Analyse how Willy Russell builds a sense of drama and tension in the cliff top scene of ‘Our Day Out’ Our Day Out is about a young vulnerable child called Carol‚ who embarks on an emotional journey. Willie Russell uses a poor‚ young emotional child to get the audiences sympathy. Using such characters and emotive language he makes the cliff scene dramatic. Carol is the small confused child and initially comes across as a naïve girl who seems ungrateful for her lifestyle. She always seems to
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Walter is a thirty-five year old man and is Mama’s son. In the play Walter depicts the antagonism and despondency of the African Americans during the 1940s. Walter is best characterized as depressed and opinionated. Walter in the play creates tension in the family because he wants the insurance money to invest in a liquor store. “A Raisin
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In Romeo and Juliet the main conflict revolves around the Capulet’s and the Montague’s old feud. This then creates tension throughout the play because this old feud branches out into a lot of conflict between individual people. The prologue is very important in this play because it sets the way for the rest of the play‚ warning the audience that it is going to be a tragedy. The prologue is written in the form of a sonnet with a strict rhyme scheme and using iambic pentameter. This shows the audience
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The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck Often times‚ we go through life feeling confused‚ lost‚ and sad. Living life through various facades grows weary over time. Eventually‚ we are led to the inevitable search to strive for the discovery of who we really are. Self-identity is an important focal point in our individual triumphs and tribulations we experience in our journey of life. During times of conflict‚ we frequently struggle with only ourselves. "The Chrysanthemums" by John Steinbeck‚ written
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Enter ROMEO MONTAGUE: a young man of about eighteen years of age‚ born into an influential family‚ center stage in one of the greatest and most renowned love stories of all times. Enter JULIET CAPULET: a teenage girl‚ member of a powerful family that rivals the Montagues in a perpetually bloody feud. Romeo dreams of his true love Rosaline‚ while Juliet aspires to please her parents by securing a husband in the wealthy suitor Paris. However‚ the two meet at a party and their attraction is passionate
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s story‚ “The Pit and the Pendulum‚” Poe‚ uses the horror elements of isolation‚ fight or flight‚ and anxiety/distortion to add suspense to the story. In summation of the story it is set in the 1400’s in Spain and is following the pov of a man thrown into a dungeon to die. Over the whole part of the story the protagonist is faced with just being by himself also known as isolation. In the story it says all “...sensations appeared swallowed up in a mad rushing descent as of the
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Comparative Essay – The Tell Tale Heart and The Black Cat Through most of his short stories‚ Edgar Allan Poe uses many different devises to create tension. Some of which he uses repeatedly making it easy to find similarities between the building up of tension and suspense in his texts‚ as well as differences. The ways Poe does this vary between the narrator’s sanity‚ including its cruelty after committing a crime and the sense of guilt afterwards‚ to the use of literary devices such as anaphora
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Post-World War 1 Tensions After World War 1‚ there were many problems and unresolved issues that caused a lot of tension. The economy was at risk because many nations owed each other a lot of money. England owed the U.S. money that they borrowed for the war‚ so they decided to use the reparation money Germany owed them to pay America back. However‚ Germany didn’t have any money due to the excessive reparations‚ so they borrowed money from the U.S. This circular system eventually collapsed and the
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which Priestley creates tension in an inspector calls. Tension is used as a very effective effect in writing‚ to give the audience an apprehensive view‚ as well as putting them in suspense‚ so they have a reason to continue to read. It is especially used in mysteries or detective pieces‚ as it helps build up to a climax‚ that could shock the audience or intrigue them even more. Priestley wrote the play ‘an inspector calls’ with very effect techniques that all creates tension‚ through a variety of
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people. This policy‚ though‚ created tension amongst other European powers‚ especially Britain as it was the strongest colonial power. German policies‚ moreover‚ threatened the British naval forces. Thus‚ there appeared to be a rise of nationalism in both Britain and Germany due to the Weltpolitik policy. Britain now found it appropriate to make alliances due to threats from Germany‚ France and other European nations. The arms and naval race further created tension in Europe‚ with every nation trying
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