NHS Scotland

Potter’s face went slack, morphing into a defensive glare which burned Draco with ire, “So still all blood purity with you then? I can’t say I’m disappointed Malfoy. I thought you’d changed.” He had changed damn it! How could he believe in blood purity when one of the brightest witches of our age, and perhaps all time was a muggleborn? “Just a faux pas! I haven’t believed in blood purity for years now. My parents just brought me up that way! I didn’t know any better.” Potter looked soft now as…

Authors apply certain literary devices in their text to engage the reader. By using specific words or ideas, passages have the effect of mystery, tension, and suspense. During Acts 1 and 2, of Macbeth, Shakespeare uses these techniques several times. As a result, the start of the play gives off feelings of uncertainty, and anticipation. The author’s rhetoric created a lasting effect on the reader. Shakespeare’s structural choices create an effect of mystery, tension, and suspense in the first…

The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear, nor more fearful. Thou liest, abhorred tyrant, your heart is blunt. [Powerful] How is sleep once murdered? Does it feel nostalgic my king? Who knew the most powerful man in Scotland sleeps poor. I shall stay up with you. [Dramatic] You cold-blooded, merciless usurper. How could a vermin like you, a soulless, blood-hounding vermin not place the dagger into the heart? My death was cheaply bought. Lest, Macbeth, dark days…

Lady Macbeth's corrupt decision-making and unique character traits correlate to her lack of femininity and symbolize her as xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Lady Macbeth's coercion of Macbeth to killing Duncan illustrates the authoritative power she has over her husband. Her leverage over Macbeth displays her manipulative nature. The metaphor "that I may pour my spirits in thine ear," asserts Lady Macbeth's exploitation of Macbeth and illustrates the immorality of her desires (I.V.23). Her murderous ambitions and…

have multiple meanings, especially in this play. Macbeth is referring to the battle as fair because it was a victory for his side; but, this victory was at the cost of many lives. Also, the Thane of Cawdor had been deceitful, something the king of Scotland, Duncan, considers shameful and would most…

In the play Macbeth, Shakespeare uses power as a motif to show the reader that authority in the hands of someone who is not experienced in their position can lead themselves to their own downfall. During Macbeth’s reign, he goes through a few trials that he thinks will get in the way of his power. Soon after the murder of King Duncan, Banquo becomes suspicious of Macbeth, and thinks that he might’ve committed the crime. With Macbeth’s corrupt mind, he feels that Banquo will be an impediment to…

Macbeth is the story of a Thane who makes himself king by killing Duncan, who was the king. He did this out of a desire to fulfill the prophecy told to him by three witches who declared that he would become king. The three witches also told Macbeth’s best friends that his children would also be kings. Macbeth goes on to kill his best friend, he goes mad, his wife, Lady Macbeth, goes mad, and then she dies. In the end, Macbeth is killed by someone who, as foretold, is “not of woman born,” but…

Would the Residents of Bacon’s Bensalem Approve of Faustus’s Reasons to Study Magic? In Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, and Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus there is a clear disagreement between the morals and values of Faustus and the people of New Atlantis. Both books display what knowledge means to the specific characters. While the residents of Bensalem value knowledge very highly and believe in improving it, Faustus seems more interested in what he can get out of it, and how to he can…

Through Shakespeare’s work, the audience is introduced to many individual characters and all are extremely unique. In Macbeth, Shakespeare created some of the most interesting individuals out of all of his work. Macbeth is different from most of his dramas. Macbeth has different themes all throughout the play but what stands out the most is ambition. Ambition in Macbeth is the important theme that stays constant. There has been debate on whether or not Macbeth and/or Lady Macbeth was the driving…

“Blood Wedding” by Federico Garcia Lorca is an undeniably complex play that uses many alternative religious symbols to convey death, truth, and betrayal in a unique way. The tarot card references in the play are likely the most effective and interesting symbols Lorca uses to translate his literary ideas to religious concepts. The use of tarot cards in Lorca’s work may seem subtle to those who don’t have experience with the religious tool, but for people who can easily identify tarot cards, their…