Macbeth: She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word "(Shakespeare, Act V, Scene V). ... She really is excited to see him, but beneath her happiness is a plot of deceit and murder. Lady Macbeth: Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men may read strange matters:-To beguile the time, look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it (Shakespeare, Act 1, Scene III). She is telling him that his face can easily be read and that he needs to act like normal, but underneath to be cunning...

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Jefferson was a small southern town that was filled with southern hospitality and full of southern gossip. ... He would put fear in the eye of any boy who ever even thought of dating her. ... The whole town thought that she was going crazy. ... Generation after generation she was never seen. She had finally died of an illness at the age of 74. ...

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Just as our narrator tells us of herself, she contradicts her assertions by acting otherwise. For, she stresses her cold, contemplative nature from the first: "I, Lucy Snowe, was calm." (22) She avows that she "had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains." (38) However, fate does not allow this as eight years of calm, staid living are drastically disrupted by a metaphorical, stormy change. (38) Upon this upheaval, Lucy takes the initiative to set sail for France on a ship aptly called "The Vivid," for it is...

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• Grade Level: High School

Janie's life begins under the watchful eye of her grandmother. ... She may not be able to clearly define her thoughts, but the reader still sees that Janie's ideas are romantic and full of sensuality. ... She does not want to be a cracked plate, she is tall and blossoming and can see what she wants in her life. ... Janie's eyes are still full of pollen dust, and she cannot get her perfect vision of love out of her mind. ... She prays for the day when she will be delivered from the life of tedium that she lives. ...

• Word Count: 1094
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• Grade Level: High School