Flight, Trusting, and Manhood “In Analysis: Themes of Macbeth Act 4 Scene 2” “He has killed me mother: Run away, I pray you!” (Page 387). This line was the very last line in Act 4 Scene 2 and said by Lady Macduff’s son. Lady Macduff then gets killed by the other murderer. Michelle Lee stated, “A number of scholars have concentrated on the drama's prominent political themes and on the elusive forces that motivate Macbeth and Lady Macbeth to perform acts of unspeakable evil. Mary Ann McGrail (2001)
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin
Compare and contrast how Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Perkins-Gilman and Edith Wharton use the gothic genre to explore society’s darkest secrets During the Enlightenment, the Gothic came to the fore of literature. An effect of Enlightenment was the accessibility of books to the whole of society; they were ‘no longer the sole purview of aristocrats and wealthy merchants’ . Stephen Bruhm has said that the Gothic presents ‘a barometer of the anxieties plaguing a certain culture at a particular moment in