The Sound and the Fury

Ambition is a trait some admire; but it can lead to one’s demise without them even knowing. A great example is the tale of Macbeth. Throughout the play Macbeth’s ambition blinds him to do the unholy and realizes his faults during his downfall. Macbeth’s ambition causes him to do an abundance of dirty deeds. His thirst for blood made him kill off his friend Banquo by telling some men that “Banquo is your enemy and so is he mine”; (Act ii scene ii) manipulating the men to do his bidding. This…

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night at 12:00am and feeling like there is an intruder in your bedroom. Of course it’s dark so every person would say the classic who’s there? Well that’s what happens to the old man in Tell-Tale Heart. Tell-Tale Heart is about a man who hates this old man because of one thing he can not control, his eye. The man later plans out a plot to kill the old man so the eye will bother him no more. The narrator goes to the old man’s and murders him silently, with…

The internet had changes and social media is the feeding grounds of something of darker intent. In the article “Tyranny of the Mob,” Joel Stein discusses the lack of authority and social manner of online trolls and how their aggression and violence is oozing from technology, affecting aspects of everyday life. Stein is writing to educate unaware and oblivious readers of the damage trolls cause, which range from “clever pranks to harassment to violent threats” (27) and to inform his audience of…

I hate you. My life was hell for months because of you. First and foremost, I hate you for the physical pain you caused me. I replay that day in my head over and over again, and it makes me quiver. I can still hear the popping sound you made when I fell down, and it makes my stomach sick. I remember the first time I stood up and the pain was so intense that I bawled my eyes out. I hate you for not allowing me to put weight on my leg for 2 months, forcing me to be in a wheel chair and on crutches…

corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs.” The schizophrenic claimed that he heard the old man’s heart beating after he dismembered the old man’s limbs and hid them under the floorboards to conceal his crime, “It was a low, dull, quick sound --much such…

“And as for all this talk about the militia staying here to keep the darkies from rising—why it's the silliest thing I ever heard of. Why should our people rise! It's just a good excuse of cowards." ( Gone With The Wind). This quote largely defines the mindset of several white Southerners who supported the "Lost Cause" Movement post Civil War (Janney). In Caroline E. Janney's article discussing the "Lost Cause", she explains how the movement sought to rebrand slavery by means of literature, such…

Macbeth’s Soliloquy Close Reading Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act V, is one of the most well know soliloquies in Macbeth, and perhaps in all of Shakespeare's writings. In his soliloquy, Macbeth addresses the fragility, and ephemeral nature, of human life on earth. Macbeth’s speech is more or less a depressing, pessimistic view of human mortality and what humans leave behind after their death. And humans don’t leave anything behind. When Macbeth says, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, /…

from traditional form, commonly writing with a stream-of-consciousness style, shifting perspectives, and obfuscated chronology. Receiving little critical praise or attention until several years afterward, Faulkner published his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury. The narrative concerned…

to being a pioneering example of the cinematic possibilities of science fiction, Metropolis also has to be one of the earliest disaster films, as the workers riot and sabotage the machines, endangering the entire city. Lang creates a sense of rising fury and nihilism in the last hour that in a strange way reminded me of what was going to happen to Germany in less than 20…

praying that I wouldn’t die. It was a gloomy day and I was at Busch Gardens Tampa Florida. It had just stop raining and they were running the rides over and over again to get them dry, and they just opened the terrifying ride ever back up falcon’s fury or as I like to call it, the king of the world! So I ran to the line yes I was at the front of the line, and my mom and sister were yelling from the side “you’re crazy” “ there is no way I can do that” they said. I promise that the drop tower is…