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In To Kill a Mockingbird, despite racial tensions in Maycomb, the adults in Scouts life influence her to believe that equality is a necessity. Harper Lee utilizes Atticus, Calpurnia and Reverend Sykes as role models to demonstrate to Scout the right perspective on equality. During the time period of the book, there is a lot…

Mary Warren is a character in The Crucible, a play centered around the Salem witch trials and the individuals linked to the deaths that occurred during this dark period. In this play, the circumstances leading to the trials are revealed, including the events leading up to the hanging of both the first and last victims….

English Discussion on Shakespeare “What point is there in studying a dramatist who lived 400 years ago?”. Shakespeare is a British dramatist, lyric poet, and actor who lived from 1564-1616. Today it’s the 6th of September 2010. Shakespeare died almost 400 years ago. So why should people still keep busy with someone who lived such…

In Macbeth's speech about the witches telling him their prophecies, central and dramatic purpose are given in more than one way.Macbeth's aside is mainly an inward conflict in a case of man versus himself.Many times in the passage, Macbeth relays signs of fear but with reward near by.Contained in Macbeth's aside are very important elements…

An Iambic Pentameter is Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry, consisting of an unrhymed line with five iambs or feet (hence pentameter), felt by many to be the most powerful of all metrical forms in English poetry. When read aloud such verse naturally follows a beat. The effect Of having an iambic pentameter is…

To Elizabethan society in the late 16th century Italy meant ‘crime rather than art, the devious head rather then the simple heart’. Italian women were seen as ‘very lewd and wicked’, with many thousands paying ‘monthly unto the pope for the sinful use of their bodies’, a quote from a Londoner around the time that…

“The Hollow Men” by T. S. Eliot and The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald but have similar themes and were both published in 1925. These pieces of literature illustrate two similar opinions on the same time period. There is a parallel between the two works that can easily be shown. The reoccurring themes of senselessness,…

The Downfall of MacbethMacbeth, written by William Shakespeare, is the tragic tale of Macbeth,a virtuous man, corrupted by power and greed. This tragedy can be classified byone of two theories. One theory suggests that the tragic hero, Macbeth, is leddown an unescapable road of doom by an outside force; namely the three witches. The second…

Both The Odyssey and the Epic of Gilgamesh are two unbelievable narratives written long ago everyone knows this but what a batch of people Dons? T is that these two heroic poems portion many of the same constructs. Such as the nostro ( the Greek term for homecoming ) , xenis ( guest/host relationship )…

This is an essay on the play Othello. This essay will explain hoe Iago poisons Othello’s mind throughout the play. I will describe Iago and Othello’s character, also how Iago poisons his mind and how Othello’s character changes throughout the play. In the play we study the character of Iago and how he acts towards…