Year Three

French novelist Alexandre Dumas père, son of General Alex Dumas, is best known for writing famous works such as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. Born son to the obscure General Alex Dumas, Alexandre too shared in the blood of both a black slave and a white aristocrat. General Dumas died when Alexandre was a young child of not even 4 years of age. Highly romanticized and biased towards his father, the writings left behind by Alexandre père, are basically the main source when it…

A trickster may be someone whom: “cheats or deceives people” (Definition of Trickster). Maybe, in another view, a trickster would be described as: “someone who uses dishonest methods to get what they want” (Trickster American English). According to the “Course Glossary,” Lewis Hyde suggests, “tricksters are ‘boundary-crossers’ who do not accept physical, social, or temporal constraints as real, and who seem deliberately to blur culturally fixed lines of distinction.” A perfect example of a…

“ Fate decides who comes into your life, your heart decides who stays.” Macbeth is a Shakespearean play about how an innocent soldier becomes a ruthless king, all because of his proposed fate. In Macbeth, fate played a huge role in how Macbeth as a character acted and why he had a tragic resolution. Fate is what drove Macbeth into having a tragic resolution. Every human believes fate is predetermined. People tend to hold onto the unknown. It moves us in many ways, whether that be hope or…

Is there such a thing as free will? Or is there free will with a set fate no matter what choices we make? Shakespeare’s Macbeth dwells upon this subject often. Three witches, who claim to know Macbeth’s future approach him. They hail him as thane of Glamis, Cawdor, and as King of Scotland. The audience knows that he is the thane of Glamis and that Cawdor will soon be given to him, but the idea of becoming king never occurred to him until this moment. So the question remaining is: Did the weird…

“Janine! Drop to the floor NOW!” screamed Dean as the poltergeist used its energy to pick up every knife and pointed object and make them fly straight at her head, for it wanted revenge for its children’s murder all those years ago. Just at that moment, Sam burst through the door, and after an immediate perusal of the situation, threw his hands in the air, stopping the flying knives with his mind. “I’ve got this but you need to leave this house now, Janine.” Speaking in his usual calm tone of…

heard it before; outside the king’s window! I also heard that Esther might be the queen. She was given fancy food and treatments. I watched her and saw if she would be brought to the king right away, but she had to go through beauty treatment for a year! The first six months she was treated with myrrh. The last six months she was treated with perfumes. When Esther was called to go to King Xerxes, he was pleased. He crowned her queen and gave her a banquet. She was even given gifts! I thought…

play Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman delves into the conflicts of three characters, Paulina Salas, her husband Gerardo Escobar and Dr. Roberto Miranda. It is implied that the play revolves around the citizens of chile, recovering from the after - effects of the brutal Pinochet dictatorship. Dorfman uses a range of literary devices to convey both atmosphere and suspense, however more significantly I will zoom into the three prominent ways, which are; Light Imagery, Dramatic devices and…

need to choose between his friend Duncan and his wife. He finally chooses his wife and kills Duncan. In Wuthering heights Catherine has to choose between marrying Edgar or Heathcliff, She finally chooses to marry Edgar and Heathcliff goes away for three years. In Macbeth and Wuthering Heights there is romance and conflict. Macbeth wants to be seen as a man in his wife’s eyes. He will do anything to get approval. In Wuthering Heights Heathcliff avenges his true loves death by gaining control of…

For my character analysis, I decided to analyze one of three most interesting female characters that played different roles, which have a lot of similarities and differences. First character is Lady Macbeth a novel called Macbeth written by the one and only Shakespeare, second character is M. Loisel from the necklace and third is Mrs.Lantin from ”The jewels“ both written by Guy de Maupassant. Of all the Shakespeare novels and characters in my opinion Lady Macbeth stands out with these amazing…

The governor of Duhok took them away and aske three Assyrians to help him. They were father Sada and two others. When they were out of the village they were all killed. The priest was decapitated and his body was cut to pieces. On Wednesday the Arabs stole some of our sheep and killed eight people. On the third day, the police asked three men to accompany them to search for the stolen sheep and then they killed them after some distance from…