alliteration sees the audience believe that there might be a little hope for the Boatswain and the Master. It is clear that this is not Boatswains first storm. “Down with the top mast‚ bring her to try with main course.” The audience can interpret that Boatswain can take charge as he knows what he is doing‚ so the audience calms down. In the first few words of “The Tempest” it immediately captures the audience’s attention which Shakespeare was intended on doing.
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towards the Elizabethan audience that only people from their time period would understand. When I first read over these lines I thought nothing of it and did not understand these words thrown at me‚ which required me to do research. If a line in a play requires research for an audience t understand it then those lines need to me modernized‚ which is why I have come up with my own translations. First in Act 1 scene 1 line 14 the text refers to someone named Julius which some people may not know it
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“We will establish our estate upon Our eldest‚ Malcolm‚ whom we name hereafter The Prince of Cumberland”- King Duncan‚ 1:4‚ lines 37 – 39. Macbeth‚ though at first humbled by the witches’ prophecy‚ immediately begins to imagine what he must now do to become king of Scotland. Macbeth’s imagination leads to him devising a plan to murder Duncan and his sons Malcolm and Donald. Macbeths visions are the only the foreshadowing
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Every culture has different way of thinking and interpretation of stories. The author‚ Laura Bohannan‚ had a dispute with her friends over understanding Shakespeare. Additionally she goes off to a remote village in Africa and happens to tell them the story of Hamlet‚ as it was easy to tell and to others thinking had only one interpretation. The author’s friend reported in which Shakespeare has been “a very English poet” and that people involving some other cultures could get her wrong in his literal
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The Tempest raises many interrogatives regarding the structure of authority‚ status and power. How hierarchy set in the playwright; usual or as constructed? Furthermore‚ what are the circumstances when authority is seized? This paper will attempt to answer these questions in a coherent way using textual references‚ as well as the protagonist of the play‚ Prospero‚ to solve the accusations. As the play progresses‚ Prospero constructs the hierarchy in such a matter its returns things to their "natural"
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exist. The people are conditioned to feel a certain way and to take somas to cure any emotional pain. It is a predictable and “flawless” world where old things such as Shakespeare do not exist. John‚ first rejected by savages‚ is a true outsider. Traveling to the brave new world‚ his first disadvantage is that he has a mother‚ which is considered absurd to the inhabitants living there. John’s frequent rejection in his life causes him to further grasp the only thing he identifies with‚ the
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appreciate its textual significance and importance?’ Playwright William Shakespeare created the revenge tragedy Hamlet over 400 years ago and yet it remains still‚ a forerunner in its genre because it is more than just a revenge tragedy; it is the first existential play to dramatize the human condition in all its complexity and depth. Through the play’s structure‚ dramatic techniques and language‚ Shakespeare deeply explores concepts of verisimilitude being the quality of realism in something‚ and
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IS SHAKESPEARE STILL RELEVANT TODAY? NAME: Danielle LLoyd In secondary schools today we force our children to study Shakespeare from first form through to till fifth form and for those fortunate few also in sixth form. Ironically it is only the famous works that make it unto the syllabus. Plays like Merchant of Venice‚ King Lear‚ Henry the fifth‚ A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream and Macbeth are some of the few Shakespearean works we are exposed to‚ unless we go find others and read. Interestingly
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Most likely‚ Shakespeare had access to Strachey’s original manuscript of the Repertory which first
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Shakespeare shows the influence of the witches by using paradoxes such as “Lesser than Macbeth and greater” and “Not so happy‚ yet much happier.” Shakespeare also uses imagery in act 1 scene 3 when he says “Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?” Shakespeare uses different live variations of lines such as in some lines he writes in prose (free form writing)‚ that of a poem (where the lines end in rhyming couplets) and iambic pentameter which is the common metrical forms in English poetry today
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