ACT I Questions 1. As the play opens‚ you find the witches casting spells‚ chanting "Fair is foul‚ and foul is fair./ Hover through the fog and filthy air." This paradox will occur many times in the play. How can something be fair and foul at the same time? Situationally‚ I think this makes more sense when you consider it in the sense of an outcome. War can be foul‚ but the outcome fair…depending what side you are on. 2. The reader ’s first impression of Macbeth actually
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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 by his people as “brave”‚ “Valiant”
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Othello Act I Group Questions Students get into three groups. One group will tackle each scene in Act I Scene i 1. Describe the sensory details of the opening scene: sights‚ sounds‚ smells‚ etc. 2. Why do Iago and Roderigo wake up Brabantio? Why is Brabantio angry? Why does Iago slip quietly away once Brabantio comes down? 3. Explain the relationship between Iago and Roderigo. Who seems to be ‘in control’. Explain your first reaction to each of these characters. 4. Explain why Iago says he
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QUESTIONS FOR ACT ONE OF THE CRUCIBLE 1. Where and when is the opening scene of the play set? Salem‚ 1962‚ in the upstairs bedroom of Samuel Parris’ house 2. Why has Parris sent for Reverend Hale from Beverly? To discover if there is witchcraft in Salem‚ Massachusetts 3. What do we learn about the events in the forest and Abigail Williams’ connections with the Proctor family? We learn that the events in the forest are evil and that the devil does his work in the forest and that evil
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Romeo and Juliet Act I Scene I This scene takes place in Verona‚ Italy‚ on a public street. Gregory and Sampson‚ who are part of the Montague household‚ are looking for some trouble. Abram and Baltizar‚ part of the Capulet household are there also. Due to fact that the Capulet’s and Montague’s are enemies‚ they start fighting. The prince comes out and interrupts the fight. He warns them if they keep fighting they will be persecuted. Romeo‚ the son of Montague‚ cannot be found. Montague ask
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the role of women in society at the time‚ and this concept became one of the main themes of his play. Although this was one of the prevalent notions‚ other significant themes include the unreliability of appearance and the notion of heredity. In act 1‚ Ibsen immediately portrays the protagonist’s‚ Nora‚ status as a woman in the household. She is a symbol of the women of her era‚ who were believed to be content with just the business of the home. She has been buying presents for Christmas‚ and is
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The Role of the Witches in Act 1 The play Macbeth starts with the meeting of the three witches in a "deserted heath". One reason why Shakespeare starts the play in this way is that in his time people believed in the existence of witches and blamed them for all unnatural events that happened. The people believed that witches had contact with the devil and animals‚ that they could fly on broomsticks‚ cast spells by chanting and making potions and that they had the ability to fortell the future.
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Hamlet Assignment: Act One Due 12/17/12 In the beginning of the play‚ the reader is introduced to the disorder in Denmark‚ a prevalent motif. The mysterious death of the king spurred the disorder‚ and the prospect of revenge was magnified by the supposed appearance of the late King Hamlet’s ghost. The ghost’s appearance and subsequent speech intensify the disorder by validating the reader’s suspicion of Claudius as a murderer and an incestuous‚ adulterous serpent. Hamlet is torn by this
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1. What is the point/purpose of the passage/story as it stands? In Acts 15‚ Luke reports on the story of the Council of Jerusalem. This council was formed to address primary issues at that time for Christians. In acts 15: 1‚4‚ the author reports that the Judaizers were spreading false narratives regarding the criteria for salvation for the gentiles. At this point‚ Pentecost had already been witnessed where a mass conversion of gentiles took place‚ in addition to mass gentile conversions with
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Curtis Caldwell Broken City Formal Analysis Scene 1 Dir Allen Hughes Writer Brian Tucker Editing Cindy Mollo Dir of Photography Ben Seresin Sound Design Keith Bilderbeck Genre: Crime Thriller Cast Actor Character Mark Wahlberg Private Eye William “Billy” Taggart Russell Crowe Mayor Hostetler
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