HUMANITIES MEDIEVAL JAPAN FILM ANALYSIS Q1 - What are the aspects of Japanese life being represented in these 3 scenes? Scene 1: Seeing Seppuku The aspect of Japanese life depicted in this scene is the Bushido code‚ and in this scene depicted is the punishments for disobeying the code‚ which is Seppuku. Seppuku is a form of ritual suicide that was practised by samurai. A person who had lost his honour had to show that his and his family’s or clan’s honour was more important to him than his own
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Scene 1.1 In the beginning of this scene it starts off with Orsino who is Duke of Illyria‚ and he listening to music‚ he then talks about how the music gets him in the mood for love. Right after he is saying how music gets him in the mood‚ he tells the musicians to stop playing and to get lost. Curio who is a gentleman attending to Orsino asks him if he wants to go hunting for deer‚ but Orsino explains to Curio that the thought of killing a deer reminds him of the time he first met Olivia. Valentine
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OTHELLO ACT 1‚ SCENE 2 Shakespeare’s Othello is a play about love‚ jealousy and racism. Othello is a Moor‚ who is kidnapped as a child and brought to Venice‚ where he grows up‚ becomes a mercenary and through his bravery rises to the rank of General of the Venetian army. Othello is in love with the beautiful Desdemona‚ daughter of a senator and is secretly married to her. Iago‚ his junior‚ jealous of his success attempts to destroy Othello and Desdemona and through his machinations obliterates
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Enter Sampson and Gregory: Sampson and Gregory‚ servants of the house of Capulet‚ go out looking for trouble. Enter Abraham and Balthasar: Sampson and Gregory almost pick a fight with Abraham and Balthasar‚ servants of the house of Montague. Enter Benvolio:Seeing a Capulet kinsman‚ Sampson and Gregory start to fight with Abraham and Balthasar. Benvolio tries to stop the fight‚ but Tybalt enters and attacks Benvolio. The citizens of Verona attack both the Capulets and Montagues. Capulet and Montague
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A Scene-by-Scene Description of Events of the Play From Shakespeare & Company (Lenox‚ MA) Macbeth 2007 Student Guidebook education@shakespeare.org www.shakespeare.org When the battle’s lost and won (Act I‚ scene i) The play opens with thunder and lightning‚ and the entrance of three ‘weird’ sisters.’ Their exchange is very short‚ but from it we find out there’s a battle going on and that they plan to meet again on the heath; this time‚ with Macbeth. They are summoned away but before they go‚ they
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The first scene of the second act is the shortest in length‚ but one of the largest in significance. In the beginning of the scene‚ the town is preparing for Reverend Brown’s sermon with eager anticipation. The religious fervour that Brady has been carefully nurturing and cultivating in the people of Hillsboro was to make a dramatic plateau at this sermon. Act 2 – Scene I is also the first time that the slow unceasing progress of the religious fervour was‚ if only momentarily‚ stopped. After Rev
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2 Original Text | Modern Translation | Scene I | | [Inverness. Court of Macbeth’s castle.] | | Enter Banquo‚ and Fleance‚ with a Torch* before him. | | BANQUO:How goes the night‚ boy? | BANQUO:How’s your night going‚ boy? | FLEANCE:The moon is down; I have not heard the clock. | FLEANCE:The moon’s down. I haven’t heard the clock chime. | BANQUO:And she goes down at twelve. | BANQUO:The moon goes down at twelve. | FLEANCE:I take’t ’tis later‚ sir. | FLEANCE:I think it’s later
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The setting of this scene is in Manhattan‚ New York City. More specifically‚ it takes place in the office building of a prominent real estate company. Thomas Rael’s meeting room corresponds to King Lear’s round table‚ and it is here where Rael announces that he is dividing up the shares of his company. The season is winter‚ to represent the conflict that arrises between Rael and his children‚ and it is set in modern day. This allows for the integration of modern technology such as phones and cars
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Act 1 Scene1 When Benvolio‚ Montague and Lady Montague have a conversation about Romeo they portray him as being very shy. ‘So early did I see your son‚ towards him I made but he was aware of me‚ and stole into the covert of the wood’. This implies that Romeo has been seen early in the morning upset and on his own. When he is aware of Benvolio he runs off into the wood which is stating that he is distracted by something or someone. To running away is an odd thing to do to anyone‚ but this was someone
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I will discuss the tragedy‚ Hamlet‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ Act 3‚ Scene 1. We start off with the King‚ the Queen‚ Rosencrantz‚ Guildenstern‚ Polonius‚ and Ophelia. We have Cladius asking Rosencrantz and Guildenstern why Hamlet is acting so strangely. Rosencrantz answers that the price admits he is confused‚ but he wont say why. After their conversation‚ Cladius orders Gertrude to leave so that he and polonium can spy on hamlet. As Ophelia enters‚ the queen tells her that hopefully the problems
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