Year Three

A word in every book, play, or conversation has the power to take on a different meaning based on context. In Macbeth, written by Shakespeare, a word worth tracing is “night.” In the play, “night” is a huge motif and symbolizes many things. Three major connections throughout are comparing light and dark, heaven and hell, and living versus dead. When comparing these ideas, Shakespeare uses the word “night,” almost as a code, to make connections that wouldn’t normally be made or expressed in…

the salt mines of endoviour. She is an assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught. After a year of hard labour, in the middle of the night she is dragged before the crown prince who offers Celaena her freedom with one condition, she must act as his champion in a competition to fill the role of the royal assassin - if she can beat twenty three killers, warriors and thieves. But something evil dwells in the glass castle and when some of the other competitors wind…

Praewpetch Unakul Miss Farrah Collette IB English A Language and Literature Standard Level Year 2 14 November 2015 Macbeth as A Tragic Hero “Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.” - Macbeth (2.1.63-64) Many of Shakespeare’s works are considered as ‘Shakespearean Tragedy” with the protagonists as ‘Tragic Hero’. A character is a prominent noble defected in some way and the flaw causes his downfall. After the punishment of his own action, he comes to…

On the night of July 16th, 1918, the Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar Nicholas II; his wife Tsarina Alexandra, their five children, a physician and waitstaff, and the Grand Duchess Tatiana’s dog, Jemmy, were awoken from their beds and led to the basement of the House of Special Purpose, a Bolshevik military hold, and shot to death. One of the direct causes that led to the end of the Romanov dynasty during the Russian Revolution was the royal family’s association with the peasant and…

childish but we see that he is truly manipulative. As soon as he meets Mark and he joins Facebook as and information guru, he convinces Mark to lower Eduardo’s shares to 0.03%. After getting Eduardo basically out of the company he celebrates by giving 19 year old students cocaine. When the police bust him at his intern’s college party he tries to lie to the cops about the cocaine being his. Showing that he is manipulative but also not very smart. Seeing as he obviously manipulated those teens…

play, Macbeth goes through a series of unnatural events leading him to become responsible for his own downfall at some points, which is why I don’t fully agree that Macbeth was responsible for his own downfall. In this essay I will talk about the three reasons that may have led him to this point. The following reasons are the evil and sinful behaviour, the temptation and greed brought on by his wife and the witches which links back to the witches’ prophecies and Lady Macbeth’s temptations…

feelshe needs to kill him as well. Macbeth will soon find out he is not all powerful and mighty he assumes to be, and we will need some advice. Macbeth realizes war will soon fall upon him, so then he returns to where all this all started, the three witches. The three witches individually tell macbeth whats to come, the woods will move for war, and that he cannot be killed by anyone but a non-woman born child. The most important statement was to fear Macduff. Macbeth doesn't take the advice…

preternatural creatures, and the persecution of witches and in Elizabethan England, Shakespeare included an abundance of supernatural elements into his works. The presence and significance of magic is most prevalent in Shakespeare’s play of Macbeth, with the Three Witches and their influencing, visionary powers of dark sorcery and the ostensibly mad Lady Macbeth. The witchery exhibited in Macbeth, (written around 1600–1606), is arguably a reflection of the societal climate of Europe at the time…

to acquire eminence and prestige. Firstly, Shakespeare mirrors his son through Hamnet to elucidate that all is disregarded in pursuit of power. It is important to note that William Shakespeare had three children (“William Shakespeare”). The first was named Susanna, who was born in 1583 (Smith). Two years after the birth of Susanna, Shakespeare was blessed with a set of twins named Judith and Hamnet. Hamnet, who was Shakespeare’s only son, who died at the age of eleven, was one of the driving…

The story of Macbeth follows the story of Macbeth, a thane, a good noble soldier after he has won a battle and given more land by the king for his accomplishments. Three sisters predict that Macbeth will be king and tells him and he goes crazy wanting to know more but doesn’t get it. His corrupt wife convinces him to kill the king so he can be the king and they two can be rich and powerful. At first Macbeth is quite hesitant until he does kill the king and he is awarded kingship since he was the…