How do Shakespeare and Browning use linguistic and structural devices to present disturbed female characters in Macbeth and The Laboratory? The Guidelines Timing 4 hours Word count 2000 The Plan The Keywords The Way out AOs Assessment Objective one: ‘Respond to texts critically and imaginatively; select and use relevant textual detail to illustrate and support interpretations’ Ao2 Explain how language‚ structure and form contribute to writers’ presentation of ideas‚ themes‚ and settings’
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VICTOR Victor’s selfishness where he is consumed only in the suffering which affects him. Even despite the Monster’s eloquence and sensitivity‚ Victor’s superficiality causes him to disregard the Monster altogether. fVictor Frankenstein feels tremendously guilty over Justine’s death‚ and tortures himself endlessly over it. He feels in some ways that Justine’s murder is the worse of the two he is responsible for (“the other far more dreadfully murdered “(57)) and later‚ while sick and incarcerated
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based on personal moral standing‚ a movement of the preceding Georgian period. Browning’s sadistic‚ troubled characters‚ and uncomfortable dark humor are intriguing‚ and the colorful placement of words and punctuation in conveying his ideas is active and engaging‚ rendering him a perfect candidate for ‘England’s foremost Victorian Poet’. The anti-social tendencies of his disturbed characters are amusing‚ and are exemplary of entertainment. However‚ it is
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Characters’ Identity in Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a story about a scientist and the monster that he created. The scientist and the monster in the story keep trying to find their places in the society. In the story‚ one of main topics is the pursuit of self-definition. Victor Frankenstein is the scientist who creates the monster. When he discovers he has the ability to give life to death‚ he is excited and his body is full of energy to pursue his goal. Victor described his excitement:
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English Literature GCSE- Controlled Assessment Explore the ways Shakespeare and Dickens present Lady Macbeth and Miss Havisham as disturbed characters Shakespeare and Dickens both show disturbed characters in their play or novel. Shakespeare wrote Macbeth in1606‚ this gives us better idea of the time were they thought that witches were real and Shakespeare wrote this play because he wanted to impress the king. On the other hand Dickens didn’t want to impress anyone by writing a novel based on
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Victor Frankenstein • Victor grows from a young‚ hopeful boy into a jaded‚ vindictive and vengeful man driven by a desire for knowledge. • Victor links himself with Satan‚ and the analogy between Victor and Satan focuses attention more on Victor’s pride and ambition. In attempting to displace God‚ he demonstrates the same pride as Satan‚ who had similar aspirations. As Victor comments on his torment of guilt‚ he draws upon the following simile "Like the archangel who aspired to omnipotence‚ I
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How does Shakespeare present disturbed characters? Othello is a tragic hero whose jealousy is cleverly manipulated by the maleficent Iago‚ transforming him from a noble figure to a disturbed murderer. In keeping with the tragic genre‚ Shakespeare depicts a sequence of events through which bring about Othello’s decline. The playwright slowly escalates the emotional intensity of the play as Othello becomes more obsessed and less rational. The audience experience a range of emotions as the emotional
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present disturbed characters in ‘Journey’s End’. (NOT Stanhope) Journey’s End is a play written by R.C. Sherriff based on his experience of WW1. He presents several of the characters in the play as being disturbed in different ways from his experience of people’s behaviour in the trenches. The most disturbed character in the play is easily Stanhope due to his ambitious drinking and his temper. However‚ there are still other characters that are disturbed during the play. Out of the characters I find
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Societal problems in our country 1. Poverty As of today‚ many Filipino families are experiencing poverty due overpopulation‚ inadequate education and employment‚ high standards of living and costs of living‚ etc. To end poverty‚ Labor Intensive Technology must be used in the Philippines. It means that it is not only the use of machinery in some production but also the use of man power. This will help those poor people to have work and sustain the needs of their family. Every couple must know the
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“How is Lady Macbeth presented as a disturbed character?” In the Shakespeare play Macbeth‚ his wife Lady Macbeth is presented in many ways‚ mainly a controlling‚ cold‚ crazy lady. Here are a few examples of her peculiar behaviour and why she may have behaved this way: Lady Macbeth could be presented as a disturbed character quite early on in the book. In Act One‚ Scene 5 when she has received the letter from Macbeth she immediately starts to plan and take matters into her own hands. She knows immediately
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