Puppet on a String

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” ~ Virginia Woolf. For a spider, the web is the key part of her existence, spun through individual silk, piece by piece it eventually connects together to form a web that provides life for the spider, a new start. Though weaved with care it does have its limitations in strength, weak and miniature bugs will get caught, but the powerful and big will destroy the web. Incidentally,…

Obsession comes in many different forms. Depending on how deep the obsession is and what it is aimed toward, it can be very dangerous. It is “An excessive preoccupation of the thoughts or feelings; the persistent haunting or domination of the mind by a particular desire, idea, or image.” (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary) Many people say they are obsessed with their hobbies or interests, but most of the time they are simply strongly interested in their pastimes. Rarely are people truly obsessed about…

allowed, it would have been almost impossible to support oneself outside of marriage, because the Inca government distributed land only to married couples. The Inca spoke the Quechua language. They couldn’t write, but they used quipus, which were strings with a system of knots attached to them. That’s how they recorded their harvest. Their huge empire has fallen because of an epidemic of smallpox brought to their world be early visitors of Europe. As an effect of this conquest, many aspects of…

Lady Macbeth’s True Malice “Behind every great man, there is a great woman” – (Groucho Marx). This quote interprets that every man with great character has a woman with the same nature supporting him. However, in the ‘Shakespearean’ tragedy of Macbeth, a more fitting quote would be “behind every evil man, there is a more evil woman”. Macbeth was a villainous man with a dark desire to become king, though his desire was suppressed as a result of his kind and innocent nature. His wife, Lady…

All humans strive to appear as if they are the best people on the exterior for social gain and to uphold their good names. The inner conscience may be an entirely different story - a trainwreck- that doubts motives and actions. Reputation is a prime factor that drives the community of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible to the hangings of various innocent beings. Reverend Parris highly regards his reputation more than standing up to the authority. Judge Danforth wrongly condemns and hangs townspeople,…

Maybe I am cursed I have made a habit of hurting people. Mentally not physically. Except for maybe once, but that’s a story to be told another day. Rather they be my closest friend or the girl I love, they always end up being hurt in one way or another. It’s not that I particularly enjoy hurting people, but no matter what I do, those I love get hurt, and I am the one to blame. I like to think of most of the pain I put them through is an accident, that every heartbreak was just a mistaken…

There once was a girl, fettered to a wall ever since she was young. There was no one guarding her, taking control of her, or feeding her, yet she felt no hunger. She would not holler for help or even call out for a savior as she felt as though everything was pointless in the world she was in. Her only friends were the the little sanity she had left and the darkness that kept her hidden from society. The rusted chains simply pierce the thin skin of her wrists ever so slightly as the chains held…

Walter Payton’s childhood Walter Jerry Payton was born on July 25, 1954 in Columbia Mississippi to Peter and Alyne Payton. As a child, Walter spent a lot of time outdoors and playing sports His father was arrested and died in jail. Walter payton had 13 seasons in the NFL and he had only missed one game. He went to a segregated high school. The first time he carried a ball in high school he gained 65 yards. On his junior year his school merged with an all-white school. He scored in every game he…

honest to Paris and not given Juliet the plan to get out of the marriage, Paris might not have been so adamant to marry Juliet. If Lord Capulet would have kept to his word or maybe followed marriage customs, Paris wouldn’t have to follow like a puppet on a string. Finally, if Paris himself had made better decisions like keeping the torch light on, not hiding from Romeo and introducing himself before fighting, he might have survived the fight in the tomb. Sadly these characters display a level of…

Romance, gore, and demonic nuns – it’s Shakespeare with a twist. Though boldly adapted for the modern viewer by Charles Roy, this bracing update of Macbeth maintains the Shakespearian aura. The Classical Theatre Project’s Macbeth perfectly portrays the guilt and the paranoia, the lies and the manipulation. The play takes place as a prophecy is foretold that Macbeth, a Scottish general, is destined to ascend to royalty. Fueled with greed, he and his wife develop a ploy riddled with violence and…