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    The theme of ‘Fair is foulfoul is fair’ permeates throughout the play ’Macbeth.’ Explain what it means‚ providing examples from the play to support your answer: One of the most important themes in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare comes from one of the last lines in Act 1‚ Scene 1 of the play. The three witches speak this simple line ‘Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair‚’ shortly before they disperse and it becomes a prophecy and an underlying warning for the rest of the play. The connotations

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    Reliance Communications Ltd. (commonly called RCOM) is an Indian Internet access (commonly called "broadband") and telecommunications company headquartered in Navi Mumbai‚ India. RCOM is India’s third largest telecom operator‚ after Bharti Airtel and Vodafone.  it is a subsidiary of the Reliance Group established in 2004 with Mr. Anil Ambani being the President and Vinod Sawhny being the CEO. It is a publicly listed company with Reliance ADAG holding 67% ownership while the rest is owned by the

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    AmericIndividual Freedom and Self-Reliance One of the values that are very traditional and at the same important is the Individual Freedom and Self-Reliance. It is known that the first settlers came to North America to establish some colonies which were free from the control of European societies. There are more values that are very important to know about it. But‚ for me‚ Individual Freedom and Self-Reliance is the most important and relevant. First‚ in 1776 the British colonial settlers declared

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    examples show how the witches represented appearance vs. reality. The weird sisters were the instigators of the play; their wicked lies pushed Macbeth to commit the horrific deeds that he did. The witches really showed the meaning of “Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair” Lady Macbeth and Macbeth were not the people who they were leading on to be. Lady Macbeth was expected to be a sweet and innocent woman. A woman who couldn’t handle the truth‚ she was thought by others to be week and a peaceful woman

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    Self- Reliance “What I must do is all that concerns me‚ not what people think” (Emerson lines 30-31). Ralph Waldo Emerson was the transcendentalist leader in the 1830s which influenced his beliefs in his essay. He uses examples to compose the conclusion that people should follow their own instincts and be an individual. Emerson’s ideas on individualism and self trust in “Self- Reliance‚” were influenced by religion and the rise of transcendentalism. Emerson was influenced by beliefs of different

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    box he is practically forced to leave. Leaving was the best decision for him. Leaving his world allowed him to make his own choices and he could rebel from the rules he was forced to live by his entire life. Prometheus would have found loved “Self-Reliance” and “Civil Disobedience” if he found them while looking through the manuscripts. He would have been able to relate well to both essays. Prometheus lives in a world where being different is not accepted. Unfortunately Prometheus

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    A statement by the witches‚ “Fair is foul and foul is fair” is very ironic because this statement translates to what is good is bad and what is bad is good. That shows that nothing good is really good and also no matter what you do it’s bad. Another event that was not expected to happen was when

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    Theme of "Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair" in Shakespeare’s Macbeth One of the most important themes in Macbeth involves the witches’ statement in Act 1‚ Scene1 that "fair is foul and foul is fair." (Act 1‚ Scene 1‚ Line 10) When Macbeth and Banquo first see the weird sisters‚ Banquo is horrified by their hideous appearances. Conversely‚ Macbeth immediately began to converse with these universally known evil creatures. After hearing their prophecies‚ Macbeth considered the witches to be "fair"

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    themselves‚ as there is no reason to trust others. This theory of trusting one’s self has also made it to some well known songs in the twenty first century‚ as artists want to promote self reliance as well. In both “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson and “On top of the World” by the popular band Imagine Dragons‚ there is a prevalent theme of believing in one’s self. In the immensely popular short story‚ “Self Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Emerson

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    Transcendentalism: Dead Poets Society and Self Reliance Within his 1989 film‚ Dead Poets Society‚ director Peter Weir manages to reintroduce the once well-known philosophy of transcendentalism‚ into society once more. This philosophy was also once tackled and dissected by literary legend Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ in his essay “Self-Reliance”. It was in this essay that Emerson emphasized that in order for one to obtain a transcendentalism state of mind‚ optimism‚ self-reliance‚ and non-conformity must be held

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