Mama and her sister hugged for the longest time and then Auntie hugged Erich who tried to squirm out of it. Then she went on to grab Irmgard in a tight embrace and finally Aunt Hilde put her strong farming arms around me. "I will miss you all so much. You have such joy in life‚ little Liesbeth." "It is a long journey but we must go to Belgium. I have heard that there is work there and it is safe‚" Mama told all of us and‚ "And we will start in the morning." Little did I know‚ as a child‚ we would
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Lady Macbeth held her newly received letter in her hands. Reading it carefully as if the words themselves would run off the pages. “The witches met me on the day of my victory in battle‚ and I have learned that they have supernatural knowledge. When I tried desperately to question them further‚ they vanished into thin air. While I stood spellbound‚ messengers from the king arrived and greeted me as the Thane of Cawdor‚ which is precisely how the weird sisters had saluted me before calling me ’the
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Banquo lies on the side of the river after being ambushed by Macbeths pass men. He reflects on Macbeths and his own behavior since the prophecies made by the witches‚ as well as reflecting on Fleance and the person he is to become. The nullify of Act III‚ Scene 3. After Banquos murder. (Lying) Here I lie‚ cold‚ wet‚ solely and betrayed on my death bed. Is this what I deserve? Have I been dealt a hand fair to the way I birth lived my life? No‚ I know that I lived my life justly. I acted on
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of those predictions and proved myself worthy of what was told. I defended my character and spoke up for what I stood for. I would not weaken in the face of temptation. (Standing) Since the day on the heath where those foul hags told Macbeth and I our fates‚ Macbeth has not been himself. As if overcome by some evil spirit‚ he has changed his ways‚ actively seeking his future through deceit‚ wicked speculations and regicide‚ what I now no longer suspect him of‚ but believe he committed. Firstly‚
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no harm. My hands are of his colour to wash my hands or not‚ thee gout of blood stays. Macbeth faulted in our quest‚ incapable of completing was’t needed to be done. I‚ more than a man than him‚ what man was he then? Weak-minded to want to alter the course foreseen before thy. No daughter‚ mother or woman could be as like a man as I. He who is a man‚ is’t too full o’ the milk of human kindness.
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am merely a pawn‚ a pawn in a game that has spiralled out of control‚ a game of life and death‚ empowered by very own selfish aspiration. What possessed me? Why did I assume I could play the role of the almighty? Upon hearing news from my beloved Macbeth of the witches’ prophecies I found myself overwhelmed by
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Title: How does Shakespeare make this scene both a significant and dramatic moment in the play? In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth there are a lot of dramatic‚ exciting and tragic occurrences in many of the scenes. Although in the beginning‚ Shakespeare foreshadowed the tragedies that were to come nothing could have prepared the audience for what took place in Act 2 scene 3. This is the scene in which King Duncan is found murdered causing shock and panic in all the characters on stage. He dramatizes
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use of the poetic speaker in dramatic monologues allows him to objectively create a dramatic situation while removing himself as a personality from the poem. This is accompished through a process called double masking‚ in addition to the primary creation of the character or speaker‚ there exists a secondary creation‚ a mask which the speaker uses in dealing with the dramatic situation at hand (Garratt 116). The nature of the poetic speaker in Browning’s dramatic monologue demonstrates an authentic replication
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Shakespeare has used the opening scene as the dramatic device to draw the audience in and get them sitting on the edge of their seat. Furthermore‚ the witches give us the sight of what may be to come “When the battle is lost and won.” It says that every battle is lost by one side and won by another. Macbeth’s fate is that he will win the physical battle‚ but will lose his victory for the battle of his soul. The riddle the witches talk in confuses us. It seems to resemble a nursery rhyme –rhyming
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Under The Settee is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television‚ as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. In A Cream Cracker Under the Settee Alan Bennett has addressed the issue of elderly people in our society and how they are treated by others. It revolves 75-year old Doris on an ordinary day in her house. The play begins after her fall from the buffet and her reflecting on the events that led up to it. The reason the writer uses a monologue is to emphasis to the
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