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    Why The Crucible is A Tragic Comedy Have you ever been dancing in the woods… naked‚ while a colored foreign lady sings songs with only made up words that start and end with the letter B? If so‚ you are to be hanged for witch craft with no question. They were so clueless about having a problem in their town that it went way too far and they didn’t really think things through all the way. People would just run around telling the authorities that so and so is a witch. They would be taken away and

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    4. What is the tone of the poem? Throughout the poem‚ Dante’s Divine Comedy‚ the author‚ Dante‚ portrays an emotional tone. Through Dante’s own struggles with sin and the suffering he endured himself‚ we can see him caring for other’s and deeply thinking about human’s moral thoughts. The poem is written in first person and through the poem‚ you see crying and high emotions. Because of Dante’s own struggles‚ he sympathizes with other sinners throughout the poem. Sympathy is another emotion Dante

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    Text Hamlet Act III Hamlet Site Map Page Back Play Index Script of Act III Hamlet The play by William Shakespeare Introduction This section contains the script of Act III of Hamlet the play by William Shakespeare. The enduring works of William Shakespeare feature many famous and well loved characters. Make a note of any unusual words that you encounter whilst reading the script of Hamlet and check their definition in the Shakespeare Dictionary The script of Hamlet is extremely

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    In William Shakespeare’s play The Comedy of Errors‚ Shakespeare writes a play which incorporates both comedy and tragedy. The play is about two sets of twins‚ Antipholus and Dromio of Ephesus and Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse. They were separated at birth due to a shipwreck when they were still infants. Antipholus and Dromio of Syracuse visit the island of Ephesus‚ unaware that this is where their long lost twins reside. As the play progresses‚ there is a series of error and confusion which occur

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    The History Boys Essay 13. “Brilliantly funny….but by the end‚ tears are as near as laughter.” To what extent can we read The History boys as comedy? One of the key factors that makes the History Boys such an iconic play is its witty comedic effect throughout the entire book. Using various techniques‚ such as parody‚ contrasting characters and clever juxtapositions within the plot‚ intelligent metaphors‚ bathos and many more. But at first glance the history boys could seem a typical dramatic

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    Hamlet Essay In life there are various unpleasant and distressing situations that people have to go through‚ but do not like to face. One of them is death. Death is a fact of life. Regardless of how wonderful‚ kind-hearted‚ and modest or extremely horrible a person is‚ death is inevitable. Being a teenage girl‚ I know one of the things I do not like to think about is the death of my parents. It is unquestionably difficult to think about how someone can be taken away from this world in just a blink

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    spiritual vision and was known for his intelligence (Encarta‚ 1). Between the years of 1308 and 1321‚ Dante wrote the epic poem‚ “The Divine Comedy‚” which described a journey through the afterlife. It takes place during the three days of Good Friday‚ when Jesus died‚ and on Easter Sunday when he rose body and soul to heaven. It is a moral comedy‚ and was written to make readers evaluate their own morals. The journey was to show readers what could happen if they live a sinful life‚ or if

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    This theme is linked with confusion amongst the play’s characters‚ a common theme in Shakespeare’s comedies‚ as well as other dramatic comedies. Shakespeare dealt with cross-dressing in other comedies including As You Like It and The Merchant of Venice. In addition‚ as many critics have noted‚ Shakespeare has explored other comic features of Twelfth Night in other comedies‚ such as twins (as in A Comedy of Errors)‚ separation and re-unification (as in The Tempest) and struggles of young lovers (as

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    While Dante was writing The Divine Comedy‚ the Catholic Church was very corrupt and the popes that led the Church were more interested in making monetary gains rather than being spiritual leaders. One purpose of The Divine Comedy is to express Dante’s disgust with the Church of the time and to suggest what the reformed Church should look like. Dante‚ by creating his own version of the afterlife‚ is able to indicate the sins he finds to be most heinous in his own structure of Hell and celebrate the

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    Hamlet Essay: Is Hamlet Sane With the coming of Freudian theory in the first half of this century and the subsequent emergence of psychoanalytically-oriented literary criticism in the 1960s‚ the question of Hamlet’s underlying sanity has become a major issue in the interpretation of Hamlet. While related concern with the Prince’s inability to take action had already directed scholarly attention toward the uncertainty of Hamlet’s mental state‚ modern psychological views of the play have challenged

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