power held by each group. Here‚ men construct power by using words associated first with different classes of people. In act 4‚ Petruccio calls his servants “knaves” (4.1.100) and he himself is compared to a “footboy” when Biondello says “a monster‚ a very monster in apparel‚ and not like a / christian footboy or gentleman’s lackey” (3.2.63-64). In equating a negative appearance with another particular group of people or an occupation‚ Biondello continues to craft a place-conscious culture. These
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Macbeth: How is control and power shown in the play Macbeth? I have been looking at the play Macbeth and how power and control are shown in it. I will be analysing ways in which Shakespeare shows this throughput the play and what effect this has on the audience. Firstly‚ I will be looking at Act 1 Scene 1‚ which is the first appearance of the witches and helps sets the tone for the rest of the play. Throughout the play Shakespeare portrays the witches as being evil. One of the main quotes
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Act 3‚ Scene 2 1. Comment on the changing relationship between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. In the beginning we see Lady Macbeth playing the more superior‚ more dominating role of the two. She lays all the plans and all Macbeth has to do is obey her commands. She comes across as a woman‚ who is persuasive and manipulative. Macbeth on the other hand is fickle-minded and unsure. We discover that the man‚ who is praised so highly by the King and the general public‚ is actually weak and submissive man
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Supernatural creatures exist only in our conscious mind. In the play "Macbeth‚" there are many interesting events which could be reviewed to show how supernatural events affect someone’s thoughts. First‚ in the play‚ Macbeth make his way to the witches and they give him three apparitions. The first apparition says "Macbeth!‚ Macbeth!‚ Macbeth!‚ beware of Macduff; beware thane of Fife. Dismiss me: enough." (IV.1.71-73). Here it gives Macbeth the idea that he should fear Macduff because he’s a threat to Macbeth’s
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Reality TV vs. Real Life TV One of the main sources of news and entertainment is television. Every household has a television set in their home which the family consumes hours watching. Many reality TV shows are based on shallow and vague values. The growing trend in television now for our culture is “REALITY TV” (real life on TV). Just like the appeal to junk food or the internet reality TV has a dominant effect on our children and us as adults. There is real life and there is TV-life under influence
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alternate readings with supernatural effects and Macbeth is one of his most powerful plays because he includes evil witches that make it hard to control your destiny and unnatural settings lead to Macbeth’s own mind disease. No literary work is wreathed in superstition more than Macbeth. Shakespeare is famous for contrasting imagery within his plays to develop characterization‚ make a point‚ or establish an atmosphere. Shakespeare makes the point of Macbeth invocating evil spirits because he is possessed
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Holly Barkeley Mrs. Erlanger English 4 19 October 2012 Macbeth Journals Metaphor: “Out‚ out brief candle” (V‚ v‚ 3) In this scene of the play‚ Macbeth is responding to the news of Lady Macbeth’s suicide. He is comparing the light of the candle to the life of lady Macbeth that has been shortened. Now we can see that the candle’s flame has become a metaphor for her short life and sudden death. This is a very useful tactic that Shakespeare used in the play because it allowed the reader to not
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Title: How does Shakespeare make this scene both a significant and dramatic moment in the play? In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth there are a lot of dramatic‚ exciting and tragic occurrences in many of the scenes. Although in the beginning‚ Shakespeare foreshadowed the tragedies that were to come nothing could have prepared the audience for what took place in Act 2 scene 3. This is the scene in which King Duncan is found murdered causing shock and panic in all the characters on stage. He dramatizes
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APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEPTIVE 1. There is an old adage “all that glitters is not gold”.Gold is bright yellow metal and very valuable. But there are many worthless things looking equally bright yellow. We should not therefore‚ think that a thing is gold is simply because it is bright yellow. So‚ the proverb teaches us that we should not judge things by their outward appearances. 2. A person may be well dressed and may look a gentle man; but in reality he may be a cheater or a thief. A person
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Mirror When faced with a harsh reality that we cannot bare to live with‚ we try to diverge and create a new route of illusion or fantasy to escape. However when reality comes knocking at our door we start to retreat further into this illusion or fantasy in order to preserve ourselves. In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams‚ the subject of how the role of self-perception plays when individual try to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality is illustrated by the character
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