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    Macbeth‚ written by playwright William Shakespeare‚ is one of the most famous and beloved plays of all time. The play‚ a tragedy revolving around the tragic hero Macbeth‚ is about a regicide and its aftermath taking place in Scotland. The play begins with Macbeth along with his best friend and fellow nobleman‚ Banquo‚ successfully defeating two separate armies from Ireland and Norway respectively. On their journey home‚ Macbeth and Banquo encounter three witches who make prophecies to them. Macbeth

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    March 10‚ 2014 Mr. Carriere Period 3 Macbeth: Essay 6 William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is filled with betrayal‚ hatred‚ and murder. King Duncan is in rule when the Macbeth’s decide to take away the throne. However‚ with doing a wrong deed comes the feeling of guilt. Both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth struggle with the feeling of guilt whenever they kill another person. Macbeth was a noble man that was given a prophecy that he would become king. Driven by his desire for the throne

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    Tragic Hero

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    * Macbeth as a tragic hero: Discuss In Macbeth written by William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth who is the main character is a tragic hero that suffers from Hamartia which is ambition in Macbeth’s character and that leads him to his downfall‚ A tragic hero character according to Aristotle must be moral‚ have virtues and suffers from Hamartia which is a flaw in character that eventually leads to his defeat and downfall at the end of the play. Macbeth is a great person who was

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    November 2013 Reader Response to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” John Donne’s “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a very deep poem‚ and it’s difficult to understand if you only read it once. It focuses on how all humans have a connection to one another; if one person dies‚ the entire population is affected. In 1623‚ Donne was extremely ill with malarial fever‚ and he wrote the meditation during recovery. He observed that every death diminishes the fabric of humanity. He wrote about the tolling of a church bell

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    October 2012 We Create Our Own Monsters Monsters are different for everyone. Some may think monsters are purple‚ hairy‚ one-eyed freaks. Others may think they are atrocious beasts with chain-saws and bloody faces out to kill you! But monsters don’t just have to be a literal thing that we can see and feel. Many monsters are figurative‚ meaning that it’s not an actual real life monster but are features and characteristics made up of our own fears. Many times the things that make a monster scary are because

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    Othello as a Tragic Hero William Shakespeare’s famous tragedy Othello‚ the Moor of Venice (c.1604‚ as reprinted in Laurence Perrine and Thomas R. Arp‚ Literature: Structure Sound and Sense‚ 6th ed. [Fort Worth: Harcourt‚ 1993]1060-1148) is arguably one of the finest‚ if not the finest‚ tragedies in the literary history of Western civilization. This paper discusses Othello as a tragic hero and compares him to the great Aristotle’s concept of what a tragic hero actually is. First‚ we need to understand

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    individual into becoming one who are the true monsters? Within the text “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare this will be implored deeply into the plot. Macbeth isn’t a monster‚ he’s only a man who succumbs to the will of witches‚ apparitions‚ and above all else‚ his wife. These individuals could be the reasons for which Macbeth falls victim to the temptations in which he pays the ultimate fare. The witches‚ apparitions and his spouse lead him toward things he would otherwise have had too much dignity to

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    beliefs/ way of life “No‚ you cannot break charity with your minister. You are another kind‚ John. Clasp his hand‚ make your peace.” (Act 1) 1. Speaker: Rebecca Nurse 2. To whom the speaker is talking to: John Proctor 3. Content: Rebecca Nurse interrupted Proctor when Proctor said to Parris in front of the people at church that he would join the faction which against authority and Parris himself when Parris tried to assert his religious authority over Proctor. 4. Thematic importance: This quotation

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    effective‚ and natural translation. It is the duty of translation critics to assess the quality of the translations produced in order for the translators to be able to enhance the quality of their translations. In this paper the translation of for whom the bell tolls written by Ernest Hemingway and translated by Dr. Ali Salimi has been evaluated. First the biography of the writer and a short discussion about the title has been given ‚ then a summary of the book and some background information about

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    treatments of Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)‚ including a brief history of ECT‚ the indications for using ECT‚ the process during the procedure‚ and a brief personal analysis and discussion about the treatment‚ and a synopsis of the article “I Feel Good‚ I Feel Alive”. In the early 1900’s‚ treatment for noetic illness was constrained with psychotherapy or inpatient confinement being the principal modalities. However‚ Psychiatrist Lucio Bini and neurologist Ugo Cerletti performed the first

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