Dire Ambition

Question: Describe at least ONE important character and explain how this character revealed aspects of our real world. In Shakespeare’s tragedy “Macbeth”, Shakespeare uses “Macbeth” and his behavior to communicate aspects of our real world. Shakespeare …

Text type: Short Title: What Does The Glass Reveal  Author: Janice Canerdy  The poem “What Does The Glass Reavel” by Janice Canderny gives a strong perception of how we sometimes lose ourselves, how, as humans, we …

Title: The terminal Text type: Movie Director: Steven Spielberg The terminal is a comedy about a man called Viktor Navorski from a foreign country who flies to New York. Viktors plans fail when a violent coup breaks …

Title: Ozymandias Text type: Short Author: Percy Shelley Percy Shelly’s “Ozymandias” communicates hubris and how the effects can destroy a persons dignity and integrity. The poem describes the story of a “traveler from an antique …

Title: Macbeth Text Type: Play Author: Shakespear Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is a tragedy set in Scottland about a once respected Man who let power and greed corrupt his image. At the beginning of the text, Macbeth and …

Title: Lord Of The Flies Type: Extended Author: William Golding “Lord Of The Flies” is a novel based in the middle of a world war, about a bunch of English schoolboys who get marooned on …

Title: My Side Of The Mountian Text type: Extended Author: Jean George “My Side Of The Mountain” is a novel about a 15-year-old boy named Sam Gribbly who intensely dislikes living in his parents cramped …

Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias” I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert… near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, …

“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.” – Duncan   “If chance will have me, king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.” – Macbeth   “Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see …