Crown of Midnight Kyler Brisk Sarah J. Maas 8B 448 #1 CHARACTER IDENTIFICATION Celaena Sardothien: The main character and she is an assassin. Archer Finn: A member of a rebel group against the king. Dorian Havilliard: The Crown Prince of Adarlan Chaol Westfall: The Captain of the Royal Guard and he is Dorian’s best friend. Nehemia Ytger: The Princess of Eyllwe and she is Celaena’s friend. #2 PLOT SUMMARY Celanea Sardothien won the competition to become the King’s Assassin. She has to kill everyone the king tells her to. “Serving a ruler wasn’t about obedience and fear.” (1, Celaena) What nobody knows is that she’s not actually killing them. She just pretends to. “Perhaps the world will never be perfect, perhaps some things …show more content…
Celaena knew Archer from the time she spent with her trainer Arobynn Hamel. Dorian’s cousin Roland comes to visit. One night Celaena is walking around and the necklace she has called the Eye of Elena begins to glow. It leads her to a secret tomb in her room. Once she’s in the tomb the door knocker starts talking and it tells Celaena that the fate and power of the world is in her hands. Chaol and Celaena run into Archer Finn. Celaena decides to invite him to dinner to learn more about him for the king. Celaena tells Archer that shes supposed to kill him. He begs her to spare him and in exchange he would tell her about a rebel group that wants to put Aelin Galathynius the heir of Terrasen back on the throne. She tells Archer that he has a month to leave the city and give her all the information about the rebels. “Archer let out a breath, and she turned to find him grinning, slowly shaking his head.” (3, Celaena) Celaena and Archer go to a ball at the castle but while they are there Celaena gets poisoned by Davis. She kills him and runs to Chaol before she passes out. When she wakes up Celaena goes into the library and …show more content…
Celaena tells Nehemia she hasn’t really been killing the people the king has told her to and that the door knocker told her the fate of the world was in her hands. Celaena has to guard the doors at a Royal Ball and ends up dancing with Chaol instead. “Dance with me, Celanea.” (4, Chaol) Nehemia and Dorian watch and Nehemia tells Dorian she senses magic in him but he doesn’t believe it. “Hide from fate all you like but it shall soon find you!” (5, Ironteeth Witch) Dorian finds a Ironteeth Witch in the kingdom and asks her about her magic. Nehemia wants to free the her people, the Eyllwe, but Celaena thinks it’s a bad idea to go against the king. “I promise that I will never forgive, never forget what they did to you. I promise that I will free Eyllwe.” (6, Celaena) While they are talking, Celaena hears that Chaol has been kidnapped and she runs off to find him. When she finds him, she figures out Archer has been working with Nehemia and that she’s in danger. Celaena runs back to the castle in time to save her but she is too late and Nehemia is dead. “But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.” (7, Celaena) She gets so mad that she almost kills Chaol for not warning her about the
murder of Duncan and may never have been King. In this way she is also
Lady Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous and frightening female characters. As she is Macbeth’s wife, her role is significant in his rise and fall from royalty. She is Macbeth’s other half. During Shakespearean times, women were regarded as weak insignificant beings that were there to give birth and look beautiful. They were not thought to be as intelligent or equal to men. Though in Shakespeare's play, Macbeth, Lady Macbeth is the highest influence in Macbeth’s life. Her role was so large; in fact, that she uses her position to gain power, stay strong enough to support her unstable Lord, and fails miserably while their relationship falls apart. Everything about Lady Macbeth is enough to create the perfect villain because of her ability to manipulate everyone around her. It appears that even she can’t resist the perfect crime.
Much like her remark of fatality her speech holds other moments of foreshadowing and hints at her true wants. “…fill me from the crown to the toe…” (1.5.48) not only represents her wish to hold the cruelty needed but also references the very crown that they are trying to steal from Duncan. Her language turns to defining the type of person, or man in this case, she wishes to be in order to take what she requires. A lack of remorse, to make thick her blood or otherwise harden her very heart. She asks for her very own nature to be changed, humans own turn to guilt must not happen to her. Whatever it is that must be done can not be regretted or second thought. Her own mind must not stand in her way, by adjusting herself, by summoning the very
In this breath-taking fantasy, a young assassin is collected by the Crown Prince of Andarlan and Captain of the Guard, after a year in a death camp. There, she learns she is to be put in a competition with thieves, warriors, and assassins (known as Champions) to become the King’s Royal Assassin and to compete for freedom. However, soon Champions are found dead and Celaena Sardothien’s, the young assassin, fight for freedom turns into a fight for survival.
