2013 Hamlet’s First Soliloquy Hamlet’s soliloquy in Act 1‚ Scene 2 serves to summarize the first events of the play as well as give the audience insight on Hamlet’s distaste for them. Shakespeare uses extensive imagery to show hamlet’s anger‚ disgust‚ sadness and recurring self-pity. These arise partially from his father’s death but are due‚ for the most part to his mother and uncle’s quick and somewhat perverse and unnatural marriage. Throughout Hamlet’s first soliloquy his sadness and self-pity
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why Act 3 Scene 1 is a major turning point is mainly because it alters the course of events and changes an entirely new route of the play‚ a death of two major characters. Structurally‚ this particular scene is in the middle of the play‚ but more importantly‚ there is a dramatic change in the atmosphere. Because of Romeo’s change of attitude and his exile‚ the romantic love of Romeo and Juliet clashes and they become desperate which also makes a huge difference and affects the following scenes later
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What happens in Act 3 Scene 1? It is a crucial scene‚ a turning point and it determines the rest of the action. It is a tense and exciting scene for the audience and tragic at the same time. In this scene‚ soon after Romeo and Juliet secret marriage‚ Tybalt kills Mercutio and then Romeo kills Mercutio to take revenge. Then‚ Romeo is banished from Verona. Paragraph1: Why were tension and excitement created? Mercutio is not in a good mood but he is in argumentative mood‚ he seems angry
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Macbeth Comprehension Questions and Analysis ACT 2‚ SCENES 3-4 SCENE 3 1. Some people argue that the drunken porter segment is out of keeping with the rest of the play. What do you think? What is the porter talking about and how might these “ramblings” be important to the action that took place before? Would you cut the porter and begin the scene with Macduff entering at line 22 as some directors do? Explain your answer. 2. What is the importance of the lines spoken by Lennox (ll. 58-65)? How
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How does Macbeth’s character change from Act 2 Scene 2 to Act 5 Scenes 3 and 5? The tragic masterpiece “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare‚ starts with the evil curse of three witches. Act 1 Scene 1 introduces the audience to the witches‚ showing them what malevolence they are capable of‚ and how then plan to deceive Macbeth‚ in fact the scene is the crafting of the trick they plot for him. Once the witches decide when they shall meet and when the act finishes with a chorused three lines‚ creating
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Act 3 scene 2 Summary Act 3‚ scenes 2–4 Summary: Act 3‚ scene 2 In Capulet’s house‚ Juliet longs for night to fall so that Romeo will come to her “untalked of and unseen”. Suddenly the Nurse rushes in with news of the fight between Romeo and Tybalt. But the Nurse is so distraught; she stumbles over the words‚ making it sound as if Romeo is dead. Juliet assumes Romeo has killed himself‚ and she resigns to die herself. The Nurse then begins to moan about Tybalt’s death‚ and Juliet briefly fears
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Character: Caesar 1. Trait: Arrogant Quotation: Act 2 scene 3 “How foolish do your fears seem now‚ Calpurnia! I am ashamed I did yield to them. Give me my robe‚ for I will go.” Commentary: Caesar shows arrogance by going to the senate after Calpurnia warned him. After Decius messes with his ego and tells him that he would let a girl hold him back it made Caesar show his arrogance after Decius plays with his ego since he doesn’t want to be intimidated
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Romeo and Juliet’s Last love scene I think is the essence of the play it tells the audience how important their love is to each other and how they would do anything to be together‚ W.H Auden also expresses love like this in his poem "stop all the clocks" in the way he makes everything grind to a halt after his tragic loss. Romeo’s behavior when he spies Juliet is smitten at first sight‚ describing her as "Beauty too rich for use‚ for earth too dear!" (I‚ v‚ 49). This language is in direct contrast
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Whiles I threat‚ he lives; ...Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives. How this scene contributes to our understanding of character and play: So far‚ the play has hurdled through seven scenes of mounting tension and now tithers on the threshold of regicide. At this point‚ Shakespeare freezes the action. In the tension of silence‚ both character and play develop on new levels. For Macbeth‚ this soliloquy‚ in A.C. Bradley’s words: "is where the powerful workings of his imagination rises to
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The sentence structure and diction revealed another side of Hamlet in act 3. In previous acts‚ Hamlet’s sentences were short and choppy. However‚ in act 3‚ his sentences were much longer‚ and included many semicolons‚ commas‚ and colons in each one. For example‚ “To be‚ or not to be: that is the question:/Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune‚ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles‚ And by opposing end them?” (A3S1) In this one sentence‚ there are
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