Robert I of Scotland

There are multiple ways to compare and contrast “An Invitation to a Murder” and “The Dying Detective”. Both Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Josh Pachter presented various examples of situational irony. Once revealed that the poison was actually medicine needed to sustain the life of Mr. Abbott, the plot was advanced; similarly, when Sherlock Holmes revealed that the illness he was experiencing was an act, the plot was advanced. Both major examples of situational irony being revealed were the climaxes…

running through his mind. He starts off calm, but slowly gets more desperate and more rapid as he tells about a drunken guard awaking during the murder. When McKellen says, “Methought I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”—the innocent sleep,”(48,49) he has a terrified tone of agony because…

for King Duncan’s death. “ Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done ’t.” although she makes the plan, she can not kill King Duncan because he reminds her of her father. “If this business...toward disaster.” also the reasons on why he does not want to kill King Duncan. Lady macbeth pushes macbeth feeling aside to make the prophecies come true. “I’ll go no more:I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on ’t again I dare not. Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers.” Lady Macbeth…

History can seem very plain, harsh and sometimes very dull when learning about presidential assassinations. In “assassination vacation” sarah vowell explains the incidents in which the presidents the presidents were assassinated, but in doing so she is very humorous and liven these stories up just a little bit. Sarah vowell is an author and a journalist, in which she has written six non-fictional novels that revolve around American History. Five of the novels ended up being new york times best…

Lady Macbeth says in the book after commiting Duncans murder, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A/ soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows/ it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet/ who would have thought the old man to have had so/ much blood in him(5…

Are you Afraid? While both The Landlady and Lamb to the slaughter by Roald Dahl are great stories; both were not scary as they were more creepy. One problem with both stories is that there is a disconnect between the reader and the main characters. In The Landlady, Billy is very naive and always figures things out a little too late compared to the reader, taking them out of the experience. In Lamb to the slaughter the reader follows the killer, slowly losing their mind. While interesting, it…

pushing Macbeth onto his path of destruction when she started insulting him, “[w]ouldst thou have that/ which thou esteem’st the ornament of life,/ and live a coward in thine own esteem,/ Letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would.”/ like the poor cat i’ th’ adage?” With this Macbeth is back on killing Duncan.”I am settled and bend up/ each corporal agent to this terrible feat./ Away, and mock the time with fairest show:/ false face must hide what the false heart doth know”. These actions are…

But I have a feeling that this might be a case involving your little Cinderella." He then was nudged because of his joke. He then remembered the beautiful woman he would fight all the time known as Silver Judgement. He wanted to know who she is behind the…

What I found surprising and disturbing at the same time was a quote from Lieutenant Nun on chapter four, “I ran my sword point through Reyes’ friend-where, I cannot say-and down he went. And so with blood drawn on both side...” (14). I chose this quote because I would never have imagined she could kill someone in action and this is also where she starts to run away from her troubles from the law. Which she got charged with murder. But for Catalina, she has to set aside her feminism and be more…

beginning of the play, Macbeth has his first contact with the witches. This “chance” meeting creates the catalyst for all of the following conflicts. Upon this initial exposure, the witches greet him, “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (I, iii, 52). They provide him with the prophecies that lead him to kill not only King Duncan, but everyone after that. It may have been subtle intervention, but this slight distortion of his goals plant the seed of negative ambition. Because of…