Three Musketters intrinsic analysis 1. Defining the play 1.1 Setting 17th century Paris.. 1.2 Theme The primary friendship featured in The Three Musketeers is between four young gentlemen devoted to the King. Their friendship allows them to combine forces and defeat evil powers that might... 1.5 Genre Fiction 2. Structure 2.1 Exposition D’Artagnan arrives in Paris with almost no money‚ hoping to become a Musketeer. A penniless youth arrives in the city who has a lot of pride
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Act One Comprehension Check To give you a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of the play‚ answer the following questions for Act One. Write your answers on a separate piece of paper using complete sentences. Scene One 1. What is the setting of the first scene? 2. Why have the shopkeepers left work? 3. What is Marullus and Flavius’s reaction to the citizens’ behavior? Why? 4. What important information about the political and social atmosphere does Shakespeare provide us in the first scene
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Study Guide for “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare The following questions will help you to prepare for your eventual test over “Julius Caesar”. While I will not be collecting this‚ it is on you to make sure that you are answering the questions as we go. Your test will be taken directly from this study guide. Act I 1) Judging from the events in Act I‚ the political mood and behavior of the Romans are best described how? 2) When we first see Brutus‚ he appears to be ________________________
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since most of the characters make rash decisions during the play. Firstly‚ Romeo and Juliet best display haste when they decide to get married after having met merely a couple of hours earlier. While gazing into her orchard and delivering her soliloquy‚ Juliet notices Romeo. They express their love for each other‚ but Romeo is anxious to know that Juliet is his. He proposes to her by saying‚ "Lady‚ by yonder blessed moon I vow‚" (II.ii.107). Romeo clearly loves Juliet enough to vow his love for
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a brash‚ near irrational son whose desire to avenge his father’s death leads to both verbal and physical conflict. Even Hamlet himself enjoys his own moments of frustration‚ slandering his duplicitous and incestuous uncle in private scenes and soliloquies. Unlike many traditional revenge tales‚ however‚ Hamlet also illuminates the question of the morality of revenge itself: whether or not the adage of “an eye for an eye” may
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Macbeth Double‚ double‚ toil and trouble; Fire burn‚ and cauldron bubble. (IV.1.10-11) Krenzel 2011 Contents Calendar p. 1 Case Study p. 2 Soliloquy Project p. 3 The Geography of Macbeth p. 5 Notes: Act I: Respond p. 346 #2 - #8 (Choose one) p. 6 – 10 scene i book p. 328 scene ii book p. 329 scene iii book p. 331 scene iv book p. 337 scene v book p. 339 scene vi book p. 341 scene vii book p. 343 Act I: visualization Identifying Character Traits
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Macbeth Journals 1. Murder Murder is a recurring theme in the tragedy of Macbeth. Although there are countless murders‚ the play DOES distinguish between honorable and dishonorable violence. For example‚ Macbeth begins to form an internal conflict prior to murdering Duncan. The conflict can be seen throughout lines 34-64 of Scene 2 in Act two‚ specifically with the lines‚ “I see thee yet‚ in form as palpable as this which now I draw.” This murder is definitely seen as a dishonorable death‚
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Essay-Compare the ways in which Shakespeare show’s protagonists changing in Act III Scene III of ‘Othello’ and Act I Scene VII of ‘Macbeth In this essay I will be discussing how the two protagonists; ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Othello’ change throughout the plays. Our First impressions of ‘Othello’ and ‘Macbeth’ are very similar; they are both Brave warriors who would give up their lives to save their people. Macbeth a very courageous‚ brave warrior who is exceedingly close to the king‚ and Othello labelled
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MACBETH ESSAY In life everyone has goals that they hope to attain and there are many ways that one can achieve these goals. To achieve what you desire you can either wait for time to take its toll‚ or take matters into your own hands and do what you have to do in order to fulfill your desires. You can attain your goal as long as you have ambition. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ Macbeth and Lady Macbeth had the goal of Macbeth becoming king: to obtain this they took matters into hands and killed Duncan
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and that should learn us. There is a divinity that shapes our ends. Rough-hew them how we will-" (V‚ 2‚ 9-11) There are doubts to divinity as Hamlet explores this idea. During the play‚ Prince Hamlet often questions his existence. In one of his soliloquies‚ he was exceedingly desperate‚ yet fears to go into the mists of the unknown if he exonerates himself free from life. In the beginning of the play‚ Hamlet had doubts about divinity as he believed that it’s freewill and choices that paths one’s
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