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    Shakespeare is well known for his clever employment of literary devices‚ such as dramatic irony‚ to heighten audience involvement. This use is especially prominent in Shakespeare’s well-known tragedy Othello. Iago‚ often referred to as “honest Iago‚” hardly lives up to his trustworthy reputation. Out of jealousy and spite‚ Iago hatches a scheme in order to reap revenge on those he feels have wronged him. This prominent use of dramatic irony creates a unique‚ especially one-sided‚ relationship between Iago

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    ’’ How is this possible?’’ I ask‚ the rooms proportions do not seem to fit with the size of the building. Its just to huge. My grandmother stops in front of the wooden desk and turns to face me. She walks with a cane these days‚ and in a dramatic gesture she thrusts out her hands and laughs. ’’ Welcome to our familys most trusted secret‚ my dear! This is the main office

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    bread and soup together ‘cause we didn’t have enough money to buy anything else to eat. I think—I think around the time we turned twenty‚ and you said you were leaving to make it big—I think that’s when I knew I wanted you. ━━ Yeah. I’m cuttin’ the dramatics‚ Lando; you’ve probably known this whole time‚ huh? ‘Cause you’re smart. You’ve always been too fuckin’ smart for your own good. Anyway‚ it wasn’t boyish curiosity or nothin’ either. I figured that out later ‘cause I’d thought that’s what it had

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    1.An atmosphere of foreboding and horrors is built up in the act. Much of the horror is implicit in Macbeths dagger soliloquy in scene 1. a)Why does Macbeth refer to the dagger as a fatal vision?Macbeth refers to the dagger as a fatal vision (II.i.36) because it foreshadows his deadly intent to kill King Duncan. Macbeth is obviously under great mental torment‚ which is the cause of his hallucination of the imaginary dagger. He imagines the dagger‚ covered with gouts of blood (II.i.46)‚ leading him

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    which he has planned Fortunato’s death. Both of the men want the same thing. Edgar Poe has a strong way of reproducing great literary elements in the story; the theme of revenge is explained with the use of irony. One irony used in this story is dramatic irony‚ which is when the readers understand it and the characters does not. “You are a man to be missed. For me it is no matter. We will go back; you will be ill‚ and I cannot be responsible. Besides‚ there is Luchesi-” “Enough‚” he said; “the cough

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    encore‚ finally‚ she turned her attention to the man that undoubtedly matched her own beauty. As she locked eyes on her soon to be husband she started walking slowly at first toward him and quicker as she got closer‚ eventually running to him in a dramatic fashion as if her lover had returned from war. Now pushed up against his unwilling body‚ she snapped her neck back with enthusiasm making sure that every last hair would not interfere with her big finale‚ a kiss from the equally handsome

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    Of all the tragedies of Shakespeare‚ Othello stands out prominently as the one in which the role of chance and accident is the largest. However‚ the larger occurrence of chance and accident in this play doesn’t mean that the significance of these in Othello is also greater than in other tragedies of Shakespeare. Bradley has excellently pointed out the importance of chances and accidents. The skill of Iago was extraordinary‚ but so was his good fortune. Again and again a chance word from Desdemona

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    In Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie the narrator Tom Wingfield (Sam Watterson) is the protagonist. Although Tom’s interest are in literature and poetry he supports his mother and sister at a mediocre warehouse job and spends much of his time dreaming of adventure and a life outside of the dank and dismal apartment he shares with Laura (his crippled sister) and Amanda (his mother). Throughout the play Tom is struggling with the decision to join the Merchant Marines and embark on an adventure

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    socialist himself. The play is set in spring 1912 in the dining room of the Birlings house in Brumley‚ just before the First World War. It was first performed 1 October 1946 to an audience who had just lived through the Second World War. Priestley uses dramatic tension through the play to make it interesting and full of suspense for his audience. Mrs Birling’s interrogation begins half way through Act Two. So far in the play Inspector Goole entered the Birling Household in Act one whilst they were having

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    Trace the development of dramatic tension in this scene from the apparently innocuous conversation around the meal table to the closing tableau of the chair lifting episode which concludes the act This scene is the last in act one and is an important scene for building up drama and tension between the characters. Even the positioning of the scene helps the drama‚ by putting it at the end of act 1‚ where in the theatre there would be an interval‚ it leaves the audience with a cliff

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