The play is about two feuding families‚ the Capulets and Montagues‚ daughter and son who fall in love at first sight. In the end‚ Romeo and Juliet take their lives because their love was destroyed by their families hatred towards each other. In this story‚ Shakespeare uses a proliferate amount of irony to show that love is a strong bond that can bring peace and defeat enemy feuding. Shakespeare’s play is full of irony: dramatic‚ situational‚ and verbal. For example‚ he demonstrates dramatic irony
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How Winston Churchill uses language to engage with his audience In this essay I will be analysing and discussing how Winston Churchill manipulates features and functions of spoken language to achieve specific outcomes in different situations and how speech and interaction patterns vary with his different contexts. In Churchill’s speeches‚ he uses language to create a sense of unity and motivation while subtly adding some words of wisdom and witty phrases. Churchill’s short quotes have a very contrasting
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Inspector Calls Sheila Birling: - She is described at the start as a ’pretty girl in her early twenties‚ very pleased with life and rather excited’. 1 - Even though she seems very playful at the opening‚ we know that she has had suspicions about Gerald when she mentions "last summer‚ when you never came near me." However even though she mentions this‚ she seems to have no desire and want to actually find out about what happened in the summer. 2 - Immediately shows compassion to Eva Smith and
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furthermost sympathetic character throughout the play. She is horrified by her own part in Eva’s death; she feels full of guilt for her jealous actions and blames herself and she is genuinely remorseful for her actions. She is very perceptive towards the inspector‚ first to wonder who he really is‚ realising he already knows much of what he is asking. Sheila represents new ideas as a new generation‚ such as proto-feminist influenced by the inspector and changes her personality and becomes more honest
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In this question I have been asked to explore how j.b. Priestley presents sympathy for Eva Smith in ‘’An Inspector Calls’’ In "An Inspector Calls"‚ J.B. Priestley uses the characters and attitudes of the Birling family‚ especially Mr. Birling‚ to make the audience feel sympathy for Eva Smith. The family is "prosperous" and "comfortable"‚ and Mr. Birling’s extensive posturing and blagging emphasizes their good fortune. In the opening lines of the play‚ he is found to be drinking and discussing port
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even at the expense of his family and employees. He regularly uses his obsessive behaviour over status to invoke popularity or power within a particular crowd‚ which is evident in the very first scenes of the play when Birling says to Gerald: ‘It’s exactly the same port your father gets from him’‚ suggesting Mr Birling bought it in order to imitate a more prominent societal figure as well as to gain a rapport with Croft. Similarly‚ Birling tries this technique with the Inspector‚ however this time to
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Looking again at the end of act two‚ how does Priestley make the ending scene dramatically effective? At the end of act two‚ Priestley uses several techniques in order to make the scene dramatically effective. The carefully written script creates an atmosphere of suspense and tension. The techniques Priestly uses in the script are irony and the dismantling of the false sense of security amongst the characters and consequently the audience. Originally the characters feel secure because they feel
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How important do you think social class is in An Inspector Calls and how does Priestly present ideas about social class? Throughout the play the theme of social class is shown through all of the characters and enables the audience to see the The theme of social class is most apparent through the character of Arthur Birling‚ his ignorant and selfish personality has evidently been very much shaped by the money and success which he has attained through his role as the town mayor. However although
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and violence are the three words to describe this play. Shakespeare uses these throughout the play to comment on men‚ women and marriage in society at this time when girls were betrothed to a man of their fathers choosing and under the condition that they were pure’. Men were seen to be superior to women and dominated them‚ as women had very few rights and were property of their fathers‚ and then their husbands. Shakespeare’s use of dramatic devices in Act 3‚ Scene 1 makes it an interesting‚ exciting
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welcome the idea and coexist with it. Jack London‚ the author of such books as The Call of the Wild‚ and The Sea Wolf‚ is one such man who lives with the idea. London views the world as a Darwinist‚ or with the theory of natural selection. He sees the world with a sense of cold reality‚ where the strongest must fight and thrive to keep a place in the world. Jack London uses simile and metaphor to describe the cold reality that the world is a harsh place to live in. London conveys how he feels about
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