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    The Famous Murder Trial’s Killer Discovered Lizzie Borden’s trial was one of the mysterious and famous murder trials in 1900’s. This murder trial took place in the Borden’s house on 4th of August, 1892 in the city called Fall River, Massachusetts. The Borden’s house incorporated Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby, his two daughters Lizzie and Emma, and a housemaid Bridget Sullivan. However, the main suspect was revealed to be Lizzie Borden in the trial; therefore, she was arrested for her…

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    Andrew and Abby Borden were just a pair of middle class people who lived a happy life until they were murdered in cold blood. Who would kill two old people who were known and loved by the public? What did anyone possibly have against them. The Lizzie Borden murder case is a mischievous murder that still hasn’t been solved. We had to solve the murder. DId Lizzie commit the murder of her parents or was she telling the truth? Lizzie Borden did kill her parents. She had a motive and a reason why she…

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    Lizzie Borden, Is she guilty? Lizzie Borden took an axe gave her mother forty whacks, but did she really? Lizzie Borden should have been known as guilty to the U.S. justice system for the murders of her parents. Massachusetts, August 4th 1892 was the tragic day that someone murdered Abby and Andrew Borden. This case was dismissed because of lack of evidence. There is still controversy about how Lizzie should’ve been guilty there is no other suspects, but somehow she got around it.…

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    Lizzie Borden was one of the famous murdered cases in the United States. On August 4, 1892 she was accused of committing a double parricide. Lizzie Borden grew up in Fall Rivers, Massachusetts. Her father Andrew Borden was a very hardworking respected man in the community. He was wealthy and had a few luxuries. At the age 2, Lizzie’s mother died of uterine congestion and spine disease. When Lizzie mother passed, he remarried to Abby Borden. Abby Borden was Lizzie’s stepmother. She was…

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    Was Lizzie Borden Guilty

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    On august 4th 1892 a murder occurred someone killed lizzie borden's parents. That day people believed that lizzie borden murdered her parents. I believe Lizzie borden is guilty she murdered her parents. She did not have a good relationship with her mom. The day before she wanted to purchase a poison, prussic acid. The other reasons are she said at the time of the murder for her father she was at the loft. All in all i think she is guilty for many reasons because they have a lot of evidence on…

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    I don’t think that Lizzie Borden murdered her father and stepmother because she’s not brave enough and her family was really good people. The family attended the Congregationalist church an institution in which Lizzie was particularly involved. Lizzies father Andrew and his wife had a normal life and they went to work every day and came back home did the same thing every morning. The family seems like they are good and are innocent people Lizzie didn’t do it cause she would be scared. Abby and…

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    Witness/Narrative: Lizzie Borden “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done she gave her father 41.” Technically it only took 29 whacks, but oh well! Hello there, I’m Lizzie Borden and I’m gonna tell you the story of how I was accused of murdering my parents. Let's start from the beginning! My mom died when I was young and my father remarried. I didn’t get along the best with my step mother nor did my sister, Emma. My father's remarriage to my step…

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    Nature In King Lear

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    The Tragedy of King Lear has been a great source of cogitation over the many years since it was written by William Shakespeare. Such thinking may be at variance with or derive from a legion of other interpretations. In Act 2 Scene 4 we find Lear in ultimate dismay at the betrayal Regan and Cornwall have exhibited to him. Through their treatment of Kent, by putting him in the stocks, Lear takes personal offence claiming “Tis worse than murder.” Order v disorder is apparent within the positions…

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    there is a prominent aspect of power that corrupts the characters foreshadowing their death. Goneril and Regan are corrupted by the power given by their father Lear and their sexual desire for Edmund. Edmund is corrupted by a greed to be more dominant then Edgar and Gloucester. Once Goneril, Regan and Edmund have the power, they will do absolutely anything to stay in control of the power. Even go to the brink of killing…

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    Unknowingly spited by his illegitimate brother Edmund, he is too quick to trust in Edmund in which leaves Edgar fighting for his life out in the storm as the mad character poor Tom. Unlike Lear, whom unintentionally becomes crazy, Edgar chooses to wear this disguise in order to hide from his father Gloucester and the…

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