Short Story: Let them Call it Jazz Plot overview: The actions of the various Londoner’s (including Police) create difficulties for this woman who is an outsider. At first the victim of a crime - a set up which works to get her thrown out of her own flat - she is forced to leave and take up residence at a home in an exclusive area of London. She is pressured to stay by the gentleman who owns the house despite insistence on wanting to leave. Events slowly escalate for her‚ until she inadvertently
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How does Shakespeare use linguistic and dramatic devices to introduce the character of Hamlet in Act 1? Hamlet is first introduced in Act 1Scene 2 by Claudius; “But now my cousin Hamlet‚ and my son - ” There is the use of a dramatic hyphen which emphasises the significance of the entrance of Hamlet‚ as well as the use of a paraprosdokian sentence which surprises the audience and potentially causes them to try and reinterpret what has been said. Claudius’ sentence could also be interpreted as a
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Priestley presents tension in various ways withing in the Birling family. At the beginning of the play‚ Priestley creates his tension by changing the colour of the lighting. The start is a ’low and intimate pink’ which could suggest a hidden tension within the family home. After the inspector arrives the lighting changes to a ’bright‚ harsh white light’ which makes the family look like they are in the spotlight of a police interrogation. This shows that there is tension at the heart of the Birling
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on stage are oblivious to the truth that the audience knows. These instances of dramatic irony can have a range of effects from tension to laugh out loud comedy. In his play The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde uses dramatic irony to create humor by creating problems for characters to solve‚ promoting reactions from characters‚ and tying these problem and reactions into the resolution. In The Importance of Being Earnest the audience is aware of future conflicts and secrets between
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the ways in which Priestley makes this such a dramatic and significant moment in the play In this playing I will be exploring how Priestley makes this moment in the play so dramatic and significant. The Inspector has just left the Birling’s all thunderstruck and traumatized‚ each of them handling it in different ways. As Gerald walks in it has come clear to us that the older generation are set in their ways and do not hesitate to even think about what the Inspector has told them‚ yet are stuck with
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Romeo and Juliet‚ William Shakespeare uses oxymoron and irony to show what the emotion of love can do and that rivalries can be broken by love. In the beginning of the novel‚ Romeo and Juliet fall in love‚ unknowing of their families feud. Being a Montague‚ Romeo could never fall in love with a Capulet. Thus‚ it was frowned upon by both families. In Act 1‚ Scene 5‚ Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to show that Juliet is in love with her enemy. It is dramatic irony because the readers know something
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Ida Wells Born July 16‚ 1862 Holly Springs‚ Mississippi Died March 25‚ 1931 (aged 68) Chicago‚ Illinois Education Freedman ’s School‚ Rust College‚ Fisk University Occupation Civil rights & Women ’s rights activist Spouse Ferdinand L. Barnett Parents James Wells and Elizabeth "Izzy Bell" Warrenton Ida Bell Wells-Barnett (July 16‚ 1862 – March 25‚ 1931) was an African-American journalist‚ newspaper editor and
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with issues surrounding the equality of its citizens. Ida Bell Wells-Barnett‚ also known as Ida B. Wells‚ worked tirelessly throughout her entire life fighting for civil rights as well as suffrage for women. Ida B. Wells expressed her opinion countess times though powerful powerful articles that were read across the country‚ effectively spreading the ideas about social and political issues that she felt most strongly about. Each of Ida B. Wells’s movements contributed to the extreme impact she left
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’An Inspector Calls’ is a play by J.B. Priestley which criticises the social structure of the early twentieth century society. J.B. Priestley was born at the end of the 19th century; in 1894. At this time‚ Britain and Europe had a very class conscious society. Britain was highly industrialised and governed by right wing parties either the Whigs or the Liberals. Most of the royal families of Europe were inter-related and wielded enormous power. The workers in most countries of Europe were badly treated
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the female characters in An Inspector Calls Priestley includes a range of female characters in An Inspector Calls from an upper class snob‚ through a vain daughter to an oppressed factory worker. Throughout this play‚ the selfishness and moral hypocrisy of upper middle-class capitalist society is revealed. The vulnerability of women evokes sympathy‚ which supports Priestley’s belief in gender equality and community as “one body”. At the beginning of the play‚ Sybil Birling is physically
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