The Importance of Being Ernest – Act 1 Task 1 How are the characters of Algernon and Jack/Ernest created for the audience? They are presented to within a high class of society‚ with a lack of consideration or care for the lower classes. Both are bored by their high society lives and “stiff” lunches/meetings that they must attend‚ so have created alter egos which they use to have fun in a different place. Algernon has invented a sick friend called Bunbury‚ who he sometimes must spend long lengths
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QUESTIONS FOR ACT ONE OF THE CRUCIBLE 1. Where and when is the opening scene of the play set? Salem‚ 1962‚ in the upstairs bedroom of Samuel Parris’ house 2. Why has Parris sent for Reverend Hale from Beverly? To discover if there is witchcraft in Salem‚ Massachusetts 3. What do we learn about the events in the forest and Abigail Williams’ connections with the Proctor family? We learn that the events in the forest are evil and that the devil does his work in the forest and that evil
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the role of women in society at the time‚ and this concept became one of the main themes of his play. Although this was one of the prevalent notions‚ other significant themes include the unreliability of appearance and the notion of heredity. In act 1‚ Ibsen immediately portrays the protagonist’s‚ Nora‚ status as a woman in the household. She is a symbol of the women of her era‚ who were believed to be content with just the business of the home. She has been buying presents for Christmas‚ and is
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The Role of the Witches in Act 1 The play Macbeth starts with the meeting of the three witches in a "deserted heath". One reason why Shakespeare starts the play in this way is that in his time people believed in the existence of witches and blamed them for all unnatural events that happened. The people believed that witches had contact with the devil and animals‚ that they could fly on broomsticks‚ cast spells by chanting and making potions and that they had the ability to fortell the future.
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Curtis Caldwell Broken City Formal Analysis Scene 1 Dir Allen Hughes Writer Brian Tucker Editing Cindy Mollo Dir of Photography Ben Seresin Sound Design Keith Bilderbeck Genre: Crime Thriller Cast Actor Character Mark Wahlberg Private Eye William “Billy” Taggart Russell Crowe Mayor Hostetler
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Act 1 Summary The play opens in the "morning-room" of the Windermere house‚ where Lady Margaret Windermere is arranging roses in preparation for a "small but select" ball she and her husband are hosting that evening in honor of her birthday. Parker‚ the butler‚ announces that Lord Darlington has come to call‚ and shows him in. Darlington begins to flirt with Lady Windermere‚ who very kindly but firmly tries to discourage his attentions. She says she does not like compliments but tells him she
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understanding the history of gay rights‚ we can better interpret Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes‚ written by Tony Kushner. Specifically‚ part two of the play Perestroika Act 4‚ Scene 10 can be better understood when the reader is informed on the history of gay rights in America. During this scene‚ we are set in Louis’s apartment and Joe enters. Upon his entrance Joe is rudely greeted by Louis. Joe is concerned with why Louis has not shown up for work in the last few days. Louis then
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Summary: Act V‚ Scene i‚ opens up two gravediggers shoveling up a grave for Ophelia. While digging the hole the two grave men argue whether or not Ophelia should have a Christian burial since her passing seemed like a suicide‚ which was outlawed during that time. After the first gravedigger asks the second gravedigger a riddle‚ Hamlet and Horatio enter the scene watching the men dig up a grave. When looking at the men dig up the old grave for a new grave Hamlet deeply wonders what kind of career
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had two suitors‚ namely Gremio and Hortensio. They were competing each other for her hand in marriage‚ but her father wouldn’t agree unless her older sister was married. This was quite a problem because her sister Katherine was known as a shrew. In Act One another suitor is introduced into the play‚ Lucentio. Now the competition for Bianca’s hand in marriage is divided between three different suitors. Gremio was an elderly man‚ who hoped he could court a beautiful young maiden as Bianca. He helped
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Abdus Azad English 220 Dramatic Summary Dramatic Summary Act 3 Scene 2 of Tempest We begin the scene with Stephano‚ Trinculo‚ and Caliban. Stephano and Trinculo are drinking and Stephano orders Caliban to have a drink as well. All three of them drink‚ while Trinculo continues to make fun of Caliban insulting him by calling him things like half fish and half monster repeatedly‚ and Caliban gets upset of all the insults and also mocks Trinculo saying he is not courageous and will never serve him
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