Lavinia

2 Moments Moment 1 Act 4 Scene 2 “Wrong Baby Daddy” This scene is right after Tamara has had her child, who everyone believes was Saturninus’s son. However given the babies dark complexion it is easy for them to conclude it is Aaron the Moor’s child. The nurse who helped deliver the baby immediately comes to alert Aaron of this awful doing. Chiron and Demetrius, who happened to be there with Aaron praying for their mothers well being, are outraged when they discover that he, a trusted…

myself a voluntary wound here, in the thigh” (2.1.300-302). The critic Paster argues that “hers is not the involuntary wound of the leaking female body but the honorifically gendered, purgative, voluntary wound of the male. She has bled not, like Lavinia, with a wound that cannot heal, but like Coriolanus…” (Paster, 1989). In a…

Massachusetts on the tenth of December in 1830, and lived there her entire life. Her father served as the legislator in Amherst and her grandfather was the Amherst Academy, now the Amherst College, founder (“Because”). Dickinson had two siblings: Lavinia Norcross and William Austin. Dickinson studied at the Amherst Academy, but dropped out as a teenager. It is said that she rarely went to school because of her emotional and…

On the Great River Shakespeare Festival website, it reads, “Teenagers make bad choices. It was true in Verona in the 1400s; it is true today. For more than 400 hundred years we’ve been telling this story, and we don’t appear to have any desire to stop.” Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona, where there is a violent feud between the Montague and Capulet families. In the prologue, the Chorus foreshadows the plot of the play. (“Two households, both alike in dignity…What here shall miss, our toil…

The pre-twentieth century, a period of tremendous change in America, produced many of the greatest works of literature which immensely influenced the style of most authors today, especially for feminist writers. The first wave of feminism occurred prominently during the pre-twentieth century, where women focused on legal issues such as women's suffrage. There were several feminist poets during this period, such as Emily Dickinson and Phillis Wheatley, that were known for their works regarding…