... like the rose, an object of beauty and desire that soon begins to wither and die. Faulkner, through great use of imagery, paints a vivid of a dying rose, Miss Emily. Faulkner starts the story by vividly describing the way in which Emily's family was revered in the town. Emily was given the highest respect in a time when " no Negro woman should appear ... highly respected to one that is seen as one to be pitied. After the death of her father and the desertion of her sweetheart, the town starts to "feel really sorry for her." Like a rose she starts to wilt from lack of nutrients. There wa...

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... question next, say "a grave- / maker": the houses he makes lasts till doomsday" (5.1.56-59). After this point, Shakespeare has pretty much equaled out the negative with a positive. Still lightheartedly, he starts to move the play to a different mood. While the "gravediggers" working and chatting in a carefree manner, Hamlet and Horatio are eavesdropping on them. As "Clown 2" exits, "Clown 1" remains singing. Hamlet ... this fellow no feeling of his business? / "a sings in grave-making" (5.1.65-66). The reader has probably already thought about how the men could be talking so cheerily ov...

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... gives his kingdom to his daughters but still wants to be respected as king. Blind to truth about his daughters and Kent. Dies of stress and old age over Cordelia's body. Cordelia: Lear's youngest daughter. Disowns her after she doesn't flatter him. Married to France. Heavenly good. Contrasted by Goneril and Regan. Reunites with Lear, all forgiveness. Is killed, hung, in ... with Kent, giving up land, and Cordelia. G mad about crazy knights, gets rid of some. Strips Lear of more power. Lear curses G, goes to R's (3rd letter, "I"m coming to you"). Lear starts regretting banishing Cordelia...

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... an anti-hero who has no strength in mind and relies on Lady Macbeth. He may be a soldier on the outside but on the inside he is a coward. The play starts with three witches, of whom foretell the future of Macbeth, saying he would become "Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, and king of Scotland" (1.3.47-49) Macbeth is speechless, and ... well. He is now in a position of honour and people respect him. He is a lot stronger than he was, but he does not use this strength in good use. Paranoia starts to tease and play with Macbeth's conscience, he and his wife feel constant guilt and fear so th...

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... well and gives the reader a good understanding of the poem right of the bat. "Why is it/ just as we begin to go/ they begin to arrive." (line 4-6) Then Olds starts to compare the daughter to the mother. "The fold in my neck/ clarifying as the fine bones of her hips sharpen." (line 6-8) This image is important because it signifies that ... daughter is blossoming into her youthful stage of womanhood. Then Olds continues to describe this through the next image. "As my last chances to bear a child/ are falling through my body, the duds among them,/ her full purse of eggs, round and/ firm as...

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... ends tragically, usally with the death of most of the major characters. The death of who is thought to be the tragic hero, usually starts with the death of the soul then the death of the human body. We are introduced to death when we find out Brabantio has died, because of the love shared between Desdemona and Othello. Soon after finding ... in a bloody rage tries to kill Iago, and Iago in turn kills Emila. Othello's passions lead him to his bodily death. He killed himself and with the death of his body, the completion of the three levels of becoming a true and total tragic hero was com...

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... more dominant and masculine. The gender roles of her and Macbeth's relationship are switched by the power she holds over Macbeth. Macbeth implies she has a masculine sole in her female body. Her ambition and tendency for violence implies she has a masculine personality. Lady Macbeth is a strong female character, ambitious, and slightly insane. During the time period Shakespeare wrote Macbeth women were ... ultimately it was what ended her. In act 3, we see that Macbeth is succumbing to his guilt. At his celebration banquet, he sees Banquo's ghost and to his guests dismay, starts ramblin...

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... his ear while he lay asleep. The ghost then instructs Hamlet to "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder." (1.5.25). This is the point in the play when Hamlet first starts thinking about carrying out the revenge. After much thought and debate Hamlet devised a plan to tell if his uncle actually did murder his father or if"...It is a damned ghost ... to be poisoned. The swords in turn were switched and Hamlet ended up with the poisoned sword meant to end his own life. Hamlet stabbed Laertes sending poison throughout his body but not before Laertes was able to stab Hamlet with the same ...

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... while he was talking to his mother in her room after the play. Hamlet heard something from behind the curtain and having so much rage built up inside him brutally starts stabbing Polonius, who he thinks at the time is Claudius, in hopes of avenging his father's death, to death. Then when Laertes hears the news about his father's death he ... father's death and at the same time Claudius can save his own. He has Laertes sword fight with Hamlet but on Laertes sword is poison that if injected into the body will cause immediate death. The two men then begin to sword fight. Hamlet is winning ...

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... the conspiracy in the first place, is at first hard to figure out if he would take action in good will or in greed for power. On one hand, he starts out by saying he doesn't want Caesar to have the power because it would turn out like the kings of past. He even convinces all of the other conspirators, including ... the crowd of citizens. Finally, when it appears that all is lost in battle and he finds his partner Cassius dead, he also runs upon his sword. Over his dead body, even the evil Mark Antony declares him to be "the noblest Roman of them all". Of all of the people involved in Wi...

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... true nature and characteristics of each individual character. They were able to see and at the same time sense the characters role in the play. Through the facial expressions and body language of the characters the audience was able to diagnose each scene and conclude the importance of the character in it. For example, in Act 2 scene 3 in the book, the ... when the play was written, witches, ghosts and anything that was paranormal fascinated audiences; therefore Shakespeare included these obsessions in his play. For example Act 1 scene 1 in the book, Shakespeare starts his play with the...

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... it" (III, I, 79). This statement is saying that Brutus called Caesar ambitious, and if it was true it was a grievous fault. Before the funeral speech, Antony gives a speech to Caesar's body vowing revenge for what has been done "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man ... his point to the people in his speech by saying Brutus was wrong for calling Caesar ambitious and that the murder was not justified. It is a great speech and it starts the war between Mark Antony, Octavius, and Brutus, Cassius. It ...

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