Our Lady of Sorrows

opportunity to influence the world, and did so with grace and passion. The title “Wife of President Franklin Roosevelt” does not do her justice. Eleanor was more than a First Lady and she was more than a wife, in fact, she was one of the most esteemed women in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt dramatically changed the role of the First Lady forever. She was widely mocked and criticized for her active role in politics and her looks, nevertheless, Eleanor Roosevelt believed “no one can make you feel…

the daggers back so she did it herself. She says that next the both agreed to be each other alibi and that they should return to their sleeping chambers. In the morning Macduff comes in with the news that the King has been murdered in cold blood. Sorrow swept the kingdom with the news of the death. Macbeth emotionally admits that he killed the guards all himself, but only out of rage and loyalty to the…

this pushes him to murder the current king, Duncan, in order to complete the prophecies. Shakespeare claims that treason is the most heinous crime against the state and against humanity; he proves this through the punishment suffered by Macbeth and Lady Macbeth along with the disruption in nature…

A sister has to take three oaths: obedience, chastity, and poverty. The main issue for most ladies, is the oath of poverty. One cannot join a religious order with very much debt. However, for most college graduates, being in debt until your 70s is almost a rite of passage. If I received this scholarship I would be able to answer my calling which…

Macdonwald together weren’t strong enough. Brave Macbeth, laughing at Luck, chopped his way through to Macdonwald, who didn’t even have time to say good-bye or shake hands before Macbeth split him open from his navel to his jawbone and stuck his head on our castle walls.” Everyone else had a hard time defeating…

Lady Macbeth is like two people, one before the murder and one after. In the beginning she is a ruthless, harsh, ambitious, cruel, heartless and clever woman with no conscience. She makes her decisions without hesitation or thought of consequences that she may face. This is shown when she reads Macbeth 's letter about the prophecies that the witches have told him about and she decides to murder the King. Lady Macbeth is a manipulative wife who believes that her husband is cowardly and she…

even a parent(s). In Shakespeare’s famous play, Romeo and Juliet, our attention is brought to the intense relationship between the two protagonists, but while doing so we are drawn to their relationship with their parents as well. While reading this three-act play, our attention is brought to three key events that occur between the older generation and the younger generation. Throughout the play, the author touches on the concern Lady and Lord Montague, Romeo 's parents, share for their son when…

The role reversal of Lady Macbeth and Macbeth illustrates the irony of the gender roles set in Macbeth. Lady Macbeth defies her set stereotype and subsequently defies nature. Even nature itself denies the validity of Elizabethan Scotland 's set stereotypes; “He loves us not,/ He wants the natural touch. For the poor wren/ the most diminutive of birds; will fight/ Her young ones in her nest, against the owl”(Shakespeare 4. 2. 8-11). As a woman, Lady Macbeth must be motherly can care for her young…

Good Sir Shakespeare, I am compelled to relate to you how much your literary works have affected my being. Perhaps with well-chosen points, I may be able to produce an explanation worthy of your time. “ Our best intentions mark the road to hell.”-Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet. This haunting quote from your play has impacted me in ways I cannot verbalize. Your play is abundant with comments, quotes, and keepsakes that will resonate within a person and convict them to sway their routines. To…

it was had being the only woman—Also , she is a women of color. A women of color in a profession that is heavily white-male based. In the poem “ no more” the lady in the yellow expresses, “"bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical / dilemma/ I haven’t conquered yet"(pg.59). The lady in yellow is being honest unlike the lady in blue about the struggles of being her race and gender. Over time, women have felt as if they are still being oppressed by racist in society and still…