Cinderfellaman Podcast Stories

A young woman named Mary Sutherland is tricked into keeping her inheritance under the control of her stepfather and mother in a cruel case of deception. Her controlling stepfather, James Windibank, disguises himself as a man named Hosmer Angel. Mary falls in love with this mysterious man and pledges to remain true to him no matter what. On the day they are supposed to be married, Angel disappears. When Sherlock Holmes figures out the scam, he doesn't have the heart to break it to the woman, but he threatens violence on Windibank and tells Dr. Holmes that he believes the man will soon turn to a life of crime.

The story begins with Watson dropping in on Sherlock Holmes only to be roped in to listen to a red-haired man tell Holmes and Watson the interesting facts of recent events surrounding him. The man is a Mr. Jabez Wilson, an owner of a local pawnshop who is interested in having Holmes solve a mystery of his. Sometime before this, Wilson, who was working in his shop at the time, heard from his assistant, Vincent Spaulding, about a group known as the Red-Headed League.

In “A Scandal in Bohemia,” the Bohemian King enlists Holmes to recover a salacious photograph of him in the company of Irene Adler, a famous opera singer. If this photo is exposed, it will ruin the King’s chances of marrying the King of Scandinavia’s daughter. Holmes disguises himself at Adler’s wedding to her true love, coyly locating the hidden photograph in the process. When Holmes returns with the King to obtain the photo, they learn Adler has fled the country with the photo. Adler leaves behind a self-portrait for the King, but he gives it to Holmes as a souvenir.

When Peter understands that Wendy has grown up, he begins to cry, and his sobs wake Jane. She asks him why he is crying, just as Wendy once asked him, and they become fast friends. When Wendy comes back in, Jane is flying all around the room. Later that night, Jane leaves with Peter to do his spring-cleaning.

Peter has come to shut the nursery window, so that Wendy might feel forgotten and return to Neverland. But when he sees Mrs. ... But in Peter, that feeling affects him morally and he does not go through with his plan to make it seem to Wendy and her brothers that their parents have forgotten them.

As the children enter the cabin, Peter unlocks their chains. Peter and the children then emerge from the cabin quietly. Peter sneaks over to Wendy, unties her, puts on her shawl, and takes her place. To pacify them, Hook proposes that they drown Wendy, since a woman on a ship is always bad luck.

Hook is aware that a pirate must not be loyal to any government, and therefore insists that John and Michael must forswear the British empire. Yet he himself is painfully loyal to the British empire. In that, he is not unlike Peter Pan, who escaped ordinary childhood only to recreate it in the heart of his Neverland.

The pirates put Wendy and the boys in Wendy's cabin and carry the cabin to the ship. When the pirates and their prisoners are out of sight, Hook slides down into the house through Slightly's tree. ... Hook is almost moved to pity by the pretty scene, but as always something arrogant in Peter's appearance enrages him.

The pirates attack first, thereby breaking the rules of pirate-redskin warfare, which state that the indians always attack first. Many indians are killed during battle, but a small number, including Princess Tiger Lily, manage to escape. Hook is not really interested in the indians, though; he has come for Peter Pan.

Wendy is stricken with fear, and she decides that she and her brothers must return home that very night. She is not sure Peter is right about mothers, but she is afraid nonetheless. Peter is very hurt, but he pretends not to care. He heard that breathing very fast kills grown-ups, so he breathes as fast as he can.

After Peter saves Tiger Lily’s life, the redskins unite with the lost boys. The redskins begin to refer to Peter as “Peter the Great White Father,” and Peter relishes their admiration of him. Together, the groups are awaiting the pirates’ inevitable attack. Wendy has grown frustrated with the lost boys and their mischievous behavior; however, because the boys respect her as their mother, they follow her rules. After Wendy refers to Peter as “father,” the boys have a discussion about who should be father; this boils over into an argument, with the boys complaining about each other.

Peter listens to the mermaids going to their homes and feels the water rising at his feet. Then he sees something small moving toward him through the water: it is the Never bird sitting on its nest. She wants to save Peter by giving him the nest, even though her eggs are still inside.

