Fate If someone told you your fate would you take action to change it or let it happen on its own? In Macbeth, WIlliam Shakespeare shows how self fulfilled prophecies of a country through the witches and their visions. For example, the witches influence Macbeth with their prophecies to the point where he wants to know everything possible from them. During this time period witches were the root of evil and everyone was afraid of what they were capable of; yet Macbeth demands “Stay you…
Lady Gaga covered John Lennon's 1971 classic "Imagine" at Azerbaijan's Baku Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremonies of the 2015 European Games. Gaga brought the massive crowd to a reverent silence with her rendition. The Mother Monster was sat comfortably behind a floral piano cascaded in a foliage of pink and purple pastel flowers. She took the giant stage by wowing the crowd with an impressive performance and gave audience a chill-inducing heights on the third verse, when her voice became…
Sunny Ou 10C Discuss Lady Macduff’s thoughts in lines 71-76 in light of the theme of ‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair.’ Consider this conversation she has had with her so, and consider the consequences of her husband’s honourable actions. In this scene, Macduff has left England, leaving Lady Macduff afraid and concerned. Lady Macbeth seems unsure if Macduff leaving England was a wise decision. Lady Macbeth seeks his son, asking for his opinion. Lady Macbeth believes that her husband is…
In T.S. Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, a man begins to reflect upon the decisions in life that he put off; realizing that he’s simply out of time to fulfill his wishes to find a wife and create a family along with many other wants and dreams. In the poem, Eliot uses a series of imagery and metaphors to vividly portray the character and to keep the story interesting and flowing. The poem of Mr. Prufrock is a simple yet vastly complicated poem. It begins telling the story of him as…
musical career, Lady Gaga was born Stefanie Joanne Angelina Germanotta in 1986. Valuing the power of an education, her parents enrolled Gaga in the Convent of the Sacred Heart on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York (Biography.com, 2016). Her memories at Sacred Heart, however, are tainted with the painful memories of being bullied and ridiculed by her peers. “I used to be called a slut, be called this, be called that. I didn’t even want to go to school sometimes,” admitted Lady Gaga in an…
T.S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1917) is a poem that uncovers a man, named Alfred Prufrock, who not only has an unproductive and bleak life, but also has a lack of willpower and boldness to change that life. The poem is not entirely about love, it is a collection of the fragmented thoughts of a man with very low self-esteem and his inability to express his love to the woman the poem is addressed to. The poem is basically about this older man, Prufrock, who is distressed by…
T.S Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” theme is centered around a man who died an unfulfilled life. “And will it have been worth it, after all?” This statement poses the dilemma for the man in the poem, will the choices he made as a preadolescent up to being an old man have been worth it. From passing women to cheap one night hotels, “And will it have been worth it, after all?” T.S Eliot uses a lot of imagery and metaphors in order to write “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”…
showing how his life once again progresses from being happy and full of people but, how by the end ofit he begins to regret never committing to the more important things in his life. It also shows that he is regretting not ever starting a life to the ladies who tried to start one with him and basically just blowing them…
Singer and actress Lady Gaga is speaking out and revealing that she battles with depression and anxiety every single day, but somehow she finds a way to push through these hard times. US Magazine shared that while speaking out to Billboard Lady Gaga shared that this is something she deals with all the time and actually went on to say that the way people are obsessed with cell phones doesn’t help it. Lady Gaga is actually talking because she hopes that sharing will help her fans out. She doesn’t…
Comes Around” by Justin Timberlake. This song is about Justin Timberlake and his lover who cheats on him and he finds out the hard way that she is with another man. In this song Justin Timberlake says “Don't want to talk about it I'm just so sick about it can’t believe it's ending this way” he is sick at the fact that is lover betrayed him and loved someone else. This is similar to Macbeth because, is like the lover who cheater he doesn’t really care that Banquo was his friend, he is a threat…