Three Witches

While Nottages play POOF! and Glaspell’s play Trifles both fall under the same section: Trials of Marriage: Plays and share the same theme of domestic violence, they differ very strongly on two points. These points being: believability,how the murder was committed and the type of abuse. In POOF! Nottage’s approach was one of fiction, having the main character Loureen turn her husband into a “huge pile of smoking ashes”(1210). Unlike Trifles we Mrs.Wright murdered her husband by suffocating him,…

Good Verses Bad Is it better to be good with a bad reputation or to be bad and have a good reputation? In the story Gyges’ Ring, Plato talks about if it is better to be good or better to follow your own desires. In the tale, he explains how Gyges finds a ring that provides him with the power to be invisible. He uses this ring to seduce the king’s wife, and convinces her to help kill her husband. After he gets help to kill the king he takes over the realm. This is a perfect example of being bad…

Figure 4, an advertisement in The New Yorker for the play Hand to God, employs inverted cliché and religious diction to allude to the content of the play and to interest the reader (Hand to God). Large white text announces, “Broadway’s Going to Hell in a Hand Puppet.” The advertisement is a play on the phrase ‘going to hell in a hand basket,’ which describes a rapidly deteriorating situation. Though this inverted cliché, the ad introduces the reader with something familiar with a unique twist…

consumes the set, and when accompanied by disturbance of fate, the setting becomes stormy. The play begins in the heath with thunder and lightning as well as the witches describing the “fog and filthy air.” The witches are other worldly which is shown through the description of the dark and stormy setting. The stormy scene supports the witches unnatural gift of prophecy. The dark and stormy weather suggests not only disturbances throughout the kingdom, but foreshadows sinister unnatural events…

error in judgment; he portrays this by not thinking thoroughly about the statements made from the Apparition. Another characteristic that he portrays is a reversal of fortune because of his error in judgment; this is seen when Macbeth believes the witches when they told him he will be King after they predicted he would be Thane of Cawdor and it becomes true. The final characteristic that Macbeth signifies is the discovery that the reversal was brought about by Macbeth’s own actions; this is…

A theme of the novel Pulse by Jeremy Robinson is not to underestimate people. This theme occurs again and again throughout the novel. One example occurs at the beginning, before Maddox gets hired by Ridley. Maddox meets Olive Reinhart, the head of security at the Manifold facility. Reinhart is twenty-five years old, and when questioned why people of such a young age are hired to be head of security, Reinhart simply replies, “Killers are born, not made,” (Robinson 9). Afterwards, Maddox realizes…

by the witches…

Shakespeare is considered the greatest English writer of all time (“William Shakespeare Biography”). He has written countless sonnets, poems and plays. Many of his works has been closely analyzed and some are still acted out at theaters. Plays such as Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet are even known among people who have never studied Shakespeare. Shakespeare’s work has been around for hundreds of years and many films has are adaptations of his works. Macbeth is tragicomedy play that’s about…

How can literature relate to life connect together through conflict characterization and narration? I believe it is theme. Theme is a lesson that can be learned in literature and life. I believe personal experience help find theme, like when i was in the 8th grade i learned through other people conflict. In the story the most dangerous game part of the conflict is man vs self. The conflict inside rainsford was the fear of being killed. As the story progresses i see Rainford change. He becomes…

In Euripides play, Medea, Medea struggles internally of whether she should kill her children or not before finally coming to a decision. After the death of the king and the princess, Medea is faced with the choice between killing her own children or sparing them. She continually tells herself that she can save them and run to Athens for safety. However, that would mean leaving them in Corinth in the hands of the enemies. In her mind, if the kids were to die, she wanted it done by her own hands.…