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    stream. Bernadette couldn’t go through the water because she had a cold. While Bernadette's two friends went through the water Bernadette was visited by a beautiful lady. The beautiful lady said she was the immaculate conception and Bernadette didn’t know what that meant. Saint Bernadette told her mother about this and she didn’t believe her. Eventually, after bernadette visited the lady multiple times, a crowd would form and watch her talk to the Lady. Once the government saw this, they told…

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    the character Lady Macbeth who gets caught up on her husband Macbeth’s future position at the throne. Her desire to make Macbeth the King of Scotland as soon as possible resulted in the occurrence of many mistakes including a few deaths. Using this as a central focal point for his novel, Shakespeare displays Lady Macbeth’s transformation beginning from her conquest to power to her unexpected suicide as a result of her assertive ways and her actions as an accomplice in murder. Lady Macbeth…

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    has a prerequisite to please his audience, in this case by demonstrating the triviality of Victorian society and the overvaluing of appearance within it, although this is partially concealed by a thin veil of humour. In contrast, as a modern author Waters is able to be more forthright…

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    wouldn’t fit in the Elizabethan society? A woman like Lady Macbeth from the “The tragedy of Macbeth” by Shakespeare. Shakespeare lived in England during the Elizabethan Era: where the ruler of the kingdom was a woman: Queen Elizabeth. You would think “since the queen is a woman, then women should be considered the same as men and have the same rights”. But, even if it’s hard to believe, women had a really limited role in the Elizabethan society. Lady Macbeth was written to go against the biases…

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    Only This In a cottage in the countryside there was an old lady sleeping, as she was restlessly sleeping she heard a noise in the distance. The old lady had waken when the noise was just a little rumble, and eventually she got up and prayed for her son's safety. While she was sitting in her armchair the old lady, heard the bombers planes grow louder and louder overhead. The bombers soon left and the lady rested her eyes but did not sleep, and she thought she heard a voice; the voice of her son…

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    Theory. The short-story is full of vivid descriptions with true meanings that may slip through the reader's mind during their first reading. As revealed at the end of the story, the woman and her husband are getting a divorce. Also stated, the American lady ruined her own daughter's relationship forcefully. Prior to the reveal of these events, they are foreshadowed through the description of the setting. The short-story…

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    a boy goes to a town he's never been before for work and he finds a bed and breakfast run by a what seems to be a sweet old lady. Dhal builds a sense of foreboding by making things sound like it's too good to be true to stay at the bed and breakfast. The land lady was brining him to his room and was having a conversation with him. Then Roald Dahl wrote what the land lady said " but the trouble is that I'm inclined to be just a teeny weeny bit choosy and particular - if you know what I mean."…

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    saw few ladies from the nearby village, filling water. The water was cold and the day was sweaty, giving me immense pleasure to swim. I am a water baby. I did not notice the minutes passing by as I kept enjoying in my water world. After quite a while I noticed, all the ladies had left, apart from one. She was smiling at me. I swam to the bank and rested myself on a rock. What started as a general conversation, ended up or rather started a new friendship that I hadn’t imagined. The lady…

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    described above, are Lady Macbeth from William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ and Curley’s Wife from John Steinbeck’s ‘Of Mice and Men’. They are prime examples of this because firstly, their names are not revealed throughout both texts but they were polar opposites of the average women in both of their times. In the Jacobean era, when ‘Macbeth’ was written, most women were portrayed as care givers and loving mothers, were religious and followed their husband’s orders. On the other hand, Lady Macbeth…

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    Both Lady Macbeth and Macbeth took part in killing Duncan, King of Scotland. Both of the characters were responsible in some way. Macbeth is to blame because he is the one who took Duncan’s life. However, Lady Macbeth is the one to be more responsible than Macbeth for the murder of King Duncan. She managed to “decipher” Macbeth’s ambitions through his letter and came up with the plot of murdering Duncan. Also, if it wasn’t for the looks of Duncan whom resembles Lady Macbeth’s father, Lady…

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