In the play‚ Macbeth Shakespeare represents the supernatural through the characters of the witches. He uses different dramatic techniques in order to interpret his ideas to the audience. The witches are present from the first scene and are not seen without each other throughout the play. The supernatural occurs four times throughout Macbeth: in all the appearances of the witches‚ in the emergence of Banquos’s ghost‚ in the witches apparitions with their prophecies‚ and in the air- drawn dagger that
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According to George‚ what makes George and Lennie different from other ranch laborers? Support your answer with evidence from the text. What makes George and Lennie different from other ranch laborers is that Lennie has George to look after him and George has Lennie to look after him (Steinbeck 14). They also have a dream to look forward to‚ unlike the other ranch laborers who “got nothing to look ahead to” (Steinbeck 14). 2: In the first chapter‚ the narrator describes George and Lennie as opposites
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Within the play of Macbeth‚ Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth as ambitious and vicious when she is first introduced in Act 1 Scene 5. Lady Macbeth is the one of the main reasons the play played out like it did. Although‚ Macbeth and Lady Macbeth treat each other as friends‚ they both have an equal say in what happens‚ but Lady Macbeth seems to contribute more opinion than Macbeth does. When her husband writes to Lady Macbeth about the witches‚ she was excited‚ she wanted to be queen and she did not
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musicians‚ and by Sally’s “phony” conversation with George) Holden‚ however‚ isolates himself from his past for fear of tainting it(represented the the cracking glass case turning purple in response to Holden’s touch) because he wants to preserve the happiness which he draws from his childhood(represented by the containment of his
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serious and significant. Despite this image the audience get‚ this is later diminished by what Mr Birling says after that. He goes on and talks about the Titanic and how it is ‘absolutely unsinkable’; he also says about the Kaiser and how ‘nobody wants war’‚ he also makes references to England’s ‘steadily increasing prosperity’ and how Russia ‘will always be behindhand naturally’. We know that all four of these statements are nonsense as the Titanic sunk‚ the Kaiser started WW1‚ England didn’t have
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In act one scene two‚ Shakespeare presents power and control in lots of different ways. He presents it so that most characters have some form of control or power in this scene. Prospero has the most control and power as he rules the Island and can perform magic. He is also a father which means that he would naturally have control over his daughter Miranda anyway and he shows control and power over her on more than one occasion. “Silence! One word more Shall make me scold you‚ if not hate you. What
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Department. Separate Winston and Julia have their own forms of rebellion but nothing that threatens the Party too much but together they represent what the Party fears they most‚ two people in love. Through the use of Winston and Julia’s relationship in 1984‚ George Orwell warns readers of the dangers of having a totalitarian government. Winston Smith is the main protagonist in 1984. Throughout part one we
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the play Nora is shown as a woman who acts and is treated like a young girl. Her husband treats her accordingly‚ he gives her nicknames which highlights how he views her as a little girl such as “my little squirrel” (164). Nora contains no concerns of how Mr. Helmer belittles her and treats her like a little girl‚ for everything she does she does out of love for him. This results in her thinking that his actions are of the same motivations. She comes to the realization that this is not the case when
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the reader about the ghost that is haunting house‚ number 124‚ at Blue Road. The author shows the reader that the ghost has powers to shatter mirrors and leave its handprints in a cooked cake in order to show the ghost’s anger. However‚ the writer does not tell the reader on the reason why the ghost is haunting the house. On the other hand‚ three main characters‚ Sethe‚ Paul D. and Denver‚ are introduced; they try to narrate their past stories and experiences of slavery. Chapter 2: Love Making
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as a result by not knowing how to make decisions‚ not knowing his own strength‚ and not knowing how to control his temper. The first way Lennie’s an unpredictable man is by the decisions he makes. Lennie was feeling the woman’s hair admiring her soft silky hair. The girl asked Lennie to stop and the woman then started to yell. “[All the sudden]Lennie was in a panic. His face was contorted. She screamed then‚ and Lennie’s other hand closed over
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