1. Of Mice and Men
The moral is very simple; that true beauty is on the inside of a person and not how they appear on the outside. ... The story tells us that when he is with his wife, she gives him a choice of either having her as a beautiful young woman with a negative attitude or having her as she is with loyalty and kindness. ...
After Macbeth discovers the witches' first prediction came true, he begins to aspire to realize the next prediction of becoming king. ... Lady Macbeth, however, conjures up an image of royalty, loyalty and goodness. In order to help us overcome our initial opinion of Lady Macbeth, and allow us to accept her true character, Shakespeare uses the image of the witches to help us transfer our feelings of the evil witches to Lady Macbeth. ...
Temperateness and loyalty are two idyllic features in a lover, and it is in this gentle perfection as superior version of a woman that the subject finds his power-the power to "steal men's eyes" (8). ... However, the true heart of the poem lies in the curiosity of its meter, which suffers like our subject with the constraining repercussions of excess. ...
