John of Scotland

Women Depicted In King Arthur Are women really this self-centered in this story? The book King Arthur and His Knights Of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green is about King Arthur and his knights going off on many quests and taking risks during the journey. The women in this book are portrayed as evil, devil-like, and untrustworthy characters. Women in this book are evil. There are many examples of how women are evil and one example is Morgana Le Fay when a damsel sent by Morgana stated that…

William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth depicts a man overcome with greed for power and authority leading him to kill those who intend on getting in his way of becoming king. Gender roles are evident in Macbeth to emphasize when characters behave differently than society expects them to behave. One of Shakespeare’s first use of gender roles is made known when Lady Macbeth proclaims “... unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full [sic] of direst cruelty” (1:5:31-33). At this time,…

The imagery found through the use of language in Macbeth were as prominent as the numerous horrific deeds done by the villainous Macbeth couple throughout the play. Shakespeare utilized imagery in a way which pushed his writing to the next level while creating vivid images in the reader’s head through the language, and that is why there is so much admiration for him as a playwright and his work. A lot of the imagery in this play were expressed through the concepts of light and darkness, blood,…

Niccoló Machiavelli once said, “Fortune does not take away your reputation if you only squander it, but if you squander your own, that injures you.” Macbeth is a tragic story of how multiple kings are killed due to evil misfortune. Macbeth is the one knig that is not a very good leader and is overcome by fear itself. There are many points in which Macbeth and Machiavelli are related. Machiavelli talks about fear, suspicion, and advantages of others. Macbeth is acquainted with doing all of these…

Alyssa Gardner gave up being queen of Wonderland to live in the human realm, which is where she had already lived all her life. Just when she assumes that she is finally able to live freely, a Netherling named Morpheus comes to convince her to come back to power in Wonderland. He describes the mayhem that is being struck in the other realm by the previous queen, Red. Red is mad with power and wants to destroy Alyssa for stealing her crown. Morpheus deduces that the only way to correct what has…

There’s a very old saying, which is still prominent in our lives, that ''the man, who has no imagination, has no wings''. We are all aware of that. The imagination runs the show. We can't accept the modern literature without it. Shakespeare used it very often and with so much excellence that he brought it to the perfection. Macbeth is the best example of Shakespeare's use of imagination. Macbeth becomes very obsessed, or say possessed with an idea of becoming king that his imagination leads him…

One night, I heard a furious roar from King Xerxes. Earlier, he asked his servants to call for Queen Vashti. His servants returned and told him she wouldn’t go to him. When I heard that, I was shocked. Why did she disobey the king? Did she not know she would be punished? That infuriated the king. He didn’t want Queen Vashti to be queen anymore. The king called his nobles and officials to make a royal decree. A few moments later, it got late and I was placed on a stand near the king’s bed. The…

The theme of nature acting strangely is one of the most important themes found in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Shakespeare often displays the character’s motives through nature acting abnormally. He tends to disguise prophecies using the unnatural. He also uses subliminal metaphors to describe events that are currently happening in the play. Shakespeare uses the unnatural to display the character’s motives, prophecy the fate of characters, and allude towards what is occurring in the play. In Act 1…

In the novel called Artemis fowl written by Eoin Colfer, a young boy named Artemis Fowl II, is an intelligent young man who earns money by committing crimes to earn a living. After Artemis gets a book called “The book of the people” a mystical fairy book, he becomes inspired by the book and as a result, plans to steal gold from the leprechaun’s. Therefore, he kidnaps a fairy named Holly Short who is a captain that works for the lower department of the police called the LEP. This is an…

Research Ideas I want to explore on the white, commercial feminism represented by well-known artists, such as Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Katy Perry, and Jennifer Lopez, in their music videos. While uncovering the feminist ideas embedded in their music, I will try to analyze the similarities among their performances as well as the feminist messages they express. I also want to find out whether their Caucasian identity affects their values and how that contributes to their feminism. In addition…