Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Please write a detailed description of why Lady Macbeth is a fiend-like queen in Macbeth?

You are asking if Lady Macbeth is a fiend-like person in Shakespeare's Macbeth.  She certainly isn't literally a fiend, nor is she a fourth witch, but I suppose you could make an argument that she is fiend-like.


She believes in what she calls "spirits" and asks them for help.  In Act 1.5, she asks them, in a stern and serious manner, to "unsex" her--make her more like a man (ruthless, aggressive).  She asks them to fill her with "direst cruelty."  She asks them to turn her mother's milk to poison.


Later, trying to manipulate and convince Macbeth that the two of them should continue with plans to assassinate Duncan, she says that if she had promised to do something like Macbeth promised to kill Duncan (which he didn't really do, by the way), rather than go back on her word she would pluck her child from her breast while he was eating and "dashed the brains out" (Act 1.7).  


Of course, an answer to your question partially depends on your definition of "fiend."  But if you define fiend in a traditional or popular way, then yes you could argue that Lady Macbeth is much like a fiend.

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

hi i need to write an essay but i need a quote from the Romeo and Juliet play to describe count Paris?? any ideas?

In Act One, Scene Four, Juliet, Lady Capulet and the Nurse are discussing how Juliet feels about getting married.  The young County Paris has asked Lord Capulet for Juliet's hand in marriage and he has directed his wife to seek out Juliet's opinion of this proposition.  Lady Capulet proceeds in Lines 90-103 to compare the characteristics of County Paris to a richly, decorated book:

"Read o'er the volume of Young Paris' face, Examine every several lineament, And see how one another lends content; And what obscured in this fair volume lies Find written in the margent of his eyes.  This precious book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him only lacks a cover.  The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride For fair without the fair within to hide. That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, That in gold clasps locks in the golden story; So shall you share all that he doth possess, By having him making yourself no less".

Lady Capulet is using an extended metaphor in her compaison of County Paris to a book and she feels Juliet should definitely read this "book" from cover to cover.

Describe the conflict between Gatsby and Tom Buchanan?

In The Great Gatsby, Tom is traditional, well-established, conservative, safe in the sense that he is part of society's status quo.  But Tom is also abrasive and dominating and even abusive.  Gatsby is none of these, as far as the reader knows.  


But whatever conflicts the above cause are only secondary in the novel, and only really come into play when Tom uses whatever he can to verbally attack Gatsby, once he knows Gastby has a relationship with Daisy. 


Gatsby, new, mysterious, seemingly a man of the world, certainly a self-made man, tries to woo Daisy and recapture the romance he believes they once shared.  Tom, domineering, physically powerful, bull-headed, is honestly shocked when he finds out Daisy has become involved with someone outside of their marriage, even though he has been doing the same.  And he certainly isn't going to let some outsider come from nowhere and take his wife away.  


Whether Tom is awakened by the threat to his marriage or he simply protects what he sees as his and will remain the same type of husband he has been is left ambiguous, but he certainly does come out ahead in his conflict with Gatsby.  

What option is more comfortable: travel in an airplane or bus? Explain why? i need examples for bpth the bus and the airplane......

As far as being comfortable, this one is almost a toss-up. Crowded buses and airplanes can make travel miserable, and I have experienced both sides. All things being equal, I would probably take the airplane, assuming you have no fear of flying. However, many things can play into the decision.


Flying first-class would almost always be preferable to riding in a standard, commercial bus. Of course, if the bus is a private or custom coach with large seats and plenty of room, then perhaps the bus would get my vote. I have flown to Europe several times on flights that were about half empty, and being able to stretch out over 3-4 seats and sleep made it a very comfortable flight. Of course, flying for a long period of time crowded in between two large people would not be a great experience; the same could be said for a crowded bus. One of my worst trips ever was a bus ride with many babies crying non-stop throughout the night; but again, the same conditions could arise on a plane as well.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Discuss the long- and short-range effects of the New Deal on American political and economic life.What were its key successes and failures? What...

In the short term, the New Deal helped to make the Depression less of a problem.  It did not really end the Depression, but it helped.


Long term, it has had huge consequences that we can feel today.  It got the government way more involved in the economy.  It got the government to start paying farmers not to produce things, which still happens today.  It got the government to build dams and such -- the electricity I'm using to type this came from a dam made then.


Politically, this changed our outlook.  It made us assume that the government was going to take care of us -- to give us things like Social Security, to guarantee our bank accounts, etc.  Right now, we are going through some amount of conflict about these things -- how much the government should be involved in our economic lives, especially (like with the health care debate).

How would an Elizabethan audience respond to a specific line? How would a modern audience respond?

I imagine you are looking for a line to be used as an example.


Take this discussion from the beginning of Romeo and Juliet: 



SAMPSON 
A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will
take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's.

GREGORY 
That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes
to the wall.

SAMPSON 
True; and therefore women, being the weaker vessels,
are ever thrust to the wall: therefore I will push
Montague's men from the wall, and thrust his maids
to the wall.

GREGORY 
The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.

SAMPSON 
'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I
have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the
maids, and cut off their heads.

GREGORY 
The heads of the maids?

SAMPSON 
Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;
take it in what sense thou wilt.



This discussion about women to an Elizabethan audience might have been very funny in a dirty way. A woman's maidenhead referred to her virginity. Sampson is essentially talking about having relations with these women of the Montagues.


An Elizabethan audience would either be disturbed or humored by this discussion, while a modern audience would be confused by the vocabulary of the word maidenhead.

What is the conflict of The Leap by Louise Erdrich?

The conflict in The Leap by Louise Erdrich is in the choice of whose life to save and it appears twice. The narrator is telling the tale of how she came to be. In doing so, she recounts the two occasions on which her mother had to make a choice about whose life/lives to risk and whose to save. The first came while the narrator's mother was pregnant and still performing with her husband, the narrator's father, as a circus trapeze artist. A terrible lightning storm sent a bolt directly to the Big Top while the two were in mid-flight in a stunt. Her mother had a split-second choice to make and, instead of grabbing for her falling husband and joining him in his plunge to death, she grabbed a burning cable to save her baby at the cost of great personal harm.

The second incident came when the narrator was a child and the house caught on fire while her mother was away from home for a bit. The narrator was trapped upstairs in the blazing house when her mother came home to firemen at an impasse as to how to rescue the little girl. Once again the mother had a choice to make as to whose life to risk and whose life to save. She stripped off her clothes, climbed a tree, went out on a dangerous limb (physically and metaphorically), leapt to the house and, suspended by her heels dug into the roof's drain gutter, pulled her child to safety through the open bedroom window.

Discuss at least two characteristics of Romanticism in John Keat's poem "Ode toa Nightingale".

The poet in Ode To A Nightingale  is an escapist .He escapes through imagination .On his way the bower of the bliss wher the nightingale is ...