Shakespeare’s Use of Trickery and Disguise In His Plays Shakespeare uses similar comic elements to effect similar outcomes in his works. Many of his plays utilize trickery and disguise to accomplish similar endings. Trickery plays a major role in The Merchant of Venice and drives most of the action‚ while mistaken identity‚ specifically Portia’s disguise as the "learned attorney’s" representative‚ plays a major role in the resolution of the play. The first instance of trickery in the play is Bassanio’s
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Williams creates dramatic tension in ’A Streetcar Named Desire’ through the interactions between the important characters in the play‚ such as the conflict between Blanche and Stanley‚ and their contrasting styles of communication. The first instance of this occurs in the second scene. Blanche is bathing‚ whilst Stanley questions Stella about the loss of Belle Reve‚ referring to the so-called "Napoleonic code". As an audience‚ we sense the tension being created when he says "And I don’t like to be
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How does Jurassic Park use cinematic devices in the early scenes to establish narrative‚ character and theme? The early scenes of Jurassic Park - Stephen Spielberg (1993) are key to getting a hint about what the movie is about if you had no idea what it was. It uses many cinematic devices to help the audience get an understanding of what is going on and what could possibly happen later in the movie. The first things you see when the movie starts is the Universal Studios logo. This is accompanied
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How does Bennett make effective use of dramatic methods‚ in pages 34-41‚ to raise pertinent issues in the History Boys? Alan Bennett uses a number of methods throughout the play in order to raise pertinent issues and fully convey his concerns‚ and I believe many of these are present within this extract; varying from his common language and structure techniques to the ever running themes of conflicting pedagogical philosophies‚ sinister pederast undertones and the drive for acceptance at Oxbridge
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How does Priestley hint at the tensions within the group that later become more clear in Act 1? In Act 1 of An Inspector calls‚ Priestly makes it crucial that he sets out hints of conflicts and tension that later become clear to the reader. He is careful in his creation of tension through themes that occur throughout the play‚ which guide the reader through the text in what reveals itself to be a cautious downfall of an apparent secure and wealthy family structure. As the scene begins‚ Priestley
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This poem‚ Theme for English B by Langston Hughes first displays a event where he had a write a page for his college class in Harlem then continuing on to be the actual paper. Through imagery of his day and Langston explaining who he is‚ Theme for English B ends with an intriguing idea of oneness and difference in the world. There is parts of two differences that are unified in the grander design of life. Langston opens the poem through the words of his instructor to write a page. Continuing to the
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The Success of Ida B. Wells “One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.” - Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells was an important figure in Black American History. She was born a slave in Mississippi in 1862. Wells was able to gain an education and‚ later‚ became a journalist for various Negro papers. Through her writing‚ she was able to attack
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Chapter Two Hormones…As We May Call Them On November 20th‚ 1907‚ a group of British medical students headed to Battersea Park to smash a dog statue. It was a particularly foggy night‚ even by London standards‚ so they thought they could get away with it. The statue‚ a seven-and-a-half-foot monument was a water fountain‚ with a high spout for people and a low one for pets. A bronzed brown terrier mutt perched on a granite base. The inscription irked the students. A few lines in the belly of
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Ida B. Wells is one of the most iconic African American women reformists that boldly challenged social injustices and demand for equality. She was raised in Holy Springs‚ Mississippi that was freed from slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation. Granted educational opportunities her enthusiasm to learn and the search for the truth grew which led her to many achievements on being a teacher‚ businesswomen‚ newspaper columnist‚ and investigative journalist. The best achievement though was her international
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How does the poet convey the intense feelings about the fish? In the poem “Pike‚” written by Ted Hughes‚ the poet conveys intense feelings about the fish by using stylistic features that are found throughout the poem as well as the tone. Through the use of these features‚ the author reveals to the reader his feelings of admiration and fear towards the fish. Furthermore these components help to clarify the theme of the poem that has to do with survival of the fittest and nature’s brutality. At
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