Answer: The theme of ambition present in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Hamlet.
Explanation:
Two of the four Shakespeare's great tragedies, Macbeth and Hamlet, share the same theme - ambition. There is, of course, a variety of different themes in both of the plays, but let us focus on this one.
In <em>Hamlet,</em> Claudius is ambitious to become a king, which motivates him to assassinate his brother (Hamlet's father). Claudius also marries his late brother's wife, which means that the murder does not stop him from becoming even more powerful. Claudius' growing ambition, thus, triggers a series of events - Hamlet devises a plan to revenge his father, and the whole family dies at the end of the play.
In <em>Macbeth</em>, we have many ambitious characters, but the most obvious example is Macbeth himself. Macbeth's desire to become a king upon hearing the witches' prophecy leads to him committing murder. He first kills King Duncan, then Banquo, as he also represents a threat. Macbeth's tragic flaw is exactly his driving ambition. The murders he committed make him consumed by guilt, and he tragically dies. Therefore, both of the plays explore ambition and its consequences.
The introductory paragraph, the answer is C
Answer:
A. Jin Wang struggles to accept his cultural identity.
Explanation:
An internal conflict is when a character is struggling with himself and his own personal feelings or emotions. Conflicts provide contrast or contradictory interest, causing a difference in the character's own personal life and his emotions.
In the book <em>American Born Chinese</em> by Gene Luen Yang, Jin Wang is the character from the second tale. He is a first-generation child of Chinese emigrants in America. And the internal conflict is when he struggles to accept his Chinese cultural identity while living in the American culture. This is a struggle only he suffers from, posing a conflict against his own Chinese background against the American culture that he was born and brought up into.
Thus, the correct answer is option A.
Answer:
The sentence explains a time of struggling when we get nothing at the end and are brought back to our past or near past. Like a boat which is continuously rowed but is found at the same place at the end of the day.
Explanation:
This refers to the dualities of Gatsby and America. Nick is saying he will get into Gatsby's boat, the one that only sailed backwards on the sea of history--into the past to recapture his childhood dreams.
This book was written in 1922 and accordingly it was a time of struggling. In the boat rowing a continuous struggle is required to move it forward, likewise a continuous struggle was required in 1922 to improve the country's situation. But everything seemed useless as the struggle took them to their past to a place from where they had begun.
