Gentlewoman

being a man. A true human casts a mark of simplicity and honour. The only difference is that a gentleman casts a bold mark and a gentlewoman casts an elegant mark, and both have a need to exist in a family. This older version of Scout understands the lack of femininity in a family and its importance. She has obviously realised that she is the closest person to a gentlewoman to the Finches. This connects back to the…

The front cover of Anne Bradstreet’s The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, a book of poetry, describes Bradstreet as a gentlewoman. This description and Bradstreet’s repeated exclamations that she did not initiate the publication of her works lessened the controversy surrounding the publication of a Puritan woman’s poetry. In the seventeenth-century, it was uncommon for women to write for pleasure, yet Bradstreet was such an accomplished poet that she became the first published author…

In 1978 Trevor Nunn directed a Macbeth film that is frequently considered being the definitive Macbeth film. This film stars Ian McKellen and Judi Dench. It was based on a Royal Shakespeare Company stage creation of Macbeth that was brilliant success. Trevor Nunn stays faithful to the content of the play and the interplay between the light and the darkness is more than striking in his adaptation of Macbeth. To create a puzzling and peculiar ambience for the viewers, the scene is played in…

eyes sparkled joyfully when the dogs came bounding up to welcome her (W.H., P.45). Catherine has changed from a “savage”, mischievous girl who used to play and spends all her time with Heathcliff, into an adequate young lady with a manner of gentlewoman. She becomes fond of the life style of Linton family and has an attraction to Edger. This transformation is the first step which leads for her separation from Heathcliff and her consequent misery.28 Heathcliff on the other hand, has been…

When the doctor and gentlewoman examine Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking problem and she hallucinates the blood on her hands, “Out, Damned spot, out, I say! One. Two. Why then, ‘tis time to do ‘t. Hell is murky” (5.1, 37-38). Lady Macbeth counting up the amount of dead people they…

husbandry (cheapness) in heaven/ Their candles are all out” (2.1.5-6), Banquo foreshadows Duncan’s murder scene by describing the dark setting. The last relation to the motif of darkness is when Lady Macbeth is sleepwalking in Act 5. When the Gentlewoman is interpreting Lady Macbeth “illness” to the doctor, she mentions that “She has light by/ her continually. ‘Tis her command” (5.1.24-25). By pointing this out, she exposes Lady Macbeth’s fear of darkness, to the readers, despite her constant…

Title: Blood. The great symbol and indicator of who you are, but also what you have done. Everyone has it, no one thinks about it, yet it makes up eight percent of your total body weight. Blood is the answer. It is plays a major role in the tragedy of Macbeth. The author, William Shakespeare, implants several different motifs throughout the play. Blood, being one of them, stands out as the most significant. It drives the minds and contributes in a way that it affects both Macbeth and Lady…

casualties of my desire. I have no means to reconcile the past for I would suffer if I am heard speaking of such events. God, protect me from these torturous devils. Rid me of this evil. Mend the fractured parts of my innocent soul. The Doctor and Gentlewoman say I wander in my sleep, speaking of a recurrent dream land where weeping ghosts haunt my night visions. Madness. Fever apparitions. Hallucinations. That is what they call my rambling but they do not know the truth behind my…

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the line between the supernatural and the psychological is blurred, but gains more clarity as the play progresses. Despite the presence of supernatural elements in the play, the downfall of the characters is brought about by their own psychological states. The downfall of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth illustrates the power a single idea can have over a person when it grows into a desire and inspires actions. Throughout the play, the danger of synchronization of thought and…

Let us start with what is free will? Well free will is acting independently in spite of outside influences. In Macbeth by William Shakespeare there were many tragedies Including the death of Macbeth. But now it is time to talk about the free will and the differences women and men had against it. Women had more of a hold on manliness in this play because they were more controllable when everything started going crazy. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth had a couple things in common starting with…