At the start of the play, Lady Macbeth seems to have a very strong character - almost stronger than Macbeth's - but by the end she is reduced to being afraid of the dark. At the beginning she is Macbeth's 'dearest partner of greatness', but at the end she is his 'fiend-like queen'. She has a lus...

MACBETH In the tragedy of Macbeth No one knew about the death The story starts when the war is won The King of Cawdors life is done A female is not Macbeth's lady Because her mind was evil and shady She wanted to be a queen But when she did, she jumped out of the window screen Th...

A Story of Isolation In the short story "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner tells the sad story of Miss Emily's unstable state of mind. The theme in this story is that of isolation. Here is a woman who never left the sanctity of her home for something like 30 years. She did gi...

Margaret Johnson, only daughter of Mary Murphy: found dead in the East River at age 23 Margaret Johnson, also called Maggie, was a successful seamstress and the only daughter of Mary Murphy died on November 19 in the East River where she was spotted floating atop the freezing cold water. The...

Emily Grierson is a very quiet person who kept to herself a lot. She's not very sociable and stays in her house and doesn't even talk to the people in her town. Emily lives in the past because of her fathers death and she stays in her house alone and excludes herself from the town. Then, ...