The Bloody Hand

Fate and Shakespearean tragedy go hand in hand, in that things never work out in the favor of the main character. Be this fate met by the characters own action or the affect of another, it stands true that their destiny is not one to be desired. This remains the case in the unfortunate story of Macbeth and the play follows the main character in his fall from grace. Through the influence of the three sisters, Macbeth is awakened to his fate as King; however, Macbeth’s free will ultimately allows…

he First Battle to be fought on the North side Also known as the confederate side, has taken place and has had a bloody loss of over 22,000 casualties with more to count. Not only has this battle been named, Battle of Antietam, it is also called Battle of Sharpsburg. The two men chosen to lead the armies were General Robert E. Lee head of the Confederate army and General McClellan leading the Union. It began with Lee looking to make Maryland a Southern state. He also wanted to make a big blow to…

A dead cat, a bloody shirt and a field trip. Why, Honey? is a short story written by Raymond Carver. The story tells about a mother who's writing a letter about her son, who is a governor. In the letter she describes how her son had become the kind of person he is. The text consists of fear and long-lost trust alongside with the mother's various claims of the son. The author shows how some people can turn into something very different than what expected and how not trusting someone can change…

camps in Culpeper County and headed south toward the Rapidan River fords. They fought in the dense thickets known as the Wilderness of Spotsylvania against the Army of Northern Virginia. Over the course of two days, the armies fought an extremely bloody battle, introducing a new era of violence in the war in the East. Grant suffered some 20,000 casualties in the Wilderness, nearly twice as many as Lee, but his troops had not lost hope. They cheered their new leader when they were given the…

Dictionary.com defines the word honorable as “In accordance with or characterized by principles of honor; upright” and defines the word corrupt as, “Guilty of dishonest practices, as bribery; lacking integrity; crooked”. Both of these qualities are found in characters in the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. I believe that Mark Antony is the most honorable character in the play. I also believe that Cassius is the most corrupt character in the play. I believe that Mark Antony…

words. Riding a horse, Hrothgar led the warriors through tight paths and over tall hills. They passed by the homes of water monsters until they found the entrance to Grendel’s mother’s den. The warriors found Aeschere’s head alongside this lake, where bloody water boiled. Many sea monsters swam beneath the surface of the lake. Some even sat along the cliffs above the lake. When one of the warriors sounded a battle horn, all of the monsters went to hide. When a Geatish warrior decided to strike…

color of flowers she would like but she wanted so surprise her. At the grocery store you get some red roses, her favorite. You're now driving home and pull into the driveway. You walk into see your daughter lying on the floor, all bloody, with a bloody knife in her hand. A note is next to her, you read it crying. It says, “I'm sorry, I couldn't…

The culture, music and history of the Celts in Ireland has influenced and created the modern era of Celtic rock and punk music. This paper will discuss the origins, development and instruments used in Celtic rock and punk music and give a view into how the culture, traditional Celtic music, and history has influenced them. Ireland has a long history and has been inhabited since about 500-300 BCE, but for this paper, the late 19th century and 20th century will be the focus (Hast, Scott, 20).…

years later, she wrote The Bloody Chamber (1979), which contained re-writings of “The Blue Beard,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Erl King,” “Puss in Boots,” “Snow Child,” “Sleeping Beauty” and “Red Riding Hood.” Critics such as Patricia Duncker in “Re-Imagining the Fairy Tales: Angela Carter’s Bloody Chambers” (1984), Robert Clark in “Angela Carter’s Desire Machine” (1987) and Avis Lewallen in “Wayward Girls but Wicked Women?”(1988) criticized Carter’s Sadeian Woman and The Bloody Chamber as a…

Henry was fair, but the churchmen were not fair, they wanted to invade, even if the cost was a bloody war. Henry wanted to know how people think about him, therefore he took off his costume and wore another, so that says that Henry didn't have pride that he was a great king but he wanted to know how his soldiers think of him.…