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    Role Reversal of the Macbeths William Shakespeare’s Macbeth chronicles the ambition of its two main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Their lust for power drives them to tyranny, manipulation, and murder. Their ambition also drives them into arrogance, madness, and death. Lady Macbeth is one of the most powerful female characters in literature. The Macbeths’ marriage, while to the public might seem normal, is anything but that. In public Macbeth is known as a fierce, courageous hero, and…

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    Satan Rituals

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    A ritual is usually a step-by-step religious ceremony used to show dedication or celebration. Rituals have a sentimental meaning to the participants. The most common type of rituals that you may have experienced might be funerals or praying before a meal. Satanists practice unusual rituals that you probably had no idea existed. What are these foreign rituals? How are they categorized? (Bleach) There are many different definitions of the word satanism. The largest organization is The Church of…

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    for him to change either himself or his world” (Blum). His let go creates his journey because of his changed emotions from pure lust to a mixture of infatuation and lust. Both Orwell and Eliot’s introduction of the exploit convey a comparable mood of serenity. Although, the mood in Nineteen Eighty-Four shifts multiple times throughout the novel, rotating between fear, lust, and adrenaline rush; Prufrock’s despair sets the poem to a uniform, peaceful atmosphere. Additionally, the mirror in…

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    In the eleventh and thirteenth ages the crusades were a dark war between religions many of them had brutal deaths and leaving no one left alive.One of the groups taking part in the war was the christian they wanted to take back the holy land from the muslims.The christians left a bitter lace behind them because they would slay Jews ernite community one of the big problem was that they did all that killing and didn't even make their goal. I think the crusades had a negative effect on them…

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    is set in Boston, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. In The Crucible, neighbors were accusing neighbors without hard evidence, but with social motives. Salem townspeople are motivated to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft due to lust, fear, and greed. In Act One, Abigail Williams and John Proctor encounter each other in Betty’s room. While talking, Abigail’s flirts begin to taunt John, forcing him to directly face his sin. John wants nothing to do with her, and while…

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    Hour of Venus on a new moon, your partner and you join to bind your love and make it stronger. 7 red candles are lit on the perimeter of the circle. Place rose quarts on the circle, at least 7 pieces. Draw a symbol sacred to Ishtar between the two of you. Symbols.com is a good source. Have 7 items representing your love beside you, a witch bottle to trap your love and protect it forever.... unless of course the bottle breaks, but its a good way to end it I suppose. Anyway, sprinkle sugar on…

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    deceitful and dishonest with her false accusations. She accuses Elizabeth Proctor out of lust and greed to take her place as partner of John Proctor. She created chaos in the town of Salem. Abigail Williams took joy from the witch trials, presenting an innocent character to others; despite being dishonest, selfish, and lustful while not caring about innocent human lives. Abigail Williams was attracted through lust towards John Proctor, which caused her to make bad decisions. Abigail wept,…

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    In the book The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, the author himself is the protagonist of his own poem where he travels inside hell with a companion named Virgil. Dante travels downwards the center where he passes “circles” that represents the different type of floors with different sins. As they go downward, the sins become worse for each circle until they reach where Satan is located where everything is frozen and surrounded by ice, unlike the imagery of hell in the bible where everything is…

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    religious and even political standards. For this reason, in writing Dracula, while telling of a quest to kill a dangerous monster, Stoker uses symbols, metaphors, as well as references to the Greek God Hades to tell different underlying stories: of lust, of existence between life and death, and of the necessity of both irrational thought as well as science. “Your girls that you all love are mine already”(Stoker 440). In Victorian England, from a social point of view, there existed three…

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    In the short story “The Dead,” James Joyce conveys an epiphany in a character named Gabriel who realizes his relationship is not what he believed. As the Morkan’s annual dance comes to an end, Gabriel’s wife, Gretta begins to act differently as she hears a familiar song sung by Bartell D'Arcy. Gabriel “trembling now with annoyance” as he wonders why she seems “so abstracted.” As the story progresses, Gretta confesses that she is “thinking about that song, The Lass of Aughrim.” This song reminds…

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