In this short play we are taken into the world of 1920’s life of a black woman. The play is divided into 2 major parts. The first three scenes are set in the past‚ 1900 and the last scene is set in present day 1920s. In short manner it depicts a life of a black woman troubled by her extensive jealousy and deep hatred for her dark skin color. Scene 1 is when we are first introduced to the main character of the play‚ Emmaline. She is a dancer and she is headed‚ with the rest of the crew‚ to a cake
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Act 5: Scene 1 GRAVEDIGGER-She killed herself‚ are they really going to give her a Christian funeral? OTHER- Yes‚ so finish up that grave. The coroner examined her case and decided it should be a Christian funeral. GRAVEDIGGER- But how? Unless she drowned herself in defense OTHER- They think she did. GRAVEDIGGER-Psst yeah sounds like self-offense to me.. I think that if she knew she was drowning herself that’s an act. Acts have three sides to it: to do‚ to act‚ and to preform
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Act 2 Scene 2 is a very famous and touching Scene in Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. It shows the romance‚ affection and danger of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship love which makes the play moving. Romeo and Juliet’s thoughts are shown widely in this scene and‚ as an audience‚ we start to see how their love may or may not have meant to be. Romeo’s feelings towards Juliet are shown in the beginning of Act 2 Scene 2. It begins when Romeo is creeping into the garden. There is an underlying
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Rock Bottom Productions Presents: Romeo and Juliet By William Shakespeare Act 2 Mason Noteboom‚ Sean Guderian‚ Lailah Safi‚ Hadar Ziv‚ Jack Tanner‚ Elle Meyer‚ and Brendan Haines Table of Contents: Dramaturgy: Section 1: ● Paraphrase of Act 2 .......................................................Page 3 ● Glossary............................................................................Page 3-7 ● Description of Context....................................................Page 7 Section 2: ● Description
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R & J Lady Capulet tries to convince Juliet that Paris is the perfect man for her by magnifying him to persuade Juliet round to the idea. Lady Capulet expects marriage to be an easy thing to consider and agree to; this means her expectations of Juliet are to take the hand of whomever Capulet & Lady Capulet think is the perfect man and not of whom Juliet thinks is best. Lady Caplet has shown she has taken up her role in the Patriarchal Hegemony that surrounds Veronese society and she and all women
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In the scene 1 of Act 3‚ Claudius and Gertrude are worried about madness shown by the Hamlet. The King and queen uses Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to watch the activities of Hamlet and find out why he is showing such kind of madness. To figure out this Claudius‚ Polonius‚ Ophelia plot a plan and revel the truth about the Hamlet recent behaviors. Ophelia play a key role in this scene to figure out why Hamlet is doing this kind of behaviors by saying she wants that love which she used to get from Hamlet
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Analysing Act 2 scene 2 Controlling Idea – In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet he has used language features and textual features to construct the character of Romeo to be naive about love and willing to do anything to be with his love‚ Juliet. This is expressed by how quickly his love for Rosaline is replaced by his love for Juliet‚ showing he doesn’t know the true meaning of love but - is in love with the idea of love. Introduction – William Shakespeare is using both language and
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Romeo and Juliet Acts of Hastiness in Act 1 At the VERY beginning‚ Romeo drops Rosaline like a hot rock because she left off to become a nun. Romeo and Benvolio decide last minute to go to their enemy’s party in hopes of getting Romeo over Rosaline. Romeo and Juliet at the party fall in love in a matter of minutes Juliet doesn’t even know Romeo and she kisses him Juliet doesn’t know that Romeo is her arch enemy but "falls in love" anyway When Romeo sneaks out to Juliet’s "tower"
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audience is warned that Romeo and Juliet’s love will not end well. There is much evidence in Act II that foreshadows the lover’s fate. One instance of this is when Romeo asks the Friar for consent to marry him with Juliet and the Friar shocked says “Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here! / Is Rosaline that though didst love so dear /so soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/Not truly in their hearts/but in their eyes” (Act 2.3 65-68). This foreshadows a bad end to Romeo and Juliet’s love as the
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In the play Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare shows their love as strong and forceful. But through irrational and sudden decisions by the two lovers‚ the relationship reaches a new height only to fall due to their youth and misguided advice. Juliet is right when she says their love is “too rash‚ too unadvised‚ too sudden” accurately characterizing as well as foreshadowing their tragic love. Romeo and Juliet’s love is strong and forceful as depicted by Shakespeare. For example when her father demands
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