hsc essay 33
Idea and Explanation
Example
Quotes
Techniques
Appearance vs Reality
Approx4
2per e.g.
List act scene line
2per e.g.
Richard III- Richard, himself is very aware of the gap between his outwards reality and inward reality. As a consequence he carefully constructs his façade while fully acknowledging his Machiavellian motivations to the audience in his asides.
Clarence going to prison and Richard says he will try to get him out but doesn’t do it.
The ghosts visits Richard (night before battle)
Richard Betrays Buckingham
When Hasting is executed (by Richard’s order) and Richard is pretending to be mourning.
Act 1 Sc1, line: 35- “Plots have I laid…By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams/ To set my brother Clarence and the king /In deadly hate the one against the other.”
Act 5 sc3line121-209
“Let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow/Think how thou stab’st me in my prime of youth…Despair therefor and die”
“When I was moral, my anointed body/By thee was punched full of holes/Think on the Tower and me. Despair and die.”
“ Let me sit heavy in thy soul tomorrow/I…was washed to death with …wine…Poor Clarence…betrayed to death…fall thy edgeless sword, despair and die”
“Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake/And in a bloody end thy days…Despair and die”
“Dream on thy cousins smothered in the Tower…weigh thee down to ruin, shame and death…despair and die”
“never slept a quiet hour with thee/Now fills thy sleep with perturbations…Despair and die”
“ The first was I that helped thee to the crown/ The last was I that felt thy guiltiness/Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death”
“Bind up my wound! … O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me? /Cold, fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh/ What? Do I fear myself? There’s none else by.
Example
Quotes
Techniques
Appearance vs Reality
Approx4
2per e.g.
List act scene line
2per e.g.
Richard III- Richard, himself is very aware of the gap between his outwards reality and inward reality. As a consequence he carefully constructs his façade while fully acknowledging his Machiavellian motivations to the audience in his asides.
Clarence going to prison and Richard says he will try to get him out but doesn’t do it.
The ghosts visits Richard (night before battle)
Richard Betrays Buckingham
When Hasting is executed (by Richard’s order) and Richard is pretending to be mourning.
Act 1 Sc1, line: 35- “Plots have I laid…By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams/ To set my brother Clarence and the king /In deadly hate the one against the other.”
Act 5 sc3line121-209
“Let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow/Think how thou stab’st me in my prime of youth…Despair therefor and die”
“When I was moral, my anointed body/By thee was punched full of holes/Think on the Tower and me. Despair and die.”
“ Let me sit heavy in thy soul tomorrow/I…was washed to death with …wine…Poor Clarence…betrayed to death…fall thy edgeless sword, despair and die”
“Bloody and guilty, guiltily awake/And in a bloody end thy days…Despair and die”
“Dream on thy cousins smothered in the Tower…weigh thee down to ruin, shame and death…despair and die”
“never slept a quiet hour with thee/Now fills thy sleep with perturbations…Despair and die”
“ The first was I that helped thee to the crown/ The last was I that felt thy guiltiness/Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death”
“Bind up my wound! … O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me? /Cold, fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh/ What? Do I fear myself? There’s none else by.