At the end of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, the Blackwood sisters are living alone in their partially burned down house. Dara Downey writes that at this point, both sisters have “now embraced wholeheartedly the sinister image that the villagers have always imposed upon them.” At the end of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth dies off stage and Macbeth is beheaded. Asp writes that Macbeth is “alienated from the very society that inculcates the stereotype” he tries to fulfill and that Lady Macbeth, who was “to have shared in the ‘golden round’ and the ‘greatness promised’; instead, she shares only in the dehumanization and nothingness Macbeth faces as his end.”
Using the secondary sources we have discussed, compare and contrast the “rise” of Merricat and Constance to the “fall” of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
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Sources should be cited according to MLA formatting and please include an MLA works
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Strong papers will respond to the prompt with a clear, complex argument. Strong papers
support and explore that argument with close readings of both the primary text(s) and
secondary sources.
first source :
1. We Have Always Lived in the Castle: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Kindle Edition
2.
Macbeth (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) 2nd Edition, Kindle Edition
secondary sources:
1. Be Bloody, Bold and Resolute”: Tragic Action and Sexual Stereotyping in “Macbeth”
Author(s): Carolyn Asp
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2)Not a Refuge Yet: Shirley Jackson’s Domestic Hauntings: Dara Downey
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