process. Macbeth has only took an inch into his new “sea of blood” and is still partially on the correct path if he will make the right decisions afterwards. Macbeth shows his compassion still‚ “I am settled and bend up / Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. / Away and mack the time with farest show; / False face must hide what the false heart doth know” (1.7.92-95). Macbeth realizes that he has done a bad deed‚ because Macbeth is a great friend of Duncan’s‚ a family member of Duncan’s‚ and one
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and that it possesses all the features of a classic gothic novel. These features are prominent at the beginning with the description of the countryside of Transylvania and of the ruined Dracula Castle: The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops‚ with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are
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frank 2000 Many works of literature not readily identified with the mystery or detective story genre nonetheless involve the investigation of a mystery. In these works‚ the solution to the mystery may be less important than the knowledge gained in the process of its investigation. Choose a novel or play in which one or more of the characters confront a mystery. Then write an essay in which you identify the mystery and explain how the investigation illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole
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Seamus Heaney – ‘At a Potato Digging’ • Context • • The poem deals with two different potato harvests. One is the harvest from the present day that goes successfully and which delivers a rich crop. The second potato harvest looks back to the famine of 1845 when the crop failed and many people starved. Whilst the famine is no longer a threat‚ its ongoing fear remains and this can be seen in the use of religious language throughout the poem. For example‚ the bowed heads of the potato pickers suggest
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all those who were born before God‚ but that followed all the good habits of humans . They are devoid of physical torment but are psychologically tormented for not having known the true God. The beginning of true Hell‚ characterized by the most terrible physical pain‚ starts at this point . To determine the punishment of the damned Dante draws on medieval legal tradition and the practice of the law of his time. The criterion of punishment is called ‘’contrappasso’’ . By contrappasso (but Dante
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This was the case until a certain picture caught his eye‚ and he could not help but ask who the handsome young boy in the painting was. At first‚ the maids refused to tell Jasper‚ but eventually‚ after being sworn to secrecy‚ Jasper was told that the portrait was of William Dumont‚ Lord Dumont’s
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Out from the marsh‚ from the foot of misty Hills and bogs‚ bearing God’s hatred‚ Grendel came‚ hoping to kill 395 Anyone he could trap on this trip to high Herot. He moved quickly through the cloudy night‚ Up from his swampland‚ sliding silently Toward that gold-shining hall. He had visited Hrothgar’s Home before‚ knew the way— 400 But never‚ before nor after that night‚ Found Herot defended so firmly
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The author Ray Bradbury‚ wrote the dystopian short story “All Summer in a Day” and he includes many themes throughout the story. The one that stands out the most is don’t let jealousy take control of your actions. In the story Margot‚ the main character‚ has classmates who act on her out of jealousy and hatred. The author points out many times how the children act out of jealousy and hatred. In the end‚ the children realize what they did after their jealousy and hatred melts away. The theme don’t
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he is representing nature and the sheer force of it. He depicts how unpredictable nature is and why it should be respected. That is shown through the men in the tiny boats and the massive wave that is about to crash upon them. They were caught in a terrible storm and should not underestimate how strong the waves can be. At the same time the fishermen seem to be handling this moment of being crushed by a wave very well. It seems as if they have gone through this before and are coping with the situation
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and endure‚ prosper and decline‚ existing only to come and go. There are references to fortune whose wheel spins humans downward even as it lifts‚ Just as the stars in their courses are fixed in the skies‚ so do the characters view their lives as caught in a pattern they have no power to change.Gloucester finds himself disillusioned about fate‚ deciding that there is no divine justice in the world‚ no higher power‚ and therefore no point in human actions. After Regan and Cornwall torture Gloucester
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