King Lear Seminar Response

The diction in the quote, along with the rhyme at the end helps the reader associate Macbeth with dark and unnatural characteristics. The relationship Shakespeare creates between the words “knell” and “bell” is interesting, as they are both words associated with death and afterlife; a clear indicator of Macbeth’s deadly intentions. Also, the killing of Duncan by Macbeth can be viewed from an ironic standpoint. At the beginning of the play Duncan cannot stop praising Macbeth while condemning the thane of Cawdor who betrayed him. The murder of Duncan stands in complete opposition to what the other characters know of Macbeth, but as the play ultimately shows, Macbeth’s actions do speak louder than his words.

He is “fated” to become king – this is known to the weird sisters, who also know that ambition is his hamartia. In this way, they orchestrate this “hurly - burly” and are keen on watching the catastrophe unfold before them. Considering the fact that these thoughts that “shake” the “single state” of Macbeth only take place after hearing the prophecies of the weird sisters, one can deduce that his own uninfluenced ambition would not have led him to such disastrous actions. Macbeth tries to console his “black and deep” desires by telling himself that “chance” will give him the crown, but the weird sisters awake such a murderous ambition within him that he cannot tame his own mind and consequently finds himself following a “dagger of the mind” to commit an action so grievous that the trustworthy soldier within him will never have enough peace to “sleep” again. The weird sisters play an important role in the play as the uninfluenced ambition of Macbeth would not have led to disastrous actions and this has been argued with reference to Macbeth as a

In addition to showing the serious side of Prince Henry, the speech foreshadows events to come while referencing Hal’s previous commitment to his ‘reformation’. Prince Henry’s vow to kill Percy predicts Hal’s victory over Hotspur and restoration of honor, which take place in V.4. The outcome of the play mirror Hal’s dramatic speech, as his honor was restored and Hotspur was killed. However, Hal’s speech in III.2 was presupposed by his monologue in the end of act I.2, where Hal states “And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, / My reformation, glitt’ring o’er my fault, / Shall show more goodly and attract more eyes, / Than that which hath no foil to set it off” (Shakespeare, 1.2. 205-207).

After Macbeth’s response, Lady Macbeth says, “When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more then you what you were, you would Be so much more the man” (1.7 49-51). This shows that Lady Macbeth is pressuring Macbeth when she comments that her husband is weak. With all the pressure, Macbeth proves his wife wrong by deciding to agree with Lady Macbeth. In conclusion, sympathy is a feeling that awakes the viewers even when Macbeth presents immoral decisions. The corrupt actions by Macbeth arise in the scenes where the witches try to bring an interest in Macbeth to become the king and when Lady Macbeth pressures her

2.3. Spanking and disciplining children As it is true that spanking cannot teach children what to do and what not to do. Because every human being wants to do something according to his will. These are the following reasons why children should never be spanked: 1. Spanking has serious harmful side effects that parents have no way of seeing, because such effects do not show up until later.

He was a little boy when Susie died but he understood what happened after. He wasn 't sad about Susie’s death herself but more of his parents. He was sick of seeing them through grief and how they changed. It states in page 256, “‘You have to choose. It’s not fair,’ my brother said… ‘i’m tired of it!’ Buckley blared.

“There shall be done a deed of dreadful note”, “What’s to be done?” “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck” (Macbeth Act III). This Quotation from the Shakespeare play “Macbeth” perfectly represents and shows how Macbeth has taken leadership of their relationship, he even seems to be making big decisions on his own though this wasn’t always the case. From Lady Macbeth prodding Macbeth with the idea that he was lacking manliness. She saves Macbeth from his social mistakes, and the slow transfer of power between the two it can be seen that both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have changed significantly. The first views we see their two personalities is when Lady Macbeth is coaxing her husband to kill King Duncan.

“Charles” a story by Shirley Jackson, highlights the the narrator's son Laurie and his “classmate” Charles. Due to a serious case of parental myopia in the narrator and her husband, they fail to see that Charles is merely a clever device used by Laurie to fool his parents. Laurie uses this to his advantage and describes his own doings using the character Charles. His parents do not realise this until the very end of this story when the teacher explains that there is no such boy called Charles in her class. I believe that Jackson is trying to say that identity is not only your name and who you are, but it is also what you do and some fail to see things the way they are and not the way they think it is.

Holden’s grumpiness is an attributing factor to why he calls everything phony with the other factor being personality. Holden's parents haven’t been there for him much while he has been growing up. Holden has been to three private schools and just got kicked out of his third one, Pencey Prep. He doesn’t want to go back home until his parents receive the letter that he has been kicked out. When Holden was talking about his parents, he said “I thought of maybe hanging up if my parents answered, but that wouldn't've worked, either.

Therefore you shouldn't have to punish kid as if they’re adult it not right. For a kid getting treated as an adult is like saying that you're worthless and you have no meaning if that's what you want kids to think go ahead do what you do best. It's been proven by Paul Thompson an assistant professor