Lay Lady Lay

Flashback: Pearls and feathers, bobs and glamour! Reality: I was sitting at the very back of my poor excuse of a high school’s plain old, bland “English 4” class in Levi mom jeans, a cropped top, and Chuck Taylors; except I wasn’t. I wasn’t at all. (Take One): Pouncing upon my sister’s Macbook Air, I was on a written escapade away from the Upper West Side’s public school nightmare and, instead, running up and down the catwalk at New York’s Couture’s 1956 Fashion Show! In a riveting, platinum…

Literature throughout time often features characters who are similar for a variety of reasons. During the nineteenth century many works of literature featured characters who were devalued, exploited, or dehumanized and how they achieve or transform status and gain self respect and/or freedom. These works emphasize the importance of the common man. This trend in print could be attributed to the political climate throughout the nineteenth century. This was a time of turmoil as many people began to…

Brayden – Essay T.S. Eliot’s poetry has been described as “a disturbing portrait of uncertainty amidst the turmoil of modern life” this statement is reflected well by Eliot’s poems; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Love Song) and Rhapsody on a Windy Night (Rhapsody). Love Song emphasises this through the portrayal of Prufrock and his thoughts. Rhapsody represents this statement through the repetitive nature of life delineated within the poem. Ingemination a visual representation has been…

Following their weird encounter with the witches, Lady Macbeth reads Macbeth’s description of the events that carried out that day. In the letter, Macbeth states the witches saluted him as the future king, and he believes that Lady Macbeth should celebrate his potential (1.5.8-11). In the letter entailing his encounter with the witches that Macbeth sends to his beloved partner Lady Macbeth, the reader sees that within his words Macbeth has a secret lust for power…

how thing panned out. He didn 't do that though, he took matters into his own hands. He decided to act on his own desires and make his choices. It could also be argued that lady Macbeth led him to the first plot to murder the king and that 's what set the whole story in motion. However Macbeth is the one who killed the king. Lady Macbeth admitted that she could not complete the task, so it fell to her husband. She might have helped him plan the murder but it was not by her hands that the king…

As Macbeth progresses through the three murders, his state of mind deteriorates, and there is lots of evidence that shows the growth of his ruthlessness and thirst for power. When Macbeth and Lady Macbeth decide to murder King Duncan, this is the beginning of Macbeth’s thirst for power. When Macbeth and Banquo first come across the three witches, they hail to Macbeth as Thane of Glamis than Thane of Cawdor and lastly as the King of Scotland. As the witches prophecies begin to come true, this…

In Act One, the first witch explains how she will punish the husband, who is also the captain, of an annoying lady she met. The witch says, “I’ll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day” (I.iii. 19-20). The first witch tells her sisters of how she is not going to let the captain sleep to torment him. The idea of insomnia can be considered a motif…

included an abundance of supernatural elements into his works. The presence and significance of magic is most prevalent in Shakespeare’s play of Macbeth, with the Three Witches and their influencing, visionary powers of dark sorcery and the ostensibly mad Lady Macbeth. The witchery exhibited in Macbeth, (written around 1600–1606), is arguably a reflection of the societal climate of Europe at the time it was composed–An era where witches evoked feelings of major suspicion and panic, yet were also…

Othello: An Empiricist ABSTRACT: Shakespeare, the king of English literature, reached the summit of his power over English. In the art of characterization, Shakespeare has no rival. The beauty of the art lies in its characters. We come across many characters that portray nobility, ire, jealousy, conspiracy, etc. in his plays. One of the fascinating characters is Othello- the portrayal of jealousy and suspicion, an icon of empiricism who digs his own grave. This paper focuses on…

POETRY ANALYSIS Alone by Edgar Allan Poe and Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Do you know what is worse than being alone? It is to feel lonely even though you are surrounded by people. Everyone has felt lonely at some point in their life but not all overcome it. Both of my chosen poems, Alone by Edgar Allan Poe and Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, demonstrate the themes of loneliness and despair. Alone reflects back on the writers past and childhood in a melancholy tone and captures the…