Act 1 Scene 1 Original Text | Modern Text | CORNWALLGet horses for your mistress. | CORNWALLPrepare the horses for your lady. | Exit OSWALD | OSWALD exits. | GONERILFarewell‚ sweet lord‚ and sister. | GONERILGoodbye‚ my sweet lord.—Goodbye‚ my sister. | CORNWALLEdmund‚ farewell. | CORNWALLGoodbye‚ Edmund. | Exeunt GONERIL and EDMUND the bastard | GONERIL and EDMUND exit. | Go seek the traitor Gloucester.Pinion him like a thief‚ bring him before us. | Go find the traitor Gloucester.
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Act I: The first act of the play begins in the upstairs bedroom of Reverend Samuel Parris’ home. He is kneeling in prayer at the side of his bedridden daughter‚ Betty‚ when the curtain open. Reverend Parris’ slave from Barbados‚ Tituba‚ enters the room‚ concerned about Betty’s well being‚ but Parris makes her leave. Reverend Parris’ niece‚ Abigail Williams‚ then enters the room‚ along with Susanna Walcott. Susanna tells Reverend Parris that Dr. Griggs was unable to find a cure for Betty’s illness
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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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| Affordable Care Act? | Aka Obamacare | Angela Phillips 6/19/2012 Heald College Portland | The Affordable Care Act is a health care law that aims to improve our current health care system by increasing access to health coverage for Americans and introducing new protections for people who have health insurance. If you have health insurance‚ you will benefit from steps to stop insurance companies from cancelling your coverage if you get sick. The law will also require insurance plans
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As the act opens‚ Giles‚ Proctor and Francis Nurse want to talk to Danforth to persuade him that their wives are not witches. They bring Mary Warren and a petition with 91 signatures as evidence. We learn that Rebecca Nurse has been sentenced to hang. Hale is starting to believe that these trials are getting out of hand and that maybe the girls are pretending. Reverend Parris accuses Proctor of trying to overthrow the court. Two pieces of evidence that are brought out against Proctor in regards
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The short first scene of Act IV bases on Gertrude’s selling out of her child‚ handing him over to the ruler in the wake of having guaranteed to help him. While she keeps her guarantee not to uncover that Hamlet was just putting on a show to be crazy‚ the prompt and blunt path in which she educates Claudius concerning Hamlet’s conduct and his murder of Polonius suggests that she considers herself to be united to the ruler as opposed to her child. Whether Gertrude truly trusts Hamlet to be frantic
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The play Hamlet by Shakespeare‚ contains many conflict‚ resolution‚ and action scenes. In an analysis of Act V‚ Scene I‚ also called the “Graveyard Scene.” This scene is tricky because it contains conflict‚ resolution‚ and action. They get to this point by a long‚ winding road of poetry. Hamlet is the main character of the play and his father was murdered by his own brother. That brother goes on to steal the throne from Hamlet and marries Hamlet’s mother. Hamlet’s father’s ghost told him this and
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Pygmalion is perhaps Shaw ’s most famous play and‚ ironically‚ it is among his most abused and misinterpreted ones. Almost everyone knows the basic outlines of this story of the Cockney flower girl who is almost magically transformed into a duchess by taking speech (phonetic) lessons from her famous professor. The abuse comes partly from the fact that Shaw subtitled his play‚ "A Romance." In the popular adaptations (the film of 1938 and the musical My Fair Lady)‚ "romance" was written into the script
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What Effect has Stereotypical Contradictions had on Developing the Australian Identity? Jarrod Melmeth (c3202088) The University of Newcastle Tutor’s Name: Jennifer Saunders Due Date: 12 October‚ 2014 Word Count: Table of Contents Abstract 2 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………... 4 3 The Typical Aussie……………………………………………………………………… 5 3.1 The Rugged Bushman………………………………………………………………. 5 3.2 The Alcoholic……………………………………………………………………….. 5 4 The Landscape…………………………………………………………………………
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thoughts” (2.1.8). Macbeth enters‚ and Banquo is surprised to see him still up. Banquo says that the king is asleep and mentions that he had a dream about the “three weird sisters.” When Banquo suggests that the witches have revealed “some truth” to Macbeth‚ Macbeth claims that he has not thought of them at all since their encounter in the woods. He and Banquo agree to discuss the witches’ prophecies at a later time. Banquo and Fleance leave‚ and suddenly‚ in the darkened hall‚ Macbeth has a vision of
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