans (French) and the Anglo-Saxons (English) in the south of England. The battle went from dawn until dusk, and consisted of approximately 17, 000 soldiers (10,000 French and 7,000 English). The French also had horses, and so outnumbered the…

the English throne. The series of wars were named many years later after the supposed badges of the two parties: the white rose of York and the red rose of Lancaster. The two houses claimed the throne through the descent from the sons of Edward III. Because the Lancastrians held the throne since 1399, the Yorkists may have never pressed a claim but for the near anarchy in the mid-fifteenth century. In 1422 Henry V died therefore Henry VI took the throne. During…

The importance of Ophelia’s blossoms is more recommended than characterized. Each blossom has a big range of implications and a person must consider the implying that best fits the setting of the play. In any case, the blossoms scene is a lovely scene in Hamlet; it and the blooms themselves hold further implications. Woman Macbeth is the concentration of a great part of the investigation of sex parts in Macbeth. As Lady Macbeth drives her significant other toward killing Duncan, she shows that…

Prophecies Richard III was a play written by William Shakespeare and it focuses around Richard and his scheme to take the throne for himself by killing members of the royal family, his family, and others who would oppose him. The entire play has prophecies and curses through dreams foreshadowing future events. In this essay, I am going to analyze why there are so many prophetic dreams and curses and how all the prophecies impact our experience of the play. There are three times where dreams…

In the early Middle Ages, the code of chivalry unleashed multiple facets which defined a certain tone and audience. These facets differed by containing absolute masculine tones and others that were more feminine. Two stories that interpret the different concepts of the code of chivalry, are The Song of Ronald and the Lancelot Story. The Song of Ronald was written down around 1100, by when the chivalry code had an absolute male entity, where the knights gave their lives to the king, and fought…