The Sound and the Fury

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    moments in the book, sounds were heard in remote areas of house; sounds that coincided with the events of the book reading. A gust of wind, and an opening door revealed that Madeline was still alive. Madeline was exhausted from her resurrection; blood streaked the front of her robes, probably from clawing at the stone above her. She was in the crypt for seven or eight days and was dehydrated, malnourished and going through opium withdrawal symptoms. She was crazed with fury toward her…

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    smelt, at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses.” Although it takes the creature some time to figure out how his senses worked and what they meant, sight, touch, sound, and smell are the first real human traits that he acquires. It is essential that the creature learned how to distinguish and use his senses so that he could continue to figure out the things around him. All human beings experience basic…

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    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…

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    both tried desperately to fend her off. Owen now had in his hands the large rock. The very same one I was going to use to destroy the symbol etched into Abellona’s grave. He brought it down hard onto the back of Katelyn’s skull, the impact, making a sound like an egg cracking as her skull fractured. Katelyn’s head slumped forward, her hair covering her face, and then she fell away from Tucker. Her eyes remaining open and negated when she hit the ground as if staring endlessly into the dark…

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    of another human: and Lali, she of the roguish look and charming smile, assaulted him violently, like an animal. She tore open his cravat and unclothed him before the blue sky. He resisted her with all his might, but she howled and shrieked like a fury and pursued him with all the more vigor for his resistance. He was an honest man; he will not say that he was not aroused. There is an animal within each of them and the calling of the Missionary is to subdue and tame this animal. But here…

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    “Life ... is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” Quoted by William Shakespeare. Why did people like Shakespeare? Who is he? William Shakespeare didn't have a lot of records on him when he was a child, so he is considered a very mysterious man. He is known as a playwright and has written a lot of different spectacular pieces. If William Shakespeare was not famous or well known, life would be very different than it is now. William Shakespeare was born on…

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    William Faulkner was an American novelist and short story writer. He was a well-known famous author, but his dreams of martial glory and a broken love affair were impelled which led him to join the British Royal Air Force. Upon returning home, he enrolled in a few university classes and published poems and drawings in the campus newspaper. Despite coming up short as a poet, Faulkner joined a literary crowd, was famous for his novels set in American South, and won the Nobel Prize and other awards…

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    the door for her. She is yelling at me, but all I can hear are the sounds of cars tooting at each other out side my window. I know what she is saying but I don't want to listen. She always does this. She goes on and on about how she thinks I am depressed, that I need to go out and meet men and then, she brings up my father. He is the one person in this world that I truly loathe and despise. My heart rate speeds up and I feel fury inside whenever his name is mentioned.…

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    Macbeth's Mental State

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    Although Shakespeare utilizes consistent structure in his plays, Macbeth’s mental state fluctuates so that by the end of the play, it is questionable if he has any desire or purpose of life. After Macbeth is dispatched that his kingdom will become invaded, he hears a cry of a woman. Macbeth’s mental state had been in a decline since he was convinced by Lady Macbeth to kill Duncan. He is not shocked at all by the cry and states, “I have almost forgotten the taste of fears”, confirming that his…

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    The Haunted House Suspense

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    fears. The narrator feels compelled to pace back and forth a behavior displayed earlier in Roderick. When Roderick appears at the narrator 's door and his slightly erratic behavior correlates with the odd happenings outside the house. An “impetuous fury of…” wind starts to collects oddly around them which almost lifts them off their feet,some vapors agitates off in the distance and objects around them start to glow in a percurial “...unnatural light...which [hangs] about and enshroud[s] the…

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