According to the article "Gravity Hill" on Weird California's website, the urban legend surrounding gravity hills consists of the belief that these children push the car to save the driver from their same fate (pars. 1-5). ... The variations of this myth revolve around the force "pushing" the car and the circumstances of how the ghosts came to be per Weird California. ...
Not only do the weird sisters use it to wreak havoc among the Scottish nobility, but many people throughout the play try to tempt fate. ... To the weird sisters, fate is not something to be overly concerned with. However, their superior, Hecate, obviously thinks that it was important enough to discipline the weird sisters verbally for abusing it. To the weird sisters, fate, and for that matter it seems, time, is merely as water and bread are to Macbeth: they exist and can be altered. ...
Prince Prospero: Weird or Important? Disliking Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of the Red Death" because of the "weirdness" of Prince Prospero's behavior seems to me to be an unthoughtful and simplistic reaction. ... What the reader may label as weird may have been acceptable, widespread behavior in that day and age. ... This, to me, would certainly qualify as far weirder behavior than the vagueness with which he is described in the story itself. ...
Earlier in the play the Weird sisters old Macbeth that he would become not only Thane of Cawdor, but the King of Scotland as well. ... " It is almost as if Banquo is grasping at straws looking for some truth behind the Weird sisters' words. ... Now King Macbeth will stop at nothing to keep Banquo's family line from over throwing him as the weird sisters have prophesized. ... Even after the destruction they have caused, Macbeth still turns to the Weird sisters for guidance. ... It is likely for one to infer that Macbeth would never have channeled such evil without the weird sist...
One way in which she is realistic is she is weird. The first thing creates the weirdness of Miss Emily is her hair. ... (Faulkner) However, she is not alone in being weird. ... So that, Emily is just the one who is weird as another and she is realistic. ...
The weird sisters' evil forces and power affected Macbeth's moral downfall by giving him reason to kill, which eventually killed him. ... The evil forces that the weird sisters, who were witches, possessed, put Macbeth's mind in another direction. ... The weird sisters warned Macbeth of this in the three apparitions but he continued living his life without realizing that they were speaking of him. The weird sisters affected Macbeth in the worst way. ...
The first seen in Act 1 is outside in the thunder and lightening with the weird sisters. ... The weird sisters told Macbeth that he should beware Macduff, that he is safe until Birnan Wood comes to Dunsinane, and that no man born of women can harm Macbeth. ...
Ever since I could remember my dad wasn't there. My parents were not divorced or separated but for some weird reason he was always gone for long periods of time. When he came back he would always show me bills or coins from all the countries that he had gone to. Not until I was about eight years ...
It is like being in some exotic culture and seeing all of the weird things that people do to their body there. ... It is because they didn't grow up around it, so to them it is weird. ... The kids need to pull out a picture of their parents in their hippie outfits and ask them, "were these people not considered weird at first?" ...
Along with setting, Poe's strange characters tell a romantic tale by their bizarre and weird qualities. ... Prince Prospero's taste for weird things show's his illness within. " There were arabesque figures with unsuited limbs and appointments- This quote is describing the rooms that the prince has in his household, which reflect on his personality. ... His characters, which tend to show weird qualities and taste, have the outside reflecting the in. ...
After a battle against the Norwegian invaders he and Banquo come across 3 weird sisters who tell Macbeth that he is to be Thane of Cawdor and King hereafter. ... Macbeth is proclaimed Thane of Cawdor minutes after the weird sisters disappear. ... We know that Banquo is tempted by the witches" prediction because he admits to Macbeth "I dreamt last night of the weird sisters. ...
Up to the middle of the year my group of friends and I would laugh at the other students who looked weird or make fun of the students who were socially awkward. ... Due to my younger sister's life-changing experience, I became friends with many of the students who were considered "different" or "weird.... Children who are looked at as different or weird, may have social anxiety or developmental issues, but they all have a story and are very friendly and caring people....
The influence of Lady Macbeth, the Weird Sisters, and even Macbeth himself lead to his downfall. ... At the beginning of the play, the Weird Sisters are preparing to meet with Macbeth, and the important imagery of "Fair is foul, and foul is fair," is first introduced. ... Macbeth does this in an attempt to establish his own line on the throne, in stead of Banquo's, which was prophesied my the Weird Sisters. ... As was the Weird Sisters plan, Macbeths overconfidence, due to the prophesies, begin to fail him. ...
The art of foreseeing the future and predicting ones fate is a gift the Weird Sisters have. ... "These Weird Sisters saluted [Macbeth] and referred [him] to the coming on of time with "Hail, King that shalt be""(1.5.8-9). ... Like the Weird Sisters, Lady Macbeth places images inside of Macbeth's head showing him what his life will be like when he is King. ... But she was there, at the right time, just the right time, to reinforce the prophecy of the Weird Sisters and send him on his journey of self-destruction, to his doomed fate. ...
As put by the Weird Sisters in the initial scene of the initial act of the play, what is "fair is foul" and what is "foul is fair," thus instituting the play's series of contrasts. ... This is a reference to the Weird Sisters, who cut up the truth to make it similar to the truth, yet different. Three is an important number in this play; there are the three Weird Sisters, three murderers, three traitors and three sinners as mentioned here. ... The Weird Sisters" plan is to make Macbeth secure about his future, "And you all know security / Is mortals" chiefest enemy" (III.5.32-III.5.33)...
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Sean doesn't leave anything out of his journey, as stated by Kathy Bail of Rolling Stone: "You"ll be shown the crap and the weird stuff as well as the scenic wonders" although the majority of the text focuses on the negative or "crap." ... Sean uses characterisation to create characters which the reader is encouraged to hate, feel sorry for or just view as plain weird. ... For instance, when Sean and David are in Adelaide they make the observation that "there's this weird, disgusting haircut that every other person in Adelaide has. ... Characters and the way in which Sean interacts w...
Kim played a bit more with the several buttons and dials on the monitor and suddenly weird sound came from it. ... She pointed the living room and said "The baby monitor is being weird, can you fix it?... Suddenly the weird sound increased and the voice was heard again. ... Then Kim realizes that Dylan was talking weird just like the baby monitor and her dad. ...
"Back then," says Maerhofer, "sales were made by looking weird. In the 50's, 60's, 70's and even the 80's, the weirder the song artist was, the more attention they received, people liked anything that was different. But now, instead of looking weird, the music industry is using not the music or the style of the artists, they are using their sexuality, and that to me is the biggest change in music itself." ...
These actions are influenced by his wife, Lady Macbeth, and the three weird sisters. ... Such influential characters range from Lady Macbeth, and the three weird sisters. ... The weird sisters do not play as a physical force on the actions of Macbeth, but as a mental force. ...
Weird attitudes are also included in a person that makes him unique despite being crazy for having it. ... The weird behaviors she detected were being a big fan of K-POPS, fond of collecting K-POP pictures and accessories, and being an eccentric person. ... Being a KPOP fan is one of my weird obsessions. ...
He was an author of supernatural stories, which were seen in both weird tradition and in American letters at large. ... Whatever the outstanding characteristics of Bierce's stories and the style of his writing, Bierce has an assured place in the history of the weird tale. ... Chambers, Lord Dunsany, and Lovecraft; and the influence that swept through these authors was in time felt by such modern writers of the weird as Carl Jacobi, Charles Beaumont, Rod Serling, among many others. ...