Hook is sentimental, and wants a mother like any other boy. Hook asks about Princess Tiger Lily, and he is enraged to hear that the others let her go by his own orders. He thinks nervously that the order must have come from a ghost. Hook addresses the ghost, and Peter responds in Hook's own voice and manner.

Wendy does not think too much about her parents, because she is sure they will always keep the window open for her and her brothers if they decide to return. But she is worried that John and Michael seem to be forgetting them, so she gives the boys quizzes on their old home to try to stir their memories.

Peter believes that not wanting a mother sets him apart from the others. When Tootles takes responsibility for the death, Peter Pan almost stabs him with an arrow. But Wendy's hand holds him back. She is alive: Peter's button, which she wears as a necklace, stopped the arrow from hurting her too badly.

With his shadow captured, Peter is forced to return to the Darling home and face Nana.

His name has become a metaphor for one who will never grow old. Peter Pan by JM Barrie is the story of a boy who remains a boy while the world around him changes.

ACT V

Lady Macbeth begins to go mad over her murders. Soon after her panic attack, she dies. Scottish lords begin to think that Macbeth is not rightful King, so they begin to help Malcolm in his attempt to kill Macbeth. Macbeth is not overly worried as he believes the prophesy that no man can kill him, will protect him. The battle begins and Macbeth confronts Macduff and learns that Macbeth was ripped from his mother’s side and not naturally born. Macduff then kills Macbeth in a final battle where he beheads him. Malcom now becomes the rightful king of Scotland.

Macbeth, a victorious general, receives a prophecy from three witches that he will eventually become king. His friend Banquo also receives a prophecy that he will father a line of kings. He is initially skeptical, but he soon begins to entertain aspirations of becoming king. Lady Macbeth is even more ambitious than Macbeth, and through manipulation, mockery, and persuasion, she eventually convinces him that he should kill King Duncan when he comes to stay at their castle that night.

Macbeth is so frightened and guilt-ridden by the idea of killing the king that he experiences hallucinations and doubts, but he is pushed on by his wife. He stabs King Duncan in his sleep and frames his two guards, who are so drunk that they are passed out and have no memory of the night’s events. Lady Macbeth plants bloody daggers on them. Because Duncan’s sons Malcolm and Donalbain flee the country in fear for their own lives, Macbeth, as kin of the king, is crowned.

While Macbeth ascends to the throne, he is consumed by his guilt and becomes suspicious and tyrannical. He hires assassins to kill Banquo and his son Fleance in order to prevent his prophecy of fathering a line of kings from coming true. Banquo is murdered, but Fleance escapes, and Macbeth begins to see the ghost of Banquo. He seeks out the help of the witches from the heath, and receives three prophecies: beware of Macduff; no man born of a woman can harm him; and his safety will be held until Great Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane Hill. Macbeth takes comfort in the fact that every man is born of a woman, and woods cannot travel. Macbeth kills everyone in Macduff’s castle, but Macduff himself is not there.

Lady Macbeth begins manifesting her guilt through nightly sleepwalking and hallucinations of blood on her hands which never washes off. She eventually kills herself. Macduff joins forces with Duncan’s son Malcolm, and cutting down the trees from Birnam Wood and using them as camouflage, their forces descend on Macbeth, fulfilling the witches’ prophecy. In his final battle with Macduff, Macbeth discovers that Macduff was cut from his mother’s womb, not “born”, and he realizes the witches were right again. Macduff kills Macbeth and cuts off his head. Banquo’s descendants became kings through James I in 1603.

Macbeth is among the best known of William Shakespeare’s plays, as well as his shortest surviving tragedy. It is frequently performed at professional and community theatres around the world. The play, loosely based upon the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland by Raphael Holinshed and the Scottish philosopher Hector Boece, is often seen as an archetypal tale of the dangers of the lust for power and betrayal of friends. It has frequently been adapted. In the theatrical world, many superstitions are associated with “Macbeth,” all connected with the belief that the play is somehow “cursed.” Many actors will not mention the name of the play aloud, referring to it as “the Scottish Play”.