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In what ways does she change through the course of the play, and how does this affect the audience’s response? In this essay I am going to be concentrating on Lady Macbeth, showing how her complex character changes dramatically throughout the course of the play. The play is mostly about Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s ambition…

What lessons does scout learn in To Kill a Mockingbird? The whole of the part one of this novel is a series of life lessons preparing Scout for the hardships she is going to face in the second part of the novel. Due to the influence of the likes of Atticus, Miss Maudie and Mrs…

The play A Doll’s House features marriage as one of its theme. It talks about the ups and downs of marital life and how it fails in the case of the couple Nora and Torvald. There are elements of marriage that they failed to meet which ended up to their relationship’s failure. They had marital…

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a classic novel that is known as one of the greatest pieces of literature and has been for decades, because of how it relates to people and events that have happened. As the island is a microcosm of the world, the book mirrors what’s going on in…

Alice Walker who wrote: “The Welcome Table” had issues of race and gender that were the center of her literary work and her social activism. She participated in civil rights demonstrations. (Clugston 2010). This short story has a theme of life and death. It shows the plot of the story, the point of view, and…

The title To Kill a Mockingbird is very significant to the novel as it portrays many forms of mockingbirds throughout it. As the novel progresses, it becomes clear that Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are the true Mockingbirds of the story. They both are innocent from the accusations claimed upon them. When choosing the title…

As the play Henry IV comes to a close, once the battle is fought, The King is finally proud of his son for displaying, what he thinks is, honor by killing Hotspur. Throughout the play the characters are constantly trying to define honor and what it means to be honorable. However it seems different people…

In the play “King Lear” written by Shakespeare, several themes are observable and easy to understand: love, ambition, power, betrayal, foolishness. One of the ideas that is important to understand and easy to grasp while reading the play is ‘’loyalty’’. In ‘’King Lear’’ loyalty is contrasted through the relationship Lear has with his three daughters…

As a wise man once said, “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” In Harper Lee’s bestseller ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, three children named Scout Finch, Jem Finch, and Charles Baker “Dill” Harris learn very important life lessons that aids them along with their gradual maturity in…

Throughout the narrative, the reader gradually is introduced to different character and settings, thus to differing themes simultaneously. An example of this occurs relatively near the start of the book when Scout first starts school along with Jem. The theme of education is thus introduced and has a dramatic effect on both of the siblings’…