The Once and Future King

In response, the king orders for the Thane of Cawdor to be executed and decided to give the title of Cawdor to Macbeth.Later on, Macbeth and Banquo are in the presence of three witches who then greet Macbeth as Thane of Cawdor and soon to become king. The greeting frightens him while Banquo ponders on what his future may hold. After a while, Duncan is eager to know whether the original Thane of Cawdor has been killed…

hateful king anyone could ever meet. Macbeth may not impact many individuals in the beginning, but throughout the story his intentions and actions do more harm than good. In Macbeth, you will realize the desire to be successful and powerful can lead anyone to commit the most dreadful deeds. Macbeth was an extraordinary fighter in battle, the…

misleading Lady Macbeth is. Lady Macbeth’s character starts off as one that is very naïve and sweet but then, she is shown to be cruel and ruthless. This is seen, once Lady Macbeth is notified that King Duncan is coming to their castle,…

During Nebuchadnezzar’s life, he married Amytis of Media. Amytis is the daughter of the king of Medes, Cyaxares. Nabopolassar already had an alliance before, but they had to recreate one when Nabopolassar died. His idea of marrying a lady from a different place was very smart and helpful to Nebuchadnezzar overtime. Once he married Amytis, an alliance was created between Babylon and the king of Medes, who is the father of Amytis and his people, but when Medes started to expand it became a problem…

to Macbeth to analyze his thoughts and decide his fate. He great "Hero of Noble Stature", Macbeth, chose the wrong path for himself; he chose to follow his greed as well as the depraved influences around him. These components lead to his killing the king, killing innocent people, women and children, which is cruel in itself, the loss of his morals, sanity, the loss of love for his wife, and at the end of the day, the loss of his very life. All that he worked for was "reversed as a result of his…

Martin Luther King Jr. In the speeches President Kennedy's Inaugural Address and “I Have a Dream” they have multiple similarities and differences. The similarities are a passion for what they say and how they address a problem they face. A difference is the reasoning for delivering their speeches. Theodore Roosevelt once said, “No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”. This is why passion is a common emotion shown while giving a speech. Mr. Kennedy and Mr. King, both…

with the chance to be King. The temptation of power can cause irrational and irresponsible decisions to be made by those who are tempted. Ambition causes a person to act irrationally and irresponsibly in order to reach their desired goal. The temptation of power can cause a person to act irrationally in order appease their longing for control. Macbeth writes to his wife about his chance to be king of Scotland and concludes that he must kill King Duncan to become the next king. Macbeth is at…

Villefort and King Louis XVI were on top of their game and then all of the sudden, hit rock bottom. Villefort was the victim of The Count’s cruel revenge spree, where he was discovered for treason and eventually went mad. During Villefort’s hearing for Benedetto, he…

The elaborate epic of Beowulf depicts the journey of the Danish nation who struggle with the ongoing destruction caused by old and new feuds and wergilds. Beowulf depicts feuds to be everlasting and easily triggered, because the past controls the present. These grudges result in the inevitability of a feud to continue or reoccur. In Beowulf, the many nations mentioned prove how feuds and wergilds can be destructive physically and morally for individuals and nations. Violence is a way of life in…

fictional town in some of his novels, Stephen King can try to convince you that this place is entirely real with the descriptions of the town and how it could seem like a small, lesser densely populated town. In summation, Stephen King is an all-time great and is someone I do aspire to be as a writer in the future, but this would definitely need a lot of training and teaching to get to his level of writing and story-telling. Finally, “IT” by Stephen King was a novel that changed me as a reader…