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Madame Defarge is a remarkable character in the novel Tale of Two Cities. She has every reason to be outraged by the mistreatment inflicted on the common people by the aristocracy. The Evermontes raped and murdered her sister, her brother was fatally injured while trying to protect her sister’s honor, and their father died of…

MacBethIn The Tragedy of MacBeth, Lady MacBeth has strong id characteristics, and is not well balanced because her superego is severely out-weighed by her id. The id, superego, and ego are the3 parts of a person’s psychological make up, accoring to Freudian psychology. Freud explained that the id is the part of the personality that…

Shakespeare’s Macbeth delves into the notion that people’s appearances can be misleading, as their outward actions may not accurately represent their inner beings. No matter how hard someone tries to present themselves, their genuine essence will eventually come to light. This concept is exemplified in Macbeth through characters such as Banquo, Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth…

I merely finished reading about the God Poseidon. I am traveling to state you a small about him. Some of the things that I am traveling to state you about, are some of his relations, his symbol, his power, a few interesting facts, and a brief drumhead of one of the many narratives that he…

How does Robert Louis Stevenson use character, setting, narrative and language to explore the theme of duality in the Victorian novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde? In the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Stevenson uses duality of characters and setting to explore the struggle between good…

“Stephanie and Paul were so involved with each other that the remainder of the household might every bit good hold disappeared. ” This observation. from the short narrative “humorous. The comedy begins when she develops an attractive force to a male child and starts to haunt over him: “She wrote verse forms to Doug […

“Who will believe my verse in time to come”, Shakespeare is already setting a disparaging yet urgent tone. “If it were fill’d with your most high deserts? ”, he is worried that in the future no one believes his poetry if he writes what he truly sees and feels of his subject. Shakespeare is concerned…

Alice Walker wrote a short narrative called “Everyday Use. ” based on her life as an African in early America. The narrative was made into a short movie that followed the subject ( Afro-american civilization ) of the narrative by maintaining the secret plan. scenes. conflict/climax. and characters the same. However. the narrative and short…

Hero. A word used widely throughout Homer’s The Iliad, but interpreted differently in the eye of the beholder. Though there seems to be numerous definitions of a hero, one that can accurately define such a person is someone of distinguished courage and nobility that will put all others before themselves for the greater good of…

There is one question that humans spend eternities trying to definitely answer, and that question is the meaning of life. Humans need to have an answer for everything, and this one philosophical questions makes people wrack their brains to try to find an answer that can encompass everyone and everything. And what if humans cannot…