Lay Lady Lay

Macbeth by William Shakespeare focuses on the exchange of power and the lengths people are willing to go on behalf of their ambition. The lead character, Macbeth, faces internal conflict over the immoral actions he commits in order to achieve the witches prophecy and become King. Throughout the play the reader sees the ramifications of the murders he commits on the kingdom as a whole, and on a slew of other characters. Prince Malcolm falls victim to Macbeth's dastardly plans, and flees to…

Faustus in Christopher Marlowe’s play is a conflicting character, his capability of words is tremendous and he is very ambitious, yet doesn’t take a minute to think which makes him a little strange, he is willing to do anything and lose everything in order to get what he wants from Lucifer even if that means he will waste powers that he has gained at great cost. When Faustus is introduced to the reader, he is just preparing to board on his career as a magician, and while we anticipate that…

remorse”. I believe that Lady Macbeth is the truly evil villain of this play. In this play, Shakespeare evoked many negative themes in Lady Macbeth. She had made many spiteful tendencies which leads to her act and avarice to gain the power of the country and the name, Queen of Scotland. By the end of this essay, it will prove that Lady Macbeth is the true villain of this play. In Act 1 Scene 5 “it is too full o’th’milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way”. It portrays that Lady Macbeth…

Shakespeare's greatest villain, scholars contend that the choice is between Iago of Othello and Lady Macbeth of Macbeth. While neither can difinitively claim the prestigious title, both are clever, manipulative, greedy villains who will do anything to further their ends and destroy their story’s protagonist. Iago’s idea of revenge is destroying Othello and causing him the very grief which Iago himself feels. Lady Macbeth’s power hungry scheme to make herself queen ends up killing everyone she…

Skyelar McQuillar Honors Comp & Lit 3A November 4, 2016 Is Being Famous a Faustian Bargain? In the play ‘Faustus’, the main character, Doctor Faustus made a deal with devil. Faustus was very knowledgeable but he wanted more, he wanted black magic. In order to get that he sold his soul to devil for 24 years in return for Mephastophilis as his servant. Faustus signs the contract in his blood and has second thoughts on what he just did. Faustus begins to learn new spells and uses his gift as…

Throughout the whole book, the Tragedy of Macbeth, there are many moments when supernatural activity appears and the belief is that the supernatural elements influence the way Macbeth acts. The book naturally starts off with the witches mixing things up for some of this activity, then skip to the end there is an encounter with a ghost and some apparitions, and these occurrences have affected or caused, Macbeth’s actions violent or not. These elements made him a victim of believing that it is all…

Lastly the Scottish witches the antagonists from the play are portrayed as evil witches who are slaves to the devil. Throughout the play, the witches are referred to as the “weird sisters” by many of the characters lurk like dark thoughts and unconscious temptations to evil. In part, the mischief they cause stems from their supernatural powers, but mainly it is the result of their understanding of the weaknesses of their specific interlocutors they play upon Macbeth’s ambition like…

It was said that the boy actor playing Lady Macbeth fell ill and died back stage on opening night. In 1934, four actors played Macbeth in a single week due to accidents. In 1937, Macbeth had to be postponed for three days after a change in directors and because of the death of Lilian Boylis who was playing Lady Macbeth. In 1954, the portrait of Lilian Boylis also crashed down on the bar on opening night. Finally the play itself…

Alice in Wonderland and Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court The theme of nonsense is common between the two books. In both of the novels, the protagonists are transported to different worlds where there is absolute nonsense. In Alice in Wonderland, some of the nonsense is produced through satire. When Alice visits the Mock Turtle, his education seems to be satirical. Must of the nonsense in Alice in Wonderland is through speech between the characters. For example, when Alice meets…

When I write,I try to capture in words, the half etched thoughts, the unformed silences ,the vaguely understood swirl of emotions all entangled with and undifferentiated from the chaotic images that flash and disappear. When I visualize, I try to capture,in images this time, those half etched thoughts, those unformed silences,those vaguely understood swirls of emotions entangled with and undifferentiated from the chaotic words that flash and disappear. An image, that has never been a word…