Three Witches

Takeo Makin Ms. Kline Brit lit per. 5 2 Mar, 2017 Beowulf Essay Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about, a Germanic warrior named Beowulf, he sailed across the sea to the land of the Danes to fight against the monster Grendel. The story about Beowulf is one of the oldest poems, first told by the scops in 400 A.D. and finally transferred to paper in 1100 A.D. it has changed alot over the years from books and big screen movies. Although Beowulf the epic and Beowulf the movie share many…

Losing yourself is a central concern of madness which was explored in King Lear where madness was a prominent theme. Antoinette similarly to King Lear faced with a loss of reason. At the end of the novel, Antoinette becomes totally unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy and realise who she is. She believes she has seen a ghost in the mirror which in reality was herself. The statement Antoinette makes while looking in the mirror: “I saw her – the ghost. The woman with streaming hair.…

many mental changes throughout the play. This is regarding one’s sanity and mental health. Many characters in this story struggle dealing with their troubled minds and give in to insanity. When Lady Macbeth and Macbeth receive the prophecy from the witches, they immediately start plotting how to fulfill it. After their first ambitious deed is done, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth react and begin to feel guilt. By the end before their last terrible actions, Lady Macbeth shows signs that madness has…

Love from the Shadows? Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been which was written by Joyce Carol Oates has a clear interpretation of evil coming from Arnold Friend and how he is as a demon trying to lure Connie into the dark world of sex with different emotions. Oates tends to use scenarios of real life and bring them to her story. The character of Arnold Friend harsh reality that Oates includes in her story is that demons like Arnold exist. Arnold Friend’s character was very well…

The Witches of Salem The Crucible, a fitting name for the play. Reading this play was like being thrown into a crucible, over a raging furnace, a boiling pot of of screaming and wailing, people getting hung like Christmas lights in December. From the setting, to the extra dialog, and to the added plots, there were a lot of things similar and different to compare and contrast the movie to the play. One major difference in The Crucible is the setting at the very beginning of the play and movie.…

Blasé Evil Intentions Can a person be too self-confident? Too expressive? Too nice? Too smart? Perhaps, too much of some, or most, things are bad for an individual. Is this the same for good and noble traits? Is determination in a person always a trait to be looked up to, or can this trait actually become something unfavorable? Can too much determination make an individual pernicious? Shakespeare describes this determination as a sickness that taints the heart. He uses his character Lady…

characters are mad or confused for people that know him because he likes to lie a lot and doesn’t care who he hurts as long as he gets what he wants. The conclusion for the story is that the American dream was the ultimate downfall for Gatsby. The three reasons why was because: He was blinded by love or lust and he didn’t think about consequences and trouble he would get into. He thought because he was rich he was powerful and thought he could get away with anything or gets what he wants Gatsby…

In Shakespeare's Macbeth , in many quotes we can see that Macbeth wants to let us know that what it is being a man, as we se he killed the king duncan out of hunger for power and domination. Actually Macbeth was really want to be a man , in my opinion reason Macbeth killed the king to gain the power and showed us that he is a real man. But main reason is Macbeth and Lady Macbeth want to be king. As a matter of fact Scotland people think that Macbeth give them more than King Duncan…

Shakespeare wrote his tragedies with many characters that in modern day would be diagnosed with a mental illness. His tragedy Macbeth was written almost 350 years before the first mental illness was diagnosed. One of the most apparent mentally ill characters Shakespeare has written was Lady Macbeth. Any psychologist today, with the specific diagnostic criteria, would easily be able to diagnose Lady Macbeth with paranoid personality disorder. Paranoid personality disorder, or paranoia, is…

The Medieval Era was a time when a vast amount of questions outweighed accurate, rational answers. The advancement of knowledge was still a growing process, and the use of logic and reason was a foreign ideology to most people of the time. Instead of logic and reason, however, people of the Medieval Era looked towards the church for answers. With this system, anything unfamiliar or unorthodox was automatically determined to be evil or sinful. This toxic practice of presumption becomes a negative…