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    What Techniques Does Tennyson Use To Tell The Story Of Mariana? Tennyson uses place and setting‚ time‚ characterisation‚ imagery and form to tell the story in his poem Mariana‚ based on the character of Mariana from Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure. The poem is about the character Mariana‚ who after losing her dowry in a shipwreck‚ her lover Angelo leaves her. In the poem‚ we see Mariana slowly coming to terms with the fact that Angelo will never be coming back to her. Tennyson uses place

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    progression has always shrouded society. Both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) were produced during eras of technological exploration. Through depicting technology breeching moral boundaries through context‚ characterisation and intertextuality‚ both Scott and Shelley highlight the dangers of progression with the absence of ethical emotion – a timeless social issues which binds these two texts. Written during the industrial revolution and the emerging era of existentialism

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    essay will examine how the man Othello changes significantly throughout the play and how credible his change is to the audience. At the beginning of the play‚ Othello is regarded as a noble and kind general‚ through Shakespeare’s effective characterisation. Othello’s military skill and respect is established as the Duke greets him by saying ’ Valiant Othello‚ we must straight employ you/Against the general enemy Ottoman.’ The repeated references to him as ’valiant’ highlights his position and status

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    It also prescribes a reduction in HECS and education costs for miners with children who attend university/school. • Is there a head of power to support these laws? If yes‚ • Is the Act constitutionally valid? Issues for concern: Multi-characterisation: • S 51(20) – Corporations power – ‘trading corporation’ –Adamson’s activities test etc. • S 51(1) – Trade and Commerce. • S 51(2) – Taxation power. • S 51(39) – Incidental Power. Constitutional Limitations: • S 51(2) does it discriminate

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    divisions in the class. It centres around the narrator Joe seeking attention from his teacher‚ PK‚ who does not care about Joe’s or anyone else’s education in his class. This essay will show how Brian McCabe reveals conflict in the class through characterisation and language. In the opening paragraph of the story‚ McCabe makes the divisions in the class obvious to the reader‚ PK says: “‘You do know what I mean by creative‚ don’t you Joe?’ ‘Eh… is that when ye use they fancy letters and that?

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    people acted‚ how they thought‚ and what things they valued. Not only does Austen tell the reader what these values were‚ but shows her opinion of these values through her writing. Austen does this by using narrative techniques such as irony‚ characterisation and dialogue. “It is a truth universally acknowledged‚ that a single man in possession of a good fortune‚ must be in want of a wife.” From the first line of Pride and Prejudice Austen is already introducing many of the values of her society

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    ANALYSIS The author of the story “behind you” uses many similar techniques which relate to the story “the whole town’s sleeping” by Ray Bradbury. These techniques are characterisation and setting. Both text share stories about the main character who is a women‚ how she is developed throughout the story. The two main characters in both stories‚ reveals the similar view of the society that they are in. Although the text is set in different times‚ they both challenge the stereotypical weak women

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    effects that are perceived in ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’. When the young soldiers arrive at the frontline its nothing to what was anticipated as they had “just begun to love the world and being in it‚ but we had to shoot at it.” Remarque’s characterisation of Paul is naive and inexperienced as he only just begins to grasp the understanding‚ through torment and fatality‚ that they didn’t “believe in those things anymore; we believe in war” their new objective was to survive. Trained to disregard

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    world that criticises the world we live in. A variety of literary techniques were performed to portray this. Setting can be seen through the fictional worlds that both All Summer In A Day and The Hunger Games have illustrated to the audience. Characterisation is used to emphasise the correlation between the protagonists and the people within the world we live in. Imagery is used in the form of rain‚ where both author and director have cleverly used to criticise the world we live in. Ray Bradbury and

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    exposes the falseness of the American Dream. Fitzgerald uses the confrontation and contrast between these two characters to explore this theme and does so through his effective use of characterisation‚ symbolism and key moments of tension. Firstly‚ we can see the way in which Fitzgerald uses the characterisation of Gatsby to establish the contrasts existing between hi m and Tom which will lead to their eventual confrontation. When Gatsby is first introduced he is alone and seems lonely: “He stretched

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