… the influence of the witches' prophecies on Macbeth is very great, it is quite clearly shown to be an influence and nothing more. There is no sign in the play whatever that Shakespeare meant the actions of Macbeth to be forced on him by external…

… woman, no longer young, who had quarreled with almost everyone, owing to a temper which was self-assertive and a disposition to trample upon the rights of others." (25) This is how Kate Chopin introduces the character of Mademoiselle Reisz into her novel…

… the work of any one or more writers of the period. Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin, Ireland were he grew up in the care of his uncle. He then attended Trinity College at the age of fourteen, where he stayed for seven years. After graduating…

… Peace, by John Knowles tells about a sixteen-year-old boy named Gene Forrester who lives part of his life at Devon, an all boys' school. Devon was considered to be one of the most beautiful schools in New England. Gene experiences conflict with…

… my opinion, it is one of the best epics I have ever read. I will now try to prove how this story speaks to us in the twenty-first century. Some may think that The Odyssey is an old-fashioned story, but I will now prove otherwise. The values of trust,…

… is an exciting adventure deep into the nether regions of the mind, the part of the brain that is suppressed by the ordinary tasks of modern society. It is a struggle between Ralph and Jack, the boys and the Beast, and good and evil. This wonderfully…

… Toby and Dora is described as a 'sweet tenuous ambiguous bond' and this is seen, to a point, to be true. These two new members of the Imber community have seemingly very little in common at the beginning of the novel but find temporary solace in…

… Dora Greenfield as a weak, timorous character, stating 'left her husband because she was afraid of him'. This makes her appear somewhat of a victim who is incapable of standing up to people, especially as Murdoch then informs us that she returned…

… not just to make it successful in Jacobean times, but also to add depth and atmosphere to the play. They are the root of disorder and are the trigger factor for the chaos that unfolds throughout the play. Shakespeare considered their role very…

… by Philip Larkin, and 'Churning Day', by Seamus Heaney. These feature mainly in the structure of the two poems. They both use enjambment for the whole length of the poem, with just one end-stopped line present in each. Enjambment gives both poems…