William Hurt

Selflessness in “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” William Blake is more different than others. He is humbled to help the people around him learn to love art as much as he does. His passionate desire for art is shown through his actions and his artwork, such as his poems. Blake shows the importance of being a successful leader in the world. In William Blake’s poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger", his selfless character is evident through his life, career, and poetry. William Blake uses his life to help…

The Crucible Without exception, every situation or story has a villain and victim, the victim being the person who is getting taken advantage of. The villain being the person who is taking advantage. Therefore, Abigail Williams is the main character in the The Crucible by Arthur Miller. She lived in Salem, Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials. Everywhere she goes, she causes trouble. The trials were about the prosecutions of people who were accused of witchcraft. During the first act in…

In the novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, the two main characters Ralph and Jack have different views of civilization. Jack believes that his group should be hunters and that violence is the answer to surviving on the island. While Ralph believes in making shelter, behaving, and trying to get off the island as soon as possible. To show power and leadership, Ralph and a character named Piggy found a conch and whoever holds possession of it either has the floor to talk or mainly is the…

the struggles that women faced in the sixteenth century, many of which spill into post-Civil War America, as evident in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily.” Woolf’s “What if Shakespeare Had Had a Sister?” details the hypothetical life of Shakespeare’s younger sister, Judith, and her struggle to pursue her art, just as her brother William was allowed to. While William went to school to learn Latin, grammar, and logic, Judith would be kept home, constantly being chastised for wanting…

In a society of only middle school boys, what causes their lives to break? Fear and violence. When you have fear and violence feeding off each other, your society is doomed to fail. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, They boys threaten to skewer each other to make others fear them. They also abuse each other. Lastly, the boys are so afraid of this creature they formed in their minds, they become violent and physically harm each other. In Lord of the Flies fear and violence are big themes…

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is about a woman named Katherine, who is dubbed a shrew. Katherine has a sister named Bianca and everyone wants to marry her, but Katherine has to get married first before she can. Petruchio, a greedy and self-centered man, volunteered to tame Katherine's turbulent personality and marry her. Katherine, throughout her relationship with Petruchio, is truly tamed. Katherine’s father, Baptista, gave Petruchio permission to marry her. While at their…

final scene, we are presented with someone holding the exact same patch as the boy had, and as the camera moves up to the person's face, it gets clear that the boy is by now an old man, who is portrayed by well-known actor John Hurt. As we hear the Chorus, also voiced by John Hurt, speak the epilogue in the same moment, it can be easily supposed that the boy is now reflecting as an old man upon the story of Henry V since he has been a witness to the events of that…

Have you ever fallen in love with someone who has no interest in you and doesn’t love you back? Did that person suddenly start loving you out of nowhere? In A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Helena’s hunger for love brings out a desperate side in her and takes her through interesting adventures with love. One can infer that love is hurtful by how Helena reacts to love in a foolish manner and remains skeptical about it even near the end of the play. The strong effects of love…

In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the protagonist Ralph portrays the theme of losing innocence. A plane carrying a bunch of schoolboys, crashes in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The pilot of the plane is killed, but many of the boys survive the crash and find themselves stranded on the island alone. Ralph the leader of the boys, addresses that being rescued and getting off this island is the first priority. Meanwhile, the antagonist of the book Jack disagrees and things food…

evidence would be “ you did, you did! You drank a charm to kill john proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill goody proctor” (18). This explains she drank the blood in order to kill Elizabeth. Another evidence would be “ The girl, the William girl, Abigail Williams , sir she say to dinner in reverend Parris house tonight, and without word nor war in she stalls to the floor like a struck beast and she says and screamed that a bill would weep to hear. Had he goes to save her, and, stuck two…