How and why does Shakespeare use disguise to develop the comedy of 12th night? The use of disguise features throughout 12th night. As the play is a comedy it has to involve certain conventions such as green worlds and confusion‚ the inclusion of disguise allows Shakespeare to generate comedy and a positive response from the audience as well as making the conventions of comedy easier to include in the play. Shakespeare includes his first use of disguise early on in the play (A1:S2) where Viola
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father‚ Feste is "an allowed fool"(Act I. Scene v) meaning he is granted the means to speak the truth of the people around him. In one of the humorous scenes‚ and the best situation of Feste as a traditional fool‚ he dresses up as Sir Topaz‚ the curate and visits the imprisoned Malvolio with the other fools‚ Maria and Sir Toby. There he uses his humor to abuse Malvolio who is still unaware that he is actually talking to the clown than to the real Sir Topas. Feste‚ while disguised as Sir Topaz‚ calls
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A Modest Proposal Analysis Jonathan Swift’s 1729 essay “A Modest Proposal” demonstrates how the writer uses satire to enlighten the reader on the critical state of Ireland‚ at that time. In the essay‚ Swift suggests that the poor should sell their children to the rich so that they can “contribute to the feeding‚ and partly to the clothing‚ of many thousands.” Swift doesn’t simply want the poor to pay attention but wants to point his chagrin towards the politicians as well as the catholic citizens
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Art therapy is a very powerful tool that is used by therapists for a lot of different groups to help them either with a traumatic event in their life or similar circumstances along with providing a sense of well being and purpose to an individual. There’s a wide variety of activities that can be done with art therapy for seniors that give them something to do that offers entertainment and purpose that works well with groups or individually. Art is no longer just for elementary school children‚
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one to forget important information. If one learns something new‚ and then doesn’t get a good night’s rest‚ then he or she will not remember the new knowledge well. According to www.sleepwellblog.com‚ "When sleep deprived‚ the brain will struggle to curate and sort new memories. It is able to absorb the information‚ but the brain is not in a mood to make use of the information for good cause. Studies involving memory tests show that after a single night of sleep‚ or even a nap‚ people perform better
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Charlotte Bronte “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Bronte” (“Charlotte Bronte Quotes”). This quote ties in with Charlotte’s personal perspectives on life. Bronte believed in being a person who speaks out for what she values most‚ no matter if her opinion is against the larger majority. “Bronte published her first novel Jane Eyre in 1847 under the manly pseudonym Currer Bell” (Biography.com Editiors). Charlotte’s novels have now become
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Twelfth Night A mood of self-indulgence prevails in Illyria. The Duke‚ Orsino‚ languidly pines for the love of Olivia‚ a noblewoman who has forsworn society to spend seven years mourning her dead brother. Contrary to Olivia’s assumed somberness‚ frivolity reigns in her house. Her uncle‚ Sir Toby Belch‚ presides over drunken riots attended by Sir Andrew Aguecheek‚ a rich but foolish knight whose wooing of Olivia Toby encourages for the financial benefits it affords himself‚ Olivia’s gentlewoman‚
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Paris to start his own business and at that same time‚ he met Rousseau‚ one of many enlightenment thinkers‚ and discover that he had a sense of adventure and criticism just like Rousseau. In these part of his journal he describes a conversation with a curate‚ about many issues of the time‚ but mostly about the religious problem. It seems that in this document‚ Ménétra has an intellectual way of thinking about the Roman Catholic Church‚ that it was a strong characteristic of people that participated in
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William Shakespeare was a jack of all trades. He could do it all histories‚ tragedies‚ comedies‚ romances. While some people may say that Shakespeare’s tragedies are the most popular‚ his comedies are as popular as the tragedies‚ if not more. However‚ comedies of Shakespeare’s time are not what people of the twentieth century perceive to be "comedy." Some of the elements of Shakespearean comedy are similar to today’s comedy‚ such as physical comedy. People of Shakespeare’s time found the fall
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Meeting Vincent van Gogh changed my life. At least that’s what I tell people when I describe falling in love with museums. I was twelve years old‚ visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts with my grandparents‚ when I locked eyes with van Gogh’s 1887 Self Portrait. I experienced a profound connection with history at that moment: although van Gogh had been dead for over a century‚ here we were‚ face to face. When I reported back to my classmates at the beginning of the following school year‚ I could
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