Lady in the Water

The sleep-walking scene is not mentioned in Holinshed and it must therefore be looked upon as an original effort of Shakespeare's creative imagination. Lady Macbeth had none of the usual phenomena of sleep, but she did show with a startling degree of accuracy all the symptoms of hysterical somnambulism. Somnambulism is not sleep, but a special mental state arising out of sleep through a definite mechanism. The sleep-walking scene is a perfectly logical outcome of the previous mental state. From…

believed to be morally and physically inferior to men. I was never a beautiful, poised, angelic soul whose tongue would never speak in opinion like Lady Macduff; I talk with a more organised, unruly nature that is often seen as unwomanly.…

humorous tune about how her lover left her for a good girl, who turned out to be another cabaret singer. Red faced men and women are chortling behind their hands, pretending to be shocked. I wave down a waiter. Cherry moonshine for the lady, plain soda water for the lady dressed as a man. I let Lily take a few sips to loosen her tongue, then I pull out yesterday’s…

the ballad, as no such gift is mentioned. Both versions printed in Child's collection (A and C*) are very similar. They open with Thomas lying on a grassy hill, when suddenly a “lady gay” (l.2;l.3) appears in front of him. A minor difference is that Thomas is explicitly characterized as “true” (l.1) in version A. The lady is described as luxuriously dressed in both versions. In A she wears a skirt of green silk and a velvet mantle (l.5,6), whereas in C* her velvet mantle is green and beset with…

many people. Rosa Parks was born on February 4, 1913 and died on October 24, 2005 at age 94. Back in the day, black and white people had to be separated. For example, they were not allowed to go to the same school, we're not allowed to use the same water fountain and they were not allowed to sit near each other on the same bus. This is called segregation. On December 21, 1955 Rosa Parks was on her way home on the Montgomery, Alabama boss when she was told to give up her seat for a white man she…

“One more for water!” yelled Mr. H, followed by cheers from the band. It was a dreary Tuesday practice, there was only one hour left until we got to go home. We quickly rushed back to our first dot and got set. Another full run-through of the show. It started to drizzle, then slowly but steadily, it began to pour. The band’s yells echoed off of the bleachers as the drum majors began to conduct, “Dut, Dut! DUT! DUT! DUT! DUT!” The searing bright lights flashed on like the lightning in the sky,…

races dividing them. In Toni Morrison’s short story, Recitatif, there is a constant division of races specifically between blacks and whites. Within this story you learn of two young ladies named Twyla and Roberta growing up whilst the civil rights movement is occurring; and as time goes by racism effects these young ladies more and more until they start to fuse into the racism. In Morrison’s Recitatif she explores the effects of racism causing dissolution between friends, bigotry, and…

the Chinese and what is starting to appear to be most mythological creation stories. The Egyptian for of Darkness was “Nun”, the destructive forces of chaos were found in “Apep”. In Vedic/Hindu faith, “a Golden Germ or egg floated on the primeval waters of chaos”(World Mythology, Willis, Rot. Print 1993) In the Chinese origin, The creator, Pan Gu grew in the darkness of an egg that grows for 18,000 years until grew into existence. The state of Nirvana is alleged to be a blessed state of…

injustice. Additionally, LBJ pressed Congress to pass Consumer Protection Acts, provide aid for Mass Transit, Urban Development, and slum clearance. Another central tenet of LBJ's Great Society was tougher regulation of water and air pollution. Along with help from the First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, LBJ supported both environmental awareness and a campaign for National Beautification. Further, LBJ signed into law the Wilderness Act of 1964 which set aside 9 million Acres of national forest to…

mentioned in one way or the other. For example, one of the first lines in the play is the witches' spell "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" (1.1.10). This theme is also restated in different words in Lady Macbeth's advice to Macbeth, "look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under it"(1.5.72-73). Lady Macbeth advices Macbeth to hide his evil murderous plans under what appears to be the loyal innocent thane. The “fair" flower Macbeth is to resemble is in fact a "foul" tyrant in disguise,…