Alex Klug English 1118 Professor Flaig 10/24/09 Fortinbras’ Importance to ‘Hamlet’ In the story of Hamlet, both Young Hamlet and Young Fortinbras lose their father’s. Few years before, Hamlet’s father, the dead King Hamlet, invaded Fortinbras’ country of Norway and took territory from them by force. Hamlet’s father was later killed by his brother, Claudius, and assumed position as King as well as marrying the formerly widowed Queen Gertrude. Eventually, both Young Fortinbras and Young Hamlet avenged their fathers’ deaths. Young Fortinbras did this through asserting himself and his military to action, and invading the then troubled Denmark.
Laquanda Gadson October 2, 2012 Final Draft Comparison and Contrast Essay “In peace the sons bury their father, but in war the fathers bury their son” once said Herodotus. In this case it’s neither, it was all greed and jealousy that led these two families to go against the grain. Disney’s The Lion King is parallel to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. They are alike and different in more ways than you can imagine. The main characters are both the sons of monarchs, so they are princes, Simba and Hamlet.
Snopes’s son, Colonel Sartoris Snopes is called to the stand to testify against his father, but he lies to protect him. No evidence is found against Abner Snopes, but they family is told to leave town for their own good. The Snopes family then travels to Major de Spain’s plantation where Abner and his sons will work as sharecroppers. Not long after they get there and begin working, something terrible begins to happen. Abner and his son Sartoris enter into Major de Spain’s house and ruin an expensive French rug.
Morgan Christiansen Coach Burleson English 2 Antigone essay Haemon, son of King Creon, is trying to manipulate his father into not killing Antigone, his bride to be, who broke the law by giving her brother a proper burial in a horrific battle he fought between him and his own brother. “She covered her brothers body. Is this indecent? She kept him from the dogs and vultures. Is this crime?
Creon then condemns both Antigone and Ismene to death. He changes his mind about Ismene, but locks Antigone away in a stone vault. Later, after the blind prophet Teiresias predicts doom for the king, Creon decides to free Antigone, only to find that she has committed suicide. Antigone's death leads to the suicide of Creon's son, Haemon, who was going to marry her, and then finally to the suicide of Creon's wife, Eurydice. In the end of this great tragedy, Creon is left in distress and great sorrow.
Asta's son is heartbroken from the loss of his mother. Worst yet Asta's son’s is blamed for a murder that he did not commit. Asta's son is soon declared as a "wolf's head" (wanted dead or alive). Asta's son runs out of the village and begins the journey to discover whom he really is. Asta's son hides in the forest, and one day hears a conversation between John Ayecliffe, the village steward, and another person.
Suzelle Napoleon Prof. Robinson English 102 College Composition August 1, 2011 Write an essay describing Sarty’s attitude toward his father as they develop and change throughout the story. (Barn Burning) Sartoris Snopes is a young boy with a major conflict in his life; “be true to his blood”? or come forward with the truth. His father, Colonel Sartoris Snopes, a reckless character with very cruel intentions has had to relocate his family because he is accused of burning down a barn. Sarty is called to testify during the hearing against his father for witnessing his actions.
The hired murderers kill Banquo but mistakenly allow Fleance to escape. At a celebratory banquet that night, Macbeth is thrown into a state of horror when the ghost of the murdered Banquo appears at the dining table. Again, his wife tries to strengthen Macbeth, but the strain is clearly beginning to show. The following day, Macbeth returns to the same Witches who initially foretold his destiny. This time, the Witches not only confirm that the sons of Banquo will rule in Scotland, but they also add a new prophecy: Macbeth will be invincible in battle until the time when the forest of Birnam moves towards his stronghold at Dunsinane and until he meets an enemy "not born of woman."
Lady Macbeth is Macbeth’s wife and she wants him to kill the king. Macbeth bounces back and forth with his decision to kill the king or not. Eventually he decides that he is not going to do it until Lady Macbeth talks him into doing the deed. Macbeth killing Duncan changes his ordinary life into a special world where it is okay to kill the king. His next trial was what he was going to about his suspicious best friend Banquo.
Upon arriving home to his farm John discovered that his father has been murdered by a member of the Doone clan, who he later finds out was Carver Doone. Fighting his desire to avenge his father, he grows up and becomes a respectable farmer, like his father, and cares for his mother and his two sisters, Annie and Lizzie. On Valentine’s Day after John’s fourteenth birthday, he tries to catch loach for his sickly mother, but fails at his usual route. He then ventures toward Bagworthy, which lead into Doone Valley, and finds what he is looking for. He tries to climb the waterfall but collapses from exhaustion, later waking in Glen Doone with a girl named Lorna Doone, who helps him to safely escape.