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    In the play Macbeth William Shakespeare showed how guilt affects some of the characters in the play and used several motifs to show the guilt. Some of the characters affected by guilt in the play through the motifs of blood, sleepwalking, and ghosts to show guilt were Macbeth and Lady Macbeth The first person who felt the effect of guilt was Macbeth. After committing the murders Macbeth begins getting haunted by the ghosts of the people he killed. On page 101 the text states “‘Thou canst not…

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    Gender Roles In Macbeth

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    aggressive in her state of being. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, color imagery is used to highlight the transformation in Lady Macbeth’s character and gender role. Towards the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth orders Macbeth around to kill Duncan and prevent others from seeings the horrid crime that they committed. By the end of the play, Lady Macbeth tries to become pure and change her colors by washing away her dirty deeds. Her gender role transforms from being very masculine to not as…

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    reasons. I recounted a scene where she got a letter from her spouse, presenting the prediction that he would get to be above all else. Lady Macbeth uncovers that her quick considerations were dull, and primarily comprised of killing the present ruler, Duncan (Coloybell). These degenerate considerations hint at a bothered mental state and, by aftereffects of her taking of Goldberg's test; it has gotten to be obvious that she experiences overwhelming gloom. The reason for this misery is to a great…

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    How does Lady Macbeth demonstrate and lose power in the play Macbeth? How does Lady Macbeth demonstrate power? In the Elizabethan era it is expected for women to be the weaker sex, also for them to be the ones to cook for their fathers or husbands. When they are not married, women - or girls because they used to get married at a young age - they were the property of their fathers to then be passed on to their future husbands, so this demonstrates a sign of weakness. It is also expected for them…

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    Powwow is a celebration of the rich culture and history of Native Americans. “Pauwauing” referred to a religious ceremony for curing the sick and consisted of a gathering of spiritual leaders. European explorers observed this religious practice and dances in the 1800s. The Europeans mispronounced the name for the gathering as “powwow”. This leads us to the pronunciation of the word today and adaptation. Nonetheless, gatherings similar to powwows existed long before European settlement. Dances…

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    prophecy that her husband will be king. She says: “Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.” This quote means that Lady Macbeth is worried that her husband is too pure to consider murdering King Duncan, so he can become King himself. From this quote it is clear that…

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    to see ballet performances were wealthy middle and upper-class citizens. Isadora Duncan believed dance should correspond to the human form and resemble all the gifts and woes of nature. She thought dance should be improvised, free flowing, and liberating.…

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    social and political issues rampant in society play a significant role in its evolution. It began as a revolt against the confining rules of the society and over the years, rebellion has become one of its main features. During the 19th century, Isadora Duncan pioneer of modern dance, used dance to liberate women from the restrictive norms of the Victorian era, to protest against the atrocities in society, both socially and politically, to rebel against the vocabulary of ballet as well as promote…

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    theatrical dance centered on ballet. However, in the early twentieth century, it became fashionable in dance circles to rebel against the strictures of tradition. The first two well-known American dancers to break away from classical ballet were Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis. These two women were created the American modern dance movement of the 1920s. Similarly, a movie or story to tell or show the next generation. The reason is that the new generation will not know and understand the past…

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    The 2016 Fall CSULB Dance in concert took place at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater on November 17, 2016, at eight o’clock. It was a collection of different dance pieces. The following dance pieces: Suite Female Outcome X-Z, #followme, and Love Letter effects consisted of telling a story. This effect was delivered by using space, compositional tools, movement, and production elements. The opening dance piece Suite Female Outcome X-Z utilized background, costumes, dancer’s movements, music,…

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