He was now ready to kill Duncan. ... For the first time in the story, we see a dark side to the brave and courageous Macbeth. Macbeth sees himself kill his ruler. ... Instead, Macbeth accepts the plans and goes further by asking Lady Macbeth to "mock the time with fairest show" (I, vii, 91). ... Lastly, Macbeth acknowledges his guilt in several places in the story. ...
This mystery soldier is the one who ignores the forewarnings prompted by the most respected philosophers of our time, and although he knows that war leads to carnage, continues to fight until an opposing bullet kills him. ... Because he switches around this word in many ways, Cummings mocks the American way of associating military service with courage, honor, privilege, and all the other pithy sayings society loves to drill into its citizens" minds. ... In another popular anti-war poem, "I sing of Olaf glad and big," Cummings redefines the American stereotype of a war hero by telling a story...
The story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible would have been known to most people through stories, but the reference to Macrobius's Latin commentary on the earlier Latin writer Cicero's Dream of Scipio was erudite. ... The proem sets the stage for the main story of this poem, the narrator's dream. ... He hears a great number of birds singing loudly outside his window. The windows of the chamber in which he lies are stained glass, and they depict the story of the Trojan War. ... The dreamer tries to talk the knight out of suicide by enumerating the foolish people in history who ...
Ghost stories, they have the power to throw us into another world, leading us to not only fear for the characters within the novel but for ourselves as the ghosts seem to follow the reader around weeks afterwards. ... Ghost stories paint vivid pictures inside the mind as they force us to come face to face with our deepest fears. Imagining ourselves as the main characters we become a part of the story, seeing, hearing, and feeling everything that the author is courageous enough to delve into the darker side of his or her subconscious. The stories give a sense of escape, by allowing the reader t...
The social and historical contexts of this novel are very different from those in To Kill a Mockingbird. ... To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the 1930s America, in the Southern State of Alabama. The town in which the story is set is called Maycomb. ... To Kill a Mockingbird has a different social and historical context than Jane Eyre. ... This is similar to Scouts schooling in To Kill a Mockingbird. ...
The book, Céline and His Vision, is a story of a French soldier whose skull gets cracked during World War I. ... He gives us the first line and the last, and the central story of the novel is ready to begin. ... Everyone but Weary was killed. ... In his own mind, Weary narrates the war stories he will one day tell. ... In his head he refers to them and himself as the Three Musketeers, and tells himself the story of how the Three Musketeers saved the life of a dumb college kid. ...
The History The passage of time gives rise to new ideas and movements that stem from the social, political, and economic conditions in which a people live. History has seen the formation, disintegration, and evolution of innumerable religious movements, oftentimes the response of a people to the ...
Golding's use of irony in the last chapter blurs the boundary between civilization and savagery and implies that the two are more closely connected than the story has illustrated. ... "Lord of the Flies" tells the story of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a tropical island after their plane is shot down during a war. ... Although Golding's story is confined to the microcosm of a group of boys, it resounds with implications far beyond the bounds of the small island and explores problems and questions universal to the human experience. ...
Instead of being embraced for their differences and respected as human beings, homosexuals have been, time and time again, condemned to hell, killed, or discriminated against. ... Three sections are often quoted when people use the Bible to condemn homosexuality: The story of the city of Sodom, the priestly codes of Leviticus, and the letters of Paul. (Silver 59) The story of the city of Sodom is one of the most widely told stories of the Bible. ... The story is recounted in the book of Genesis: 1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing...
