This was not how it was suppose to go. The voodoo leader sat down and started chanting, dissecting a snake that had poison all through it. She would not let her tribe lose out of weakness. She cursed the witches’ house, only thinking of that delivered box, and how the head of her beautifully created Minotaur was lying there; it’s eyes still
Sykes is constantly talking to Delia as if, he is communicating to one of his boys, he shows this by saying, “You sho is one aggravatin’ nigger women!” (Hurston 105). Sykes likes to scare Delia, knowing very well that she is afraid of snakes. One evening when he came home, and she was washing some dishes, “Sweating” like always. Sykes decides to put his black whip on her to make it seem like, it was an snake, getting ready to attack her. “Just something long, round, limp and black fell upon her shoulder and slithered to the floor beside her.
Though Delia was once in love with Sykes she now feels mostly hatred towards him. In this passage from Zora Neal Hurston’s short story, Sweat, Delia’s husband, Sykes, has been bitten by the snake and is begging for mercy. Instead of helping him, Delia just stands there and watches her husband die. Early on Delia tells Sykes that he will reap what he has sewn and indeed Sykes does end having to reap what he has sewn. In other words she is talking about karma and what goes around comes around.
Macbeth shall sleep no more” (II.2.55-57). He is already panicking regarding what he has done and hearing voices that foreshadow his sleeplessness. Then, Lady Macbeth scolds him for leaving the murder weapon behind and he admits that, “I’ll go no more./ I am afraid to think what I have done./ Look on ‘t again I dare not” (II.2.65-67). He’s terrified by what he has done and cannot bear to return to the scene of his bloody crime. Instead, Lady Macbeth must to there and clean up from his murders.
He then blames two guards for the deed and becomes king of Scotland. Throughout the course of this play, Macbeth murders his best friend, Banquo, Macduffs entire family, and plots to kill more so he may keep his title. He becomes crazy with power and rants about the witches’ predictions daily. He becomes, in his eyes, immortal. On the other hand, his wife becomes so guilty for their deed she begins to sleepwalk and talk of their crime in the night.
The day that Charlie was sent a way his mother had threatened him with a knife. This was shocking and it symbolized not only that she wanted him out of her life so badly but also that she was cutting all familial ties between them. The tree of knowledge is brought up twice in the book. Charlie ate from the forbidden fruit. The scientific community I think was the snake, they tricked him and he took the knowledge.
With his great sense of awareness, the agile nature of the mongoose outwits both snakes. The snakes decide that because Rikki is too strong, they would kill the family that adopted him instead of Rikki. ‘When the house is emptied of people’, said Nagaina to her husband, ‘he will have to go away and the garden will be our own again’(17). As Nag sneaks into the family bathroom, the cobra decides to wait until morning to kill the father. Rikki never gives Nag the chance and attacks him immediately.
Montressor is stingy because he purposely showed Fortunato his family’s coat of arms, “a golden foot crushing a snake whose fangs are embedded in the foot’s heel,” this imply that though the person attacking him and his family may be venomous and dangerous, but they will not get away without being punished severely. Montressor and Fortunato reached a niche, Montressor informed Fortunato that the pipe of Amontillado is inside, and since Fortunato is already drunk he wandered in unknowingly that it is a trap which will cost him his very own life. Then Montressor quickly chained Fortunato to the wall and started to seal the niche with bricks. Fortunato begged for mercy, but Montressor refused to comply, and enjoyed every bit of wailing Fortunato made. Though it has been fifty years since he walled Fortunato alive in the catacombs, but he has yet to be caught murdering his friend on the search for the imaginary pipe of Amontillado, which Fortunato believed that it actually
The traveler that Goodman Brown meets along his journey is a symbolic metaphor for the Devil who comes to entice Goodman Brown whom carries a staff in the form of a snake or serpent. The Book of Genesis describes Satan as a serpent that God cursed by making him crawl on his belly. The serpent is very cunning in his ways, this is seen in the travelers smile and mocking laughter as Goodman Brown grows tired and weary but continues to press on despite the difficulty. The dark and eerie forest is said to depict the devils home, in the days of the Puritans it was often said that the devil dwelt there enticing and luring women into his abode to practice witchcraft and other forms of dark magic. The further Goodman
In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and both, Browning’s Victorian Dramatic Monologue “The Laboratory” there is a variety of disturbed characters. In Macbeth it is Lady Macbeth who is driven to guilt due to her, convincing her husband to murder King Duncan. In the Laboratory, a woman discovers her husband has been unfaithful to her and is trying to further his own social standing by sleeping with women of higher social order than he is. She’s obsessed to gain her revenge through her obsession of “poison.” In Act 5 Scene 1 of Macbeth, Shakespeare has used the technique of Dramatic Monologue. Act 5, Scene 1 is the sleepwalking scene which already shows her disturbed mind to the audience.