My Ántonia is a good book to read, it has a good message and the different characters work well together and against each other. In My Ántonia, the two characters that work both with and against each other are Jim and Ántonia.
Me"(28). Figuring that her "me-ness" will take her far, she exclaims "I want...I want to be... wonderful"(29). However, that trip to Louisiana "was the last as well as the first time she was ever to leave Medallion"(29).Initially, Nel's self-declaration empowers her to pursue that dream of independence. She gathers power and joy, and "the strength to cultivate a friend in spite of mother"(29). Nel achieves a degree of her self-described "me-ness," her dream, a separation from her subservient and disgraceful mother, resulting in a new found complacency, "Nel, who regarded the oppressive neatness of her home with dread, felt comfortable in it with Sula"(29).
First, Shakespeare uses the motif of the seasons early on in the play to solidify the connection between love gone awry and chaos. The initial romantic conflict is established when Egeus brings his daughter, Hermia, to Theseus to try and force her into marrying Demetrius, the man of his choice. Hermia has no interest in Demetrius because she is madly in love with Lysander. Unfortunately for her, Theseus sides with Egeus and threatens to enforce Athenian law if she does not obey him. Obviously, this situation is awful for Hermia; she is being kept from her true love. Her options are dismal: she has the choice of disobeying Egeus, betraying Lysander, or living a lonely life as a nun. Either way, she loses. The situation seems completely hopeless. Shakespeare illustrates this hopelessness by connecting Hermia’s grim future with the winter. When Theseus describes Hermia’s potential future, he calls her a “withering” rose and a “barren sister,” destined to a life of “chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon” (Shakespeare 1.1.75). Essentially, Hermia will be trapped in an endless winter. This unnatural seasonal change will become a reality if she becomes a nun and remains celibate. For a young woman who is passionately in love with a young man...
After struggling with the thought of killing Duncan, Macbeth is reprimanded by Lady Macbeth for his lack of courage. She informs him that killing the king will make him a man, insinuating that he isn’t a man if he doesn’t go through with the murder. This develops Lady Macbeth as a merciless, nasty, and selfish woman. She will say, or do anything to get what she desires, even if it means harming others. It is this selfishness that makes it hard for the reader to be empathetic towards her later in the play, as it is evident in this scene that her hardships were brought on by herself. If she hadn’t insisted on the murder, she would not be driven in...
We also see her as a selfish woman when Macbeth has second thoughts about murdering King Duncan. " Was the hope drunk. Like the poor cat I' the adage?" (line 38-48, Pg 59), "What beast wasn't then. As you have done to this" (line 52-64, Pg 59).
...eisz. She can hear her playing the piano and thinks of her talking about art. She wonders if she is a real artist. She becomes exhausted and knows that she is too far out to return. The water that she was so mesmerized with throughout the novel and that was the beginning of her new life, was also the end.
She contradicts Beowulf way of thinking. In Beowulf’s opinion he fulfilled his duties of a king, because he left his people wealth that will provide them prosperity. But he couldn’t be further from the truth. Wellbeing of a nation depends on a wise king who is a clever and tactical leader more than on material wealth. Death of a king can ruin the
And she revelled in it, before it became too dangerous. She, unblinkingly, sent countless people to their deaths; she effortlessly imposed dreadful fear upon the young girls in the village, to the extent that one was reduced to insanity. She thought not once to stop, the euphoric indulgence was too great for her, because she could, she did. Ironically throughout her diabolical reign the one redeeming feature she possessed enforced her actions and accusations most powerfully, her illusive childlike innocence.
In order to understand what led to her death, we first need to understand her character. As mentioned, most of the info...
While she elicits her evil character in the mere shadows of the play, in public, she is able to act as Duncan “honoured hostess”, enticing her victim, into her castle. When she faints immediately after the murder of Duncan, the audience is left wondering whether this, too, is part of her act. This c...
...first time she disobeys her husband’s orders” (Cassal 4). Even though she was killed in the end, her act of honesty opens Othello’s eyes that was previously blinded by jealously cause by Iago.