Interior Monologue Dr. Spivey sits down at his desk and puts his glasses on. He shuffles his papers and begins to review the events of the previous weeks in his journal. Spivey then contemplates the letter requesting his resignation. These past weeks have been hard on everyone. As much as Mr. McMurphy has changed this ward for good‚ there are moments when I wish he had never been committed. Before McMurphy there had been an age of oppression. The patients’ life schedules were forced down their
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Sometimes I wonder if you even know that I exist. It’s always my fault. I AM ALWAYS WRONG! I come home; you don’t even ask me how I am or even where I’ve been‚ not even once. Jeez. I could be dead for all you care. I come back from work early and you ask me if I got fired. I sent you so many letters during that summer and you don’t bother to answer even one? I ask you why and you tell me that “I’m not one for the letters.” What a load of bullshit. When Lennie was at camp one summer working as a
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We will speak further‚ says Macbeth. If mine own face is a book of strange matters‚ then his reads uncertainty and doubt. But with the guidance of his doting wife‚ we can quash these fleeting qualms. For is it not a wifes duty to grease the wheel of ambition so that her husband can be successful? Behind every great man‚ is there not a guiding woman? If dear Macbeth could only place his trust into my hands I could nurture his desire to the point where the whole of Scotland salutes him as not only
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Character of Lady Macbeth In the course of this essay I will discuss the character of Lady Macbeth and the change in her character throughout the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare. We see her as being ambitious and ruthless at the start. Looking at her and Macbeths character she is the dominant one in the relationship. After a while we start to see a change in her character as she lacks strength and ambition‚ isn’t in charge or control of her relationship with Macbeth. She is being kept out of
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define the character of Lady Macbeth‚ perhaps the most memorable character of Shakespeare’s legendary tale of murderous ambition‚ Macbeth. As the play opens and Lady Macbeth is introduced‚ her motives are not fully visible until her second appearance in Act II Scene 2. As her motivation is realized‚ it seems very detestable. As the play unfolds‚ it seems that Lady Macbeth is actually quite insane. In this essay I will attempt to delve into the character of Lady Macbeth and attempt to shed some
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Over the course of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ the titular Macbeth transforms from a man of nobility and intrepidity to one of ruthlessness and vice. However‚ being the protagonist of a tragedy‚ he falls prey to having a fatal flaw which is thoroughly exploited. Lady Macbeth takes advantage of gender-based conventions to influence and manipulate her spouse. Before Macbeth’s downfall arises‚ Lady Macbeth thinks of Macbeth as being too moral to commit any heinous offenses; moreover‚ when she first
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Shakespeare’s play "Macbeth" displays how the psychological needs of a person drive him or her to act the way they do. Shakespeare‚ throughout his various works‚ gives us several perfect examples of just such characters. However‚ one of these characters seems a touch more unstable‚ considerably more insane‚ than any other figure conceived by the playwright. The woman in question is Lady Macbeth‚ fallen queen of Scotland; of all the tragic characters portrayed in Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Lady Macbeth is perhaps
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Who are the Macbeth’s? There’s Macbeth and then there’s Lady Macbeth‚ both appear to be superb having no insecurities. Macbeth I suppose is almighty and powerful and Lady Macbeth exquisite? She may be beautiful and delicate on the inside but I’ve heard the way she speaks to Macbeth indignantly. The Macbeths are no saints‚ they walk around here professing they’re perfect and godly but I discern all evil. They think they have fooled us with their smiles and waves but underneath the fraud I know within
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Macbeth was ultimately revered in the Scottish kingdom as someone who was brave‚ courageous‚ someone with valor but he hit rock bottom‚ losing everything he ever had and wanted. What made him break? What made him want to kill his king or even his best friend? Lady Macbeth was ultimately the motivation that Macbeth needed to become disastrous. When Shakespeare created this play‚ he created the ultimate tragedy‚ someone with so much honor that become too selfish and lost everything. Macbeth’s downfall
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of those predictions and proved myself worthy of what was told. I defended my character and spoke up for what I stood for. I would not weaken in the face of temptation. (Standing) Since the day on the heath where those foul hags told Macbeth and I our fates‚ Macbeth has not been himself. As if overcome by some evil spirit‚ he has changed his ways‚ actively seeking his future through deceit‚ wicked speculations and regicide‚ what I now no longer suspect him of‚ but believe he committed. Firstly‚
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