characters‚ and sets the scene at the beginning. In On Baile’s Strand Yeats uses two characters‚ the Fool and the Blind Man‚ whose purpose in the play was to describe the situation and the characters involved. In Deirdre Yeats uses a group of three female musicians to set the scenes and give information about the characters. Even with this similarity‚ however‚ there is a difference. In On Baile’s Strand the Fool and the Blind man are not directly involved in the action of the play. The exception is at the
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mean of course you all must know this to be true‚ only a fool and unfit President would find this to be false”. There was a silent tension across the room. The politicians looked at each other in confusions each afraid to look like a fool. Clap‚
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person who tries to humiliate people whom he believes are lower than him in every way. Malvolio’s Achilles heal is his craving to be of a higher dominance and his strong belief that he will gain it. Maria uses this weakness to create a plan to make a fool of Malvolio in the eyes of Olivia and also as a way to get their revenge. Maria writes a letter
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Consider the elements of comedy employed by Shakespeare in Act one – how might a modern day audience’s reactions be different to that of a Shakespearean audience? Shakespeare uses several main elements of comedy in Act One of Twelfth Night. These elements are used to promote comic reaction with the audience; some of these elements are still relevant to modern audiences today. Throughout Act One‚ Shakespeare uses antonyms to create comic effect. He uses this element on several of his characters
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Both of these amazing stories were written by George Orwell about peer pressure. The animals on the farm that weren’t pigs and George Orwell were peer-pressured into something they didn’t want to do‚ but they had to do it or else it can result in pain they don’t want to experiences‚ could be either mentally‚ physically‚ or even verbally. It was whether killing an innocent elephant or doing something they didn’t want to do. The animals were being controlled by Napoleon to do his work like puppets
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recognizable about his former world.As Lear sets out from his palace toward his daughters’ homes‚ he is still sane‚ though he begins to regret disowning Cordelia ‹the first sign of mental stress and the first step toward his eventual madness. Lear’s Fool needles him about the rash decision‚ and the king blurts out‚ "O! let me be not mad‚ not mad‚ sweet heaven; / Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!" (I.v.46-47) It is a harbinger of thoughts to come.Lear’s impending madness is established in parallel
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How far do you agree that “The play of King Lear presents us with a bleak and cruel world and offers us no comfort at the end Much of Shakespeare’s King Lear follows themes such as betrayal on the part of the antagonists and the protagonist’s blindness of the events which have befallen them. For example in a rage with Kent Lear exclaims ‘Out of my sight!’ with Kent’s retort simply being ‘See better Lear’ this motif of a characters blindness continues throughout the play. Some of the characters
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‘What can a poor critic do with a play which raises no principle‚ whether of art or morals‚ creates its own canons and conventions and is nothing but an absolutely wilful expression of an irrepressibly witty personality?’ Does the dramatic comedy in ‘Earnest’ seek only to amuse an audience or has the play more of a moral message than might‚ at first‚ be clear? The importance of being Earnest is a satirical comedy‚ which ridicules the social values of the Victorian Era. Despite the farce used within
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indented to show a ‘full-stop’ of the poem. The effect of these rhyming couplets are to let the reader know that no matter how much time hates love‚ love will keep on making gold constantly hence the repetition of the word ‘gold’ and that love is not a fool of time respectively. Another structural feature is the rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme in ‘Sonnet 116’ is ABABABABABABAA. Likewise the rhyme scheme for ‘Hour’ is ABABABABABABAA. The effect of this is to show how each of the poems has a consistent relationship
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establishes Othello as a tragic hero is when he realizes that Iago is lying to him and that Desdemona isn’t cheating on him and he kills himself because he realizes that he couldn’t live without her. In Act IV‚ scene ii lines 322-357‚ “ Oh Fool! Oh Fool! Fool!” Is the lines that Othello uses when he realizes that Cassio is alive and Iago lied to him and that he actually believed that his innocent wife would cheat on him. Accountability is when someone is responsible for something. Iago is responsible
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