The Sound and the Fury

‘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…

amount of weapons have taught me proper technique, etiquette, and formality when using, or around others using firearms. While becoming comfortable with and around guns is a lifestyle where I am from, becoming to comfortable around them, as you will sound find out, can turn into a dangerous nightmare. On August 20, 2016 I…

The witch 's chant set the tone of the rest of the play. Macbeth can must now be more careful since he will now face more hardships than before. This quote is ironic since it sounds almost like a nursery rhyme yet it warns about much darker thing to come. 20) “Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.” (IV,i,90-93) This quote was spoken…

your day or scorching heat from the sun that creates a whirl of fury inside of you and explodes every now and then. Would this ruin your life as you see it or does it describe you plainly and this is how you may act sometimes. This is the plain truth for which the characters live in, in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. In The Great Gatsby, the weather has a direct correlation to the characters…

There were scratches etched into the walls, as if some poor man was dragged down the passage by Ijnala. The light grew brighter, and the sound of a liquid flowing became audible. When we reached the end of the tunnel, a cavern lay before us. Shadows, cast by large rocks jutting from the walls and ceiling, encased much of the room in darkness. However, streams of lava squeezed through cracks…

Douglas Presnell Music 308B 14 Feb 2017 Count Durazzo and the Reformation of Italian Opera My grandson recently asked me about my past adventures when I was younger. I decided to tell him about the time I snuck into the cast party for the ballet Don Juan, ou Le Festin de pierre. It was 1761 in Vienna. I wanted to meet the creators of that ballet to try to see if I could be in one of their productions, so I pretended to be one of the stage workers to get in. Thinking back on it, it was a…

In both Shakespeare 's Macbeth and Shelly 's Frankenstein, Macbeth and Victor are both represented as very ambitious men. Macbeth and Victor have complicated ambitions that they both achieve but in very crucial ways. Macbeth 's ambition is to become the king of Scotland whereas Victor 's ambition is to reanimate the dead. However, both of the stories took place in very different time periods Macbeth was written it the 17th century when religion was very important whereas Frankenstein was written…

Before ENG 202, which was my first college-level English class, my general conception of “English” as an academic discipline was different. For instance, prior to this my general conception of “English” essentially revolved around reading and writing comprehension skills. In fact, in high school I spent a lot of time analyzing different forms of text like novels, poems, and photos, and then writing about them. When analyzing these texts the teacher had us focus more on theme, tone, and…

Out, out, brief candle! /Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, /That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, /And then is heard no more. It is a tale /Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, /Signifying nothing." (IV.IV.19-28) This soliloquy is perfect for showing the repercussions of unchecked ambition. Macbeth has put so much energy and time into becoming as powerful as he possibly can only to lead him to feel miserable, unfulfilled…

bitter despondency and disheartened despair, but also a feeling of desolate hopelessness and tormented delusion to reveal the misery and turmoil that results from betrayal brought on by severed holy chords. The use of diction evokes a feeling of fury as the brutality of the words echo the physical and emotional suffering induced by both literal and metaphorical maelstroms. Provoked by the “contentious storm,” the unmercifulness of the “roaring sea” conveys the severity of attacks upon the body…