.... to emphasize the need to reform their role in society. Definite characteristics of the women's subordinate role in a relationship are emphasized through Nora's contradicting actions. Her infatuation with luxuries such as expensive Christmas gifts contradicts her resourcefulness in scrounging and buying cheap clothing; her defiance of Torvald by eating forbidden Macaroons contradicts the submission of her opinions, including the decision of which dance outfit to wear, to her husband; and Nora's flirtatious nature contradicts her devotion to her husband. These occurrences emphasize the facets of a relationship in which women pla .....

.... other words life is like a flower that blooms. It bursts out with beauty and then time and decay cause it to slowly wither away to old age and death. In the last couplet of the sonnet, Shakespeare gives his friend a way to win the war with time and decay and implant his beauty again. The way offers this is to be featured in his poetry. What better way to “live on” then to be read about for centuries? The cycle of the year is used to describe life in sonnet 18. Spring equals youth, summer equals maturity and perfection, fall equals middle age and winter equals old age. Shakespeare writes “Shall I compare thee to a su .....

.... did. It was punishable by whipping. In Act One, the girls were deciding whether to tell the truth about what happened in the woods. Mary Warren said to Abigail, “Abby, we've got to tell. Witchery's a hangin' error, a hangin' like they done in Boston two year ago! We must tell the truth, Abby! You'll only be whipped for dancin' and the other things!”(18) Although this clearly shows that dancing was a punishable crime in that time, witchcraft was a much more serious offense. Puritans had very rigid beliefs about the Bible and God and the Devil. They believed that witches made compacts with the Devil to do his evil .....

.... not. In Macbeth's darkest hours, he showed no sign of prudence and logic as he slayed king Duncan, and hired assassins to murder his friend Banquo. Macbeth displayed his temerity in act IV scene 1 saying, "_from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done;_ " Macbeth was no longer the logical, thinking man whom many admired. He had become reckless, acting with only his passion and not his mind. The tragedy of the murders he brought on fair Scotland was a direct result of this violation of the criterion of a good man. T .....

.... at the Whitney Museum of Art and at the Modern Museum of Art. I chose to describe As I Opened Fire, by Roy Lichenstein. It was made in 1964 and is the the third of three panels in a narrative arrangement. As I Opened Fire is magna on a canvas which is 68 X 56. Its composition reminds of a comic book. It shows 2 guns firing of the side of a ship, with letters on the top saying "That my ship was below them..." The color scheme was very interesting. For backround, Lichenstein used grey-blue. For the guns he used white, grey, and black, giving them a three-dimensional look using shadowing. For the fire (coming out of the guns) he .....

.... is sure to be struck by its attention. The companies deny that these symbols target people under 21 and claim that their advertising goal is simply to promote brand switching. Illinois Rep. Richard Durbin disagrees with this statement stating “If we can reduce the number of young smokers, the tobacco companies will be in trouble and they know it”. The companies go toward a market that is not fully aware of the harm that cigarettes are capable of to keep their industry alive and well. When kids were asked why they started smoking, they gave two contradictory reasons: They wanted to be a part of the crowd. Children don't .....

.... for his wife to be released. Furthermore, when Giles offers evidence that Putnam falsely accused a man as a witch in order to get his land, and the judge asks Corey to give the name of the man who heard Putnam's conversation as evidence, Giles refuses to give the name so to protect him, while he himself would have to hang, an act of honor and courage: “I will not give you no name. I mentioned my wife's name once and I'll burn in hell long enough for that. I stand mute.” (p. 97) Giles Corey finally becomes a true hero when he is tortured to death for remaining silent. Instead of giving the court a name, exactly what the .....

.... all of the people that you love and expect it to not dishearten you a little. And in Hamlets case it pretty much drove him insane. The human spirit is a very fragile thing, and something as tragic as the death of a loved one can damage it greatly. As in Hamlets case, when his father was murdered, this started a sort of devastating chain reaction of the psyche. He started to "go nuts", and it showed. The people around him started noticing this drastic change in his personality. But his insanity was most evident during the play which he set up and called "The Mousetrap". Hamlet sat fidgeting in his chair, staring at Caudius with a .....

.... Shakespeare leads you to believe that the main character, Hamlet, might be insane. There are many clues to suggest Hamlet is insane but in fact he is completely sane. Throughout the play Hamlet makes wise decisions to prove he is not insane. He knows exactly what he is leading up to. He just delays to act due to his indecisiveness. An example of this is in Act III, section III, line 73, Hamlet says “Now might I do it pat, now ’a is a-praying, and now I’ll do it-and so ‘a goes to heaven, and so am I revenged that would be scanned. A villain kills my father, and for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send to .....

.... play was only a day long so he faces all of these challenges in just one day. It seems like every time King Liaos death is brought up, Oedipus always blames it on someone. Oedipus then tells everyone that the person who killed King Liaos will be put to death when found. When he says this, it tells the people that he didn’t kill him. As the play goes on he blames the death on Kreon. After that he blames Teiresias for the death. The play continues like this for a long time until it reaches the Exodus. During the Exodus, Oedipus starts noticing what he is doing wrong. It takes him the whole play to finally see what is going on. Th .....