In The Tragedy of Macbeth, what do we learn about Macbeth from Lady Macbeth's reaction to his letter in Act I, Scene v?

Macbeth informs his wife, Lady Macbeth of the prophecies he had received from the witches that predicted he would become Thane of Cawdor and then will be king hereafter, through a letter. He tells her that the treacherous Thane of Cawdor had been stripped of his title and Macbeth had replaced him as Thane of Cawdor just as the witches had prophesised. After reading the letter, Lady Macbeth is also taken in by the prophecy of the witches. However she is aware that there is a high probability that it will not be as easy for Macbeth to become King of Scotland as it was for him to be Thane of Cawdor. She knows Macbeth will have to kill to get to that position. Knowing her husband’s nature well, she also comes to the realisation that her husband is incapable of murder. Although she knows he does not lack the ambition, she does know he lacks the ruthlessness that is needed to commit to an act of evil. ‘…yet I do fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human kindness…’ So she calls upon spirits to make her strong enough for her husband, and for her to embody the evil that is needed for Macbeth to reach his ambitious goal. She claims to want to be morally misguided so she does not hesitate in allowing her husband to kill. “That my knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry ‘Hold, hold.” After exclaiming this, she is now ready to guide Macbeth to make whatever choices he has to, to take fate into his own hands and reach his ambitious goal of becoming the king of Scotland.

What is the plot of "The Interlopers"?

This is the story of two conflicts.  There is a conflict between two men.  They are Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym, two men whose families hate each other.  They are out patrolling some land that they both sort of claim, and it is clear that they want to kill each other.

Then there is a conflict between the two men and nature.  They are caught under a tree that falls on them in a storm.  While they are under the tree, they resolve the conflict between them and agree to be friends.  But the conflict with nature is still unresolved.

At the end of the story, nature looks like it is going to win because a pack of wolves comes and, it appears, is going to eat the two helpless men.

I'd say that the climax to the story comes when the two men make peace with one another.  That means that the part before is the rising action and the part after is the falling action.

How does the end of the story affect Jing-Mei in "Two Kinds" and what is the most memorable thing she says?

The end of "Two Kinds" represents both the end of the conflict between Jing Mei and her mother that can be traced throughout this short story and Jing Mei's own self-acceptance of herself as an individual.

Before her mother dies, Jing Mei is given the piano by her mother. It is interesting that she describes this as a "shiny trophy" - a metaphor that clearly indicates her feelings about the piano and about her conflict with her mother over her piano playing. Jing Mei regards the piano as a "shiny trophy" because she has won it, but on her own terms, rather than through being forced to do something by her mother.

Jing Mei's discovery of the partner-song to "Pleading Child" indicates her own development as an individual and her arrival at a stage where she is happy with who she is and is no longer trying to be someone she is not or live her life for someone else (namely her mother). The title, "Perfectly Contented" clearly suggests that having gone through a stage where Jing Mei was a "Pleading Child", desperate for her mother's approval, she is now happy with herself.

Jing Mei's realisation that they were "two halves of the same song" perhaps indicates that this is a universal struggle that all must go through: we all go through a stage when we are a "Pleading Child", wanting our parents' approval and aprobation, yet eventually have to learn to live our own life and make our own choices, and become "Perfectly Contented."

Can anyone identify an example of personification in the song "One Tin Soldier" by The Original Caste?In the song "One Tin Soldier" by The Original...

Another phrase that might be considered personification is "one tin soldier rides away"--for a soldier made of tin is not human.  But that's a stretch, because really "one tin soldier" refers to a human, a rebel metaphorically described by the tin, not so much to a metal toy.  But wait . . . now that I think of it, that's also not exactly true, for Billy Jack (drop head, raise fist), is toyed with. 

And not to contradict but to extend--"valley cried" is also an example of what's called synecdoche, a way of speaking where the whole stands for its parts: in this case where "the valley" stands for "the people of the valley."

Give me 3 good examples from the novel Fahrenheit 451 that best fit the definition of science fiction.

The novel contains several basic elements of science fiction, beginning with the setting.

1. The novel takes place in the future, the most basic element in science fiction.

2. Society in the novel is very different from our own. Montag's society is oppressive and totalitarian. The government keeps its citizens under control, primarily by keeping them ignorant and frightened. Individuality is condemned and individual rights are nonexistent. Books are burned to prevent independent thinking. The people lead miserable lives, largely unaware of their own suffering. Mildred's attempted suicide is a good example of this persistent misery.

3. The novel includes technology that is currently beyond our means. The primary example of this is the mechanical hound with its poisonous needle nose that is capable of tracking down traitors who dare to own books.

In "To Kill a Mockingbird", why does Scout quiz Atticus about his visit to the Radley house?To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Scout has heard all kind of rumours about Boo Radley and she wants to check her father's version against that of such people as the town gossip Miss Stephanie Crawford.

According to local tales, Boo is a drooling maniac, a peeping Tom, prone to violence (as when he stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors). He also eats raw squirrels and prowls around at night, much like a nocturnal animal. All of this is interesting enough, but even to Scout, these stories have a hollow ring....

Scout knows her father is an honest man, not given to exaggeration or gullible enough to fall for 'tall tales.' She wants to get more reliable information from a more reliable source. So she pops the question to Atticus since she knows that is the best place to go.

State Boyle's law and explain an experiment to demonstrate the relation between pressure and volume.defination of boyle's law and give a brief...

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) English physicist and chemist, first determined that compressibility of air in a closed system varied with pressure in a simple inverse relationship.  If pressure doubled, volume halved.  The first and second states of a closed system's pressure and volume can be stated as

P1V1 = P2V2

Otherwise known as Boyle's Law.  In 1662, he performed the experiment to esatblish this principle by trapping air in the closed end of a tube shaped like a J, and added a known quantity of mercury ot increase the pressure, and noted the change in the volume.

Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, I. Asimov, pg. 94, 1964.

See an animation of this experiment at the link: