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    In the famous love story‚ “Romeo and Juliet”‚ Shakespeare uses a soliloquy to reveal Juliet’s affection in order to establish that people can get lost in feelings than reality. Romeo and Juliet are two unique individuals that come from different households that don’t get along well together. One ordinary day‚ Romeo was unexpectedly invited to Juliet’s house party and goes to the party in hope to meet Rosaline‚ his first love. At the party‚ Romeo goes to find Rosaline and suddenly he sees a girl named

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    The use of comedy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet serves many purposes for the audience‚ while also serving a distinct purpose in the play. Hamlet is a tragedy about a son who avenges his father’s murder‚ but his madness and indecision take its toll on everyone. Shakespeare uses humor in this play as a device to temporarily distract the audience away from the almost relentless tragedy and dark plot turns that permeate the rest of the story. The humorous scenes in the play always come directly before or after

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    LONG ESSAY DRAMA-OTHELLO BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Jessica Higgins Throughout the centuries‚ people have been marginalised on account of their ethnicity. It is a timeless issue. The process begins with one dominant group‚ who exclude the minor group‚ on basis of inferiority. The feeling of superiority from the dominant group or culture may not be intentional‚ but is often a prevailing attitude at the time‚ which subtly influences people. Human kind through all of time is known for rejecting the

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    In the play As You Like It by William Shakespeareshakespeare develops characterization for Rosalind in Act 4‚ Scene 1. He develops characterization by his word choices. Rosalind is the daughter of the banished Duke Senior. She stayed with his uncle‚ Duke Fredrick‚ and was also banished. Rosalind and Celia made an escape with Touchstone to find the Forest of Arden to find Rosalind’s banished father. Rosalind is characterized as curious‚ self-opinionated and forgiving. In this essay you will learn

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    How does Shakespeare use conflict in Hamlet as a way of exploring ideas? An individual’s response to conditions of internal and external conflict is explored throughout literature. In his play‚ Hamlet‚ Shakespeare delves into the themes of appearance versus reality‚ lies versus deceit‚ rejection versus self doubt and tragedy‚ and in doing so attacks the frivolous state of humanity in contemporary society. In order to explore these themes‚ however‚ he uses several forms of conflict to project his

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    Explore the ways that Shakespeare uses soliloquies to express the emotions of Romeo in the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Shakespeare uses many literary devices such as imagery‚ personification‚ antithesis‚ dramatic irony as well as rich vibrant adjectives and nouns‚ to make the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ emotive and powerful. All of these are employed in the prologue as well as in soliloquies of Act 2 Scene 2 and Act 5 Scene 3 to express the emotions of Romeo. In the prologue the context of the story is

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    Violence does not exist for its own sake. In the play Hamlet‚ Shakespeare used multiple themes of violence. If violence in any part of a play‚ scene‚ story‚ movie‚ or act occurs for no reason at all then it is more than just a story‚ and it has more drama in it behind the scenes. Shakespeare used violence in acts four through five in Hamlet‚ when Ophelia committed suicide. From these two acts‚ it revealed what Ophelia was going through and feeling. Suicide is the act of killing oneself intentionally

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    unity of time was the last rule‚ and it said that the action in a play should take place over no more than twenty four hours. In Shakespeare’s Othello‚ arguments as to how far the unities have been broken are often discussed. These arguments have been shown in the unity of time‚ and critics – such as A.C. Bradley – have doubted the faithfulness of Shakespeare. This argument is shown in the time period of Act I‚ on Othello’s wedding night where they leave for Cyprus‚ and when Act II starts they have

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    How does Shakespeare present the flaws in Macbeth and in The Laboratory and The Last Duchess? Shakespeare shows in Macbeth how the character of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth has big ambitions to complete and they take on pride. Likewise in the Labotory‚ the speaker who is the women takes on the leadership in this theme as the flaws within her character is similar to Lady Macbeth. Browning presents the duke in my last duchess to be manipulative as you are trying to figure out if he was the one to kill

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    How does Shakespeare present Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Act 1? In Act one Shakespeare introduces the characters Macbeth and Lady Macbeth using a range of dramatic devices. At the start of the play Macbeth is introduced from two different perspectives. He is firstly introduced by the three witches whom are discussing a meeting with him ‘There to meet with Macbeth’. This scene would create immense tension for the audience as the presence of the witches in the play would indicate a series of evil

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