Scorpion

always wandering around because Curley doesn't treat her well. Unlike in Of Mice and Men, in The Pearl, John Steinbeck portrays women as equal to men by giving Juana a name and allowing her to have an impact on her family. When Kino and Juana see the scorpion, “Under her breath Juana repeated an ancient magic to guard against such evil, and on top of that she muttered a Hail Mary between clenched teeth.” (page 5) This quote shows how Juana actually has a name which tells readers that women were…

According to The Kim Foundation, about one in every four adults currently has a mental illness. Furthermore, 5.7 million Americans suffer from bipolar disorder specifically. Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness in which one experiences extreme changes in emotion, often feeling both elated and depressed at times. In Shakespeare’s famous play Macbeth, the Scottish general Macbeth’s varied emotions can be considered comparable to individuals currently living with bipolar disorder, even…

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In the Shakespearian play Macbeth, Macbeth’s wife, Lady Macbeth, is quite devious and duplicitous in her actions compared to Macbeth. In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth may seem like a delightful wife with kind characteristics. However, as the play continues, we find that she may not be who we perceive she is. Furthermore, Lady Macbeth always has control over her husband and is influencing his actions, making her more evil and malicious than Macbeth. First and foremost, killing Duncan…

Introduction Nissim Ezekiel is a foundational figure amongst the most famous Indian artists, writing in English. The most unmistakable part of his verse is the certainties that even while voicing general human concerns, he remains basically and quintessentially an Indian artist. While he voices like different artists writing in different parts of the world, sentiments like, affection, dissatisfaction, amazement ,jealousy, yearning, aspiration, seek, and so forth, he provides for these emotions…

The Prince is political treatise written by a prominent political theorist of the Italian Renaissance, Niccolò Machiavelli. Meaning: The meaning and general idea of the book shows the behaviour and qualities of a ruler and their goal of maintaining a safe state (status). Niccolò believed that a great prince or king would be full of virtue, fortune, war, art, cruelty, and going for honor and glory, to do everything for their state safety. Although Machiavelli was a teacher of evil, he brought…

It was a cold and snowy day outside when it all began. January 14, 2014; the day that my parents had officially decided to move to Phoenix, Arizona from Detroit, Michigan. This is the day a lot changed in my life. My parents made this decision for a few different reasons. However, the main reason was my eight year old sister, Abigail, who had a terrible case of asthma. Once winter began, she would always start getting sick and occasionally she would even have to spend nights at the hospital.…

Human beings have a tendency to succumb to temptation. We tend to lose ourselves into the desire of temporary fulfillment against our own reason. In Dante's Inferno, Dante discusses the circles of Hell and the sinners that must face eternal condemnation there. The way they lived on Earth determines the condition of their souls. Throughout this story, Dante uses vivid imagery to depict the severity and consequences of sins. In Dante's Inferno, Dante Alighieri shows us how the sinners face harsh…

In the play, Shakespeare creates a complex character in Macbeth that somewhat encourages us to with him. Macbeth’s emotions and reactions are seen to fluctuate throughout the play as he constantly goes through dramatic series of events. In Act 1 Scene 7, Lady Macbeth victimises and attacks as Macbeth, causing him to suffer from manipulation and verbal abuse. In this way, the audience can see that ultimately she is the fundamental root of the following events and Macbeth is solely being loyal to…

It was just another day in the pediatric ward -- the second-year postgraduate student and I were scurrying around the 80-year-old building, monitoring patients. I felt some fleshy thing under my foot. Was it the rat that we saw earlier? I looked down to investigate. It turned out to be the leg of a patient 's relative, sleeping on the floor next to a child with meningitis. I apologized her as I squeezed my leg between her and our typhoid patient, who lay on a mat next to her, in the overcrowded…