The Sound and the Fury

of a sudden Seyton comes in and gives Macbeth news that his wife is dead. But instead of falling to the ground or running to find her, he says “She should have died hereafter./Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player/told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing” (5.5.20, 27-30). Macbeth shares his view on life. Macbeth believes that this life has absolutely no meaning to it. He doesn’t show any emotion when his wife dies because she was going to die sooner or later. He claims…

Audience Engagement in Macbeth Tragedies such as Macbeth have engaged and fascinated audiences for centuries. Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Macbeth depicts the ill-fated journey of Macbeth, a brave and loyal soldier, who murders several innocent people to become King, and is soon after killed himself. The play engages the audience, which is defined as “occupying and maintaining the interest or attention of the audience. Through the use of characterisation, narrative structure and figurative…

William Shakespeare wrote plays that captivated human emotions and realistic conflicts. During his time, plays could not even be performed or portrayed if the king or queen did not like it or approve of it. William Shakespeare mainly composed plays to try and impress royalty. When he first started writing sonnets, that led us to believe that he was in a love triangle with a young man.He wrote multiple plays such as Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and his most famous love story, Romeo…

in this area of the story where she thinks about the desire to destroy Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, for she goes on later to say, “the water washes away the dirt, but it will never put out the fire of hate that I have for the Khmer Rouge.” It sounds absurd at this point in time, but it seems that Loung would perhaps not have survived the period of time under the communist rule if they did not continuing on executing Pa, for this was the event in which she left the innocence of her…

‘Still I Rise’ by the American, Maya Angelou presents the character of a black woman who is oppressed in the 1970s but refuses to accept this. ‘Disabled’ by Wilfred Owen, however, is concerned with a character who is ‘broken’ after the disabilities he suffers in the First World War at the beginning of the twentieth century. The poem ‘Still I Rise’ is about a woman who discloses that she will overcome anything due to her self-confidence. The line ‘But still, like dust, I’ll rise’ is a metaphor…

It was a Sunday afternoon, not unlike any of the others. April 29, 1945. Almost halfway through spring and there was still snow on the ground. We had just arrived in Dachau, Germany, not more than a few hours ago. The Germans had been out of the area for at least a few days, and we had come to investigate the area and search for a concentration camp said to be located in the area. Truthfully, more than anything, I was curious as to what could be here. I had heard stories about the concentration…

is often used now instead of paints sand, cement, tar, and then the real thing, bought in a store or on the factory, things like those. In poetry, word plays the screen for transmission of spiritual content, acquiring the value of material fact - sound effects. The music eliminates the difference between the tone of the music and the usual noise of life. According to all above, the movement of modernism has influenced the work of many writers of the XX century. However,…

Christian message and white skin that is foreign to them and the missionaries start to alter the their religious views, practices and rooted social customs. “As Okonkwo sat in his hut that night, gazing into a log fire, he thought over the matter. A sudden fury rose within him and he felt a strong desire to take up his matchet, go to the church and wipe out the entire vile and miscreant gang.”…

‘In the early hours of the morning, indeed before dawn had arrived, I was awoken from my slumber by the frantic knocking of a desperate man. Hearing Keene answer the door, and exchanging a few short words with the visitor. Footsteps, which would shortly be revealed as Keene’s, led up to the opening of the door to my chambers. Light streaming from one side illuminated some of the servant’s face, which was withered with age, and eyes crowned by wild eyebrows, bleached with age; his words were…

In earlier eras, fairy tales served as a medium to strengthen feminine nature by contrasting women with extreme beauty or profound evil. Feminine nature deals with an ability women have anatomically that differentiate them from men; childbearing. Although, that doesn 't imply all women must give birth, their bodies are simply structured that way. However, men twisted this idea of feminine nature to take on a different meaning; a meaning revolving around infirmity and submissiveness. Women 's…